Maik Stange

Engineering Leader | Building the Future with 3D Platforms, Digital Twins & AI-Powered Development | Ex-IKEA, Volvo Cars, Autodesk

📍 Gothenburg Metropolitan Area, Sweden🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2015
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Dec 2015
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.
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Jan 2015
Verifyter develops and markets PinDown, an automatic debugger of regression failures, powered by machine learning. For more info go to verifyter.com
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Oct 2014
Smartster is the marketplace for discounted retail offers. Live in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany and USA. More than 750 retail chains and 16,000 brands present their products on the service.
early stageRetail
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Dec 2013
Spintop Ventures is a Nordic seed-stage venture capital firm with a track record since 2010 scaling software-based technology companies that drive transformational change with a positive sustainability impact. The team at Spintop is composed of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives from the technology industry. The team members have navigated the journey from startup to successful exit multiple times both as executives and active investors, delivering attractive returns.
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2015
Investor
Dec 2015
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.
Investor
Jan 2015
Verifyter develops and markets PinDown, an automatic debugger of regression failures, powered by machine learning. For more info go to verifyter.com
2014
Investor
Oct 2014
Smartster is the marketplace for discounted retail offers. Live in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany and USA. More than 750 retail chains and 16,000 brands present their products on the service.
early stageRetail
2013
Investor
Dec 2013
Spintop Ventures is a Nordic seed-stage venture capital firm with a track record since 2010 scaling software-based technology companies that drive transformational change with a positive sustainability impact. The team at Spintop is composed of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives from the technology industry. The team members have navigated the journey from startup to successful exit multiple times both as executives and active investors, delivering attractive returns.
2011
Principal Engineer
Aug 2011
Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. We empower innovators everywhere to solve challenges, big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products and more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers design and make a better world for all. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software, like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion, SketchBook, and more, to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business, and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices. It taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate, and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation and benefit packages, and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status, or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have over 10,000 employees worldwide.
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