About Team ScaleUp

Serial entrepreneurs have an edge, we share it.

We are a team of founders, sharing what we wish we'd known when we were in your seat.

Our story · so far

Europe has a readiness problem.

We've met countless founders who fail on criteria they didn't know they were being judged on. Things that were within their reach.

The gap between product-market fit and a closed Series A is where most scaleups stumble. That's the gap we close.

Team ScaleUp does the diligence work upstream, strengthening fundamentals before a fund opens the file. Built around each company, alongside operators and ex-investors who have been in your seat. Backed by Dahlgren Capital.

Capital follows readiness.
"When I met the team behind Team ScaleUp, it became clear they are addressing a real gap in the ecosystem. There is plenty of support in the startup phase, but far less for companies ready to take the next step and scale internationally. The combination of operational experience, a structured approach, and capital is something I truly believe Europe needs to become more competitive. Through our involvement, we want to help more companies make the leap from promising startup to global scaleup."
Peter Dahlgren Founder and CEO, Dahlgren Capital
The team

Everyone at Team ScaleUp had their own scaleup journey.

We've taken companies from idea to international expansion. We have walked every minefield between those two points. We've lost time and resources along the way to missing information. With that experience, we want to help founders navigate scaling with the right support at the right time.

Siavash Habibi

Siavash Habibi

Co-founder & CEO
Siavash Habibi is CEO and co-founder of Team ScaleUp, a Swedish investment readiness accelerator helping European scaleups become Series A-ready. Before Team ScaleUp, he was a Business Building Expert at McKinsey, and COO and co-founder at TechBuddy. He has spent his career at the intersection of strategy and scaling, advising, operating, and building companies across international markets. At Team ScaleUp, he and his co-founders are working to close scaleup readiness, which they call the third issue, after capital and regulation. Less than one in five European post-seed companies successfully raise Series A, and Team ScaleUp exists to change that number.
Ulrika Tornerefelt

Ulrika Tornerefelt

Co-founder & Chair
She built it, scaled it, sold it. Founder of Stella Futura, exited to Polarium in 2025. Part of management at SaltX Technologies' IPO on First North, that became the stock market rocket in 2017. Power Woman of the Year 2024, elected by Kraftkvinnorna. Now Chair at Team ScaleUp, leading operations.
Hugo Dozzi

Hugo Dozzi

Co-founder & MarCom
Builder, marketer, designer. COO at Pindify, then founded Artistry Management. Brings cross-vertical brand and content experience to MarCom at Team ScaleUp.
Jonas Jonsson

Jonas Jonsson

Founder & Board Member
Hardware operator. Co-founded Stella Futura, exited to Polarium in 2025. Knows what it takes to scale a hardware company through to acquisition. Sits on the Team ScaleUp board.
Anton Holmqvist

Anton Holmqvist

BD & IR Lead & Partner
Anton is BD & IR Lead and Partner at Team ScaleUp. He came from SEB, where he spent two and a half years as a Service Manager at the Östermalmstorg office. He holds SwedSec advisory licensing and a certification in financial instruments from Finanskompetens, and studies Real Estate and Finance at KTH. He works the relationship side of capital, understanding what investors need to see and helping founders show it.
Pablo Xavier Belin

Pablo Xavier Belin

CTO
Pablo Belin is Chief Technology Officer, with a background in applied mathematics and a decade of experience as a quantitative trader in the hedge fund industry. After years of building models where every decision carried real capital at risk, he made the leap into tech startups, where he leads engineering and product strategy with the same conviction: that the best decisions are grounded in evidence, not intuition. Data-driven at heart, he believes great technology begins with the right question.
Alex Kovbasko

Alex Kovbasko

Program Manager
Alex designed and ran startup programs on behalf of Danske Bank, Coop Sweden, and the city of Berlin. She led partnerships and expanded AsiaBerlin into India, China, and Southeast Asia, as well as supported Ukrainian startups with go-to-market in Germany. She will be your main point of contact during the Team ScaleUp programs.
Ronja Koepke

Ronja Koepke

Growth and Community Manager
Ronja Koepke is Growth and Community Manager, with deep roots in the Nordic startup and investment ecosystem. She made her first angel investment at 24 and co-founded Investpodden in 2016. Her track record includes running the Startup Sweden accelerator, leading both the national program and Access Germany for companies raising Series A, as well as working with innovation initiatives at Sweden's innovation agency, Vinnova. Named one of the Inspiring Fifty Nordics. Teamwork, sustainability, creativity, and laughter are her recipe for success.
Oskar Gillström

Oskar Gillström

Strategic Investor & Board Member
Connector. Operator. Investor. Country Manager at Epicenter Stockholm, ex-MCI Corporate Director, serial founder across hospitality and consumer. Brings ecosystem reach to the Team ScaleUp board.

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