Co-Founders and General Partners Erik Byrenius and Anna Ottosson launched Mudcake in 2020 (originally named Trellis Road) as a Stockholm-based pre-seed specialist for foodtech and agtech. Byrenius brings serial entrepreneurship experience having co-founded and exited multiple Swedish consumer technology companies, while Ottosson contributes deep sustainability and food industry networks across Scandinavia. Managing an €18M fund with 48 investments, the team executes a distinctive first-check strategy targeting the earliest viable commercial stage, with portfolio companies including Agteria Biotech, Melt&Marble, and Nutropy, reflecting a thesis of backing scientific founders solving planetary health challenges.