Niklas Stephenson
Founder And CEO at Seed Capital
Svendborg, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Top SchoolNiklas Stephenson is a serial founder and product-led CEO with 11 years of experience building subscription businesses and scaling cross-functional teams from idea to exit. He combines hands-on product strategy with operational rigor, having founded multiple startups (Relatel, Openli, Memolane) and led product and growth at scale-level companies like Trustpilot and Whimsical. Niklas excels at discovering product-market fit through freemium models and data-informed experimentation, repeatedly turning early validation into paying customers and VC-backed rounds. Currently focused on reimagining telephony for small businesses with Phone.inc, he blends product, engineering and go-to-market thinking to ship differentiated SaaS offerings. A pragmatic leader and coach, he invests as an LP and advises teams on product discovery and empowered, outcome-driven processes. Based in Svendborg, Denmark, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a rare mix of startup founding, executive leadership, and hands-on product craft.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Business Development Engineer, Bachelor, Business Development Engineer at Aarhus UniversityHTX Viby
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Github Skills (79)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stephenson/just-content
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
A simpel blogging theme for Ghost. Help make it awesome!
Contributions:1 release, 58 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
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stephenson/stephensonv4
Sep 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:15 PRs, 148 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
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