Nikolaj Nyholm Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Status
  • Active

  • Investments
  • 8

  • Portfolio
  • 6

  • Exits
  • 2

Exits

Nikolaj Nyholm General Information

Description

Mr. Nikolaj Nyholm serves as a Senior Advisor at The Raine Group. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Scattershot. He serves as Board member at Toptutors. Mr. Nikolaj Nyholm serves as a Board Member and Advisor at Traplight. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Astralis Group. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Astralis Group. Mr. Nyholm co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer, Copenhagen at BLAST Premier. He was A Board Member of Crate.io. Previously he served as a Board Member at Everywear Games. He also served as Venture Partner at Heartcore Capital. He serves as a Board Member at Crate Technology. He also served as a Board Member at the Ministry of Games and Seriously. He co-founded Imity. Prior to joining Polar Rose, he worked with O'Reilly Media producing the European Open Source Convention (EuroOSCON) and CustomerMade conferences. He remains a member of O'Reilly's 'Radar' team, which Wired Magazine recently dubbed 'legendary'. He has founded several technology companies, including Speednames/Ascio in 1998, the company which supplied the first global domain name search (acquired in 2007 by Group NBT); and Organic Network, a now-defunct Wi-Fi startup whose legacy is OpenWRT.org, the leading open-source Wi-Fi project. He is a founding investor and board member of CloudMade, the open geodata company behind OpenStreetMap.org, a 'Wikipedia of maps', a board member of Epista A/S (YouCalc) and Neo Technology AB and co-organizer of reboot, a heralded conference that has for 11 years drawn a community of visionaries from across Europe and North America to Copenhagen each June to discuss topics within technology and culture. He served as the Board Member of Skylab. He holds degrees from Roskilde University, Tufts University, and Universidad Nacional.

Business Details

Website
www.nyholm.net
Year Founded
1975
Investor Status
Actively Seeking New Investments
Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • Otto Busses Vej 7, 2nd floor
  • 2450 Copenhagen
  • Denmark

Nikolaj Nyholm Investments (8)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
Elby (Utilities) 27-Mar-2025 Early Stage VC Other Utilities Generating Revenue
Matchwinner 27-Mar-2025 Clothing Generating Revenue
Toptutors 22-Feb-2024 Educational Software Generating Revenue
Traplight 09-Jul-2020 Entertainment Software Generating Revenue
Mojiworks 29-Nov-2016 Entertainment Software Generating Revenue
CrateDB 01-Nov-2015 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Prezi 19-Nov-2014 Later Stage VC Multimedia and Design Software Generating Revenue
CloudMade 01-Jan-2007 Seed Round Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue

Nikolaj Nyholm Exits (2)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size
CloudMade 10-Nov-2016 Merger/Acquisition
Prezi

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Nikolaj Nyholm FAQs

  • Who is Nikolaj Nyholm?

    Nikolaj Nyholm is an angel Investor who has made 8 investments.

  • What kind of investor is Nikolaj Nyholm?

    Nikolaj Nyholm is an angel investor.

  • What does Nikolaj Nyholm do?

    As an angel investor, Nikolaj Nyholm invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • How many board seats does Nikolaj Nyholm hold?

    Nikolaj Nyholm holds a board seat in Toptutors.

  • What has Nikolaj Nyholm invested in?

    Nikolaj Nyholm has made numerous investments in companies like Elby (Utilities), Matchwinner, and Toptutors within the Utilities, Clothing, and Educational Software industries.

  • What has Nikolaj Nyholm invested in recently?

    Nikolaj Nyholm's latest investment was on 27-Mar-2025 in Elby (Utilities), a company within the Utilities industry.

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