Tor Rauden Källstigen is a leader, AI company builder, and product maker where technology and culture intersect.
With track record from over a decade of turning bold ideas into revenue generating growth businesses.
Tor Rauden Källstigen is a leader, AI company builder, and product maker where technology and culture intersect.
With track record from over a decade of turning bold ideas into revenue generating growth businesses.
All Ears
2024
Exit
My ownership stake was acquired by Bonnier Capital and Alfvén & Didrikson, long time institutional investors in the company.
2023 – 2024
Board Director & Angel Investor
Participated in the Series A round. Later, as a board director and strategic advisor, I recruited the current CEO and Chairman of the Board.
2016 – 2022
Co-Founder & CEO
All Ears is the world leader in AI driven spoken media monitoring. I led the company for its first six years. From idea to a robust business.
Listed among the Hottest Swedish AI startups and dubbed a Rising Star by Breakit.
As a B2B SaaS, trusted by almost a thousand customers, many of them Fortune 500's (such as Hertz & Pfizer), All Ears has achieved an annual recurring revenue of €4 million with an yearly growth rate of 2-3x.
All Ears has raised several million euros in investment, through various rounds, including the Series A led by Bonnier Capital and Alfvén & Didrikson, as well as prominent angel investors from Spotify and Cision.
I personally closed the company's first customers in Sweden and U.S. and opened our presence in New York City, securing major clients such as Walmart and Weber Shandwick.
Through my efforts, I built a strong sales, product, and customer success team, recruiting well over a hundred new team members in total. Meanwhile, voluntary employee churn stayed at levels close to zero.
Initially called Signal Signal, the company changed its name two years after incorporation.
PR Week: All Ears posts $6 million funding
Skiftet
Board Director
2017-2019
Sweden’s largest network mobilizing citizens for justice and environmental protection. Run by a team of ten people, supported by monthly donations from thousands of individual backers.
Opinion
Co-Founder & CEO
2014-2016
A first of its kind podcasting studio for iOS. Turned podcasting dreams of hundreds of thousands of people, into reality. Spun off its AI podcast discovery as a stand alone product.
Opinion was monetized using an in app purchase model. Invested in by Europe's leading startup accelerator Seedcamp in London.
TNW: Better than anything else in mobile audio editing
Loopcam
Founder & CEO
2011-2014
Forerunner in the mobile photo sharing space, similar to the loop based format that Vine and Tiktok later popularized.
Loopcam was monetized using creative/ad partnerships with international B2C brands.
The company was run from Berlin and got backed by London based Passion Capital, and the founders of Soundcloud.
Techcruch: Loopcam Stops Being A Gimmick, Starts Getting Funding
My promise to you as city mayor: Lets transform every street into one resembling a Tokyo suburb.
Lectures & Panels
Chatham House London, SXSW, Swedish Parliament, TEDxStockholm, Embassy of Sweden in Berlin, Swedish Trade & Invest Council, by:Larm Oslo, Reporters Without Borders, Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg, Beckmans School of Design, Hyper Island & Berghs School of Communication.
Seoul. A city I called my home for one delightful spring.
Days of Yore
In prior to all of the above — Swedish Grammy nominated musician with 10 million streams, producer of democratic pants, Swedish Institute backed frequent flyer to Minsk and indie-tv host.
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