Lina Wenner joined firstminute in 2017 as the first member of its investment team and now runs the firm's Berlin office, covering both the DACH region and the Nordics as a German-Swedish investor whose background spans economics, psychology, and statistics from University College Utrecht and Cambridge, along with corporate finance and strategy work at BCG across consumer, energy, and industrials. She points to Sweden's small, fast-adopting healthcare system as a strong setting for health tech and to Germany's strength in industrial tech and automation, is described by colleagues as a mentor, and has shared that she once seriously considered becoming a professional singer or going into biotechnology before moving into venture capital.