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Nowi founder & CEO Simon van der Jagt on non technical founders solving a technical problem and being acquired

Simon van der Jagt Season 2 Episode 31

Simon co founded NOWI Energy together with Omar Link, a fellow Strategic Product Design Master student at TU Delft.

In 2016, they set out to design a chip that harvests energy - to replace batteries. They grew the company to forty employees, with sales teams in San Francisco and Shanghai. They raised a series A in november 2019 and in November 2022, the company was acquired by Nexperia.

In this episode, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Non technical founders solving a technical problem
  • Finding the right advisors along your journey;
  • And ofcourse… the acquisition by Nexperia


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