The co-founders of Einride, the Swedish autonomous electric trucking company that went public on Nasdaq in June, unveiled a new venture platform at TechBBQ in Copenhagen on August 26 that is structured not as a conventional fund but as an operating company — one explicitly designed to address a gap that industry research has repeatedly documented as the primary reason European deep tech companies fail to scale: the near-absence of operators who have actually built and run deep tech companies among those writing the investment checks. The firm, called Navisalma, was founded by Robert Falck, Linnéa Kornehed Falck, and Robert Westerdahl. Falck — who spent nearly a decade as Einride's founding CEO before transitioning to executive chairman in May 2025 — serves as Navisalma's CEO. Kornehed Falck, who served as Einride's Deputy CEO and Chief Marketing Officer and led its design organization, is a founding partner. Westerdahl, who co-founded Material Economics — the Stockholm-based industrial sustainability consultancy that McKinsey acquired in 2021 — and subsequently became a McKinsey partner, is the third founding partner. Research from the 2026 European Deep Tech Investor Report, published by The Big Search and Dealroom, found that only 27.3% are former deep tech founders among European deep tech investors. The same analysis identified operator-investors — those with firsthand experience building and running the category of company they fund — as having a measurable edge in deep tech, where execution risk rather than idea risk is the primary failure mode. Navisalma's founding team consists entirely of operators: Falck oversaw the manufacturing, commercialization, and regulatory clearance of cab-less autonomous freight vehicles across five countries; Kornehed Falck built a design organization recognized by external clients before it was spun out; Westerdahl scaled a consultancy into an acquisition by one of the world's largest professional services firms. What Navisalma