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Jane Walerud
Jane Christine Walerud Boreta (born 13 November 1961) is a Sweden-based entrepreneur and investor. She has been involved in over 15 startups since the early 2000s, including Klarna, Bluetail, Tobii Technology, Teclo Networks, and GraphMaTech. She is member of The Swedish Government Innovation Council. Early life Walerud was born in the US and moved to Sweden when she was 20 years old after meeting her husband, Bengt. She studied Cognitive Psychology and Computer Science at Stanford University. Jane and Bengt Walerud have a daughter, Caroline, who is also a private investor and entrepreneur. Career Walerud worked as a Sales Manager at Erlang Systems in 1997. She left in 1998 to co-found Bluetail, a company which developed all of its products in Erlang. It was then sold for $152 million to Alteon Networks. In 2004, she met Sebastian Siemiatkowski, founder of Klarna and invested 60,000 € for 10% of the company. She also introduced the founders to a team of programmers who helpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klarna
Klarna Bank AB, commonly referred to as Klarna, is a Swedish fintech company that provides online financial services such as payments for online storefronts and direct payments along with post-purchase payments. The company has more than 4,000 employees, most of them working at the headquarters in Stockholm and Berlin. In 2021, the company handled about US$80 billion in online sales. As of 2011, about 40% of all e-commerce sales in Sweden went through Klarna. In 2021, the company was Europe's most valuable private tech company, at a $45.6 billion valuation, however this crashed to $6.7 billion in 2022. Klarna's core service is to provide payment processing services for the e-commerce industry, managing store claims and customer payments. It has become known as a "Buy now, pay later" (BNPL) service provider, offering customers credit on their purchases as part of the checkout process. History The three founders Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobii Technology
Tobii AB (formerly known as Tobii Technology AB) is a Swedish high-technology company that develops and sells products for eye tracking and attention computing. History Founded in 2001, Tobii is a developer of eye tracking solutions for use in scientific research, extended reality headsets, commercial devices, and custom-built machines. Tobii is based in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in the US, Japan, China, Germany, Norway, and Ukraine. Tobii became publicly traded on April 22, 2015, on the Nasdaq Stockholm. The company was founded by John Elvesjo, Mårten Skogö, and Henrik Eskilsson who handed over the CEO role to Anand Srivatsa toward the end of 2021. In April of 2022, Tobii officially merged the Tobii Group, and two of its former three business units Tobii Pro and Tobii Tech into a single entity Tobii AB. The third business unit, Tobii Dynavox, a previous acquisition of US based DynaVox, was spun off in October 2021. In 2008, Tobii won the Swedish Grand Award of Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Walerud
Caroline Walerud is a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of Volumental, a company that developed a cloud-based, 3D-scanning technology to create models to customize products and services. Career Walerud co-founded Volumental in 2012 together with three computer vision experts. The company developed a software that uses depth cameras like Microsoft's Kinect or Intel's RealSense to take a 3D-image of feet to get accurate measurements for shoes. In January 2016, Walerud stepped down as Volumental's CEO and took the role of Executive Chairman. Walerud is also a partner at Walerud Ventures, a deep-tech investment company which focuses on early stage green tech startups together with her parents, Jane and Bengt. Awards Caroline was named No. 1 Swedish Supertalent of the Year in December 2013. In 2016, she became a member of the first Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Leaderboard and Retail Section. In 2017, she was named one of Sweden's most powerful women w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erlang Systems
Erlang may refer to: Science and technology * Erlang (programming language), a programming language * Erlang (unit), a unit to measure traffic in telecommunications or other domains * Erlang distribution, a probability distribution describing the time between events Places * Mount Erlang, a mountain in China * Erlang railway station, on the Chinese Qinghai–Tibet Railway Other uses * Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929), mathematician and engineer after whom several concepts are named * Erlang Shen, a Chinese deity See also * Erlangen Erlangen (; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative d ..., Germany * Erlanger (other) {{Disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alteon WebSystems
Alteon WebSystems, originally known as Alteon Networks, is a division of Radware that produces application delivery controllers. Alteon was acquired by Nortel Networks on October 4, 2000. On February 22, 2009 Nortel Networks sold the Alteon application switching line to Radware. History Alteon Networks was founded in 1996 by Mark Bryers, John Hayes, Ted Schroeder and Wayne Hathaway. Initial venture capital investors were Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. Dominic Orr became chief executive in October 1996. Alteon introduced innovative products such as the ACEswitch 180, which was the first network switch to deliver Ethernet with selectable speed, 10/100 or 1000 Mbit/s, on every port via autonegotiation. Their ACEdirector Layer 4-7 switch was designed as an integrated services front-end and server load balancer. They also introduced Jumbo Frames (up to 9,000 bytes) with their ACEnic adapters, and supported by their switches. In addition to server switches, Alteon p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandvine
