Trond Undheim, Futurist, Scholar, Author, Entrepreneur

Today, my guest is Trond Arne Undheim (LinkedIn profile), a futurist, podcaster, investor, author, speaker, entrepreneur and former director of MIT Startup Exchange, based outside of Boston. He has helped launch over 50 startups. Trond is currently a venture partner at Antler, the global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow.

Trond also serves as the industry ecosystem evangelist at Tulip, the industrial operations growth startup. He is the CEO and co-founder of Yegii, a search engine for industry professionals, providing collective intelligence. Lastly, he is a nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council with a portfolio in artificial intelligence, future of work, data ethics, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurship. Trond hosts the podcasts Futurized, thought leadership on our emerging future, and Augmented, the industry 4.0 podcast. Trond holds a PhD on the future of work and artificial intelligence and cognition from Norwegian University of Science and Technology and was a visiting research associate at UC Berkeley.