Jakob Ekkelund

Co-founder @ Moment42 | Former CFO & CSO @ Templafy | Investor & Board Member

๐Ÿ“ Denmark๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 8 investments๐Ÿ“… 15 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested May 2025
VC๐ŸŒ Denmark
8
Total investments
6
Early stage
2
Mid stage
0
Late stage
15y
Years active

Portfolio

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Limited Partner (investor)
May 2025
Likeminded is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by a team of experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in entrepreneurship and technology. The team specializes in supporting and investing in tech startups, providing them with the resources and expertise they need to succeed. Since its inception, Likeminded has made successful investments in various sectors and is dedicated to working closely with each company to provide guidance and support as they grow. The team is always looking for new opportunities to invest in and support ambitious startups.
Limited Partner (investor)
May 2025
Final Frontier is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in visionary companies building critical space and defence technologies for a strategically independent Europe.
Board Member
Jun 2022
๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐›๐š๐ง๐ค๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ, ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. Our solution digitises the creditworthiness assessment process โ€” giving banks, consumer finance, and auto finance companies a clearer view of applicants financial situations, while ensuring compliance with local regulations. This means quicker decisions, less risk, fewer defaults, and a better experience for customers. We work with leading banks and lenders across the Nordics, and through partners, we are live in Spain. Soon we are expanding to new markets in Northern Europe. With Monthio, you get: โžก๏ธ Automated creditworthiness assessments โžก๏ธ A smoother application journey for customers โžก๏ธ A complete overview of customer finances, based on actual bank transactions which is cross-validated with trusted data sources โžก๏ธ Greater efficiency and a healthier bottom line โžก๏ธ A dedicated solution partner with a strong data insights and development team Weโ€™re headquartered in Copenhagen with a growing team of finance, data, and tech specialists โ€” including highly experienced senior profiles who have built and scaled companies before. Our board consists of seasoned leaders with extensive experience from the banking, fintech, and technology sectors, as well as from scaling companies. They play an active role in shaping our strategy and ensuring we grow with both ambition and discipline. Weโ€™re backed by EIFO (The Danish Export and Investment Fund) and North Ventures, who trust our vision to reshape credit decisioning across Europe. Ready to see what Monthio can do for your business? Get in touch.
Board Member
Jan 2014
Penneo provides a trusted digital signing solution designed to simplify even the most complex document workflowsโ€”ensuring operational efficiency and a high level of security for businesses. With an open API and out-of-the-box integrations, Penneo is already trusted by thousands (more than 3000) of companies, including the worldโ€™s leading auditors. Founded in Copenhagen and operating throughout Europe, Penneo is swiftly becoming the go-to platform for companies seeking to save time on administrative tasks while ensuring complete regulatory compliance - and peace of mind - for themselves and their clients. Because without trust There is no business.
Board Member
Dec 2013
Capture, Connect, Deflect & Improve inbound & outbound calls from your website. Capture leads effectively - Prove the value of marketing investments - Personalise contact options - Improve with AI Voice Contact Automation. Capture Leads Effectively & Hit your sales target: Maximise lead volume or sales efficiency on your website through targeted lead-generation. Balance online sales and service channels! Prove the Value of Marketing: Improve and document the effect of marketing spend on offline sales. Use call-tracking and personalised forms to secure reliable data on contact options and lead performance. Personalise Contact Options & Reach Your Service Ambitions: Deliver a website contact strategy through personalised and data driven contact options. Route website visitors with personalised contact options and communicate efficient use of online, inbound, outbound, chats or chatbots. Improve with AI Voice Contact Automation Never miss an inbound lead, by nurturing lost calls with follow up texts. Use AI voice analytics to autofill CRM systems, nurture customers who called and follow up with relevant messages through sms & email
Board Member
Sep 2012
Training Solutions For Endurance Sports Athletes .
Board Member
Jan 2012
All the best local experiences, travels and shopping offers from more than 150 partners.
Board Member
Nov 2011
