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July 8, 2019

Tetra Pak heir turns angel investor

Magnus Rausing is heir to the multi-billion euro Tetra Laval fortune. Now he has turned to startup investing.


Mimi Billing

5 min read

Magnus Rausing, heir of the Tetra Pak fortunes, has become an angel investor.

The Swede Ruben Rausing revolutionised the global food industry back in the 1950s with the Tetra Pak packaging technology, creating a vast fortune and a powerful family dynasty in the process. Today, his great-grandson Magnus Rausing has started investing in European startups through his investment company Mahr Projects.

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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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