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From europe to silicon valley and back again lars fjeldsoe nielsen slush 2016
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (born June 1973) is a venture capitalist based in London, UK. He has been described as “the godfather of mobile business development."
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- From europe to silicon valley and back again lars fjeldsoe nielsen slush 2016
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- Education
- Career
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He has worked as Vice President Mobile at Uber Technologies based in San Francisco and served as Head of Mobile at Dropbox as well as Advisor at WhatsApp Inc. until April 2014. He is currently a general partner at Balderton Capital.
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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.
He 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). He pioneered deep integration of third party services in the mobile onboarding experience on Android phones with the Dropbox-Samsung partnership. He continues to act as “special advisor” to Dropbox CEO Drew Houston. In 2014 he left Dropbox to Join Uber technologies Inc. Upon his departure to Uber, Dropbox VP of Business Sujay Jaswa described Fjeldsoe-Nielsen as "Instrumental in developing our mobile partnership strategy, and driving our relationships with Samsung and HTC." He also spearheaded mobile partnerships such as the pan-Latin American partnership with Carlos Slim’s America Movil group.
Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is half Portuguese and half Danish. He speaks five different languages.