Sandvine Incorporated is an application and network intelligence company based in Waterloo, Ontario. Sandvine markets network policy control products that are designed to implement broad network policies, including Internet censorship, Network congestion, congestion management, and security. Sandvine's products target Tier 1 network, Tier 1 and Tier 2 networks for consumers, including Cable Internet access, cable, DSL, and Mobile network, mobile. Operation Sandvine Data classification (data management), classifies application Internet traffic, traffic across mobile and local networks by user, device, network type, location and other parameters. The company then applies machine learning-based analytics to real-time data and makes technical policy changes. As of 2021, Sandvine has over 500 customers globally. Company history Sandvine was formed in August, 2001 in Waterloo, Ontario, by a team of approximately 30 people from PixStream, a then-recently closed company acquired by Cis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphene
Graphene () is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice nanostructure. "Carbon nanostructures for electromagnetic shielding applications", Mohammed Arif Poothanari, Sabu Thomas, et al., ''Industrial Applications of Nanomaterials'', 2019. "Carbon nanostructures include various low-dimensional allotropes of carbon including carbon black (CB), carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), fullerene, and graphene." The name is derived from "graphite" and the suffix -ene, reflecting the fact that the allotrope of carbon contains numerous double bonds. Each atom in a graphene sheet is connecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venture Company
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to start-up company, startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for Equity (finance), equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky Startup company, start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because Startup company, startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovation, innovative technology or business model and they are usually from high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology. The typical venture c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech recognition, computer vision, translation between (natural) languages, as well as other mappings of inputs. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' of Oxford University Press defines artificial intelligence as: the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. AI applications include advanced web search engines (e.g., Google), recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon and Netflix), understanding human speech (such as Siri and Alexa), self-driving cars (e.g., Tesla), automated decision-making and competing at the highest level in strategic game systems (such as chess and Go). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature. It is a branch of science that encompasses a broad range of methodologies from various disciplines, such as biotechnology, biomaterials, material science/engineering, genetic engineering, molecular biology, molecular engineering, systems biology, membrane science, biophysics, chemical and biological engineering, electrical and computer engineering, control engineering and evolutionary biology. Due to more powerful genetic engineering capabilities and decreased DNA synthesis and sequencing costs, the field of synthetic biology is rapidly growing. In 2016, more than 350 companies across 40 countries were actively engaged in synthetic biology applications; all these companies had an estimated net worth of $3.9 billion in the global market. Definition Synthetic biology currently has no gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Swedish Academy Of Engineering Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which promotes contact and exchange between business, research, and government, in Sweden and internationally. It is the world's oldest academy of engineering sciences.(OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Sweden 2012). Leadership The King is the patron of the Academy. The following people have been presidents of IVA since its foundation in 1919: *1919–1940: Axel F. Enström *1941–1959: Edy Velander *1960–1970: Sven Brohult *1971–1982: Gunnar Hambraeus *1982–1994: Hans G. Forsberg *1995–2000: Kurt Östlund *1999–2001: (temporary) Enrico Deiaco *2001–2008: Lena Treschow Torell *2008–2017: Björn O. Nilsson *2017–2023: Tuula Teeri Academy member Each year, outstanding scientists and engineers from universities and industrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford University Alumni
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considered among the most prestigious universities in the world. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Leland Stanford was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, provost of Stanford Frederick Terman inspired and supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneuriali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
