John Elvesjo

John Mikael Holtz Elvesjö (born September 19, 1977), is a Swedish entrepreneur and inventor.

Elvesjö studied Engineering Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. he was at Företagsekonomiska Institutet, for a Course in professional Board Work and Legal education for board members.

He left Tobii as a Chief Technical Officer and former deputy Chief Executive Officer, co-founder at Tobii technology. He is now at Brightly Ventures as a Managing Partner.

Biography

Born Holtz, John Elvesjö took his mother’s maiden name at the age of 18 when his father died.

He founded his first company in 1999, Jenser Technology, which was a spin-off from the Institute of Surface Chemistry and based on his previous research there. In 1995, Elvesjö was recruited by Henrik Eskilsson as the first employee of Trampolinspecialisten. Elvesjö, Henrik Eskilsson and Marten Skogö founded a new company in 2001 which was named after John’s nephew Tobias Elvesjö who, at the age of 2 years old, struggled to pronounce his nickname Tobbe, and instead said Tobii.

Elvesjö is currently a Managing Partner at Brightly Ventures.

The eye-tracking was developed by inventors Elvesjö and Mårten Skogö. Eye-tracking is a tool or instrument that served as a mouth, touchedscreen or pad of a computer system. It is like an eye glass of a human beings that carries the functions of a mouth, pad and touched screen.

Brightly Ventures AB

In 2018, Elvesjö took up office as a Managing Partner of Brightly Ventures AB. He

Founded Brightly Ventures together with three co-founders, an early-stage Nordic venture firm based in Stockholm, investinin e technology teams and companie . The fund, raised in 2018, of 551MSEK closed for new investments in Sept. 2021.

Tobii AB (Publ.)

From 2001 –  2018  Elvesjö was a Co-CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Tobi AB (Publ.). He Founded the company, together with two co-founders, based on his own research work from 1999-2001. Built a +1000 employee (350 R&D staff) high tech company including responsibility for investor relations and M&A, raising ~200MUSD in venture capital and leading the acquisition of eight companies. Co-CEO during all years. Group CTO and R&D-manager from founding until end of 2015. Representing the founders as Director on the Board from founding until June 2019.

Jenser Technology AB

Elvesjö was the CEO of Jenser Technology AB from 1999-2003. He Founded Jenser Technology as a spin-off from the Institute of Surface Chemistry based on own research. In the year 2001 the company got an award in the Environmental Innovation Competition. The company was acquired by KSV NIMA / Biolin Sientific in 2003.

Institute for Surface Chemistry (YKI)

Elvesjö  was a Researcher and Project Manager at Institute for Surface Chemistry

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