Mikael Selander — also known as Mikke Selander and formerly Mikke Hermansson — grew up in Lysekil, a small town on the Swedish west coast. It's an unlikely place to build a tech company. He did it anyway.
As CEO of Ancon, he took over an outdated POS company and turned it into one of Sweden's fastest-growing tech firms — rewriting the entire stack from legacy Windows to cloud-native SaaS, scaling the team from 8 to 30+, and winning Dagens Industri's prestigious Gazelle Award three years running. All from Lysekil. All without a single krona in venture capital.
Restaurant owners are some of the most driven people in any industry. They deserve technology that matches their ambition — but for years they've been handed complicated, overpriced systems that are hard to use and impossible to love. Selander saw this pattern repeat across every vendor in the market. No one was building a real platform.
Vendion is his answer: a complete restaurant operating system — POS, staff management, table reservations, marketing, analytics, and three integrated AI agents — designed and built from scratch as one single system.
