Based in Stockholm, Maxine is part of the investment team at Northzone. She spends most of her time across the Nordic and French ecosystems, looking for AI-native founders and with a particular interest for vertical SaaS and agentic solutions that solve traditional B2B SaaS areas.
Prior to Northzone, Maxine was with Swedish investment company Kinnevik. She started her career in the investment banking division of Carnegie Investment Bank, where she advised clients in the financial services and tech sectors.
Maxine grew up in Sweden and in France and holds a Masters in Engineering from Lund University.
This is an obvious truth, but as an early-stage investor, a team is the single most important thing for me when I invest. I want to get to know you and your team, perhaps more than what you think is reasonable for an investor. Let’s talk about your weekend, then we’ll get to business.
I’m by nature very curious, so learning about people and their super powers will always be the #1 motivation for me. Coming in a close second place for motivation is disrupting inefficient incumbents and a huge glass of Piemontese red.
I'm an extroverted introvert, so I tend to need a lot of quiet moments. I'm at my happiest when I can spend my entire day with founders, to then land at home, with my dog, reading. I'm a total book nerd so the fastest way to my heart is definitely by recommending a must-read.
I am not just tone deaf, I am also extremely competitive so my poor ego would never recover.