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, food tech and B2B2C spaces.
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.
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 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)
I’m an avid but very broad reader. Right now, I’m very much into African history, specifically on the political side, so I can really recommend reading The State of Africa by Martin Meredith. Otherwise, recent reads I’ve enjoyed are Presidents of War, Little Women, House of Trump House of Putin, and Super Pumped.
I am not just tone deaf, I am also extremely competitive so my poor ego would never recover.