Niels Gron

Investor

2017 - Current

Angel Investor

2017

Managing seed fund. Investing in early stage software startups across all industries.

CEO / Founder

2002 - 2017

Designed, developed and supported versions 1,2,3 & 4 of Aqua Data Studio out of my apartment in Mountain View. Hired some old and new friends to continue to building Aqua Data Studio as a product and AquaFold as a company. Grew and managed AquaFold to a successful business and acquisition. AquaFold was acquired by IDERA.

Director of Software Development

2001 - 2002

Designed, developed a secure and high performance application server for biometric financial transactions. Worked with a team to deploy a service in pilot programs for merchants in different sectors. The product was called PayByTouch. Indivos was a VC funded company which was acquired by Solidus Networks, which later renamed itself PayByTouch.

Software Architect, Co-Founder

2000 - 2001

Co-founded software company building secure peer-to-peer networks. Built version 1.0 of product.

Software Architect, [Founding Team]

1999 - 2000

Designed and implemented version 1.0 of an online service for group buying. Demandline was a VC funded company which didn't survive the Dot Com Crash.

Senior Software Engineer

1998 - 1999

Building, enhancing and tuning high performance C++ application server for the company's SaaS CRM product. UpShot was a VC funded competitor to Saleforce.com which was acquired by Siebel Systems.

Software Architect / Co-Founder

1994 - 1998

While in college, co-founded a software company producing and licensing shrink-wrapped software for real estate brokers and a public Internet listing service.