Johan Gustafsson

Principal at Sandstone Ventures · Healthcare · venture capital, biotech

Sandstone Ventures

Copenhagen, Denmark · CET (UTC+1)

9+ years experience

Stockholm School of Economics

English, Danish

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9 years around startups; now investing in healthcare. Backed 51 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Telefónica and Mercedes-Benz.

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biotechregulationventure capitalhealthtech

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Copenhagen, Denmarkventure capitalregulationbiotech

Principal
Apr 2026 - Present
Sandstone Ventures · 6 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
- Led or co-led 29 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
- Backed 45 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
Senior Engineering Manager
Mar 2023 - Apr 2026
Telefónica · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
- Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Engineering Manager
Nov 2019 - Mar 2023
Mercedes-Benz · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
- Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 18 a week to 3.
Director of Engineering
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Accenture · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Copenhagen, Denmark
- Shipped 17 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
- Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 41% in two quarters.

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