Jesper Buch

For the first couple of years, from 2000, Jesper operated Just Eat from a cellar while struggling to make the company profit. When Just Eat started making profits in 2004, he traveled to England and set up a branch there. In 2008, he decided to step down as director of Just Eat, and he moved to Spain before selling his shares in Just Eat in 2011 for a huge million. Buch has over the years invested in many different start-up companies such as Miinto, GoMore, Autobutler and Mentaline.com.
Type Angel Investor
Website linkedin.com

Investment info

Invests in
Idea
Product or prototype
Go to market
Growth and expansion
Investment range
€ < 25K
€ 25 - 50K
€ 50 - 100K
€ 100 - 500K
Primary markets
Consumer, Companies, Marketplace, Government
Investing in countries
Denmark, Sweden

Focus areas

Consumer Goods
Consumer Goods
Media & Entertainment
Media & Entertainment
IT & Software
IT & Software
Marketplace & eCommerce
Marketplace & eCommerce

Investments

Miinto ApS

GoMore

Vivino

Jukeit

GoLittle PLAY // Mambeno

AN IVY

Rec Watches ApS

Fishtrip

See all 19 investments

Key people

Founder & Angel Investor

Jesper Buch

More about Jesper Buch

In 2000 Jesper Buch founded one of the world's biggest E-commerce successes which is known today as just-eat.com (Group).

The company started in a basement in a small town of Denmark and was breaking even in 2004. In 2005 Jesper decided to do it all over again and went to UK where he founded just-eat.co.uk. Besides being the CEO of UK he also managed to start up in Holland, Iceland, Sweden and Ireland. Just-Eat went on London Stock Exchange and the valuation around 7B USD.

In 2011, Jesper decided to walk "Camino de Santiago, 850 km from France to North-West Spain"​.

In Sep. 2012, Jesper released his first book “Kick-Ass” about his personal story of the 10 years it took to build Just-Eat.

In Feb. 2013 and most years up to 2017, Jesper was the most searched for top leader on the web in Denmark.

In March 2013 Jesper was selected as "Young Global Leader 2013"​ by "World Economic Forum."​

Jesper and his portfolio have been directly or indirectly involved in around 20 Series A fundings, B funding an C fundings as well as many seed- and bridge fundings.

Jesper Buch was awarded the "Pioneer Award 2014"​ for his work with internetcompanies in Denmark.

Jesper Buch won "Investor Of the Year 2014 + 2017"​ in Denmark and Investor of the year, peoples choice 2014 + 2017"​ in Scandinavia @ Nordic Startup Awards

In 2015 Jesper Buch was rated no. 27 on WIRED´s top 100 list of most influential tech people in our world, across Europe.

Jesper is the first danish dragon in the program "Dragons Den" / "Shark Tank". The show is on national channel DR1 - season 1+ 2 + 3

in 2016 Jesper Buch became citizen of the year in his home town Kolding.

Jesper began his speech tour and have been doing over 200 speeches to around 150.000 people during 2016-2018

In 2018 Jesper released his second book “All In”

In 2018 Jesper reciewed the E-Award in Spain in the category: “Tech person of the year”

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