# Jan Erik Solem

> Jan Erik Solem is a angel investor at Mapillary (Malmö) backing Artificial Intelligence and Mobile. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mapillary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mapillary)
- Location: Malmö, Sweden
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/solem
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jesolem
- Website: http://www.janeriksolem.net

Jan Erik Solem is a angel investor at Mapillary in Malmö focused on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile. 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Angel | $273k–$375k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 67% |
| Mobile | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Robotics | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angel | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Sweden | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dermandar | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Corazon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corazon-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LDV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ldv-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Walking Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lean-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NYU Innovation Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nyu-innovation-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Mapillary

VC Fund · Malmö, Sweden

Mapillary is the street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping using collaboration, cameras, and computer vision. Images from any camera are combined into a visualization of the world that generates map data for improving maps, developing cities, and progressing the automotive industry. Mapillary’s tools enable anyone to collect,share, and use street-level images.Today, people and organizations all over the world have contributed more than 500 million images toward Mapillary's mission of helping people understand the world's places through images and making this data available, with clients and partners including the World Bank, HERE, and Toyota Research Institute.

5 contacts available at Mapillary.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jan Erik Solem | CEO & co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-erik-solem |
| Anders Martensson | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anders-martensson |
| Edoardo Neerhut | Strategic Partnerships Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edoardo-neerhut |
| Johan Gyllenspetz | co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johan-gyllenspetz |
| Kamil Nikel | Front End Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kamil-nikel |

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## FAQ

### What does Jan Erik Solem invest in?

Jan Erik Solem invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Angel and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jan Erik Solem's check size?

Jan Erik Solem typically joins rounds of $273k–$375k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jan Erik Solem participates in.

### When did Jan Erik Solem last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jan Erik Solem closed in Feb 2016. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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