Jan Reichelt

Jan Reichelt is an entrepreneur as well as a business angel and board member in various start-up companies in the fields of digital education, digital publishing, and professional information services. He was awarded the title “European Founder of the Year 2013” by TechCrunch The Europas, and was ranked as one of the “top 100 most influential British entrepreneurs” in 2015.

Jan is the former co-founder of Mendeley, which was acquired by Elsevier in 2013, and where he was Managing Director until 2016, helping with Elsevier’s digital transformation. He then started Kopernio to help researchers access high quality academic journal articles with one click. Kopernio was acquired by Clarivate Analytics in 2018, where he is now also responsible for the Web of Science, the world’s trusted publisher-independent research database. 

Since 2013, Jan has been serving as non-executive director of Emerge Education, “the most influential and active investor in UK edtech” (Outsell 2016), where he has helped mentoring and leading investments in 40 edtech start-up companies.