Klas Vilhelm Gustafsson

Klas Gustafsson (42) is an investment director for the Sustainable Technologies Fund.
Mr. Gustafsson has spent the last 10 years within the venture capital industry.
Prior to joining the Sustainable Technologies Fund, Mr. Gustafsson worked for leading venture capital firms like Northzone Ventures and AB Traction.
After studying business administration at the University of Uppsala, Mr. Gustafsson started to work for ALMI Uppsala.
After 5 years at ALMI, Mr. Gustafsson joined AB Traction, a publicly traded investment company.
At Traction Mr. Gustafsson was responsible for the portfolio of venture investments.
In 2001, after finalizing an MBA at Warwick Business School and a short period at Telia Business Innovation, Mr. Gustafsson started to work as senior investment manager at Northzone Ventures.
At Northzone, Mr. Gustafsson was lead in Envox, a 20 MUSD software company with its headquarters in Boston, USA. He also had a board assignment at Ibistic AS, a Norwegian e-procurement company.
In 2003, Mr. Gustafsson joined AB Traction for a second term.
He became chairman of the board in the contract staffing company Arvako (sold to Randstad) and board member of the publicly traded education company Academedia.
In 2005 Mr Gustafsson started his own investment company.
His first investment, Nordic Camping did an IPO in late 2006.
Mr. Gustafsson joined the Sustainable Technologies Fund in early 2008 as investment director and partner.