About
Sebastian J. Kuhnert
Founder and director of Peter Pan Ventures. Twenty-five years of building things on the internet, most of them involving games, learning, or money — and usually all three at once.
It started early. A first business at primary school, and in 2001 a first website — already e‑learning, helping students prepare for exams and keep their nerve while doing it. Twenty-five years later the subject matter has changed and the instinct has not.
After an MSc in General Management at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, that instinct turned into an operator's career in online media and education: five of nineteen markets at PokerStrategy.com, the world's largest poker academy; then co-founding Tradimo Interactive and serving as its CEO, building both the academy for financial markets and Little Traders, a mobile stock-market game that ended up in Forbes. Then CEO of chess24.
Peter Pan Ventures was incorporated in Copenhagen in 2016 to do two things: advise the kind of founder-led companies he had been running, and invest early in the ones he wanted to be part of.
Why Peter Pan?
Peter Pan is a childhood hero whose values deserve more room in the world than they currently get. He stands for freedom, flexibility, dedication, ease, creativity — and above all the power to create and experience your own world, the one you want to live in and share with others.
Companies that make the world more exciting, and captivate the people who use their products just as much as the people who build them.
That is the filter. It is why the portfolio skews towards founders who are visibly enjoying themselves, and why the consulting work keeps returning to innovation — the part of a company where the sense of wonder either survives or quietly dies.
Role
Founder & Director
Peter Pan Ventures ApS
Copenhagen
Education
MSc General Management
WHU – Otto Beisheim
School of Management
Press
Forbes
Financial Times Deutschland
Capital
Business Punk
Finance Magnates
The Good Web Guide
Global Banking & Finance Review
Elsewhere
The route here
Twenty-five years, roughly.
E‑learning before the word existed in earnest — exam preparation and motivation for students.
Otto Beisheim School of Management.
Ran five of the company's nineteen markets at the world's largest professional poker academy.
The academy for financial markets, and Little Traders, the mobile stock-market game featured in Forbes. Chess world champion Hou Yifan joined as brand ambassador in 2016.
Play, watch and learn chess with grandmasters and, eventually, machines.
Founded in Copenhagen. Consulting for founder-led companies, and angel investments in ten of them.