Podcast

  • 182. How would it be if you quit your day job and followed your dreams?

    182. How would it be if you quit your day job and followed your dreams?

    Renée, an experienced angel investor and a long lost friend to Michaela Berglund is with us in the first part of the Feminvest podcast. Renée is such an inspiring woman who starts this weeks podcast with sharing her tips on how to reach your goal and dreams while stuck in your daytime job. Basically she gives insight on how she hustled to reach her goals. Since Renée is an experienced angel investor, Michaela picks her brain on how she resons when investing, she is also sharing her experience of her first investment. Renée also tells us a bit about how the process goes when investing in the UK which is quite different from Sweden! LinkedIn: Renée Parker Instagram: reneeparker During today’s episode Saba meets the entrepreneur Fernanda Oliviera, who is the founder of PackFixed. Fernanda has been on both sides of the packaging industry for more than a decade. Ask her about a the % of recycled material in a bottle and she lights up. She is truly passionate about her business! – Listen to the podcast today to learn more! PackFixed is a B2B marketplace for Product packaging. Their aim is to  remove the friction for small and medium brands to buy their Packaging, by providing them with transparency, low MOQ, great costs and actionable sustainable insights. LinkedIn: Fernanda Oliveira Visit their website here: https://packfixed.com/

    2023-05-30, 61 minuterLyssna på Spotify
  • 181. Menstrual & hormonal problems.. Ever been down that road?

    181. Menstrual & hormonal problems.. Ever been down that road?

    Ever experienced gynecological, menstrual or hormonal problems? Yep, we have as well.. Ovulai wants to change that! The high-school, university friends and later co-founders of Ovulai, AND Feminvest EXPAND members, Leyla and Kristina, is having an exciting conversation with our dear colleague Saba about growth, expansion and the future. Thought’s on this episode? Visit their webiste: https://www.ovulai.com/ About Ovulai: Ovulai AB – a femtech company started by a team of KTH students to develop the first digital therapeutics for menstrual disorders. Up to 10% of all women and uterus carriers suffer from irregular menstrual cycles due to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Many more are affected and hindered in their daily life by menstrual related symptoms. With Ovulai’s app these women can get support with treatment using personalized lifestyle management programs

    2023-05-23, 25 minuterLyssna på Spotify
  • 180. The Funding Gap &  a serial tech entrepreneur

    180. The Funding Gap & a serial tech entrepreneur

    In today’s episode Michaela has a conversation with Marianna Mamou about the funding gap, why this is and how we can improve the possibility for women to raise funds at an early stage. Todays entrepreneur: Saba Saad, the manager of Feminvest EXPAND – our entrepreneurs program, , meets the founder and CEO of Zebrain, Anna Bloth Karling. Zebrain is a ground-breaking digital coaching platform. Anna talks about differences and challenges from starting her first company 18 years ago, vs today. She also shares her best tips on how to move forward in your entrepreneurial journey and how to continue to develop as an entrepreneur.

    2023-05-16, 57 minuterLyssna på Spotify
  • 179. Catching up on the latest VC/private equity trends in the US

    179. Catching up on the latest VC/private equity trends in the US

    179. Sitting amongst toys and with baby Philip as a companion, Michaela has a conversation with her dear friend Yasmine Morrison, an early-stage investor, mentor Techstars, and Teaching Fellow at Harvard.  Yasmine has a diverse background and spent 7 years working across the globe from co-founding a startup in Dubai to working for Standard Chartered Bank in Kuala Lumpur. Yasmine shares her best tips on how to work strategically when raising capital. - How to prepare before meeting with investors. - How do you work strategically with investors or VCs, - What type of investor should you have in your companies. Todays entrepreneur: Saba Saad, the manager of Feminvest EXPAND – our entrepreneurs program, meets the founders of Future Fridays, Linda Wasell and Karin Gydemo Granlöf Future Fridays are a Communications & Business Development Agency based in Åre, Sweden. Future Fridays experience in both large and small companies, many years with public companies as well as within political and international non-profit organisations gives a strong competitive advantage in their execution.

    2023-05-08, 53 minuterLyssna på Spotify
  • 178. Trading & Swimdresses - How risk averse are you?

    178. Trading & Swimdresses - How risk averse are you?

    In this episode of the Feminvest podcast, Michaela talks about trading with Edvin Wallin, and Saba meets Nadja Forsberg, a Feminvest EXPAND member and the co-founder of the swimwear brand: Rivage Swimwear that was just launched in March this year, and what Rivage is doing is to introduce us to their gorgeous swim dress. Today’s topic: TRADING & EXCHANGE TRADED PRODUCTS: We are focusing on what to do if you are not the most risk-averse investor if you might be a bit more on the carful side when investing - What sort of exchange-traded products should one look at? Edvin Wallin, country manager of Vontobel, trader, and a friend of Feminvest gives us the answers! Do you want to get a better understanding of trading? On May 11th, step 3 of the trading course takes place
Book your ticket here to get the final step of the introduction to Trading: https://feminvest.se/events/digital-aktieklubb-trading-for-nyborjare-del-3/ Rivage Swimwear brings beautiful swimwear and dresses together, visit their site here: https://rivageswimwear.com/

    2023-05-02, 36 minuterLyssna på Spotify
  • 177. Are you a good leader or just a leader?

    177. Are you a good leader or just a leader?

    YOU must do your homework when it comes to leadership. YOU have to educate yourself about yourself. Where lie YOUR strengths and weaknesses, if you’re not aware of that, it will reflect on your business. Wise words from a wise woman. In today’s episode, we’ve managed to get a hold of Christina Stielli who is a well-known author, lecturer and organizational developer and speaker, she was actually Speaker of the Year in 2021. And a busy woman like her is on the run so please keep that in mind while listening to the podcast. 🙏 If you want to develop as a leader and as a person - This is the episode for you! Today’s reflection: Do you know your strengths and weaknesses? And above all, do you put in the work to improve yourself before you turn to others demanding change?

    2023-04-25, 47 minuterLyssna på Spotify
  • 176. Feminvest meets FeedbackFrog & talks about the future

    176. Feminvest meets FeedbackFrog & talks about the future

    In this weeks episode of the Feminvest podcast, Michaela and Elin talks about the exciting future of the Feminvest podcast.  Starting of next week, our new host is our fabulous colleague Saba Saad who will take over the entrepreneurial part of the podcast. Listen to the episode to find out more! This weeks entrepreneur is Amanda Lilja, founder and CEO of FeedbackFrog. FeedbackFrog is a B2B SaaS platform for reliable customer insights. Happy listening!

    2023-04-18, 33 minuterLyssna på Spotify
  • 175. Feminvest meets LURA & talks about Trading

    175. Feminvest meets LURA & talks about Trading

    In this weeks episode of the Feminvest podcast, Michaela and Elin reflect on the quarterly reports, specifically on H&M which has had some big movements in the stock market prices in the past months.  Edvin Wallin from Vontobel is also joining the podcast to talk about trading together with Elin. Trading has become very popular in the last few years .They talk about how Minifutures has increased in popularity due to that more traders shifts from day-trades toward more swing-trades because of how the market conditions is right now. This weeks entrepreneur is Yvonne Roe, co-founder of LURA. LURA offers exquisitely designed, hand-crafted products, with a unique layer of smart tech that has been carefully studied and developed to address their clients needs while giving her an enormous sense of satisfaction and style.

    2023-04-04, 45 minuterLyssna på Spotify