Haje Jan Kamps is a Dutch photographer,[1][2][3] author,[4] awards photo judge,[5][6] freelance writer,[7] businessman,[8][9][10] journalist,[11] inventor, and editor.

Jan Kamps was the director of portfolio at Bolt VC,[12] a hardware-focused pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm interested on hardware startups and enabling technologies.

[13][14][15] According to William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White of the Harvard Business School, experts on Entrepreneurial Management, Bolt VC resembled a new concept of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

[20] On the blog of the company registered at Medium, an online publishing platform, Kamps himself stated that a permanent behavior change was expected because of the COVID-19 pandemic[21] and that people were likely to rely more on virtual conferencing, which may have some positive effects on the environment.

[citation needed] In England, he studied Journalism at Liverpool John Moores University,[25] and started a stint working in publishing, media and photography.

In 2002, while working at Granada Television, on a Coronation Street specials series,[36] Kamps started a website called Photocritic, which gained notoriety in December 2005, when it was featured on Slashdot,[37] and subsequently got coverage on Digg.