Klaus Hougesen

Builder🛠️ - Veteran Tech Leader, Adaptive Generalist/Technologist Creative Technologist | Product & Engineering Leader | Consultant | Board Member | Investor | Mentor | M&A Adviser | People-First Innovator | Founder

📍 Denmark🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Investor: North Propulsion
Jan 2026
North Propulsion delivers chemical propulsion systems for microsatellites. This high thrust system enables civil and defence satellite missions with: up to 20x faster deployment maneuvering, instant collision avoidance with no heat-up time, and dV-efficient deorbiting. The system is specifically designed for high-volume production to unclog the satellite propulsion supply chain - one of the biggest bottlenecks in upstream space.
Investor: Dosu.dev
May 2024
Dosu makes engineering knowledge accessible to everyone. Like an engineering teammate, Dosu uses its understanding of code and code changes to answer undocumented questions from sales, triage customer-facing bugs with support, collaborate on release notes with product, and more.
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2026
Investor: North Propulsion
Jan 2026
North Propulsion delivers chemical propulsion systems for microsatellites. This high thrust system enables civil and defence satellite missions with: up to 20x faster deployment maneuvering, instant collision avoidance with no heat-up time, and dV-efficient deorbiting. The system is specifically designed for high-volume production to unclog the satellite propulsion supply chain - one of the biggest bottlenecks in upstream space.
2024
Principal Tech Lead
Sep 2024
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Our business idea is to offer well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment. The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world. It’s one brand, but it reaches millions of hearts and homes. Our value chain is unique. It includes everything from product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales – and of course it begins and ends with our customers. The IKEA retail business is operated through a franchise system. Today, 12 different groups of companies market and sell the IKEA product range under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Any jobs published on this page are offered by different companies operating under the IKEA Trademark.   IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943.
Investor: Dosu.dev
May 2024
Dosu makes engineering knowledge accessible to everyone. Like an engineering teammate, Dosu uses its understanding of code and code changes to answer undocumented questions from sales, triage customer-facing bugs with support, collaborate on release notes with product, and more.
2022
Principal Frontend
Mar 2022
MedTrace is striving to minimize diagnostic uncertainty through better perfusion imaging. Perfusion imaging provides medical professionals with a functional understanding of the organs blood supply inside the patient. MedTrace is developing a solution that will help healthcare providers diagnose patients more accurately and quickly. Our solution allows for absolute blood flow quantification based upon the PET tracer 15O-water, which has long been acknowledged as the gold standard tracer for non-invasive blood flow quantification. Our innovative solution is intended to making 15O-water practically available right next to the PET scanner connected to an onsite cyclotron, with a software package to quantify the myocardial blood flow and perfusion. IMPORTANT NOTICE: MedTrace’s products are not currently cleared for routine use in any markets, including both the US and Europe. In the US, 15O-water is currently under investigation as an investigational drug in a Phase 3 clinical trial. In Europe, its use is in compliance with approvals granted by national drug authorities, in accordance with the specific legislation of each member state.
2021
Principal Frontend
Jan 2021
LähiTapiola on asiakkaidensa omistama elämänturvayhtiö, jonka visiona on olla asiakkaidensa paras kumppani elämänturvassa. Edistämme ennakoivasti terveyttä ja hyvinvointia. Autamme asiakkaitamme varautumaan ja vaurastumaan. Ennaltaehkäisemme vahinkoja ja autamme, jos jotain sattuu. Paikallisuus ja asiakasomisteisuus erottaa meidät monista muista finanssialan toimijoista. Palvelemme asiakkaitamme paikallisesti yli 200 toimistossa ympäri Suomen. Meillä työskentelee 3800 elämänturvaajaa. Vaikutamme vastuullisesti ja edistämme paikallisyhteisöjen ja koko yhteiskunnan turvallisuutta sekä hyvinvointia yhteiskuntavastuun kumppaneidemme kanssa. Valtakunnallisia yhteiskuntavastuun kumppaneitamme ovat esimerkiksi Suomen Punainen Risti, Syöpäsäätiö ja Suomen luonnonsuojeluliitto. Meille on tärkeää erinomaisen henkilöstökokemuksen jatkuva parantaminen. Panostamme elämänturvaajien hyvinvointiin ja osaamisen kehittämiseen. Kehitämme jatkuvasti arvojemme mukaista yrityskulttuuria- meillä johdetaan Johtamislupaustemme mukaisesti arvostavasti, aktiivisesti ja tavoitteellisesti. Elämänturvaamisen kulttuuri ja arvomme – rohkeus, intohimo ja hyväntahtoisuus – näkyvät työssämme ja henkilökuntamme tavassa toimia – ihan jokainen päivä. Henkilöstökokemuksemme on huipputasoa. Olemme saavuttaneet useana vuonna peräkkäin Suomen innostavimmat työpaikat –tunnustuksen. Oletko sinä elämänturvaaja? - Tule mukaan osaksi tiimiämme!
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