Jack Foged A/S

Sales and projects

Airflight ApS 

Chief Executive Officer

Technical Director

BIG 3D Print

Handling special request from clients transforming their ideas into plastic products.

DIC Group ApS

Daily i run the company together with my brother. 
I take care of all technical matters in the company while my brother takes care of sales and customer relations.
Days range from administrative things to construction in 3D and calculations of quotations.

Indehaver

Since I was a kid I have loved building stuff with my hands. 

My dad having his own workshop, let me play around with tools and various materials. 

It lead to a passion for technology and creating stuff. 

My dad got me into racing gokarts and formula/car racing from when i was 12 till i was 18. 

When I was 17 I got into MMA and have been having fights as well. 

I studied Mechanical engineering at Aalborg University for 3 years before I started my own company, DIC Group, during the summer before my 4th year. It was an incredible experience and I quickly saw that in the first 2 months of starting my own company that summer, I made more money that I would in half a year as a mechanical engineer. This, combined with my extensive background growing up in a workshop, allowed me to bet on myself and take the leap into DIC Group full time instead of finishing my studies. 

By age 22, I scaled DIC Group to 22 employees, $2 million (USD) in revenue, and made my first million in profit (DKK). Then, I experienced by biggest business hardship at the time when a massive contract went south. In the end it unfortunately cost me my company and ended in bankruptcy. Even though I felt like giving up, I refused to do so. I simply believe that the way to win is through perseverance. So, I got back up and took all of my learnings and experience into my next venture, Airflight.

Shortly after the bankruptcy I founded @Airflight together with a team ( now we are only 2 founders) with the aim of making ordinary people get an extraordinary experience by flying in a flying car.

We flew the flying car and got a lot of media attention that showed us an market opportunity within the Wind turbine industry for flying spare parts and tools. 

Airflight now applied for grants and investment to convert the flying car into an unmanned 100kg payload drone called the AF100. One of the largest quadcopters in the world. 

With the AF100 flying we raised capital and got more grants to build the AF200 a 200kg payload drone that would be able to solve multiple industry headaches. 

Unfortunately we crashed the AF200 in the midst of a funding round, forcing us to scale down operations. This crash seemed to be the end of Airflight. 

Though we found a market for our already developed payload delivery system that we had developed to solve our own problem of automatic delivery and pick up of payloads for our drone. 

The universe had me going back to my roots in industrial piping solutions. 

I love the game of business and will probably work till the day I die, because I just cant stop.

Mikkel K.

"Hold hvad du lover, selv når det gør ondt og koster dig penge."
Det råd fik jeg engang af en af Danmarks mest succesfulde erhvervsmænd.

Det er derfor Jack Foged A/S har eksisteret i snart 40 år. 
Vi holder det, vi lover. Også når det gør ondt.

Alle i industrien har lavet fejl. Det sker. 
Forskellen er, hvordan du løser det.

Vil du have en partner som kun er der, når tingene går godt? 
Eller en som har din ryg, når det bliver svært?

Vi leverer stabilitet, ærlighed og kvalitet. 

Vi skal også være her om 40 år. 
Derfor holder vi, hvad vi lover.

Mikkel Karsgaard

Pipe systems for your projects. From design to production we are your partner for more than 35 years. @JACK FOGED A/S

Nogengange så føles det som om det aldrig stopper med at være fyldt med rør hos os i Jack Foged A/S. Men det er nok ikke underligt når det er det vi lever og ånder for. 

At holde et knivskarpt fokus på rør byg gør os til en stærk partner for dig som gerne vil have lavet en rørpakke med komplet installation og dokumentation. 

Vi har eksisteret i snart 40 år og passionen brænder stadig lige så stærkt som da Jack startede virksomheden. 

Fordi vi brænder for at bygge rør.

Med både et rustfrit og sort værksted tager vi gerne de mere komplekse rør-opgaver hvor begge materialer er tilstede i rørsystemet. 

Hvad det betyder er at du med ro i maven kan vælge os til at varetage alle rør ligegyldigt om det er sort stål eller rustfrit eller et mix. 

Vi har sågar 3D CNC rørskære samt robot svejser hvis tingene er tykvægget og kræver ekstra indsats. 

Ha ro i maven når du vælger os som solid samarbejdspartner, vi har eksisteret i 39 år som familie-ejet virksomhed og vil næsten tro vi tager 40 år mere. 

For når vi har de lange briller på så ses vores forhold ikke som blot et ekstra nummer i regnskabsprogrammet, nej vi er partnere. 

Er vi perfekte? Nej. 
Begår vi fejl? ja. 

Men vi forsøger hver eneste dag at blive 1% bedre end igår. 
Hvorfor? Fordi vi elsker at bygge rør for vores kunder.

Så er Jack Foged A/S landet på Ajour 2025.
Skal vi snakke rørsystemer så hiv fat i mig. 

Vi ses derude!

Under the insulation many places hides beautiful NDT approved welds from Jack Foged employees. 

PN100 316L stainless pipe system on display. 

You need the right partner to deliver, Fast and with top quality and documentation then we are your partner. 

Because we love pipes!

Når processer og miljø er på plads så går tingene normalt hurtigere end på site. Derfor hjælper vi et hav af kunder med units hvor rør bliver svejst på værkstedet og monteret i stålstativer så der er klar til hurtig montering på site. 

Dette er oftest et godt alternativ hvis tingene skal instaleres hurtigt på site for at minimere downtime eksempelvis. 

Samtidig er det oftest mere konkurrencedygtigt at gøre det på denne måde da  sikkerhed, kvalitet og pris oftest er bedre når tingene er lavet på værkstedet. 

Står du og skal have lavet units med rør så kan det være du godt vil have et sæt ekstra øjne på tingene. I dette tilfælde så skal du blot skrive eller ringe til mig så tager vi en uforligtende snak og ser om vi kan være behjælpelig. 

