About Us

As a venture capitalist, technologist, and briefly an investment banker, Åsa Aulin Ahlberg, the Managing Director of East Lake Partners, leverages her experience with startups, Fortune 100 companies, and venture capital firms in advising companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Åsa has lived and worked in the Boston area for the past 11 years, prior to that she lived and worked in Sweden.

Before founding East Lake Partners, Åsa was a Principal with IDG Ventures in Boston, MA, and prior to that she was with Masthead Venture Partners in Cambridge, MA. Both firms are early stage venture capital firms focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments in the United States. She also spent time with SoundView Technology Group, a specialized technology investment bank (now part of W.R. Hambrecht.) Early in her career, Åsa did real estate investments for the construction company Skanska, in Sweden, the US, and in Bermuda.

Åsa holds an M.B.A. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, MA, and a M.Sc. C.E. from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce of New England, USA.