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Nikolaj Nyholm

Founder & CEO at Scattershot • Senior Advisor at Raine • Founder & chairman at Astralis

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

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Skills

Entrepreneurship

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & CEO

    2021

  • Chairman Of The Board

    2020

    Leading global esports brand

  • Founder & CEO

    2019 - 2020

  • Senior Advisor

    2021

    Premier media, sports, and gaming merchant bank

2016 - 2019

  • Founder and CEO

    2016 - 2019

    BLAST (fka RFRSH) was founded to advance esports from a sub-culture phenomenon to the recognition of a mass audience. RFRSH owned and operated esports teams Astralis and Origen (today Astralis A/S) and tournament circuit BLAST Pro Series (today BLAST Premier).

2010 - 2016

  • General Partner

    2010 - 2016

    Served as General Partner at European venture capital firm Heartcore Capital (fka Sunstone Capital). Focus on gaming and enterprise software. First (or early) investor in: * Neo4j * Seriously Digital Entertainment (acquired by Playtika) * Everywear Games/Metacore (acquired by Supercell) * Peakon (acquired by Workday) * GetYourGuide * Podio (acquired by Citrix) * Crate.io * Traplight Games * Cloudmade (acquired by Valeo) * Freespee * Futureplay Games (acquired by Plarium)

  • Advisor

    2010 - 2014

    Helping the brave crew at Mojang push a little game called Minecraft

2006 - 2009

  • CEO

    2006 - 2009

    Polar Rose helps users sort, search, and share their digital photos based on the photo content. Using superior computer vision technology Polar Rose can tell who's in a photo. Acquired by Apple, Inc. (AAPL).

2006 - 2008

  • Co-founder

    2006 - 2008

    Co-founder of and advisor to Imity. Acquired by Vodafone/Zyb (http://zyb.com).

  • Conference Program Chair (Europe)

    2005 - 2006

2003 - 2005

  • Founder & CTO

    2003 - 2005

    Initiators of the successful open source OpenWRT project.