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Magnus Persson

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Founding Partner, Eir Ventures

Firm
Eir Ventures
Title
Founding Partner
Role
General partner
Location
Stockholm
Known as
Investor
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Record updated 17 September 2026

About

Magnus is a Physician and Scientist, who early in his career successfully started a medical technology company (Aerocrine) and sold it, joined Sanofi and subsequently has been a Partner at two life science Venture Capital firms, HealthCap in Stockholm and The Column Group in San Francisco. He has had a role in dozens of investments and exits. Lately he has been an independent Chairman/Board member in several private and public companies in the Nordics, as well as in the US, and worked on a weekly basis as a clinician. Magnus has been actively involved in a number of successful pharma spin-outs. He has experience from the academic incubator space as CEO at Karolinska Institutet Holding. Magnus is based in Stockholm.

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MD, PhD, Associate ProfessorSource (opens in a new tab)

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