Holger Seim
Co-founder & CEO @ Blinkist
Berlin, Germany
Holger Seim is a seed investor at Blinkist in Berlin focused on Mobile Apps and Photography. Holger Seim is co-founder and CEO of Blinkist, a bite-sized-learning service that condenses knowledge from great nonfiction into powerful little packs. He co-founded Blinkist in 2012 with a vision to inspire people to never stop learning, and grew it into a global brand with customers in more than 150 countries. Holger drives the company’s strategy& growth initiatives. Prior to Blinkist, Holger worked at Deutsche Telekom with a focus on digital growth and partnership initiatives.
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile Apps 1 (100%)
- Photography 1 (100%)
- Generative AI 1 (100%)
- Photo Editing 1 (100%)
- Machine Learning 1 (100%)
Investments
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Photoroom
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Photoroom is an AI-enabled image capturing app that lets users create studio-quality product pictures in seconds. The company offers to remove background, change the background, and showcase products in one click on iPhone and iPad for free, helping users to easily make changes to their images. | $125K / Seed / Aug 25, 2020 |
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About Blinkist
Where do the world’s smartest people get their ideas? From great books. Blinkist distills the key insights of 2,500+ bestselling nonfiction books into powerful 15-minute reads or listens for your mobile device.In 2017, Blinkist's app has been nominated by Apple as one of the best in the App Store. Blinkist has received the World SummitAward, granted by the United Nations, in the Learning & Education category, as well as a Google Material Design Award for Brand Expressiveness.At Blinkist, we got rid of classical management hierarchies and, instead, distributed authority among all colleagues. Blinkist fosters a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication and mutual support.Blinkist offers a fantastic workplace in the heart of Berlin-Neukölln including all the benefits you’d expect – from a personalized perk system to free private language lessons. Add a competitive salary, a personal development budget of 1,500€ per year, flexible working hours, and a meaningful product on the rise, and you have a first impression of why Blinkist is a great place to work.
Blinkist Contacts
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Evan Waters
VP Marketing
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Holger Seim
Co-founder & CEO
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Niklas Jansen
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Tobias Balling
Co-Founder and CTO
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Gessica Bicego
Senior Director of Growth, Performance Marketing
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What does Holger Seim invest in?
Holger Seim invests primarily in Mobile Apps, Photography and Generative AI startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Holger Seim closed in Aug 2020. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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