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Jacob Key

General Partner at Luminar Ventures

Lidingö, Stockholm County

Overview 

Jacob Key is the Founding and General Partner at Luminar Ventures in Lidingö, Stockholm County. He has a strong background in venture capital and entrepreneurship, with a focus on investing in startups in sectors like EnergyTech, Payments, Gaming/eSports, Insurance, and SaaS. Key's notable career achievements include investing in successful companies like Hiber and Insurely, and serving as a board member or investor in various innovative ventures such as Starmony AB and Greenely.

Work Experience 

  • Founding and General Partner

    2017 - Current

    Luminar Ventures is leading Nordic Seed stage VC from Sweden. Founded by successful angel investors Magnus Bergman and Jacob Key. The fund aims to provide experienced seed stage financing and active operational support to Nordic 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

    2024

  • Board Member

    2023

  • Board Member

    2023

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2019

    Green, mobile first and smart utility company

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2019

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

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Board Member

    2018

    Reshaping the way multiplayer games are played online

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2024

    Cyber Security, AI based NDA detection and prevention. Exit in July 2024 to Logpoint

  • Board Member and Investor

    2020 - 2024

    Enable anyone with a smart phone, and some vocal talent, to automatically create a full commercial music production

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