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Tycho Luyben
Member #244FounderL2Founder & CTO, AppSalad
Infrastructure for LLM age
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About
Tycho Luyben is Founder and CTO of AppSalad, a Lisbon-based company that designs, builds and runs B2B SaaS products on its own hosting and monitoring stack. Tycho has more than two decades of experience in IT services and financial IT, and has been Chief Technology Officer at Other Pay since December 2022. At AppSalad, Tycho works on nine in-house products, including Flexlists, TraceTap, KissUptime and SauroMON.
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Raises & exits
Member RaisesExits
Hall of Fame →110MB
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110MB, a large Dutch free hosting site founded in 2007 with about 4 million members, was sold in 2010 by Tycho Luyben and his co-founder.
KNUZ
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KNUZ, a free Dutch dating site Tycho Luyben built with his wife, was sold in 2009 when it had about 250,000 members.
Experience
CTO at OtherPay - Fintech/Payments
Education
University of Amsterdam
Avans University of Applied Sciences
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