Press | Karl Rosander
Articles
”Investors, stop defence-washing – we need to call defence tech what it is”
Impactloop | 3 apr 2025 | English translation
“In an increasingly uncertain world, we can no longer shy away from defence technology.”
”With or without Putin, Russia will be an existential threat to Europe”
Axios | 2 apr 2025 | English
”In today’s global security environment, one needs to be ”watching everywhere,” according to Karl Rosander, the chief executive at Nordic Air Defence.”
New Secret Swedish Defense Technology Launched: ‘Cheaper
Dagens Industri | 25 sep 2024 | Swedish
”Serial entrepreneur Karl Rosander’s secret defense technology company, Nordic Air Defence (NAD), aims to shoot down hostile drones – at a lower cost than anyone else.”
Launching secret defense company: ”For security reasons”
BreakIt | 12 mars 2024 | Swedish
”The defense industry is extremely slow. However, this also means that there are significant opportunities for quick, nimble inventors and entrepreneurs to truly make a difference right now.”
Sesamy raised new millions – valued at 190 msek
BreakIt | 22 jan 2024 | Swedish
”The company was founded in 2020 by Karl Rosander, Måns Ulvestam, and Markus Ahlstrand, who are also co-founders of the podcast company Acast. Since then, Sesamy has entered into partnerships with major publishers such as Bonnier, Norstedts, Natur & Kultur, and Breakit.”
Soaring revenue for Acast founders’ startup
Dagens Industri | 23 Juli 2023 | Swedish
”It started with single purchases of books, but now single purchases of articles have become Sesamy’s greatest source of income”
Sesamy is setting out to ‘de-wall’ digital content
Tech Crunch | 15 November 2022 | English
”The idea here is to closely align a publication’s subscription and pay-per-article offerings, aggregating large amounts of data to help the publication figure out the best price to charge based on the length of the article and what readers elsewhere have been paying, as well as other attributes such as whether an article is a major exclusive and how old it is — so the price can maybe be reduced after a few days or weeks.”
The H&M family invests in the Acast founders’ new company
Dagens Industri | 15 November 2022 | Swedish
”People are canceling their subscriptions on a continuous basis, while advertising is also on a decline. The timing for our business model is incredibly good – we have hit the right spot!”
Meet Karl Rosander, Chairman & Co-Founder Sesamy
Tech Round | 11 October 2022 | English
”SmartID also assesses which website visitors would benefit from signing up as subscribers, and those who would be better off using the single purchase option. This ensures that our single purchase option does not cannibalize existing revenues from subscriptions…”
Single-purchase news tech launches in Sweden
WNIP | 6 October 2022 | English
”The increasing need to source incremental revenue streams means Sesamy’s single-purchase offering comes at a vital time for newspapers and magazines alike”
Podcast: The Entrepreneurs
Monocle | 24 June 2022 | English
”Måns and Karl, serially successful entrepreneurs and award winners both”
Acast from the inside: The unknown story of the podcast success – ”We got paid”
BreakIt | 6 aug 2021 | Swedish
Sesamy Raises €4M in Seed Funding
FINSMES | 30 april 2021
The founders of Acast wants to stop ”zombie-subscriptions”. Challenges Storytel with new millions
Dagens Industri | 29 april 2021 | Swedish
Acast founders have a new, secret startup: ”It’s time to open up a part of the internet”
Breakit | 1 dec 2020 | Swedish
”Tech entrepreneur: ”Some investors have the Napoleon complex”
SvD Perfect Guide | Nov 2, 2020 | English Version
The entrepreneurs of today have only experienced the good times – Corona is a wakeup call
BreakIt | April 4, 2020 | Swedish
The founder of Acast Karl Rosander quits – to start new ventures
Dagens Industri | June 5, 2018 | Swedish
Podcasts were guys talking about tech, then along came Serial
The Guardian | June 31, 2017
Interviews
Podcast popularity: Thanks to Serial?
CNBC | Aug 15, 2015
”The eco-system was broken. When we looked into it we saw it was an untapped mass media. In Sweden it happened two years ago and if ’Serial’ would’ve been on Acast’s platform it would have made ten times as much”