Career
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 American Institute of Management-listed Group NBT in January 2007 for $36 million. 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.
While at O"Reilly, Nyholm co-founded Imity, a mobile social radar, which was acquired by ZYB, and later by Vodafone, for $50 million. Nyholm then became the Chief Executive Officer of image recognition company Polar Rose, sold to Apple for a rumored $29 million.
In 2008, Nyholm and Polar Rose were named Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum. 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, PICNIC, and O"Reilly Etech.
