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Jacob Key

Founding and General Partner at Luminar Ventures

Lidingö, Stockholm County

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founding and General Partner

    2017

    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

2019

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2019

    Green, mobile first and smart utility company

  • Board Member and Investor

    2020

    The shared second hand closet service

2019

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2019

    Express yourself through your own created game, and have your friends play it

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

2018

  • 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.

2020

  • Board member and Investor

    2020

    Your fully automated and virtual brand agency service

2018

  • Board Member

    2018

    Reshaping the way multiplayer games are played online

2018 - 2021

  • 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