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Nikolaj Nyholm, (born September 13, 1975) is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor from Copenhagen, Denmark. He has founded four technology startups that have pioneered different domains, is an advisor to Minecraft creator Mojang, and is now a partner at the early-stage venture capital investor, Sunstone Capital. Nyholm founded Speednames (later renamed Ascio Technologies) in 1999 and sold the company to London AIM-listed Group NBT in January 2007 for $36 million.〔(Web Hosting Provider Group NBT Acquires Ascio Technologies )〕 In 2003, Nyholm founded Organic Network, a provider of managed Wi-Fi systems to large ISPs. The company was liquidated in late 2005, after having created the successful open source Wi-Fi firmware project OpenWRT, which now powers companies like FON. After Organic Network, Nyholm spent a year as European evangelist for O'Reilly Media, Tim O'Reilly's tech publisher and conference organizer. There he co-organized the European Open Source Conference,〔(EuroOSCON 2006 )〕 among other accomplishments. While at O'Reilly, Nyholm co-founded Imity, a mobile social radar, which was acquired by ZYB, and later by Vodafone, for $50 million.〔(Danish Mobile Social Network ZYB Acquired By Vodafone For €31.5 million )〕 Nyholm then became the CEO of image recognition company Polar Rose, sold to Apple for a rumored $29 million.〔(Apple buys Polar Rose for a rumoured $29 million )〕 In 2008, Nyholm and Polar Rose were named Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum.〔(World Economic Forum commends Polar Rose )〕 In January 2010, Nyholm joined venture capital firm Sunstone Capital as a partner. Additionally, Nyholm is a frequent speaker at technology conferences such as DLD,〔(DLD Conference, Nikolaj Nyholm )〕 PICNIC,〔(Picnic Conference, Future Technology Trends )〕 and O'Reilly Etech.〔(ETech summary, day 3 )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nikolaj Nyholm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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