Introducing the founders of PeripherAi: Dr Kim & Dr Ole

Kim Nilsson
9 min readMar 28, 2022
Kim Nilsson and Ole Moeller-Nilsson, PeripherAi co-founders. Photo copyright PeripherAi Ltd.

Dr Kim Nilsson (CEO) and Dr Ole Moeller-Nilsson (CTO) met some 17 years ago, when they were both on their first careers; Ole as a post-doctoral fellow and Kim as a PhD student, both in the field of Astrophysics. A chance meeting on a University campus turned into a long-term partnership — in all meanings of the word. Kim and Ole are not just the co-founders of PeripherAi, they are also married.

Having immediately discovered how complementary their skill sets were, they initially partnered on scientific publications, and later Kim hired Ole as the CTO in her first business, Pivigo. But the itch to start something together, as co-founders, was always there. Hence, the dynamic duo are now kicking off PeripherAi, a sales tool to support founders of start-ups to scale their sales functions predictably.

To introduce themselves, Ole and Kim decided to ask each other five questions each.

Kim Nilsson. Photo copyright PeripherAi Ltd

Ole: Well, this is fun! Ok, my first question is why do you want to build PeripherAi?

Kim: Yes, isn’t it? Well, when I ran Pivigo, we supported companies of all sizes and shapes to complete successful data science projects. From…

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Kim Nilsson

Ex-astronomer turned serial entrepreneur. Founder, Mentor, Thought Leader in AI and start-ups. Writing about the the things I care about. Host of @FoundersYarn