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July 18, 2024

The Kry founders factory: Meet 15 employees-turned-founders

More than half have launched digital health startups but there are also SaaS platforms, a climate tech, an edtech and a secondhand fashion startup


Swedish startup Kry has been a darling of Europe’s digital health sector for years. 

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Johan Baltzar, Steep founder
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Peter Malmqvist and Jannik Tiedemann, Circle Health founders
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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