Paul Veugen
Investor at NP
Paul Veugen
Investor at NP
Amsterdam, North Holland
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2020 - Current
The all-in-one video app for the next 500M creators. The camera app for storytellers, making creating video easier than text. Unleash your creativity with a powerful video app that combines recording and editing in one simple experience. Available for iOS and macOS.
Investor
2021
Where technology meets creativity. We invest in product-focused founders working on tools that unlock creativity. Together, we're building the ecosystem that enables everyone to become a maker and directly benefit from their creativity. We focus on the picks & shovels for a growing new creative industry that gives power to creators: developer tools, creative tools, distributed work, monetization of creativity. nphard.vc
Seed Investor
2019 - 2021
Investing in product-obsessed founders in Europe and the US, at the intersection of creativity and tech. Looking for teams combining a unique product insight with a unique market insight, to turn their ideas into a massive new business. 30+ pre-seed and seed investments in European and US companies, including: • Aerial (app to minimize and offset your CO2 footprint) • BlueFarm (tasty sustainable oatmylk) • Butlr (realtime smart living and retail experiences) • Clear Health (personalized nutrition) • Deta (build and run a web app in seconds) • Fiberplane (collaborative notebooks for infrastructure) • Fitnesse (home fitness for athletes) • Gitpod (easy dev environments for the cloud) • Headroom Assistance (personal assistance for entrepreneurs) • Heep (hire expert no-code developers) • Hyperflow (simplify media management for creators) • Rise (better time management for makers) • Stark (build accessible products) • Tella (online video editor) • Thematic (connecting creators and music artists) • Uno (the password manager you enjoy using) • Vaayu (carbon accounting for ecommerce) • Walter Living (real estate advisor of the future) • Wasmer (run any code on any client with WebAssembly)
Product & GTM
2018 - 2019
Color is the leader in delivering advanced healthcare through clinical genetics, making precision health programs accessible, convenient, and cost effective for everyone. In my role working with the product and go-to-market teams, I’ve helped evolve our product and build successful partnerships with leading health systems and other partners. Interested in joining this stellar team? Take a look at open positions and contact me for an introduction: http://color.com/careers.
Advisor & Board Member
2012 - 2019
Support the Usabilla management team with advice on team, growth, marketing, and product. Usabilla was acquired by SurveyMonkey (NASDAQ: SVMK) for $80M in 2019.
Founder & CEO
2009 - 2012
Usabilla is a leading platform for user feedback. Collect valuable visual feedback on your live website. Collect both qualitative and quantitative insights from your users to make the right optimization decisions and improve continuously. More than 20,000 marketers, designers, and usability professionals use Usabilla's products to collect visual feedback on their site, app, or e-mail. Usabilla has over 100 amazing team members and is growing massively year over year. Clients include Air France, Booking.com, Build.com, Just Eat, Staples, Philips, Thomas Cook, Virgin, Nike, BMW, Tommy Hilfiger, Vodafone, Unicef, Hilton, and thousands of others. Started Usabilla as a solo founder in 2009 and built a strong foundation for a fast-growing company in a completely new category of Voice of Customer products. In 2013 I left Usabilla in the hands of an amazing team to push it to the next level, so I could focus on new adventures.
VP of Product Marketing
2018 - 2018
Leading product marketing at Mapbox. Growing the number of developers using Mapbox for maps, search, and navigation. Working together with our product, engineering, sales, support, and marketing teams to create momentum and show the art of the possible with Mapbox. Our products power applications like Snap, Lonely Planet Guides, The Weather Channel, Uber, DoorDash, Tableau, GoBike, Ancestry, Instacart, and thousands of others.
VP of Mobile
2016 - 2018
Built out the engineering and product teams for mobile and desktop SDKs at Mapbox. Helped grow our mobile & web maps beyond feature-parity with the default platform SDKs, expanded cross-platform support, and introduced customizable SDKs for Navigation. Platforms supported include Android, iOS, Unity, Web, React Native, and Qt. Strong focus on customer adoption, increasing feature differentiation, metrics, and building a world-class team.
Co-founder & CEO
2012 - 2016
One of the first all-day activity trackers for the iPhone, turning location & accelerometer data into a timeline of activity and inspiring people to get more active. Featured by Apple as Best of App Store in 2014. Human was acquired by Mapbox in 2016.
Mentor
2012 - 2016
Coaching founders of early stage startups to help them grow their company, focusing on product, team, design, growth, metrics, and fundraising.
Communications Advisor & UX Designer
2000 - 2010
Flyers Internet Communication helps SME's to develop an efficient strategy for online communication. My fields of interest: research, design & development, and coaching.
Education
BA
2003 - 2009