Mattias is the founder and general partner of Moonfire Ventures. He was previously co-founder and partner at Atomico for 13 years. The fund amassed over $2bn in assets under management, where Mattias’s key investments included Supercell ($5bn exit to Softbank), Klarna (valued at $10.65bn), Viagogo (valued over $2.25bn) and Climate Corp ($1.1bn exit to Monsanto).

In 2020, Mattias founded Moonfire, a European seed fund focused on helping founders at the very start of their journeys to create the right foundations for exponential growth.

As a member of the European investment community for close to 20 years, Mattias has been a passionate believer and supporter of the tech ecosystem. He was an early board member of Seedcamp and Firstminute when the funds first launched. In addition, he has sat on the SVB advisory board and was part of the EVCA digital task force.

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