Nikolaj Nyholm
Chief Executive Officer, Person
1975 –
Who is Nikolaj Nyholm?
Nikolaj Nyholm, is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor from Copenhagen, Denmark. He has founded four technology startups that have pioneered different domains, is an advisor to Minecraft creator Mojang, and is now a partner at the early-stage venture capital investor, Sunstone Capital.
Nyholm founded Speednames in 1999 and sold the company to London AIM-listed Group NBT in January 2007 for $36 million. In 2003, Nyholm founded Organic Network, a provider of managed Wi-Fi systems to large ISPs. The company was liquidated in late 2005, after having created the successful open source Wi-Fi firmware project OpenWRT, which now powers companies like FON.
After Organic Network, Nyholm spent a year as European evangelist for O'Reilly Media, Tim O'Reilly's tech publisher and conference organizer. There he co-organized the European Open Source Conference, among other accomplishments. While at O'Reilly, Nyholm co-founded Imity, a mobile social radar, which was acquired by ZYB, and later by Vodafone, for $50 million.
Nyholm then became the CEO of image recognition company Polar Rose, sold to Apple for a rumored $29 million.
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