{"id":1788,"date":"2025-01-22T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaja.net\/vaja-an-opportunity-that-is-too-exciting-and-too-important-to-resist\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:08:53","slug":"vaja-an-opportunity-that-is-too-exciting-and-too-important-to-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaja.net\/en\/vaja-an-opportunity-that-is-too-exciting-and-too-important-to-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaja \u2014 an opportunity too exciting \u2013 and too important \u2013 to resist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What if all solar farms are fundamentally built the wrong way?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the core idea that led to the inception of Vaja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anders \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/vaja.net\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"vaja.net\">Vaja\u2019s <\/a>CTO and co-founder <\/strong>\u2013 is one of the pioneers of the solar energy industry in Sweden. In 2017 he founded Soldags and since then has led it as CEO. Over the last five years, Soldags has become one of the leading residential solar energy companies in all of Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the past several years, Anders could not shake one wild idea from his mind \u2013 an idea for fundamentally changing how solar farms are built \u2013 by turning the design principles of solar farm mounting and tracking systems completely on their head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Anders realized that this was a BIG idea that would require quite a bit of muscle to make real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anders and Henrik (Vaja\u2019s other co-founder) got to know each other while working closely together at Tobii \u2013 the global leader in eye tracking technology which Henrik co-founded. Henrik was the CEO of Tobii from the garage to publicly listed company (which has now become two public companies, Tobii and Dynavox) with well over 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the fall of 2023, Anders shared his idea with Henrik. After some brainstorming together, they both realized that this opportunity was too exciting \u2013 and too important \u2013 to resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solar energy is already the fastest growing form of energy production globally. It is growing at an astonishing and accelerating pace. The majority of all solar energy is produced in ground-based solar farms. A technology solution, such as the one that Vaja is developing, that dramatically improves the ROI of solar farms and significantly reduces the land-use conflict of such installations has tremendous business potential. Moreover, it can have a major impact on the global transition to a sustainable world at a time when energy demands are increasing exponentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Henrik and Anders are working full throttle to realize this idea \u2013 at scale and high pace. In less than a year, they have taken this \u201ccrazy wild idea\u201d through basic technology research, into product development, and now to real-world full-scale system testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together with a stellar core team, Vaja has joined an epic race to make solar farms more productive \u2013 and more cost effective \u2013 than ever before!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if all solar farms are fundamentally built the wrong way? This was the core idea that led to the inception of Vaja. Anders \u2013 Vaja\u2019s CTO and co-founder \u2013 is one of the pioneers of the solar energy industry in Sweden. In 2017 he founded Soldags and since then has led it as CEO. 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