With the Ideon Mentorship Program we want to connect the experienced leaders in the park with entrepreneurs who want to learn how to grow their business. The mentors, the experienced leaders, have serious scale-up skills to teach and important connections to offer to the right mentee. By helping each other they can both grow and who knows – it could be the start of something fantastic! Meet our first mentor – Jon Hauksson, co-founder of Storytel and now angel investor!
Jon Hauksson has a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Lund University. In 2005 he co-founded Storytel Sweden AB together with Jonas Tellander who is the current CEO. In the beginning, the company was called Bokilur.
“This image is from 2005 when me and co-founder Jonas Tellander were offered to borrow a corner at the Storyside stand to showcase our product. Later on, we actually bought Storyside”, Jon explains.
Bokilur at a fair in 2005
Until recently, Jon was the Technical Manager of Storytel. During the last couple of years Jon has been acting as an Angel Investor for many startups and has now stepped down from the operational role in Storytel. Some of the startups that he has invested in are Delibr, Elobina, Dream Troopers AB (where he is also a Board Member) and Beatly.
About his role as a mentor in the program, Jon has this to say:
“I am in the program to share, meet interesting entrepreneurs, learn new things and hopefully find companies to invest in.”
So what are you waiting for? Apply for the program today!
Sharp Minds Sessions with Jon Hauksson and investor Anders Bengtsson
Want to know more about Jon and his journey with creating Storytel? Then don’t miss the Sharp Minds Session on May 8th! Here, we will hear the story about Storytel and how Anders Bengtsson came to invest in the company. What has the relationship between entrepreneur and investor been like? What was it that grabbed Ander’s interest in the first place? How are Jon and Anders collaborating today? This and more at our first session May 8th at Edison Park. Sign up here!
