Juha Christensen

Founder & Chairman

2008

Star is a global company of builders.   Whether you are a start-up, mid-sized company or large enterprise, we help you innovate, transform, grow and prosper. We understand that in your business only the end result counts. This endgame is the north star that guides us when our global teams of innovation experts, strategists, designers, engineers and marketers work alongside you from start to finish.

Chairman

2020

Vice Chairman

2016 - 2020

The craftsmen at Bang & Olufsen have since 1925 been building a highly distinctive, timeless and exclusive range of music systems, loudspeakers and televisions that combine technological excellence with emotional appeal.

Vice Chairman

2016

Netcompany delivers business critical IT solutions and consultancy that help customers achieve significant business benefits in a digitized world. The company helps clients manage and operate IT solutions both on location and in the cloud.

Investor & Advisory Board Member

2018

Blazar Capital builds global online leaders in various consumer industries disrupting monopolized markets by offering a strong value-proposition, a world class founding team and a global scale. New companies incubated and launched so far include Nordgreen, MessyWeekend, Jamie Looks, Project Nord and The Loyalty.

Co-Founder, Founders Collective

2017

byFounders is a “for founders by founders” venture fund built on the foundation and backing of a strong Founders Collective, comprising a significant group of some of the most successful Danish & Nordic entrepreneurs investing in and supporting a new generation of globally ambitious Nordic and Baltic entrepreneurs.

Co-Founder & Chairman

2008 - 2024

Acquired by Stellantis in 2024, formerly a jointly owned by Valeo and Star, CloudMade works closely with the world's large automotive brands to change the way cars are built, marketed, bought, shared and driven. The heart of CloudMade's array of solutions is a global cloud based Machine Learning infrastructure, which over time creates an ever richer profile of each individual driver, enabling our Adaptive UI to always serve the driver with the most time-and-context relevant experiences.

Chairman

2008 - 2017

Brandworkz' brand management software helps some of the best known businesses in the world manage their brands. Customers include Eurostar, Boots, Sony Ericsson, ArcelorMittal, US Army and Red Bull. Brandworkz' solution powers Brand Workflow & Approval, Reporting & Analysis, Digital Asset Management, Guidelines & Positioning, Best Practice Sharing and Web-to-Print.

Board Member

2012 - 2016

Acquired by Xperia in November 2016. Pelican developed a breakthrough in computational imaging and array cameras securing over 100 patents. Pelican’s technology directly addressed the challenges posed by conventional camera design and small pixels by producing a much thinner in-phone camera capable of depth sensing as well as producing better quality images.

Board Member

2003 - 2012

Acquired by Harman for $800 million in January 2015 (Harman was acquired by Samsung for $8b in 2016). Longest serving board member, M&A and compensation committee. The company was, with its 6,000 employees in 11 countries, the mobile industry's largest Systems Integrator. Over 40% of the world's handsets were 'touched by Teleca', the largest software integration partner to Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and a major supplier of services to Samsung, LG and a number of other handset makers.

Chairman

2008 - 2010

Acquired by Red Bend in September 2010 for stock, which in turn was acquired for $200 million by Harman in 2015. Chairman of VirtualLogix, the market share leader in mobile virtualization. VirtualLogix had investments from Index, DFJ, Atlas, Progression Partners, Texas Instruments, Intel, Cisco and Motorola. VirtualLogix enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware and provides a range of performance, fault tolerance and security options to address specific market requirements.