About us

CEO & Founder

The founder of Elevera Advisers, Thorgeir Einarsson, has created, built and sold tech companies in Europe, the US, Asia, and Africa for the last 30 years.Thorgeir started his career as a founder of innovative and disruptive software solutions in global supply chain & logistics and later business process optimization.Thorgeir has, over the years, helped clients grow, fund, and exit their businesses for various industries, specifically cybersecurity, mobile apps, e-commerce, energy, financial services, real estate, HR, med-tech, advertising, and education.Thorgeir co-founded Qiva Inc. (formerly TTSI Ltd) in 1988 – a leading provider of global logistics and transportation software with headquarters in London and San Francisco (acquired by TradeBeam in 2003 and today part of Aptean).Thorgeir also co-founded Categoric Software Corp. in 1997 – the author of the industry’s first Business Activity Monitoring and Event Alerting Platforms (Xalerts), with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA (acquired by CDC Software in 2009 and today part of Aptean).Thorgeir also served as VP of International for Sendmail Inc. (Emeryville, CA), the leading email security and infrastructure provider, during 2003-2005 (acquired by Proofpoint, Sunnyvale, CA, in 2013).After advising over 20 startups to raise $150m+ venture capital, Thorgeir co-founded Pitchago in 2020 - an innovative SaaS platform for entrepreneurs to self-assess their startups and build a level-up action plan. Pitchago uses a proprietary venture score algorithm by VCs, Accelerators, and Incubators to automatically rate and grade ventures. Thorgeir holds a BSc from University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Associate Partner

Mattias Berntsson is Elevera’s associate partner in Sweden. Mattias has advised growth companies within strategy, business development, and private placements within HealthTech, HRTech, GreenTech, and retail and advised private equity fund managers on fundraising and investor relations. His career spans more than 20 years of experience in investments and financing companies, projects, real assets, and funds in private and public situations, internationally and in Sweden. He has developed a broad international network in the private equity, venture capital, and real asset industry, built close relationships with institutional investors, private equity, venture groups, foundations, family offices, business angels, and private investors committed to private capital as an asset class.Mattias started his career as a trainee at ABB Financial Services, which took him to Zurich, Switzerland, where he, as Head of Strategy and Business Development at ABB Equity Ventures, gained experience in corporate venture capital and private equity infrastructure investments. After ABB, Mattias joined Swiss Re Private Equity Partners as a Vice President in Zurich, responsible for investments in European private equity and venture capital funds and institutional investor relationships in the Nordic region.After ten years in Zurich, Mattias took on the role of Principal at Pantheon in London, a true pioneer private equity asset manager, where he initiated, launched and managed a pioneer private infrastructure investment program for third-party institutional clients. At the same time managed relationships with investment managers in the Nordic private equity and venture industry.After five years in London, Mattias moved back to Sweden and took on the position of CIO at AP6, managing investment strategy and asset allocation and chairing the investment committee. Before launching AltAvant, Mattias was Head of Investments at Region Västra Götaland, focusing mainly on healthcare infrastructure, MedTech, and transport investments.Mattias holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and Major in Accounting and Business Finance from Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law, Gothenburg, Sweden