Leifur Thordarson

Experienced Tech Leader, Consultant, Advisor and Aviator

📍 Santa Barbara County, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2016
VC🌍 United States
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Investor, Limited Partner
Sep 2016
SSV's mission is to help early to mid-stage technology companies drive customer adoption and success. We do this through a combination of great people, tools, strategy, process, technology and well thought out execution. To achieve this mission, SSV offers a wide range of product and service options to accelerate your company's sales goals.
Investor, Limited Partner
2014
Early Stage Venture Capital
Investor, Advisor
2014
NIGHTOUT is a leading live entertainment marketplace that serves users as a go-to platform to find and book experiences and event producers as an innovative ticketing and marketing provider. Users - https://nightout.com/app Event Producers - https://nightout.com/backstage
Investor, Advisor
2013
Barkback extends the customer experience beyond the storefront. From private feedback to exclusive promotions, we deepen the relationship between a business and its customers, allowing customers to freely express themselves while providing the business with new insights. Together we foster a new level of connection which improves both the business and the customer experience.
Investor, Early Stage Advisor
2013
Twism enables any business to instantly, cost effectively and seamlessly launch powerful customer loyalty experiences to grow sales and increase revenue. Customers download the Twism mobile app to manage all their value in one easy digital wallet.
SVP Business Development & Investor
2008
Jivox is transforming the way the world experiences digital marketing. We connect brands with their audiences in the most personalized way: using big data, AI/machine learning, Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), customer journey optimization and identity technologies to deliver user-consented omni-channel precision marketing. With Jivox, brands can track, measure, and optimize customer paths–starting from a brand website, email, or exposure to an advertisement–that are driving engagement and conversions. Through automation, Jivox delivers ROI by reducing production costs and increasing media performance. Jivox is trusted by hundreds of leading companies including Marriott International, Toyota, Sony, AirBnB, Mazda, Pepsi and more. Jivox has been recognized by Forrester as a leader in creative advertising technologies, and is able to offer large global brands both experience and maturity.
Investor, Board Member
2003
Process Solutions is an ex-Arthur Andersen Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Group now operating a dynamic and rapidly expanding independent accounting business in the European region, delivering services to some of the largest international corporations in the world. Through years of experience and a commitment to the continuous professional development of our people, we combine industry expertise with time tested processes to help our clients by solving their accounting problems and enabling them to focus on growing their businesses and to realize their goals. By offering practical solutions we aim to deliver enduring results in partnership with our clients. Why PS? - A well-established and reliable provider of outsourcing services in the field of accounting and payroll with own offices in five countries in Central and Eastern Europe. - The solid background of an international group utilizing local know-how and cooperating with partner companies throughout Europe. - An extensive portfolio of services provided to more than 500 clients. - A team of carefully selected people with university or college background from the best local institutions. Focus on training and on-the-job development in a supervised structured environment ensuring the continuous professional career of all PS team members. Our Vision - We strive to become the most recognised finance and accounting service provider of international companies on Central Europe’s business outsourcing market. - We solve accounting problems through understanding clients’ needs. - We combine high quality, reliable and timely services with a flexible and solutions-oriented approach. - We are building a European network of companies to provide unified services to our clients. - We recognise that our people are our strength. We support them to realise their career goals and advance their professional development.
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2016
Investor, Limited Partner
Sep 2016
SSV's mission is to help early to mid-stage technology companies drive customer adoption and success. We do this through a combination of great people, tools, strategy, process, technology and well thought out execution. To achieve this mission, SSV offers a wide range of product and service options to accelerate your company's sales goals.
2014
Head of Strategic Accounts & Partners
2014
UserTesting is fundamentally changing the way digital products and experiences are built and delivered by helping organizations get insights from customers–from creation through execution. Built on top of a world-class, on-demand sourcing engine, customers can receive fast, high quality, opt-in feedback from both our proprietary and partner-sourced audience networks around the world. UserTesting offers the industrys most comprehensive experience research solution. Unlike approaches that track user behavior or collect customer listening data on live experiences, then try to infer what that data means, UserTesting enables companies to get input earlier in the process, helping to reduce guesswork, and bring experience data to life with human insight.
Investor, Limited Partner
2014
Early Stage Venture Capital
Investor, Advisor
2014
NIGHTOUT is a leading live entertainment marketplace that serves users as a go-to platform to find and book experiences and event producers as an innovative ticketing and marketing provider. Users - https://nightout.com/app Event Producers - https://nightout.com/backstage
2013
Investor, Advisor
2013
Barkback extends the customer experience beyond the storefront. From private feedback to exclusive promotions, we deepen the relationship between a business and its customers, allowing customers to freely express themselves while providing the business with new insights. Together we foster a new level of connection which improves both the business and the customer experience.
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