Tor Rauden Källstigen
Leader and AI company builder. Product maker where technology and culture intersect.
Available for board and advisory roles.
I'm passionate about audio, AI, and helping people understand the world.
Track record of turning bold ideas into revenue generating growth businesses. Experience in taking ventures from early stages to product-market fit, then scaling through effective sales and marketing strategies.
My expertise includes organization and management, primarily in B2B SaaS and B2C. I have raised ~100 million sek in venture capital in total. Both in strong markets, and during challenging financial times.
Board experience from tech, and civil society.
Advisor
2023 – Today
Supporting scaleups and startups through my own firm. Mainly work on product market fit, organization and fundraising.
All Ears
2023 – Today
Founder & Board Director
As a Strategic Advisor, I'm guiding the company's vision and future direction. Together with the Chairman, I recently ran and successfully concluded our recruitment process for a new Chief Executive Officer.
2016 – 2022
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.
All Ears was dubbed a "Rising Star 2023" and listed among the "Hottest Swedish AI startups" by Breakit.
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 annual ARR growth rate of 100-200%. I was instrumental in raising many million euros in investment, through various rounds, including the Series A.
I personally closed the company's first customers and initiated our US outlet, 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.
All Ears has attracted investments from Alfvén & Didrikson and Bonnier Ventures, as well as prominent angel investors with backgrounds at Spotify and Cision.
PR Week: All Ears posts $6 million funding
Skiftet
Board Director
2017-2019
The largest network of progressive activists in Sweden, financed by monthly donations from thousands of individual backers.
Opinion
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.
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.
Backed founders of Soundcloud, and London based Passion Capital.
In prior to all of the above — Grammy nominated musician with 10 million streams, producer of pants, Swedish Institute backed frequent flyer to Minsk and indie-tv host.
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Based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Previously in Berlin and Seoul.