Johan Ryding

CEO and Change Leader with entrepreneurial mindset

📍 Sweden🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
Operator-angel🌍 Sweden
4
Total investments
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1
Mid stage
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Late stage
5y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
May 2024
100% biogenic and fossil carbon free — carbon negative if circulated. Inspired by nature’s 3.8 billion years of R&D, we rebuild paper into load bearing wood ”sheet metal”: stronger than plastics, as versatile as fiber composites, and lighter than aluminium. Designed for material substitution — from flat 2D to medium complex 3D components. Aiming for circular bio economy — from forest to forest. Helping out customers to achieve >90% CO2e reduction in new or existing products. At PaperShell, sustainability = resilience and science = democracy. We merge design, science, and automation to industrialise bio-intelligent materials together with Fortune 500 companies and avant-garde brands. Not another panel talk or sustainability theatre — real industrial action. Where science meets art and finance supports nature - People, Planet, Profit, Pleasure!
Board Member
Jun 2022
Pamica is a group of Swedish entrepreneurs that use their broad network, expertise in industry and business know-how to actively participate in Board work and in different projects. We create value for shareholders and investors through involvement and capital in unlisted and profitable companies.
Board Member
Jun 2021
WeSports is a leading Nordic sports expert group, specializing in three key performance sport categories: Bikes & Mobility, Running & Outdoor, and Training & Team Sports. We cater to elite athletes and active lifestyle enthusiasts through a combination of physical- and online stores, as well as distribution of own and controlled brands. At WeSports, we believe in the power of entrepreneurial spirit. We acquire and develop performance sport and leisure equipment specialists, allowing them to operate autonomously within a decentralized structure, all while leveraging shared infrastructure. Our brands are driven by entrepreneurs and local teams, who receive support from WeSports in areas they choose. In 2023, WeSports achieved a proforma turnover of 2.3 billion SEK and continued to see healthy organic growth in 2024, alongside strong profitability and solid financials.
Experience · 5 entries
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2024
Board Member
May 2024
100% biogenic and fossil carbon free — carbon negative if circulated. Inspired by nature’s 3.8 billion years of R&D, we rebuild paper into load bearing wood ”sheet metal”: stronger than plastics, as versatile as fiber composites, and lighter than aluminium. Designed for material substitution — from flat 2D to medium complex 3D components. Aiming for circular bio economy — from forest to forest. Helping out customers to achieve >90% CO2e reduction in new or existing products. At PaperShell, sustainability = resilience and science = democracy. We merge design, science, and automation to industrialise bio-intelligent materials together with Fortune 500 companies and avant-garde brands. Not another panel talk or sustainability theatre — real industrial action. Where science meets art and finance supports nature - People, Planet, Profit, Pleasure!
2022
Board Member
Jun 2022
Pamica is a group of Swedish entrepreneurs that use their broad network, expertise in industry and business know-how to actively participate in Board work and in different projects. We create value for shareholders and investors through involvement and capital in unlisted and profitable companies.
2021
Board Member
Jun 2021
WeSports is a leading Nordic sports expert group, specializing in three key performance sport categories: Bikes & Mobility, Running & Outdoor, and Training & Team Sports. We cater to elite athletes and active lifestyle enthusiasts through a combination of physical- and online stores, as well as distribution of own and controlled brands. At WeSports, we believe in the power of entrepreneurial spirit. We acquire and develop performance sport and leisure equipment specialists, allowing them to operate autonomously within a decentralized structure, all while leveraging shared infrastructure. Our brands are driven by entrepreneurs and local teams, who receive support from WeSports in areas they choose. In 2023, WeSports achieved a proforma turnover of 2.3 billion SEK and continued to see healthy organic growth in 2024, alongside strong profitability and solid financials.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Verkkokauppa.com empowers its customers to follow their passion by providing a wide product assortment of around 80,000 products. Verkkokauppa.com Oyj serves its retail and corporate customers through its webstore, megastores, kiosk and network of collection points as well as fast deliveries and various services. As Finland’s most popular and most visited domestic online retailer, its deliveries cover around 70 percent of the Finnish population within the next day. The Company has four megastores: in Oulu, Pirkkala, Raisio, and Helsinki, where its headquarters is also located. Verkkokauppa.coms shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange with the ticker VERK.
2009
Founder and CEO
Dec 2009
Varumärken för sportälskare En sportåterförsäljare för människor som lever och andas sport och träning. Oavsett vilken atletisk nivå du ligger på för tillfället så strävar vi efter att förbättra dina prestationer. Sportamore är en del av Footway Group AB.
early stageRetail
Investment activity
2021–2024 · 4 investments
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