Kristjan Mikaelsson
Founding Partner at Smart Data inc.
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolKristján Mikaelsson is a founding partner, investor, and hands-on builder with 13 years of experience turning early-stage tech ideas into funded ventures and vibrant developer communities from Reykjavík to Silicon Valley. He started coding at 11, sent his first Bitcoin transaction in 2013, and led the Icelandic Blockchain Foundation while organizing the country’s largest developer conferences and a grassroots Community Fund. As an operator he builds and backs pre-seed teams through MGMT Ventures, runs large-scale Bitcoin mining and digital-asset ventures, and chairs boards across climate and data startups. Awarded Developer of the Year at the Nordic Startup Awards, he blends deep technical curiosity with community-first leadership and a proven ability to raise capital and scale teams internationally.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Commercial College of Iceland
Icelandic, Danish, English, German
Github Skills (173)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityFundIS/web
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:149 commits, 33 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 year 7 months
kristjanmik/ibf.is
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
The website for Icelandic Blockchain Foundation, located at https://ibf.is
Contributions:95 commits, 14 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 years
blockchainicelandicfoundation
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