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Nikolaj Nyholm
Founder of Scattershot
Copenhagen Metropolitan Area
Overview
Nikolaj Nyholm is the Founder & CEO of Scattershot, a Senior Advisor at Raine, and the Founder and Chairman of Astralis, with a strong background in entrepreneurship and a focus on investing in the entertainment, sports, gaming, and eSports sectors. His career highlights include founding successful companies like Scattershot and Astralis, as well as advising notable organizations such as Mojang AB and being involved in investments in companies like Mojiworks and Neo4j.
Work Experience
Advisor
2024 - Current
Advisor to the founding team, helping them build one of the most ambitious gaming ecosystems ever
Board Member
2024
Chairman Of The Board
2020 - 2024
Leading global esports brand
Founder & CEO
2019 - 2020
Senior Advisor
2021 - 2024
Premier media, sports, and gaming merchant bank
An integrated merchant bank advising and investing in high growth sectors of technology, media and telecom.
Founder & CEO
2021 - 2023
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
General Partner at European venture capital firm Heartcore Capital (fka Sunstone Capital). Focus on gaming and enterprise software, delivering a +10x multiple on invested capital (MOIC) across two funds. I led Heartcore's investments into: * 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
Education
Not completed
1993 - 1994
Not completed
1995 - 1996
Investments
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