Dan Willstrand

CEO at Clipsource – Maximising exposure for media companies

📍 Sweden🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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Investor and Board Member
Jan 2021
GuidePal is a new destination for you to find guides created by artists, influencers, athletes, and other types of creators. Get access to their very best recs, whether it’s a guide to their favorite foods and restaurants, a fun road trip itinerary, an intimate tour to the city they live in, a shopping guide, or something related to their special interests. We believe that artists and creators deserve to get paid for the value they bring the world, which is why GuidePal brings creators and fans closer together and gives creators a new way to earn money while sharing personal and exciting content with their fans — without bombarding the world with more ads. ALL GUIDEPAL USERS • Browse and preview guides from different creators • Each guide contains up to 15 recs with photos, videos, text, quotes, and audio. • Unlock full access to any guide through in-app purchases ($1.99 USD) • Save liked guides and recs in a folder on your profile, so you can revisit them later • Explore the places you discover on a map CREATORS • Use our easy & intuitive guide editor tool to create guides to your special interests • Easily share your guides to your followers on your social media channels • As people start to pay to unlock full access to your guides, you can monitor your earnings & stats on your dashboard and insights page To start creating your own guides, you need a personal invitation or you can apply in the app to become a guidepal creator. Visit www.guidepal.com/creators to learn more!
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2021
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2021
GuidePal is a new destination for you to find guides created by artists, influencers, athletes, and other types of creators. Get access to their very best recs, whether it’s a guide to their favorite foods and restaurants, a fun road trip itinerary, an intimate tour to the city they live in, a shopping guide, or something related to their special interests. We believe that artists and creators deserve to get paid for the value they bring the world, which is why GuidePal brings creators and fans closer together and gives creators a new way to earn money while sharing personal and exciting content with their fans — without bombarding the world with more ads. ALL GUIDEPAL USERS • Browse and preview guides from different creators • Each guide contains up to 15 recs with photos, videos, text, quotes, and audio. • Unlock full access to any guide through in-app purchases ($1.99 USD) • Save liked guides and recs in a folder on your profile, so you can revisit them later • Explore the places you discover on a map CREATORS • Use our easy & intuitive guide editor tool to create guides to your special interests • Easily share your guides to your followers on your social media channels • As people start to pay to unlock full access to your guides, you can monitor your earnings & stats on your dashboard and insights page To start creating your own guides, you need a personal invitation or you can apply in the app to become a guidepal creator. Visit www.guidepal.com/creators to learn more!
2014
CMO and Co-Founder
Jul 2014
Strossle is a fast growing media tech company, helping publishers optimize content distribution. We use machine learning technologies to adapt the user experience based on context and personal interests. It’s Artificial Intelligence for media. Strossle was founded in Sweden in 2013 by a team of entrepreneurs with an extensive media background. The shared perception was that the media industry was losing ground with its conservative view on technology and business models. Instead of embracing new distribution and business opportunities, media companies tried to lock users into their own channels and increase the amount of intrusive display ad formats that users had to sit through. Strossles mission is to help publishers out of this negative spiral and become future-proof. With Strossle publishers empower their content by: - Making sure every user is presented to an optimal mix of content - resulting in higher engagement. - Attracting new users through promotion of their best performing content in Strossle's publisher network. - Leveraging their premium environments by offering native advertisers extended reach. These values have clearly resonated with publishers. Since launch Strossle has had an average monthly growth rate of 20%, and now we're going global with our way of thinking. Today the company has offices in Stockholm, Malmö, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Madrid and New York.
2009
Co-founder and CEO
Mar 2009
Clipsource is an all-in-one marketing and communication platform specifically designed to streamline workflows in the media and entertainment industry. Since 2009, Clipsource has fundamentally transformed the way broadcasters, film distributors and book publishers supply the media and other stakeholders with pre-premiere content. We’ve invested countless hours in developing and fine-tuning an easy-to-use modular software service, which features: - Secure screening of programmes and films - Targeted distribution of trailers and clips - Always up-to-date media contacts - Complete press rooms - Extensive usage data - Automated scheduled distribution - Event management Clipsource was founded in 2009 by Jens Ander, Johan Wiklund and Dan Willstrand, who each have extensive online video experience dating back to 1998 when they launched Scandinavias first media streaming company, Kamera Interactive. We have been lucky to work with major leaders in the industry, such as Disney, HBO, Sony Pictures, Storytel, Discovery Networks and many more, and take pride in being able to provide a solution for all of their media sharing needs. To learn more about Clipsource, visit us at www.clipsource.com. Clipsource is an independent and privately held company.
1998
Co-Founder and CEO
Aug 1998