Froda announces the finalists of Future Female Founder 2026

Established in 2022, Future Female Founder aims to encourage more women to start and build businesses, while contributing to greater gender equality and diversity within entrepreneurship. The scholarship is awarded annually to a founder who is about to start, or has recently started, her first company. 

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The recipient is selected by an independent jury with extensive experience across entrepreneurship, investment, and company building. Together, the jury represents a broad range of industries and perspectives, enabling a holistic assessment of the finalists’ ideas, ambition, and long-term potential. The jury consists of Jonas Groth, co-founder of Aarke, Ludwig Jonsson, co-founder of Rodolfo, Julia Elf, co-founder of Elfcare, Oliver Mohseni, co-founder of Froda, Jenny Lundkvist, co-founder of Daya Ventures and Linda Alexandersson, co-founder of Maybe Baby and recipient of the Future Female Founder 2025 scholarship.

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“This is the fourth year of Future Female Founder, and it’s exciting to see how the scholarship continues to encourage and support female founders at the very start of their journeys. This year’s finalists stand out for the clarity of their vision and they turn that vision into action. The potential impact these early-stage founders can create is significant, and we’re looking forward to seeing these ideas unfold and develop,” says Oliver Mohseni, co-founder of Froda.

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The recipient of the Future Female Founder 2026 scholarship will be announced on 5 March during an event in Stockholm bringing together founders, future founders, investors and supporters. The event is designed to celebrate early-stage entrepreneurship, create meaningful connections and highlight the importance of supporting women at the very beginning of their entrepreneurial journeys. The recipient will receive a SEK 100,000 scholarship to invest in her company and take the next step in building a sustainable business.

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The finalists

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Felicia Hansson is the founder of Solyn, a functional non-alcoholic beverage for social moments where alcohol is optional. Solyn supports presence and clarity without pressure or explanation, making it easier to choose a non-alcoholic option in social settings. Rather than replacing alcohol, it offers an inclusive alternative designed for shared moments. Solyn is made without added sugar or artificial ingredients and includes a functional boost from lion’s mane. Felicia founded Solyn based on her own experience of navigating social situations where existing options felt limiting, with the ambition to create a non-alcoholic beverage that fits naturally into social life.

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Sakina Turabali is the co-founder of Trustyou, an AI-driven privacy-first app supporting children’s digital well-being. The app helps parents identify early warning signs related to children’s digital well-being, such as bullying, grooming, and sleep issues. By analysing behavioural patterns rather than private content, it provides clear insights and guidance, enabling parents to act early while protecting children’s integrity. With over ten years of experience in growth and sales, Sakina has built companies from early ideas to scale. Sakina started building Trustyou after searching for a solution for her own daughter and realizing none combined early intervention with respect for children’s privacy.

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Johanna Lago is the co-founder of Stella Innovation, founded together with Angelina Stefanovic Andersson from a shared belief that early prevention is key to building a safer and more inclusive society. Stella Innovation has developed EDGE, a digital and interactive educational tool for elementary students. EDGE is designed to strengthen children’s inner compass, encourage reflection, and support informed decision-making in difficult situations. The first focus area addresses gang-related crime, contributing to proactive efforts to prevent recruitment at an early age. With experience in children’s welfare, social engagement, and innovation, Johanna is driven by creating solutions that support long-term well-being.

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Caroline Johansen is the co-founder of Bioelectrix. Originally from Oslo, she moved to Gothenburg to study entrepreneurship at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship and pursue her ambition to build impactful startups. Together with researchers Maria Asplund and José Leal, she founded Bioelectrix to bring breakthrough research into real-world healthcare. Bioelectrix is developing a bioelectronic wound dressing that supports the body’s natural healing process through controlled electrical stimulation. The solution aims to accelerate healing of chronic and hard-to-heal wounds, reduce complications, and lower healthcare costs. Built on world-leading research, Bioelectrix seeks to make wound care more effective, data-driven and accessible.

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Amalia Berglöf is the founder of crewcial, an AI-driven platform that rethinks how tech events and professional networks are discovered and designed. With a background in computer science and years of working close to the tech industry through business development, employer branding, and community building, Amelia saw how fragmented event data limits both access to networks and organizers’ ability to create relevant, inclusive events. The platform aggregates and structures tech event data, making it easier for individuals to find the right contexts to build their careers and companies in. For organisers, it provides insights to plan more data-driven and inclusive events. By connecting communities, crewcial aims to strengthen professional ecosystems and how they grow.

About Froda
Founded in 2015, Froda set out to redefine business financing by making it accessible, efficient, and empowering for small and medium-sized enterprises. Through digital processes and technological innovation, Froda has shortened the loan process from months to minutes, making it easy for entrepreneurs to invest in their ideas and grow with ease. Today, Froda is one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintech scaleups. With a strategic focus on embedded financing, Froda has expanded across the Nordics, the UK, Ireland and Germany, partnering with industry leaders like Visa, Checkout.com, Lunar. Froda is a licensed credit market company under the supervision of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.