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Helmi Lindqvist

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Founder & CEO, Kite Finance - marketing · supply chain · consumer brands

Works at
Kite Finance
Location
Copenhagen, Denmark · CET (UTC+1)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Languages
English, Danish
RaisingHiring
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Overview

Founder of Kite Finance (D2C food brands). 14 years of building before that. Grew the team to 87 people across 2 countries. Before that: UniCredit and Deloitte. Most at home with consumer brands and payroll. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Questions about D2C food brands
Please don't message about
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Paid accelerator offers
  • SEO and link-building offers

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
supply chainmarketingconsumer brandspayroll
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $2.5M seed for warehouse robotics for freight forwarders

Stage
Seed
Raising
$2.5M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$202k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$2M ARR after 15 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$2M ARR after 15 months. Looking for investors who know banking and can help with pricing.

Copenhagen, Denmarkpayrollsupply chainconsumer brands
Open
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Kite Finance is hiring 3 founding engineers in Copenhagen

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$188k-$231k + equity
Team
Founding team, 3 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Has closed the books at a growing company Strong modelling Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp €89k-€117k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Copenhagen, Denmarkconsumer brandssupply chainpayroll
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    May 2025 - Present
    Kite Finance · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Took Kite Finance from zero to $3 million ARR.
    • Raised $4 million across 2 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 96 people across 2 countries.
  2. Director of Product
    Jul 2022 - May 2025
    UniCredit · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Launched the logistics product in 11 markets.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
    Deloitte · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
  4. Group Product Manager
    Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
    Volvo Cars · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Took logistics activation from 18% to 52% in three quarters.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
    Wise · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Took logistics activation from 32% to 39% in three quarters.

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Education

  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    MSc, Economics
    2011 - 2013
  2. Humboldt University of Berlin
    BA, Economics
    2008 - 2011

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