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Linn Clabburn

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Innovation Ventures Leader at Inter IKEA Group
📍 Älmhult, Kronoberg County, Sweden

Linn Clabburn is an Innovation Ventures Leader at Inter IKEA Group, focusing on strategic investments in early-stage, sustainable companies. With a background in environmental science from the University of Gothenburg, her career has spanned green-tech venture capital, economic development, and offshore wind power.

Originally from Sweden, Linn has a passion for the outdoors, demonstrated by her training as a course leader with the Swedish Outdoor Association. She previously spent several years traveling as a "ski bum" before settling in the UK for her professional career, blending her personal interests with her work.

She is actively exploring how marine materials like seaweed and algae can be used as a sustainable feedstock for future IKEA products.

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Current Role
Innovation Ventures Leader
Location
Älmhult, Kronoberg County, Sweden
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Priorities

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Sustainable Innovation
Leads investments in sustainable tech at IKEA, such as in Colorifix which uses microbes for dyeing, and explores applications for materials like biochar and seaweed.
Venture Investing
As Innovation Ventures Leader, she identifies and invests in early-stage companies, having previously worked for a green-tech focused venture capital fund.
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Career

Work history

8-2021
Innovation Ventures Leader
Inter IKEA Group
2-2021 - 8-2021
Senior Advisor
PLMR - Communications with Impact
12-2017 - 8-2021
Programme Director
Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor
12-2017 - 7-2021
Programme Director
Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor
4-2016 - 12-2017
Associate
Adapt Cocoon Equity LLP
In the press

Media appearances

Colorifix secures US $18 million funding from Inter IKEA Group. Featured in Apparel Resources
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Inter IKEA Group makes minority investment in Flow Loop. Featured in IKEA Global – Newsroom
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Education
2017 - 2018
Certificate of Business Accounting
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
2010 - 2011
MSc
University of East Anglia
2005 - 2010
BSc
University of Gothenburg
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