Holger Thorup
Co-Founder & CTO at Invert
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolHolger Thorup is a pragmatic technical leader and serial founder with nine years of experience building product-led startups and engineering teams from Copenhagen. As Co-Founder & CTO of Invert and former VP of Engineering at ZeroNorth, he blends hands-on engineering with business-first decision making to ship customer-focused platforms. He’s launched and led multiple ventures—from scheduling tool Venncal to mentorship marketplace Pelion—demonstrating an ability to turn early ideas into operational products and go-to-market momentum. Comfortable across data, product and operations, he started his career in consulting and auditing, which sharpened his focus on measurable impact and governance. Holger’s GitHub bio—“busy trying to fix democracy”—hints at a broader mission-driven approach that informs his product choices and company building. He pairs a CBS business background and YC experience with a founder’s grit to scale teams and ship useful software.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
W22, W22 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (BSc.) Business Administration & Project Management, Bachelor of Science (BSc.) Business Administration & Project Management at Copenhagen Business SchoolInterpersonal Relationships Skills, Interpersonal Relationships Skills at Leaders In Tech
Stackoverflow
21reputation
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Github Skills (8)
governance10
react9
postgresql9
democracy9
nodejs9
scale8
large-scale8
react-hooks6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
asayio/asay
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Enabling democracy by making it attractive to participate in decisions that matter on a large scale:
Contributions:2 releases, 454 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 6 months
decisionsreactscalelarge-scalenodejs
covid19-group/c19
Mar 2020 - May 2020
C19 is an Open Source COVID-19 self registration tool build by volunteering people in tech.
Contributions:181 commits, 12 PRs, 152 pushes in 2 months
reactc19volunteeringregistrationopen-source-covid
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