Jan Erik Solem
Angel Investor
Malmö, Sweden
Jan Erik Solem is a angel investor in Malmö focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Jan Erik Solem is CEO & co-founder of Mapillary, a street-level imagery platform powered by computer vision. Mapillary makes images and data available to improve cities, build the maps of the future, and create safer transportation. Prior to co-founding Mapillary in 2013, Jan Erik founded Polar Rose - a face recognition solution for mobile andweb that Apple bought in 2010. He worked at Apple in Cupertino for a few years and was once a university professor.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Round size
- Angel
- $273k–$375k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (75%)
- Software 2 (50%)
- Computer Vision 2 (50%)
- Mobile 1 (25%)
- Internet 1 (25%)
Stage
- Angel 2 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
Country
- Sweden 2 (50%)
- United States 2 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Rerun is a open source toolkit that aids programmers in creating effective visualisations. | $3.4M / Pre-Seed / Jun 21, 2022 | ||
| https://360vis.it - 360 walkthroughs with your smartphone for real-estate https://theVRkit.com - turn any smartphone into a 360 camera https://stereostitch.com - Live 360-3D video stitching | $375K / Angel / Feb 03, 2016 | ||
| Greta helps developers to shorten content load times, reduce buffering and increase content quality. This improves their product’s end user experience, especially during traffic spikes, which leads to higher conversion rates, more engaged users and a better bottom line.By using machine learning technology Greta analyzes network data inreal-time, and automatically calculates the fastest route for the content to be delivered, which improves performance. Greta currently supports images, audio and video.The implementation takes a few minutes, and you can then easily make configurations in the UI and access your own dashboard to evaluate how your content delivery setup affects your end users’s experience. | $273K / Angel / Sep 22, 2015 | ||
| Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States, Canada, Estonia, Argentina & India. | $10M / Series A / Apr 28, 2015 |
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FAQ
What does Jan Erik Solem invest in?
Jan Erik Solem invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Computer Vision startups, most often at Angel and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jan Erik Solem invest in?
Jan Erik Solem typically joins rounds of $273k–$375k at Angel. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jan Erik Solem's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jan Erik Solem took part in.
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When did Jan Erik Solem last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jan Erik Solem closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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