Henrik Sorensen

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Founder, Forge Energy - enterprise sales · climate tech · carbon accounting

Forge Energy
Stockholm, Sweden · CET (UTC+1)
15+ years experience
Humboldt University of Berlin
English, Swedish, French
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Forge Energy, working on climate analytics. Raised $21 million across 3 rounds. Signed 177 paying customers, 6 of them enterprises. Most at home with climate tech and carbon accounting. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Questions about climate analytics
  • Second opinions on climate tech decisions
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  • Fundraising consultants
  • Offshore staffing offers

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
dataenterprise salesproductcarbon accountingclimate tech
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Series B round open - construction estimating for hardware startups, $9M ARR

Stage
Series B
Raising
$9M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$150k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$9M ARR after 22 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$9M ARR after 22 months. Looking for investors who know proptech and can help with enterprise sales.

Stockholm, Sweden · remote OKdatacarbon accountingenterprise sales
Open

Experience

  1. Founder
    May 2022 - Present
    Forge Energy · 4 yr 5 mo · Contract · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Raised $40 million across 2 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
  2. FP&A Manager
    Sep 2019 - May 2022
    L'Oréal · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Saved $3 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  3. Controller
    Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
    Criteo · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Ran diligence on 9 acquisitions.
  4. Finance Manager
    Oct 2014 - Jul 2016
    Revolut · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Saved $9 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Ran diligence on 4 acquisitions.
  5. Controller
    Oct 2011 - Oct 2014
    L'Oréal · 3 yr · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 3% for 8 straight quarters.

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Education

  1. Humboldt University of Berlin
    BA, Business Administration
    2008 - 2011

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