Gustaf Nordbäck

Founder and Co-CEO Spring Academy

📍 Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Strategic Advisor and Investor
Jan 2024
At Algor, were pioneering the future of education through the power of Artificial Intelligence. Our innovative AI tool is designed to transform text, recordings, and images into engaging visual learning materials, such as dynamic presentations and intuitive mindmaps. Our Mission: To forge a future in education where hyper-personalized learning is the norm, not the exception. We envision a world where every learner can access content tailored to their unique style, breaking new ground beyond traditional educational models. Our focus is on developing tools that not only cater to visual learners but also revolutionize the way knowledge is absorbed, making learning a more accessible, effective, and enjoyable journey for all. Our Impact: Algors technology is transforming lives by delivering tangible results. Students using our AI tool report improved grades and a deeper understanding of complex subjects. Educators note higher engagement and better comprehension in their classes. Beyond academic performance, Algor enhances overall well-being, providing learners with greater confidence and reducing stress. This holistic impact underscores our commitment to making education more accessible, effective, and enjoyable for everyone. For additional information or inquiries, please contact us at info@algoreducation.com.
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Nov 2023
𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘁 Earkick is an AI-powered platform that measures and improves mental health in real time. Our mission is to enhance global mental health for everyone, everywhere by offering a radically private AI therapy chatbot that acts like a companion. Using personal data and proprietary algorithms, Earkick draws correlations between a members mental health and other life factors. The companion interacts with the individual fully automatedly, proactively providing suggestions and generating personalized content. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 Earkick empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to become their best selves and to own their mental health journey at all times. By providing continuous measurement, actionable suggestions, and real-time companionship, Earkick is on a mission to improve mental health globally. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 The current mental health crisis is hurting people deeply, costing organizations billions, and getting worse by the day. To this day, measuring mental health is more an art than a science. Individuals, teams, and organizations lack a way to monitor and identify early signs of mental health issues in real-time, missing the opportunity to address problems in a targeted and timely manner. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 Imagine everyone having access to a digital companion that understands their needs and concerns, and helps with valuable advice and in-the-moment input. This would bring humankind closer together in a safe way because many misunderstandings could be avoided before they grow into real problems.
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Aug 2023
Mindstone is like Duolingo for practical AI, personalising your learning experience while aligning it with your career goals and your company objectives while turning it into a quantifiable skills profile, like LinkedIn.
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Jul 2023
Lynx Educate is a workforce education platform that helps companies offer learning beyond the day-to-day as a way to differentiate employer brand and retain talent. Employees choose from a range of company-sponsored education programmes and are supported through 1:1 Lynx success coaching. Employers that adopt our solution are seeing increased talent attraction and retention, as well as higher employee engagement, increased diversity and inclusion, and amplified brand impact. With Lynx, thousands of workers now have access to the skills they need to create opportunities for their future.
Experience · 12 entries
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2025
Founder and Director
Jan 2025
Spring Academy Zurich is an accredited private school with a neuro-inclusive approach. We foster a safe, understanding, and positive learning environment where students can develop to their full potential, rebuild self-confidence, and discover their individual path. We serve students from grades 3 to 9 (primary and lower secondary levels). Spring Academy offers a high level of individual support: with a maximum student-teacher ratio of 6 to 1, each child benefits from personalized teaching methods and learning pathways. Inhouse learning success coaches provide executive functioning training support the acquisition of social and emotional competences. Our neuro-inclusive culture enables neurodiverse learners to thrive, including those with ADHD, autism (formerly known as Aspergers syndrome), dyslexia, high sensory/sensitive, and those who are twice exceptional (2e/3e/4e). We also warmly welcome children who have not received a formal diagnosis. The school is designed for students with average to above-average cognitive abilities.
2024
Senior Advisor
May 2024
Autism Community Ventures is a public benefit corporation with a global network of partners and a mission to promote social, economic, and financial inclusion for neurodiverse individuals. The ACV consultancy arm offers Neurodiversity training to corporations, organizations, schools, museums, executive board retreats and innovation teams from the world’s most experienced experts in cognitive differences and Neurodiversity across the lifespan. Our award-winning Transition2Success program has supported neurodiverse children, teens and adults successfully transition at key life junctures using a proprietary wrap-around support model.
Strategic Advisor and Investor
Jan 2024
At Algor, were pioneering the future of education through the power of Artificial Intelligence. Our innovative AI tool is designed to transform text, recordings, and images into engaging visual learning materials, such as dynamic presentations and intuitive mindmaps. Our Mission: To forge a future in education where hyper-personalized learning is the norm, not the exception. We envision a world where every learner can access content tailored to their unique style, breaking new ground beyond traditional educational models. Our focus is on developing tools that not only cater to visual learners but also revolutionize the way knowledge is absorbed, making learning a more accessible, effective, and enjoyable journey for all. Our Impact: Algors technology is transforming lives by delivering tangible results. Students using our AI tool report improved grades and a deeper understanding of complex subjects. Educators note higher engagement and better comprehension in their classes. Beyond academic performance, Algor enhances overall well-being, providing learners with greater confidence and reducing stress. This holistic impact underscores our commitment to making education more accessible, effective, and enjoyable for everyone. For additional information or inquiries, please contact us at info@algoreducation.com.
2023
Investor
Nov 2023
𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘁 Earkick is an AI-powered platform that measures and improves mental health in real time. Our mission is to enhance global mental health for everyone, everywhere by offering a radically private AI therapy chatbot that acts like a companion. Using personal data and proprietary algorithms, Earkick draws correlations between a members mental health and other life factors. The companion interacts with the individual fully automatedly, proactively providing suggestions and generating personalized content. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 Earkick empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to become their best selves and to own their mental health journey at all times. By providing continuous measurement, actionable suggestions, and real-time companionship, Earkick is on a mission to improve mental health globally. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 The current mental health crisis is hurting people deeply, costing organizations billions, and getting worse by the day. To this day, measuring mental health is more an art than a science. Individuals, teams, and organizations lack a way to monitor and identify early signs of mental health issues in real-time, missing the opportunity to address problems in a targeted and timely manner. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 Imagine everyone having access to a digital companion that understands their needs and concerns, and helps with valuable advice and in-the-moment input. This would bring humankind closer together in a safe way because many misunderstandings could be avoided before they grow into real problems.
Founder
Sep 2023
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