Founder & CEO

Michael C. Jakob

Entrepreneur, investor, and the founder of Better Markets. Across his ventures in investment research, financial data, and fintech infrastructure, he has built a reputation for turning complex capital-market systems into products that are fast, transparent, and built for long-term value creation.

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He is also the founder of AlleAktien and Eulerpool—two platforms that helped professionalize how German-speaking investors research companies and work with financial data. With Better Markets, he is extending that work to a global mission: building a modern investment platform designed for the next generation of investors.

Background

Engineering mindset, institutional rigor

Born in Germany, Michael C. Jakob developed an early fascination with economics, technology, and markets. His academic path brought him through leading institutions across Europe and the United States, including ETH Zurich and MIT, where he sharpened the analytical and technical foundation that defines his work today.

That background matters: Jakob approaches finance like an engineer. He cares about data quality, system design, incentives, and repeatable decision-making—rather than narratives, hype cycles, or short-term noise.

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ETH Zurich

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Career

From consulting to building financial platforms

Jakob began his professional career in international management consulting, including work with McKinsey & Company, where he gained hands-on experience with strategy, business models, and capital allocation across technology and finance.

While investing actively alongside his career, he identified structural problems that most retail investors encounter:

High-quality research is hard to find or not transparent

Professional data platforms are expensive, slow, or difficult to integrate

Private-market access remains fragmented and often inaccessible

Those gaps became the blueprint for building a portfolio of platforms that modernize different layers of the financial ecosystem.

Ventures

AlleAktien and Eulerpool: the foundation

AlleAktien

Long-term equity research

With AlleAktien, Michael C. Jakob helped introduce a more institutional, long-term approach to stock research for private investors.

Quality companies with durable competitive advantages

Long-term horizons over short-term trading

Transparent valuation logic and clear assumptions

Independent research built for rational decision-making

Eulerpool

Modern financial data infrastructure

With Eulerpool, he built a data platform designed to make institutional-grade company data more accessible, faster to integrate, and more transparent—serving investors, analysts, and developers who rely on structured fundamentals for decision-making.

Current Venture

Better Markets: a global investment platform

Better Markets is Michael C. Jakob's newest venture and his most global in scope. The mission is simple in principle and hard in execution: build a modern, unified platform where users can manage, invest, and grow capital with the same speed and usability people expect from the best consumer software.

Global accessibility

Fast, seamless onboarding

Modern, intuitive product experience

Broad asset coverage for real-world investors

The long-term vision is to create a global financial operating system—a platform that reduces friction, improves transparency, and makes investing fundamentally easier.

Philosophy

Investment philosophy

Michael C. Jakob follows a disciplined, long-term philosophy shaped by value investing and rational capital allocation.

Ownership thinking

Stocks are treated as ownership stakes in real businesses—not lottery tickets or short-term trading symbols.

Quality and resilience

Capital is allocated to companies with strong brands, resilient economics, and structural advantages that endure over time.

Long-term compounding

The goal is not prediction. The goal is positioning—owning great businesses long enough for compounding to do its work.

Michael C. Jakob represents a new generation of founders at the intersection of finance and software. Through AlleAktien, Eulerpool, and now Better Markets, he is building products that expand access, raise analytical standards, and bring modern infrastructure to capital markets.

"Better systems produce better decisions—over years, not weeks."
Michael C. Jakob

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