Jonas Gundersen

Esports Investor & Entrepreneur | One IPO, Multiple Investments | Founder at Continuum X Group

Former Group COO of NIP Group, recently listed on Nasdaq ($NIPG), 15+ years of startups and executive leadership, former professional esports athlete.

Chief Operating Officer

Ninjas in Pyjamas: An iconic esports team with over 20 years of legacy and championship wins, fielding teams around the globe, across various major game titles

At Ninjas in Pyjamas, I am in charge of all daily operations, with an extended focus on commercialization and esports.

Best way to convince people that esports is very real? Go to an event. Check out the stage view from ESL Krakow:


Yes, esports lives digitally in a way that no other sport is even close to, but the foundation is still the same as the rest. Humans coming together, sharing special moments of common interest, watching the best of the best push the limits of what's possible. Entertainment in its purest form.

I love this video from ESL, showcasing the view from the players on stage, where 15.000 people eagerly await the final of Team Vitality & FURIA. What a view.

Over the years, the best way to get people to understand the movement that is happening is to just bring them to an event to experience it all. Those first roars from the crowd of the stage entries and the first few exciting rounds or fights in a game are as self-explanatory as it gets. Every time, people go like "What?! This is amazing!" And I can only agree - yes, it is!


Let's go esports! 🎮 🚀 

#esports #gaming #audience

Founder of Fusion Esports Group, Astralis Owners | ex-COO of NIP Group, Listed on NASDAQ ($NIPG)

Digital Hub Denmark

Interim CEO

Director Of Operations

Director of Platform

Head of Platform

Senior Consultant

Yard

Angel Investor

Techstars

Mentor on the Nordic program based out of Stockholm.

2022: Lead mentor for Wisedrive
2023: Lead mentor for Emigreat

Mentor

On Deck

#ODF10 Fellow

SaaStock

City Leader

Foundation Platform

Foundation was a no-code/low-code platform to build and scale any type of internal tool that your SaaS business needs. 

I left the founding team quite early as one of the other co-founders and I fundamentally disagreed - the team proceeded to raise a €300k pre-seed round from Seedcamp, PreSeed Ventures, The Nordic Web & angels but the remaining two co-founders fell out in early 2020 over strategy and shut down the startup.

Co-Founder

TechBBQ

TechBBQ is the largest startup conference in the Nordics. We took over from the former team in 2016 and grew the event from 650 to nearly 8,000 attendees just 3 years later. 

- Responsible for all marketing & communication efforts, startup & investor relations, managing the marketing team and supporting partnerships and curation.
- Part of the leadership team setting the strategy in collaboration with the steering committee (David Helgason, Esben Gadsbøll, Klaus Nyengaard and more entrepreneurs)
- Successfully fundraised €700,000 from foundations to build out new project portfolio.
- Grew ticket revenue 68% and attendance 61%
- In 2016 as Head of Growth, stepped down to an advisory capacity in 2017 and joined again as CMO in 2018-19.
- In 2016 establishing & leading a team of 5 working with growth & marketing. The team managed to 5x ticket sales and 3x attendance.

Chief Marketing Officer

Advisor

Head of Growth

ARTLAND App

Artland is a social marketplace app that connects art collectors and galleries. At the time, we lacked product/market fit which made it a very painful experience to try and scale in the consumer market. 

- Responsible for establishing and leading team focused on growing MAU's as the North Star Metric before pre-seed and seed round.
- Grew MAU's 183% in ~6 months and decreased CPI from paid channels by 62%.
- Launched Artland in several new markets; some highly successful, others not quite...

Growth

Zealand - Sjællands Erhvervsakademi

Advisory Board Member on PBA Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Pipetop

Pipetop is the first Autopilot for your Sales Pipeline providing your B2B business with intelligently qualified leads. Many players in this space at the time and we never got it working leading to the subsequent fold in Summer 2016.

- Responsible for content marketing & distribution. Much of my content got shared several hundred times (and are still being shared regularly), went #1 on GrowthHackers and got featured by Hiten Shah.
- Responsible for designing and executing larger outbound sales efforts. 
- Creating an onboarding flow for new users, tracking and optimising user behaviour on the platform.
- Running sales operations and keeping track of the various metrics.

Nicolaj is the CEO of Digital Hub Denmark, a national initiative that aims to foster and accelerate the growth of the Danish tech ecosystem. He joined the organization in 2019 and took over as interim CEO in 2022 before being appointed the permanent leader in 2023. With over eight years of experience in the startup ecosystem, he has a strong background in marketing, growth, and product and a passion for solving real problems with technology.

As the CEO of Digital Hub Denmark, Nicolaj oversees the organization's strategic direction, operations, and partnerships, which serve as a platform, network, and catalyst for tech innovation in Denmark. He is also an On Deck fellow and is recognised as a top business talent in Denmark on the Berlingske Talent 100 list. 

Nicolaj is driven by the vision of making Denmark a leading tech hub in Europe and the world and empowering the next generation of tech entrepreneurs and talent.

Nicolaj Christensen

“Jeg har på papiret en ret stor formue. Men i virkeligheden er jeg fattigere end de fleste af mine venner”

Det siger Jonatan Marc Rasmussen, founder af All Gravy, i første afsnit af Fra Kælderen Til Borgen.

Podcasten handler om noget ret simpelt:
Hvad sker der, når beslutningerne på Christiansborg rammer virkeligheden for danske startups?

Sammen med Dennis Green-Lieber 🇩🇰 🇪🇺 🤖 🚀 fra Propane taler vi bl.a. om:

💰 Formueskatten – og hvad den konkret betyder for danske iværksættere
🙅 Hvorfor medarbejderaktier alt for ofte ender med at blive fravalgt
🏛️ Offentlige indkøb fremfor støtteordninger
🌍 SIRI-processer og international talent
🚀 Hvad der faktisk skal ændres, hvis Danmark vil være et bedre land at bygge virksomheder i

Her er et kort klip fra episoden, hvor Jonatan forklarer, hvordan den foreslåede formueskat vil påvirke ham.

🎧 Hele episoden af Fra Kælderen Til Borgen er ude nu.

Nicolaj Geller Christensen

CEO @ Digital Hub Denmark / On Deck Fellow / Berlingske Talent 100

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