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Team
Peter Torstensen
Peter Torstensen
Managing Partner & CEO
As the original founder of Accelerace, Peter is living and breathing start-ups. He has been part of the board of directors of the National Growth Fund (Vækstfonden), done start-ups himself, set up venture funds and helped 200+ start-ups as part of Accelerace. Besides start-ups, Peter is passionate about sports (especially football) and constantly tries to draw analogies from how to develop sports stars to the world of start-ups. He will not miss an opportunity to tell you about how the business model in the ecosystem of football could be used as a business model for the ecosystem of start-ups. If you want to know more about product-vision, how to map the core issues of Your start-up, pricing strategies, how to build Your start-up in a distributed network and creative ways to raise funding at the early stage - ask Peter. He has been listed among the Top 100 most influential tech accelerator leaders globally, so we promise you: he knows what he is talking about.
David Ventzel
David Ventzel
Partner & Fund Manager
David is a tech entrepreneur who loves to help other entrepreneurs. He gets his energy from solving hard problems and turning ideas into businesses. David rarely talks about anything else than startups, technology, and financial markets. You always see him wearing earplugs because he is listening to some podcast. He is also a popular blogger and is often featured on LinkedIn by the editors. Founders who worked with David report they feel they got a new co-founder. He adopts every problem as his own and takes personal pride in all startups helps. David is a big believer in Blockchain and got most of the office to buy Ethereum. He is also known for deconstructing every subject and creating general theories of everything.
Claus Kristensen
Claus Kristensen
Partner
Claus is an experienced entrepreneur and investor who loves to help and work together with other entrepreneurs. He has a strong track record as co-founder of Wupti.com and pre-seed investor in Normal. In Accelerace, Claus is responsible for our corporate partners, where he work to bond startups and corporates in meaningful partnerships. He is skilled in Sales/Business development, E-commerce and Entrepreneurship/Innovation.
M: +45 25458430
Genre Karmen Raamat
Genre Karmen Raamat
Lead Venture Scout
As the Lead Scout, Karmen spends her days tracking down, discovering and talking to the best Danish and international startups and preparing them to get matched with the Accelerace accelerator and corporate-startup matchmaking programs. With a Master's degree in Innovation management, she seeks out new ideas and is constantly testing out and learning about the newest technologies and concepts. Before joining Accelerace, she worked in the Baltic countries’ biggest media company as a social media strategy consultant and helped organize events for the local tech community. When not networking, you can find her cooking, learning new languages or staying true to her last name (Raamat means book in Estonian): conquering the pile of books in her office.
Genre Karmen Raamat Cases:
Frederik Stoltze
Frederik Stoltze
Head of Marketing & IT
Frederik is a busy guy, as he holds the role of Head of Marketing and IT. Frederik is a digital native, with a skilled passion for creative optimization and digital marketing, and he has a background from service design and has worked with digital marketing and design for 5+ years. He is data-driven and creative, and is the go-to person when using new technologies, processes and ideas to innovate and digitize processes, services and products.
M: +4551895354
Frederik Stoltze Cases:
Yohanna Gustafsson
Yohanna Gustafsson Cases:
Mads Løntoft
Mads Løntoft
Head of Acceleration
Mads has a background as an entrepreneur having co-founded several startups within multiple different industries ranging from cosmetics to concrete technology. Apart from starting and building companies, he likes to invest in various sectors including startups, wind and solar power projects, financial securities and real estate – anything that moves. He also enjoys teaching and is an external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School. If you can’t find or get a hold of Mads, try looking for him at one of the padel courts in the Copenhagen area.
P: +45 2142 5125
Michael Rohde Böwadt
Michael Rohde Böwadt
Business Accelerator & Investment Manager
Michael Böwadt has dedicated his career to work within the sound industry with 20+ years of experience. It all started out helping musicians playing at festivals and clubs in Denmark and Europe and then focused on management of business, products, projects, and engineering within brands like TC Electronic, Lab Gruppen, Tannoy and Dynaudio. In that regard, Michael has wide expertise within the sound industry in many different segments and verticals.
Today, Michael is passionate to help startups accelerate and counseling corporates, using his knowledge and expertise from the sound industry.
M: +45 22 12 42 42
Sebastian von Wildenrath Løvgreen
Sebastian von Wildenrath Løvgreen
Entrepreneur in Residence
Sebastian is an entrepreneur by heart - he loves being an entrepreneur and work with other entrepreneurs. He loves solving problems, which is most likely a product of him coming out of a family of six people where problems occurs every ten minutes with an urgent need for a creative mind and a solution. Sebastian's first entrepreneurial experience, was when he co-founded CBS Talks in 2013 during his studies at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), which became one of the largest student organisations in the Nordics (for what he was awarded 'Student of the Year'-prize at CBS in 2014). From 2016-2020, Sebastian was the CEO (and co-founder) of Chabber (an Accelerace alumni), which has become one of the largest freelance platforms in Northern Europe with more than 25,000 freelancers and 500 customers. Sebastian's other interests are in cooking and politics. His political interest has got him a seat in the Government's 'Counsel for Sharing Economy' in 2019, where he is trying to shape a better landscape for sharing economy startups in Denmark. But, Sebastian's "zen" is when he is experimenting with new dishes while listening to entrepreneurial or political podcasts. Lastly, a tip of advice if you ever want to win an argument: bring facts and evidence to the table because Sebastian is a member of Mensa and has a very logical and rational mind (something his fiancé hates).
Sebastian von Wildenrath Løvgreen Cases:
Rebecca Guacan
Rebecca Guacan
Community Manager
As Accelerace's Community Manager, Rebecca is working on creating the best environment for business-related relations – aka the famous network. She strives to bond entrepreneurs and startups together in a meaningful and joyful relationship. If she could do it dancing, she probably would as she is a huge fan of salsa (both eating and dancing). With her Master's degree in Cross Cultural Studies, she leans on a solid theoretical framework, which qualifies her to analyse on Cultural expectations. In the middle of AI, Iot, Big Data and Blockchain, she insists on focusing on the human aspect. What drives her is developing the best and most innovative environment for both companies and organisations – but above all, people.
Rebecca Guacan Cases:
Peter Birk, Ph.d.
Peter Birk, Ph.d.
Head of Business Development
Business Accelerator & Investment Manager
Head of Business Development
M: +45 21262430
Christian Waarst
Christian Waarst
Business Developer
Christian is looking at new business opportunities for Accelerace. A job that fits him perfectly since he has experience with Sales and Business development in the MedTech and pharmaceutical industry as well as many years of experience helping companies from various industries introduce new products to the market and accelerate their sales growth. Christian likes to identify business opportunities and develop a system that allows the teams to work structured on capitalizing on these opportunities to create new business and gain additional revenue for the company.
P: +45 52506582
