Einride Founders Launch Navisalma to Turn Europe's Frontier Technologies into Global Leaders

Navisalma, the newly founded European Venture Platform, founded by Einride founders Robert Falck and Linnéa Kornehed Falck, together with previous McKinsey Partner and Material Economics co-founder Robert Westerdahl, announced its launch.

Europe does not have an innovation problem. It has a scaling problem.

Europe produces world-class science, engineering, and frontier technologies, backed by centuries of leadership in design, craftsmanship, industrial excellence, and quality. Yet too few European technologies grow into global category leaders. Navisalma was built to close that gap.

“Europe excels at creating technology, but has been less successful at turning it into global value. The opportunity is not to replicate Silicon Valley, but to combine frontier technology with Europe’s strengths in engineering, design, industrial excellence, and quality to build global leaders.” - Robert Falck, Founder & CEO, Navisalma.

From Einride to a Repeatable Playbook.

Building great technology is only the beginning. Technology must become a product customers choose, a business that scales, and a company capable of leading its market. Achieving that requires technology, design, business, and capital to work together as one system.

More than a decade of building Einride provided experience across frontier technology, product development, operations, customer experience, design, and capital.

Those lessons became the foundation for Navisalma, a platform designed to make scaling frontier technology more repeatable.

The model is already being applied through Abundry, a Navisalma company focused on energy and using technology and decision intelligence to unlock greater value from existing infrastructure.

Einride provided the experience. Navisalma turns it into a platform. Abundry demonstrates the model in action.

One Platform for Scaling Frontier Technology.

Navisalma brings investment, technology, design, operations, and value creation together across the company journey, from identifying technologies capable of transforming industries to turning them into products, accelerating adoption, building enduring brands, and creating long-term enterprise value.

The model combines venture capital’s frontier-technology mindset with private equity’s scale, execution, and value-creation discipline, bridging the gap between early innovation and global scale.

Design is equally fundamental. Product and brand design are integrated from the outset, not added as a layer after the technology, but treated as part of how technology becomes a product, a company, and ultimately something people choose.

“Europe already has an exceptional capital ecosystem. The opportunity is to add another capability, not replace it. Our Venture Platform connects technological ambition with execution and value-creation discipline, helping frontier technology reach industrial scale alongside existing owners and investors.” - Robert Westerdahl, Founding Partner.

“The world’s most important technology companies are defined by more than technology. Design makes technology useful, desirable, and culturally relevant. Europe has centuries of excellence in craftsmanship, design, culture, and quality. The ambition is to bring that standard to technology and build enduring global brands.” - Linnéa Kornehed Falck, Founding Partner.

A European Model for Global Leadership.

Europe already has the essential ingredients: world-class science, engineering, industrial excellence, design, culture, quality, and sophisticated capital.

The opportunity lies in bringing these strengths together to turn frontier technology into global businesses.

The goal is not to build another Silicon Valley, but a European model for scaling frontier technology.

Technology is the starting point. Global leadership is the ambition.

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