Entrepreneurs

Some of the Entrepreneurs working at or with our Startups:

Mikael Lirbank

Current company: Witsbits, Inc

Mikael Lirbank, born 1977, has worked with startups in the IT/Internet sector since the age of 16. He’s tech savvy with a strong entrepreneurial drive. In 2004 he founded Render Planet, a completely automated distributed computing facility for the 3D industry.

The Render Planet service transparently provided 3D-artists with direct access to remote computational power from their desktops, eliminating the need for in-house capacity. Render Planet quickly attracted users in over 90 countries and inspired Mikael to create Witsbits.

Prior to Render Planet, Mikael worked with SwitchCore, a fabless semiconductor company. Mikael was part of SwitchCore’s founding team (three guys in a garage) through the IPO (Stockholm OMX) in 1999. SwitchCore developed the fastest Ethernet switch cores of the time and sold them as white labeled chips to customers like Intel and Huawei.

Lars Hagelin

Lars brings over 15 years of experience as entrepreneur, consultant and business angel in the internet, media and interactive gaming industries.

• Some of Lars past startup projects include:
• Several niche media projects/ventures in the mid 90s of which one was acquired by Danish media group Aller.
• Co-founder of Swedish game developer Starbreeze and served as the CEO for the first two years – including taking the company public.
• Chairman and the sole seed investor in Affiliator, which was sold after just six months of operation.

Lars is fluent in English and Swedish and has a descent knowledge of German, French and Spanish. Lars holds a MBA from Uppsala University.