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General Information

Websitejesperbuch.com
Blogjesperbuch.com
Twitter@jesperbuch
BirthplaceDenmark
Birthdate8/30/75

Degrees

The Danish Export School, Bachelor 1999
The Royal Danish Embassy, Trainee 2000
Kolding Business Academy 1993
Sergeant School, Sergeant 1995
Leutenant School, Leutenant / First Leutenant 1996

Current Companies

Co-Founder, Seed Investor
Co-Founder, Seed Investor
Seed Investor
Seed Investor
Seed Investor
Seed INvestor
Seed Investor

Former Companies

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Jesper Buch

In 2000 Jesper Buch started one of the worlds biggest E-commerce succeses which is known today as just-eat.com (Group).

The company was 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 beeing the CEO of UK he also managed to start up in Holland, Iceland, Sweden and Ireland.

In mid 2008 he retired as CEO and sold shares to Index Ventures.

in 2008 Jesper moved to Spain (Marbella) in order to start SEED investing in new startups.

in 2008 Jesper founded Mentaline.com in order for psychologists and coaches to handle clients online.

in 2009 Jesper co-founded Miinto Group which today is one of the fastest growing internet fashion companies in the world and online in 7 countries. Miinto is known to be Jesper´s “child” and “chapter 2”

in 2011 Jesper sold hes shares in Just-Eat.com and decided to walk “Camino de Santiago, 850 km from France to North-West Spain” whereafter chapter 1 was closed.

in sep. 2012 Jesper releases a book about his personal story of the 10 years it took to build Just-Eat - The book will be released in Denmark (in danish) and in english shortly after.

In feb. 2013 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 has won a lot of E-Commerce prizes and is considered one of the top internet entrepeneurs in Europe.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
GoMore 4/13Angel1
Autobutler 11/12Angel1

Videos

Sources

  1. Jesper Buch invests in GoMore (trendsonline.dk) [edit]
  2. Jesper Buch invests in AutoButler (oresundstartups.com) [edit]
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