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A brutal wake-up call for Kinnevik’s portfolio

May 25, 2026

When Helena Saxon steps in as CEO of Kinnevik, the company’s tech strategy is buried once and for all. A new reality awaits — and some are in for a brutal wake-up call. When Georgi Ganev, then-CEO of Kinnevik, summarized the year 2021, he wrote the following as the opening line of the quarterly report: “During 2021, we significantly reweighted our portfolio composition toward younger, private growth companies.” The mandate for incoming CEO Helena Saxon […]

The criticism is right — but Stenbeck is pointing at the wrong target

May 6, 2026

by Björn Jeffery

SvD Näringsliv

Cristina Stenbeck sharply criticized Kinnevik's strategy at the company's own AGM — but the critique should reasonably have been self-criticism.

Time for Stenbeck to demand accountability

May 14, 2025

by Björn Jeffery

SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on May 14th, 2025. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. With a Stenbeck at the helm, Kinnevik’s shareholders have reason to hope for significant change. But her to-do list for turning the company around is worryingly long. Ambitions, an anonymous portfolio, and a large pot of money. That is the starting point for a scaled-back […]