Vivino empowers people to enjoy wine to the fullest. Wine is about so much more than just a great label; itโ€™s about an experience, community, and, of course, whatโ€™s in the bottle. Thatโ€™s where Vivino comes in. As the worldโ€™s largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, our community comprises millions of wine drinkers worldwide, coming together to make buying the right wine simple, straightforward, and fun. We use crowd-sourced data to personalize wine recommendations so that every community member feels confident about their wine choices. Created for everyone who likes wineโ€”from the wine curious to the wine enthusiastโ€”the Vivino app is free on iOS and Android devices.
Experience ยท 11 entries
All (11)
Investments (8)
Founder (1)
Board (6)
2025
Co-Founder
Dec 2025
Productivity shapes how organisations think, decide, and create value - yet they remain one of the most inefficient areas of modern work. Over 1.2 billion knowledge workers spend hours every week coordinating time, preparing content, following up on actions, and navigating fragmented tools that fail to connect the full workflow. Moment42 exists to change that. Weโ€™re building the best AI Productivity Platform - an end-to-end AI platform that orchestrates workflows into productivity, decision-making, and follow-up. At the core is our AI super-organizer, a new category of agents that collaborates with people to ensure workflows are purposeful, efficient, and outcome-driven. Moment42 eliminates wasted hours, automates the administrative grind, improves meeting quality, and captures decisions and actions with enterprise-grade accuracy. The platform plugs naturally into tools teams already use - Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce and more - forming a connected ecosystem across time, context, documents and people. Weโ€™re on a mission to transform how work gets decided and delivered.
Limited Partner (investor)
May 2025
Likeminded is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by a team of experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in entrepreneurship and technology. The team specializes in supporting and investing in tech startups, providing them with the resources and expertise they need to succeed. Since its inception, Likeminded has made successful investments in various sectors and is dedicated to working closely with each company to provide guidance and support as they grow. The team is always looking for new opportunities to invest in and support ambitious startups.
Limited Partner (investor)
May 2025
Final Frontier is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in visionary companies building critical space and defence technologies for a strategically independent Europe.
2022
Board Member
Jun 2022
๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐›๐š๐ง๐ค๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ, ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. Our solution digitises the creditworthiness assessment process โ€” giving banks, consumer finance, and auto finance companies a clearer view of applicants financial situations, while ensuring compliance with local regulations. This means quicker decisions, less risk, fewer defaults, and a better experience for customers. We work with leading banks and lenders across the Nordics, and through partners, we are live in Spain. Soon we are expanding to new markets in Northern Europe. With Monthio, you get: โžก๏ธ Automated creditworthiness assessments โžก๏ธ A smoother application journey for customers โžก๏ธ A complete overview of customer finances, based on actual bank transactions which is cross-validated with trusted data sources โžก๏ธ Greater efficiency and a healthier bottom line โžก๏ธ A dedicated solution partner with a strong data insights and development team Weโ€™re headquartered in Copenhagen with a growing team of finance, data, and tech specialists โ€” including highly experienced senior profiles who have built and scaled companies before. Our board consists of seasoned leaders with extensive experience from the banking, fintech, and technology sectors, as well as from scaling companies. They play an active role in shaping our strategy and ensuring we grow with both ambition and discipline. Weโ€™re backed by EIFO (The Danish Export and Investment Fund) and North Ventures, who trust our vision to reshape credit decisioning across Europe. Ready to see what Monthio can do for your business? Get in touch.
2020
Chief Strategy Officer, M&A
Oct 2020
Templafy is the leading AI-powered document generation platform, enabling professionals to create accurate, compliant, and on-brand documents with maximum efficiency and ease. Accessible directly within tools like Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and Salesforce, Templafy simplifies document creation workflows to eliminate the hassle and risk from the documents that matter most. Trusted by industry leaders like KPMG and BDO, Templafy saves teams over 30% of the time theyโ€™d typically spend on repetitive tasksโ€”like creating proposals, engagement letters, and audit reportsโ€”allowing them to focus on revenue-driving work instead. Join more than 4 million users worldwide who rely on Templafy to accelerate business content creation with AI.
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