Jakob Olund Kristensen
Entrepreneur and engineer. I've spent my whole career in early-stage startups, from refurbishing iPhones as a teenager to co-founding Weld and Numina. To get in touch, reach out at jakob@heyjakob.com.
2024 — Present
Co-founder & CEO
Building the last bookkeeping firm: a team of bookkeepers and software, built from scratch to take bookkeeping off founders’ plates.
2021 — 2024
CPO, Chair of the Board & Co-founder
Co-founded Weld, a data analytics company. Grew it to 1,000+ companies worldwide and raised $7M from great VCs and angels.
2016 — 2021
Product Manager2019 — 2021
Helped build multiple product lines, including Customer Due Diligence, Fraud Monitoring, Data Platform, Open API and Product-Led Growth.
Associate Product Manager2018 — 2019
Risk, compliance & customer onboarding.
Operations2016 — 2018
One of the first employees. Ran early customer due diligence and onboarding, and applied for our E-Money licence in Denmark.
2013 — 2016
Various companies
Co-founder
Built and sold a bunch of small e-commerce sites next to high school. One of them, AirCast, won the Danish Entrepreneurship Award in 2015.
2010 — 2013
iPhoneSmart
Founder & Repairman
Jailbreaking and refurbishing iPhones. My first business.
Education
2018 — 2021
BSc, Computer Science
Completed my degree next to my position at Pleo.