Jacob Key
General Partner at Luminar Ventures
Jacob Key
General Partner at Luminar Ventures
Lidingö, Stockholm County
Overview
Work Experience
Founding and General Partner
2017 - Current
Luminar Ventures is a 600 MSEK ($61M) Seed stage VC from Sweden. Founded by successful angel investors Magnus Bergman and Jacob Key, together with Sting, the leading startup platform in Sweden, adding Linda Höglund as General Partner in 2019. The fund aims to provide experienced seed stage financing and active operational support to Swedish based early stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations Founding partners, Magnus Bergman and Jacob Key are both former serial entrepreneurs and active angel investors with a successful track record of founding and growing tech startups such as Truecaller, Prezi, Sportamore, FirstVet, Challengermode to name a few of the 50+ Startups. Luminars’s core investment focus is on scalable digital seed stage companies from Sweden, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The fund is looking to lead larger seed rounds through an average investment of around 10 MSEK, but will also do pre-seed and series A investments.
Board Member and Investor
2020
Enable anyone with a smart phone, and some vocal talent, to automatically create a full commercial music production
Member Board Of Directors
2019
Green, mobile first and smart utility company
Board Member and Investor
2020
The shared second hand closet service
Member Board Of Directors
2019
Express yourself through your own created game, and have your friends play it
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2018
Insurello is helping consumers get their just compensation from all their insurances if they are injured, through a digital and fully automated service and process.
Board member and Investor
2020
Your fully automated and virtual brand agency service
Board Member
2018
Reshaping the way multiplayer games are played online
Board Member
2018 - 2021
Luminar Venture Exit in Jan 2021 &frankly gives you a new way to measure and trigger engagement at your workplace! &frankly is a cloud based service that help make your workplace better. We give managers and employees an innovative tool to continuously check the pulse of the employees and trigger the organisation in a positive direction
Education
Master
1994 - 1998