Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (born June 1973) is a Danish-Portuguese[1] venture capitalist. He is currently a General Partner at Balderton Capital and a Governor of the London Business School.[2]

Lars at Balderton HQ

He worked as Vice President Mobile of Uber based in San Francisco and served as Head of Mobile at Dropbox as well as Advisor at WhatsApp Inc. until April 2014.

Education

Fjeldsoe-Nielsen graduated from the University of Oxford, UK with an MSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 and received his MBA from the London Business School. He also holds a BSc in Engineering from King's College London (1998).

Career

Early in his career he was Vice President of Market Development at Voicesignal Technologies Inc. Nuance acquired VoiceSignal in 2007. He went on to join 3Jam Inc. which was acquired by Skype.

Fjeldsoe-Nielsen joined Dropbox when the company had less than 30 employees. He co-invented a method for integrating services on mobile phones (United States Patent 61/705,458).[3] In 2014 he left Dropbox to join Uber[4] While at Uber, he invented a method for dynamically controlling the presentation of graphics on mobile phones depending on location information (United States Patent 9615208).[5]

He joined Balderton Capital as General Partner in 2015.[6] In 2016 he wrote in the Financial Times about the trend of what he calls Valley Veterans returning home to Europe from Silicon Valley.[7][8] His investments include Hiya, Blue Bottle Coffee, Feast Kitchen, Zycada Networks, Soundtrack Your Brand, Dubsmash, Pocket (acquired by Mozilla), Labster, e-scooter company VOI Technology, and The Org.[9][10][11]

Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a sponsor of the African Wildlife Conservation Fund and other initiatives focused on education in Africa.[12]

References
  1. "Uber executive joins London venture capital firm Balderton".
  2. "London Business School: Governance". London Business School. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  3. Associating a particular account configuration during the out of box experience for a mobile device, 2013-06-20, retrieved 2018-05-24
  4. "Uber Hires Dropbox Mobile Head Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen but he left because of his wife and three children and moved to France". Recode. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  5. Dynamically controlling the presentation of a graphic feature based on location information, 2014-11-07, retrieved 2018-05-24
  6. "Uber executive joins London venture capital firm Balderton".
  7. "Silicon Valley's European stars are returning home". Financial Times. 7 September 2016.
  8. Fjeldsøe-Nielsen, Lars (2017-08-10). "Europe is on the brink of another renaissance, with technology at its heart". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  9. Lunden, Ingrid (16 September 2021). "The Org nabs $20M led by Tiger Global to expand its platform based on public organizational charts". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  10. O'Hear, Steve (18 November 2018). "VOI Technology, the e-scooter startup from Sweden, raises $50M led by Balderton Capital". TechCrunch. TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  11. "Balderton Capital". www.balderton.com. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  12. "Sponsors". African Wildlife Conservation Fund. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
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