Venla Hansen

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Principal at Redwood Capital | ex-Spotify

Redwood Capital
Stockholm, Sweden · CET (UTC+1)
6+ years experience
EPFL
English, Swedish
AdvisingInvesting
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Overview

6 years around startups; now investing in climate. Previously an operator for 6 years before investing. Before that: Spotify and Mollie. Most at home with due diligence and energy. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on climate
  • Founders building in climate
  • Second opinions on energy decisions
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Skills
energyclimate techdue diligencehardwareventure capital
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for angels writing a first cheque: climate and due diligence

Topics
climate, climate tech, hardware
Format
Calls
Terms
Equity
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

6 years of climate. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Stockholm, Swedenenergyhardwareclimate tech
Open
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into pre-seed climate in the US

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Climate
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Typically lead or co-lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Stockholm, Swedenclimate techenergyventure capital
Open

Experience

  1. Principal
    May 2024 - Present
    Redwood Capital · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 22 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. FP&A Manager
    Jan 2023 - May 2024
    Spotify · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Closed the books in 4 days, down from 18.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 7 straight quarters.
  3. Finance Director
    Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
    Mollie · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 1% for 6 straight quarters.

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Education

  1. EPFL
    MSc, Business Administration
    2021 - 2023
  2. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Business Administration
    2016 - 2020

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