Fredrik Björk
Angel Investor
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Spain
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Top SchoolFredrik Björk is an experienced founder, operator, and angel investor with 15+ years building and scaling consumer and developer platforms across startups and public companies. He led Grafbase as Founder & CEO through productizing API governance and observability prior to its 2026 acquisition, and previously served as CTO at The RealReal during its IPO journey, bringing deep expertise in engineering leadership and marketplace systems. Earlier successes include founding Avatars United (acquired by Linden Lab) and architecting social platform infrastructure at Second Life, demonstrating a consistent knack for social and developer-facing products. Since 2015 he’s written 50+ super angel checks into companies that later attracted major exits or growth, combining pattern recognition for founders with hands-on technical judgment. Based in Stockholm, he blends product-first thinking with infrastructure fluency and an unusual track record of turning social and API ideas into acquisition-ready businesses.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Richmond American University LondonNV, Natural Sciences, NV, Natural Sciences at Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket
Swedish, English, French, Spanish, Romanian
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Github Skills (200)
serverless10
api10
hosting10
webassembly10
graphql10
sidekiq10
rust10
cli10
federation10
backend10
mongodb-driver10
database10
elixir10
slime9
dynamodb9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
grafbase/pathfinder
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Pathfinder
Contributions:38 reviews, 62 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 3 months
graphqlidereacttauri
fbjork/todo
Oct 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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