Entrepreneur | Investor | Founder at Akii.com - AI visibility optimization platform.

Josef Holm is a distinguished internet entrepreneur and award-winning venture capitalist with over 25 years in the tech industry. His expertise spans user acquisition, digital marketing, growth hacking, and venture building. Josef’s entrepreneurial journey began in 1998 with a startup that generated $50 million in sales, showcasing his ability to turn innovative ideas into successful ventures. In September 2025, Josef launched Akii.com, an AI Intelligence Platform that measures and improves how brands are represented across leading AI models. Akii provides businesses with the world’s first AI Visibility Score and a comprehensive brand knowledge dashboard - enabling them to understand what AI knows (or misunderstands) about their company and to optimize for AI SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). Akii’s unique approach combines cross-model assessments, evidence-based workflows, and compliance-grade governance, giving enterprises actionable insights into their visibility and authority in the AI-driven economy. Josef is also a General Partner at Draper Goren Holm, a venture studio and fund he co-founded with Tim Draper in 2018, where he has a proven track record of identifying and accelerating high-potential startups. Spotting industry shifts early has defined Josef’s career - from pioneering digital growth in Web1, to leading ventures in Web3, and now building the future of brand optimization in the AI era. His passion for disruptive ideas and unconventional thinking drives his entrepreneurial spirit, embodied by his “screw it, let’s do it” attitude.