Hampus Jakobsson

Who they are

Hampus Jakobsson is General Partner at Pale Blue Dot — an M.Sc. engineer from Lund University who has chaired AutoUncle's board since 2011 and spent time at BlueYard before co-founding one of Europe's climate-focused seed funds.

Person

Hampus took his M.Sc. from Lund University's Faculty of Engineering in 2004, a degree that grounded an early career moving through European startups before pivoting fully into investing. He came up through BlueYard — a Berlin-based early-stage VC — which shaped his eye for deep-tech and frontier bets before he made the jump to build his own fund. He joined Pale Blue Dot in June 2020, when it was a first-fund, seed-stage climate tech operation out of Malmö, and has grown with it from there. Alongside the VC track, he has held a board seat at AutoUncle since 2011 — a long-running commitment to the Nordic auto-data company that predates his VC career — and has played a board role at Minc, Malmö's startup incubator. His content themes sit at the intersection of climate tech, AI and robotics, food and agtech, and the future of work — the range you'd expect from a generalist seed investor with a climate lens. Possibly — the engineering background still shows up in how he pressure-tests technical founders, given the M.Sc. and the predisposition toward deep-tech categories.

Network

No edge data was returned for Hampus, so named relationships can't be confirmed. His board seat at AutoUncle (since 2011) and his role at Minc incubator in Malmö suggest long-standing ties into the Nordic startup and early-stage investing community, but specific names aren't surfaced in the claims.

How they likely show up

  • Board chair at AutoUncle since 2011 — a commitment of well over a decade — suggests he thinks in long arcs and stays involved through multiple cycles, not just at entry.
  • Possibly mixed tenure shape across roles → likely comfortable wearing multiple hats simultaneously rather than operating in clean sequential chapters.
  • Hybrid role-type pattern (investor + board operator + incubator) → probably shows up as a hands-on partner who expects to be useful, not just capital-allocating.
  • Content themes spanning climate, AI/robotics, food/agtech, and future of work → likely a connector-type thinker who draws lines across sectors rather than staying in a single vertical.
  • M.Sc. in Engineering from Lund → probably probes technical assumptions directly and values founders who can defend the stack, not just the vision.
  • Based in Malmö and associated with Minc → embedded in the local ecosystem in a way that suggests community-building matters to him, not just deal flow.

Conversation tips

  • → Reference the AutoUncle board tenure specifically — over a decade of commitment to a single company is unusual for a VC and signals what he values in a long-term relationship; ask about it rather than skipping past it.
  • → Lead with the technical or scientific foundation of any idea you're discussing — the engineering background means he'll want to get into the mechanism, not stay at the pitch layer.
  • → Engage him on the intersection of two of his stated content themes (e.g. AI and agtech, or robotics and climate) — he's clearly a cross-sector thinker and that framing will land better than a single-vertical pitch.
  • → Don't treat Malmö as a geographic footnote — his roots there (Minc, Pale Blue Dot HQ) are deliberate, and showing awareness of the Nordic/Swedish ecosystem signals you've done the work.

Toolbox

Openers

  • Open on the AutoUncle board — he's been chair since 2011, which means he was backing that company before most of his current peers had even started investing. It's a specific, unusual data point that distinguishes him and gives you an immediate entry into how he thinks about long-term founder relationships.
  • Reference his time at BlueYard — moving from a Berlin deep-tech fund to co-founding a Malmö-based climate seed fund is a deliberate arc worth unpacking, and it signals what he thought was missing in the market circa 2020.
  • Bring up the food/agtech thread in his content themes alongside climate — it's a less obvious angle than pure energy or carbon, and engaging him there shows you've read past the headline 'climate VC' label.

Discovery questions

  1. You've been on AutoUncle's board since 2011 — what has staying that close to a single company for that long taught you about what seed investors get wrong when they move on too fast?
  2. You came to Pale Blue Dot from BlueYard — what did the deep-tech generalist lens at BlueYard change about how you evaluate climate-specific founders?
  3. Your content themes run from climate to AI/robotics to future of work — when those threads converge in a single company, does that make it a stronger or noisier bet from a seed-stage perspective?

Avoid

Don't pitch or discuss a company as 'climate-adjacent' without a clear technical mechanism — his engineering background and climate-first mandate mean he'll probe the science, and hand-waving the core thesis will lose credibility fast.

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