Founders

Founders

Jan Nikolaisen

Jan Nikolaisen

CO-FOUNDER · STRATEGY, TRANSACTIONS

20+ years in technology start-ups: corporate lawyer, Bain & Company consultant, clean-tech investor.

Serial entrepreneur: co-founded ROMO Wind, Betamab and Pelvila.

Law degree, University of Oslo; MBA, IESE.

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Tim de Bree

Tim de Bree

CO-FOUNDER · OPERATIONS, GO-TO-MARKET

Operator in international deep-tech companies: business development, operations and go-to-market.

Scale-up, start-up and (corporate) venture-capital experience. Former deep-tech co-founder.

Technology work in hydrogen, autonomous driving, acoustic sensing and optical characterisation.

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How we work

What we bring and what we do

Each technology gets a Nodus business lead, a technical project engineer, and access to an analyst, embedded with the inventor's team from first screen to sale. We bring:

Commercial co-founder

Market, buyers, business case and pricing: the work inventors rarely have time for.

Buyer network

Relationships with industrial companies in our three verticals, and the outreach to use them.

Engineering management

Readiness plans, specialist engineering firms, prototypes and field trials.

Capital

Funding held at Nodus level and released phase by phase, on evidence.

Technical advisory committee

Advised by industry experts in each vertical

Senior engineers from industrial companies, one per vertical, review every technology before we commit capital.

Sensing, Measurement & Control

To be announced

Process, Flow & Separation

17 years in new-technology evaluation and development, ex-Global Technology Director and Engineering Fellow

Thermal Management & Heat Transfer

To be announced

Want to work with us?

Technology owners, buyers and future colleagues: get in touch.

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