Jacob Toresson

Growth Investor at Forestay | Ex-McKinsey

📍 Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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VC & Growth Investor
Jan 2026
Founded in 2018, Forestay is an early-growth stage tech fund and part of B-FLEXION, an entrepreneurial private investment firm founded by Ernesto Bertarelli. We invest in visionary teams reaching growth inflection points and partner with them to create future category leaders. We support start-ups with investments between $10M and $20M in Europe, Israel and opportunistically on the East coast of the US. Forestay Capital SA is the advisor to Forestay Capital Management Ltd, based in Jersey.
Board Observer
Dec 2024
We help growing tech companies protect what matters most: their ideas. Lightbringer is an AI-first patent service that makes protecting innovation fast, clear, and reliable for founders, CTOs, and legal teams. Innovation should never be slowed down by complexity or outdated manual processes. That’s why we’re reimagining how patents and IP protection work. Our groundbreaking service combines intelligent automation with human expert insights. From identifying and securing your first invention to managing a global portfolio, Lightbringer drafts, reviews, and files patent applications through a fully streamlined AI-driven experience. Our mission is to empower innovators to focus on building the future. We bring together a purpose-built AI platform and a dedicated team of Patent Attorneys and IP specialists, ensuring every idea gets the protection it deserves. Trusted across industries, Lightbringer is defining a new era of patenting thats built for modern tech companies.
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2026
Board Observer
Feb 2026
Howspace helps L&D teams move beyond one-off trainings to make learning part of everyday work. With AI and facilitation tools, our platform makes it easy to spark dialogue and enable collaborative learning that sticks. L&D leaders around the world use Howspace to cut admin, scale programs, and show the business impact of learning — while keeping their organizations adaptable.
VC & Growth Investor
Jan 2026
Founded in 2018, Forestay is an early-growth stage tech fund and part of B-FLEXION, an entrepreneurial private investment firm founded by Ernesto Bertarelli. We invest in visionary teams reaching growth inflection points and partner with them to create future category leaders. We support start-ups with investments between $10M and $20M in Europe, Israel and opportunistically on the East coast of the US. Forestay Capital SA is the advisor to Forestay Capital Management Ltd, based in Jersey.
2024
Board Observer
Dec 2024
We help growing tech companies protect what matters most: their ideas. Lightbringer is an AI-first patent service that makes protecting innovation fast, clear, and reliable for founders, CTOs, and legal teams. Innovation should never be slowed down by complexity or outdated manual processes. That’s why we’re reimagining how patents and IP protection work. Our groundbreaking service combines intelligent automation with human expert insights. From identifying and securing your first invention to managing a global portfolio, Lightbringer drafts, reviews, and files patent applications through a fully streamlined AI-driven experience. Our mission is to empower innovators to focus on building the future. We bring together a purpose-built AI platform and a dedicated team of Patent Attorneys and IP specialists, ensuring every idea gets the protection it deserves. Trusted across industries, Lightbringer is defining a new era of patenting thats built for modern tech companies.
Investment Associate
Aug 2024
Alliance is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in exceptional early-stage tech companies and purpose-driven founders with global ambitions. Offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki.
2021
Analyst
May 2021
We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures
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