David Helgason

Building an abundant and resilient society that can thrive within our finite planet. Transition is a cross-Atlantic early stage venture fund, bringing leading entrepreneurs and climate operators together to partner with the best founders who develop the best products focused on climate and sustainability. Transition invest in hard tech, software and marketplaces, with the unflinching belief that large swathes of the old industrial system are dumb, dangerous, and inefficient, and can be replaced with new efficient and clean solutions.

Selling clean power to games, directly through app markets.

Founder

Since 2003 and until further notice I try to help making Unity the best it can be – first as CEO for nearly 12 years, and now on the board of directors and supporting the leadership. Founder & Board Member

Founder & CEO

Personal platform focused on fighting climate change and related crises. Also an angel investor and adviser to exciting and useful projects. Sometimes even philanthropy when nothing else seems to do the job.

A group of ten top Nordic angels working closely together to be the best angel investors in the Nordics. We did some good investments and improved the local ecosystem in the process.

Labster is a fast moving, award-winning company that focuses on revolutionizing the way science is taught to students all over the world. Our platform offers a Virtual Laboratory provided as a supportive curriculum based e-tool where students can work with real-life challenges in an online environment that simulates reality.

Realm is a YCombinator company building a mobile database, which rapidly became the second most deployed database in the world. Realm lets you build apps faster, build apps that are faster, and craft amazing user experiences. Acquired by MongoDB.

Founded in 2015, Spiri was a visionary on-demand carpooling service for urban transport. Spiri developed its own vehicle connectivity and operating system, as well as an ultra-light electric vehicle, bespoke for on-demand carpooling.

First angel investor and subsequently a board member at a game company which hit 1m users in just a week, and then went on to entertain over 100m people before being acquired by Glu Mobile.

World on a Hanger was a web based services to the apparel industry.

Took at stab at something similar to iTunes LP. Since even Apple couldn't make it succesful, I guess I don't need to feel bad that we didn't pull it off either.

Co-founded a tech shop. Set up business processes, and worked as consultant for Nokia most of the period. Learned a fair bit, but in the end I couldn't become passionate about doing work for hire.

Backend Programmer

Web Programmer

Physics - Arabic