Helena Strigård, Founder Ventures Accelerated

It’s been nearly two years since I set my mind on creating something like Ventures Accelerated. It was one of those pivotal moments, sitting in the garden of an old, rented house in Southern France. I had recently handed in my resignation from a job as CEO at a biologics  manufacturing company and was, truthfully, a bit lost as to what the next big step would be. I had some interim gigs in the pipeline, where I had been asked to do “my thing”. But what on earth was my thing? It seemed to have something to do with driving companies or organisations past inflection points, securing their strategic positioning in the market or vis-a-vis investors. But how could I package that? And weren’t there already zillions of people doing just that ”thing”?