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Anders Forslund is Founder & CEO at Heart Aerospace, based in Santa Monica, CA, USA.
Anders Forslund co-founded Heart Aerospace and has also been involved with Chalmers University of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, GKN Aerospace.
Anders Forslund is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Heart Aerospace, an electric aviation manufacturer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Before launching the company, he earned a doctorate in aerospace design from Chalmers University of Technology, where he worked as a researcher focused on aircraft product development and manufacturing. An alumnus of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch, Forslund has led Heart Aerospace to secure more than $190 million in total venture funding from prominent investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures and United Airlines. Under his leadership, the startup closed a $107 million Series B funding round in early 2024 to accelerate the engineering and certification of the ES-30, a thirty-seat hybrid-electric regional airplane. His current focus centers on commercializing sustainable aerospace hardware to decarbonize regional air mobility and fulfill hundreds of conditional commercial aircraft orders.
