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Maxine Rior

Vice President, STOCKHOLM

Based in Stockholm, Maxine is part of the investment team at Northzone. She covers the Nordic and French-speaking markets across a wide range of sectors, although with a special interest in the consumer and B2B2C spaces, where social, commerce, and food play a large role in her day-to-day.

Prior to Northzone, Maxine was with Swedish investment company Kinnevik. She started her career in the investment banking division of Carrnegie 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. 

  • Joined
  • 2020
Getting to know you.

Being an early stage investor, the team is incredibly important and in some cases the single most critical part. I will therefore spend quite some time getting to know you and the team, perhaps more than what seems sensible. I want to hear about your weekend, then we’ll get to business. 

I’m a huge people person.

I’m by nature very curious, so I’m motivated by learning about people, a new industry or a new way of doing things (at times also hugely motivated by a glass of red lingering at the end of a long day)

WHEN I HAVE A QUIET MOMENT

I'm an avid but broad reader. Favorite reads in 2021 included The vanishing half, Cloud Atlas, and Empire of pain, and I'm currently composing my next big book order for this spring. Recommending any must-reads for 2022 is a great way to start a conversation with me!

THINGS I LOVE TO DO

Reading

Hunting mushrooms

Cooking

THINGS I NEVER DO

Karaoke

I am not just tone deaf, I am also extremely competitive so my poor ego would never recover.

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