| @nikonelissen | |
| Birthplace | Antwerp |
| Birthdate | 3/4/75 |
| University of Ghent, Belgium, Masters | 1998 |
| Engineering | |
| University of Leuven, Belgium, Postgraduate | 2000 |
| Business Management |
Niko is CEO of TapCrowd. TapCrowd is a self-service mobile app builder and mobile marketing platform.
Niko is also co-founder and board member of Oxynade. Oxynade builds hyper-local leisure verticals for publishers.
Prior to Oxynade, Niko was co-founder and CTO at Hostbasket (acquired by Telenet, 2008) and he co-founded Q-layer together with Kristof De Spiegeleer (VC funded technology company, acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2009). Due to the Q-layer acquisition, Niko was Director Cloud Computing at Sun/Oracle.
Niko is investor and board member of KeyConcepts and he is founder and owner of iHub, an incubation centre in Ghent Belgium for technology startups.
Niko holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Ghent (burgerlijk ingenieur) and a Masters degree in business management from the university of Leuven.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Oxynade | 10/07 | Seed | €50k | 3 |