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Niels Gron

Investor and Advisor

Austin, Texas

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

  • Investor

    2017

  • Angel Investor

    2017

    Managing seed fund. Investing in early stage software startups across all industries.

2002 - 2017

  • CEO / Founder

    2002 - 2017

    Designed, developed and supported versions 1,2,3 & 4 of Aqua Data Studio out of my apartment in Mountain View. Hired some old and new friends to continue to building Aqua Data Studio as a product and AquaFold as a company. Grew and managed AquaFold to a successful business and acquisition. AquaFold was acquired by IDERA.

2001 - 2002

  • Director of Software Development

    2001 - 2002

    Designed, developed a secure and high performance application server for biometric financial transactions. Worked with a team to deploy a service in pilot programs for merchants in different sectors. The product was called PayByTouch. Indivos was a VC funded company which was acquired by Solidus Networks, which later renamed itself PayByTouch.

2000 - 2001

  • Software Architect, Co-Founder

    2000 - 2001

    Co-founded software company building secure peer-to-peer networks. Built version 1.0 of product.

1999 - 2000

  • Software Architect, [Founding Team]

    1999 - 2000

    Designed and implemented version 1.0 of an online service for group buying. Demandline was a VC funded company which didn't survive the Dot Com Crash.

1998 - 1999

  • Senior Software Engineer

    1998 - 1999

    Building, enhancing and tuning high performance C++ application server for the company's SaaS CRM product. UpShot was a VC funded competitor to Saleforce.com which was acquired by Siebel Systems.

  • Software Architect / Co-Founder

    1994 - 1998

    While in college, co-founded a software company producing and licensing shrink-wrapped software for real estate brokers and a public Internet listing service.