Have you figured out your scalability and product market fit, but:

• You are not scaling fast enough?
• You are running out of runway or capital to scale?
• You are lacking knowledge of growing your business internationally?

Join this session and meet serial scaleup entrepreneurs and investors, who will share insights and key takeaways on how to improve scalability and international growth.

• Talks and best practices
• Some practical exercises
• Opportunities to discuss and ask questions

The session is hosted by the Nordic Scalers team at Epicenter and Seedrs, led by Edgar Luczak, Jack Melcher-Claësson and Jonas Almeling with guests.

About the hosts:

Edgar Luczak:
Edgar is heading up the Epicenter Advisory business, providing Large corps and Scaleups with hands-on entrepreneur experience from building business and ventures, scaling faster, and growing internationally.

Edgar has a proven track record both as a coach and as an entrepreneur, especially around scaling and fast growth strategies. Edgar has 25+ years of experience in building companies and online businesses, both as an entrepreneur and through management consulting. As CEO of Garantum Edgar grew his team from 15 to 250 people.

About Jack Melcher-Claësson:
Jack runs structured Accelerate programs for startups & scaleups at Epicenter. Beyond the Nordic Scalers program, Jack runs other Epicenter programs in partnership with Google for Startups, Microsoft for Startup and custom programs for startups from South Korea & Singapore (on a mission from the South Korean and Singaporian Governments).

Jack is a serial entrepreneur, and before Epicenter he was the founding partner of Everysport Media Group (former Traveas AB), today a public company listed on a Spotlight Stock Exchange in Stockholm with 100 MSEK in yearly turnover. He’s also the founding partner of Hidden VC, Create Communication, and one of the initiators of Epicenter Campus. Jack is supporting teams around agility and pivoting, storytelling growth, and fundraising.

About Jonas Almeling:
Jonas joined Seedrs/Republic in 2023 as Head of Nordics. He is on a mission to democratize investing in startups, tech and impact. Jonas is a leader, coach, speaker & mentor, with a background in innovation, business, entrepreneurship & ecosystems. With 30+ years in IT, marketing, media, government, tech & non-profit, he has developed a unique perspective on what it takes to succeed in today’s global world.

Jonas was previously Head of Innovation Ecosystems at Business Sweden and Director of Ecosystem & Partnerships at Ericsson ONE. He is adept at building relationships that turn into complex collaborations where ideas are turned into action. Jonas is also an angel investor as well as mentor and board member to startups and scaleups.

Throughout his career, Jonas has developed a unique understanding of how to build values-based communities and to turn that into impact for companies, people and the planet. Jonas’ passion lies in building people, and he has made it his mission to support change-makers and game-changers everywhere.

About Epicenter
At Epicenter we help key innovative hotspots to supercharge their local entrepreneurial ecosystems. By building local innovation houses we provide a community, learning platform and meeting arena for local change makers to accelerate their growth and innovate with impact.

About Seedrs
Seedrs is Europe’s leading online private investing platform that enables individuals to invest in startups, growth companies, and, if eligible, top VC funds, as well as supporting entrepreneurs in all sectors to raise capital from their communities, angels and institutional investors.

Since its launch in 2012 as an equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs has funded over 1,900 deals, with over £2.4 billion invested on the platform to date. With the recent acquisition of Seedrs by Republic, it is now part of the largest private investing platform in the world, with more than 2.5 million members globally that have invested in over 2,400 deals. The combined strength of Seedrs and Republic gives both investors and entrepreneurs unprecedented access to capital and investment opportunities across the globe.

Last year, Seedrs saw over 141,000 individual investments on its private investment platform, helping 324 campaigns raise over half a billion pounds, with 96 campaigns raising in excess of £1m.  As a pan-European platform, Seedrs also helped businesses from 15 different countries raise capital and received investment from over 71 different countries.