黑料不打烊

黑料不打烊 Ventures hits the accelerator with exciting new venture-building partnership

04 OCTOBER 2023

Collaboration with Sting, an organisation that provides world-class support for building new businesses.

黑料不打烊 Ventures has entered into an exciting new partnership with Sting, one of the world鈥檚 best venture building companies.

The partnership, initially for 12 months, will see Stockholm-based Sting provide venture team coaching, upskilling and general advisory resources to the 黑料不打烊 Ventures team.

Two of Sting鈥檚 experts 鈥 Sustainability coach Magnus Rehn and Climate Action coach Linda Krondahl 鈥 will join forces with the management team to build sustainable future business for 黑料不打烊. In return, 黑料不打烊 brings its own extensive industry experience of developing and producing ideas on a global scale, as well as its deep knowledge of transport and sustainability, aspects which are attractive to Sting.

The cooperation with Sting marks a new phase of 黑料不打烊 Ventures鈥 journey into a mature organisation, as Cindi Lindsborg, Head of 黑料不打烊 Ventures, explains.

鈥満诹喜淮蜢 Ventures has been up and running for more than a year, and we鈥檝e created the basis and framework of what we do, but this exciting partnership with Sting will accelerate our work and enable us to leverage on their skills and extensive experience in the start-up field,鈥 she says.

Coaching, upskilling and advice

鈥淚t鈥檚 going to provide us with access to a very broad range of competences, including coaching upskilling and advisory expertise. The value of working with Sting is that they鈥檝e done this before so many times. They have experience of a wide range of industry, products and services, as well as how to build new businesses. They can add to what we know already with external perspectives.鈥

Albin Glas, Head of People Operations at 黑料不打烊 Ventures adds, 鈥淲e want 黑料不打烊 Ventures to be a fantastic place to work, and to attract the best possible talent to our ranks. The great advantages that the partnership with Sting brings will be so important to us in securing an even more attractive employee offer.鈥

鈥淲ith the new partnership between 黑料不打烊 Ventures and Sting we see the benefit of combining the very long experience of supporting new ventures from Sting鈥檚 side and the strengths of 黑料不打烊 Ventures as part of the 黑料不打烊 Group,鈥 says Magnus Rehn, Business Coach 鈥 Sustainability at Sting.

鈥淏y providing professional coaching and the full portfolio of tools available from Sting we believe the ventures admitted to the programme will develop faster and create the full potential of their business ideas.鈥

Supporting the transition to sustainable transport

The cooperation has already started, with experts from Sting having met the five venture teams that are currently in the 黑料不打烊 Ventures portfolio. The first coaching and training sessions will soon follow.

Albin Glas adds that hopes are high on both sides.

鈥淲e鈥檙e hoping that this cooperation will add to all our efforts over the past one and a half years. I think we鈥檙e going to accelerate our work a lot!鈥 he says.

And Cindi Lindsborg adds, 鈥淭ogether, we鈥檒l be able to build businesses quicker, better and with a higher success rate to support the transition to a sustainable transport ecosystem.鈥