Michael Bodekaer is an accomplished and extremely passionate serial tech entrepreneur focusing on IT, software and online startups.
In 2010, he initiated Project Getaway, a month-long lifestyle experiment that brings together passionate, entrepreneurial people from all over the world to live and co-work in exotic, remote yet productive environments.
Michael is the founder of Livit Startup Ecosystem, designed specifically for tech startups to grow and succeed fast. Livit is currently headquartered in southeastern Bali and provides specialist resources, infrastructure, network, training, coaching and a great culture exclusively for inspirational entrepreneurial people.
Despite his young age, he has founded and co-founded several tech startups over the past 12 years, 2 exited successfully with a nice bonus attached. Among them:
- Labster - which teaches life sciences through gamified education in immersive 3D virtual worlds and laboratories.
- Mailbird - a beautiful communication platform which has won multiple prestigious awards and been voted the best email client for Windows both by users, PCWorld, IT World and others.
- Learn Technologies, a Swiss company focused on leveraging immersive Virtual Reality for learning and training simulations.
- Smartlaunch Systems - software platforms, IPOed in 2004
- BoligPlus - apartment rental services, acquired by Eggert Holding in 2006
- Softdetect - corporate anti piracy, license management and employee effectiveness improvement