Nikolaj Nyholm

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

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).

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

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).

Co-founder

2006 - 2008

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

Conference Program Chair (Europe)

2005 - 2006

Founder & CTO

2003 - 2005

Initiators of the successful open source OpenWRT project.