Kasper Ulf Nielsen

Reputation Expert l VC Partner I Strategic Advisor I Board Member I Investor I Speaker I Olive oil farmer

📍 Denmark🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2002
VC🌍 Denmark
1
Total investments
1
Early stage
0
Mid stage
0
Late stage
24y
Years active

Portfolio

1 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Board Member
Jan 2002
The RepTrak Company™ is the world’s leading reputation data and insights company. We provide the only global platform for data-driven insights on Reputation, Brand, and ESG.Our proprietary RepTrak® model is the global standard for measuring and analyzing the sentiment of the world using proven data science models and machine learning techniques across industries and geographies. Subscribers to the RepTrak® Program use our predictive insights to protect business value, improve return on investment, and increase their positive impact on society. Established in 2004, The RepTrak Company owns the world’s largest reputation benchmarking database of over 1 million company ratings per year used by CEOs, boards, and executives in more than 60 countries worldwide.
Experience · 4 entries
All (4)
Investments (1)
Founder (3)
Board (1)
2026
Co-Founder
Jan 2026
Acumion builds Market Access + LLM-first demand systems for brands entering the AI interpretation economy. LLMs have become a primary market interface—the layer that increasingly explains, compares, recommends, and shortlists vendors before a buyer ever visits a website or speaks to sales. This is not a creative trend. It’s a market access shift. When AI compresses a category into a handful of “truths,” differentiation becomes fragile. Brands that aren’t legible, provable, and consistently reinforced across the ecosystem get flattened into parity—then pressured on price. That is why Acumion exists. We don’t compete with agencies, consultancies, or AI tools by “doing the same work faster.” We’re a different category: an operating layer that makes your brand discoverable, comparable, credible, and demand-productive when buyers increasingly outsource interpretation to machines. In practice, our clients don’t pay for more campaigns, decks, or output. They pay for an encoded advantage: differentiation that survives AI synthesis and shows up consistently across markets, channels, and buying-committee roles. Our model is AI-native end-to-end—humans provide senior judgment and direction; AI drives scale, versioning, localization, and operational continuity—so enterprise strategy actually reaches the edge: the smallest market, the last asset, the final comparison moment. Acumion was founded by Kasper Nielsen + Sebastian Jespersen—combining two disciplines AI has fused into one competitive arena: Trust and Market access.
2025
Co-Founder
Jan 2025
🚀 Were unlocking one of the worlds most untapped opportunities: early-stage technology companies. With over 100 million startups globally driving more than half of future innovation, weve built a systematic approach to finding and backing the winners. 🎯We focus on young technology companies that harness powerful network effects – businesses that become more valuable as more people use them. These companies statistically achieve 2-8x higher valuations than their peers and account for over 70% of value creation in tech. Our approach is data-driven and systematic. We process deal flow from 1 million startups to identify the top 0.1%, roughly 1,000 companies with truly exponential potential. We source opportunities through partnerships with leading accelerators and our proprietary OneSource intelligence platform. 💡Weve developed a venture operating system designed to help our portfolio companies scale faster. This includes tools for uncovering growth signals, connecting founders to funding partners, and accelerating go-to-market success. Up to 80% of startup capital is wasted on inefficient commercial strategies – we help solve that. 📈Our origin fund delivered a 28% net IRR and 5x return, placing us in the top quartile of venture capital funds. We target 25%+ returns by investing early in network effect companies and helping them scale smarter. With a global mandate focused on Asia, North America, and Europe, were building the future of venture capital: faster, smarter, and more transparent. 🤝 Startups: Want to chat? → founders@investigate.vc 🤝 Investors: Interested in Fund 2 or co-investing? → investors@investigate.vc
2016
Chairman of Board / Co-founder / Investor
Jan 2016
Introdus is an HR tech company specialized in employee Pre & Onboarding. Since 2016 the founders have been focused on developing the best tools for companies to give new employees a flying start. In 2022 the two pioneers within pre & onboarding Leapeo and introdus merged to create the joint company Introdus. This brought together the leading pre & onboarding experts and together we will continue to professionalize the way companies enable their new employees to become successful as fast a possible. Introdus is founded by Anders Thorup, Kasper Ulf Nielsen, Francis Delafontaine, and Christian Harpelund. Visit our website and discover more - www.introdusapp.com.
2002
Board Member
Jan 2002
The RepTrak Company™ is the world’s leading reputation data and insights company. We provide the only global platform for data-driven insights on Reputation, Brand, and ESG.Our proprietary RepTrak® model is the global standard for measuring and analyzing the sentiment of the world using proven data science models and machine learning techniques across industries and geographies. Subscribers to the RepTrak® Program use our predictive insights to protect business value, improve return on investment, and increase their positive impact on society. Established in 2004, The RepTrak Company owns the world’s largest reputation benchmarking database of over 1 million company ratings per year used by CEOs, boards, and executives in more than 60 countries worldwide.