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Meet Jane Walerud, Co-founder & Executive Chairwoman, Paebbl

Jane Walerud

Co-founder & Executive Chairwoman, Paebbl

Jane Walerud is a highly accomplished serial deep tech entrepreneur / investor.

Since 2016, she and her family have focused on deep tech for the living planet. Jane helps companies of two – three people with an idea get started, investing about 1ME into plus her own operative time, and retreats from operative roles to a board position as the company grows. In Paebbl, Jane worked more than full time for the first 18 months. Her earlier successes include Bluetail – co-founder and CEO, Klarna – executive chair, lent the founders money for their shares and brought in the tech team, Lensway – executive chair, Satcube – executive chair, and Teclo Networks – co-founder and CEO. She is currently executive chair of Graphmatech as well as Paebbl.

Jane holds a BA from Stanford, an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology, the Kings Medal, and a gold medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Key Dates

1983
Graduated from Stanford and moved to Sweden and my Swedish boyfriend
2014 & 2015
Awarded a gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and Honorary Doctorate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2016
With family, focused on deep tech for the living planet
2020
On a dog walk with Marta Sjögren, started talking about carbon-storing cement.
2021
Co-founded Paebbl

We’re a team of builders, working towards a fertile future.

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