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GoWest Announcement: Alexandra Björk is joining our team!
The GoWest team is growing! We are proud to announce that a new team member is onboard, and we are happy to present that it is Alexandra Björk, who joins us in our mission to accomplish our goals.
- " Aligned with our ambition to create one of the best capital meetups in the Nordics, Alexandra’s skills in event management, branding and her ability to add that extra sparkle in everything she does, fits right into what we want to accomplish", says Sofia Hjelmberg, event general as well as investor relations at GU Ventures. "With this stellar addition, we feel confident that the GoWest arena is heading in the right direction."
GU Ventures have had a solid, long-term business partnership with Alexandra in several of her previous roles. For the past 6 years, Alexandra has led Venture Cup Sweden and west Sweden successfully. Prior to that, she worked on several Swedish and international events, amongst them #Connect2Capital, organized by Connect in west Sweden, one of the event partners of GoWest.
- "I'm so happy to join this qualified team and together continue to build on a highly requested platform with a huge potential for our region", says Alexandra Björk.
Every entrepreneur and investor is welcome to join GoWest, west Sweden’s annual venture capital forum for investors, startups and scaleups, that will take place on the 7-8th of February in 2023 in Gothenburg at Uni3 by Geely. Attendants are welcome to register here at https://www.gowest.capital/tickets.
An excellent program on stage is already set with lots of entrepreneurs and investors. Just to high-light a few of the entrepreneurs:
- Klara Forslund, co-founder of Heart Aerospace
- Erik Gatenholm, co-founder and CEO of BICO and
- Samir El-Sabini, CEO and co-founder of Juni.
Amongst all the committed investors, Crowberry Capital, NordicNinja VC and Industrifonden will be on stage, as well as special guest like:
- Sam Shevick at Google
- Lena Apler, founder at Collector Bank and investor at the Swedish TV show Dragon's Den, and
- Caroline Farberger at Wellstreet.
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GoWest is organized by GU Ventures with support from Industrifonden, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Polestar, Uni3 by Geely, Göteborg & Co, Almi Invest, Business Region Göteborg, Chalmers Ventures, Nasdaq, Startup Sweden and Europeiska regionala utvecklingsfonden (Eruf) via Tillväxtverket, Connect Sverige Region Väst, Almi Väst, Exportkreditnämnden, SEB, Qalora Capital and last, but not least, one of the main supporters, Västra Götalandsregionen.
Click here to go to the GoWest website.
Click here to go to the GoWest LinkedIn page.
