Albert Sonne Olesen
Ignite stage13:30 - 14:15
Albert is a Robotics engineer and CEO/Co-Founder of Akson Robotics. Leads the Business development, fundraising and Commercialisation of CropUp, a precision agriculture platform that turns AI-based crop and weed perception into practical field decisions and machine-ready treatment maps. Experience spans deployed agricultural AI, multi-farm dataworkflows, innovation projects and robot-integrated computervision.
He's part of the talk:
Take the Money or Run?
Capital, control and the consequences of how you choose to grow
Should you raise capital - or build on your own terms?
Every growth path comes with a price: VC funding can bring speed, ambition and access, but also pressure, expectations and a new set of obligations, while bootstrapping can preserve freedom and control, but may also limit pace, resources and opportunities.
In this panel, founders and investors share honest perspectives on the choices behind growth: when capital makes sense, when it becomes expensive, and what founders should ask themselves before choosing their path.