Jack Foged - fordi vi elsker rør.

This month something hit me hard.

Doesn't matter how tough you think you are. 
Doesn't matter if everything's going well.

Life will find a way to punch you in the face.
And it did.
Bad news. The kind where you just sit for a minute and go "fuck."

Then after sitting with it for a while, I started looking for what was still good in the situation.
Not to make myself feel better.
Just because it was there.

The bad thing is still bad. I'm not pretending it's not.
But there's also good stuff that happened before this. Real things. Years of good.
I can hold onto that too.

I used to think acknowledging the good meant I wasn't taking the bad seriously enough.
Like I had to be completely destroyed to prove it mattered.
But that's bullshit.

You can look at a bad situation and still say: "yeah, but at least we had this."
That's not denying reality. That's seeing all of it.

The bad and the good. Both true at the same time.

Same thing happens in work. Project fails. Deal falls through. Team member leaves.
You can hold the loss and still see what you built along the way.

What do you hold onto when life punches you in the face?

Så er det i morgen at der er Ajour 2025. 
Skal vi snakke rør så hiv fat i mig jeg er rundt omkring. 

Glæder mig til at møde de gode folk der holder industrien kørende! 

Vi ses!

Week after week pipespools are leaving our production. 
This is only possible because we have some of the best people at Jack Foged A/S. 

People who chose to go the way of the builder. 
The people who put the work in to construct the constructions and piping systems that are designed. 

This Monday I just want to express my gratitude for all the people working in a service/construction role. You guys are awesome, thank you for your effort in making the world being built and going around.

When you are genuinely excited for Mondays you know you are on the right track. 

There will always be work that is more fun than other work. 

But if you generally is happy to meet up on Mondays, just be grateful and appreciative you are already ahead.

Jacob and Philip started working in their father's workshop as kids. Not watching from the sidelines. Actually working.

Their father Jack started this company almost 40 years ago with his hands, and his sons learned the trade the same way. They got their blue-collar education first, working on the shop floor, before they went on to get their white-collar credentials.

I think that's a big part of why we've been successful as a contractor in the piping systems industry.
Because I came up the same way.

I was raised in a workshop myself. I've spent more than 15 years in steel and manufacturing, and thousands of those hours were spent building and welding. Learning what works in theory versus what actually works when you're 20 feet up with a torch in your hand.

That shared background creates something you can't get from a company where the leadership has only seen projects from a desk.
When you're dealing with complex piping systems and tight deadlines, you need people who understand what's happening on-site. Not just what the drawings say, but what actually happens when tolerances stack up and nothing quite fits the way it should.

We've all been there. We know what goes wrong and why it goes wrong.
That's the foundation of how we work with our customers. We're not just quoting and delivering. We're in it with you when the project gets complicated.

So if you're looking for a supplier who sends you a price list and moves on to the next job, we're probably not the right fit.

But if you need a partner who understands the technical challenges because we've lived them ourselves, then we should talk.

The requirements for documentation is increasing which is why it is important to have a piping partner that is used to dealing with high documentation requirements. 

At Jack Foged A/S we have implemented multiple digital solutions that increases the efficiency of the documentation which in the end benefits our customers. 

Investing in processes and documentation is a must when you want to deliver at the highest quality possible. 

So if you are a tender manager or bid manager and you can see the projects has high demands on documentation, then maybe it is time we have an informal talk about how we potentially can help you and your company delivering the project on time and well documented.

We all make mistakes in life!
It is simple inevitable and it is okay. 
Just fix your mistake and get back on track. 

But let me tell you something that I have learned in my career that have been confirmed to me over and over again. 

There exist people out there that see their mistakes and then they don't fix them, simply because they think no one sees them or will discover it. careless behavior...

Like this guy who pissed on the floor without cleaning. you got NO excuse on this one... Every man who uses a urinal knows that you can't miss to see if you pissed on the floor. 

This type of person is the same person that doesn't clean the toilet after them. careless of other people. This type of person doesn't belong on a high performance team. 

Needless to say I cleaned the floor so I was hopefully the only one with shoes filled with yellow dirty water. 

If we all just care 1% more about each other then maybe just maybe it will make a big impact.

Someone asked me the other day: " how can I be more authentic" 
Without hesitation my first answer was:

Just start saying NO more. 
Way to many of us say yes to things that dont feel right, but we do it to be "polite" or whatever. 

When you start acting more in accordance to how you feel deeply, that is where you will find your authentic self in my opinion. 

What do you think? 
What makes someone authentic?

I just finished reading the book of Stefan Avivson this morning and it was a good reminder of something: 

That we need to be reminded more than we need to be taught. 

His book is almost like a small bible on sales, cut to the bone, no fluff. 
Just simple principles that work. 

How do I know they work? 

Because I use most of them in my daily life. 

The book is worth a read if you are in sales, not because you will be blown a way by fancy small hacks to linkedin or newest AI sales tools. 

But because you will be reminded on that simple things that have worked the last 100 years will keep working. 

Why? 

Because we humans still have the same brain that functions in the same way. 

Great job Stefan on the book. 

Packed with valuable reminders and insights if you are new to sales.

No amount of material possessions can you give you: real deep down status. 

Because the real status is when you look yourself in the mirror, that good feeling you get there....

That's status.

I like to share what I believe is also a great colleague:

Today is maybe the day where you tell that colleague of yours how much the mean to you. 

It got me reflecting on the question: " Are the best colleagues actually friends in disguise 🥸 "???? 

What do you think?

When the student is ready to learn the teacher will show.

Nogengange så kan en enkelt sætning ændrer vores humør eller perspektiv til det bedre. 
Måske en af disse kan være en hjælp for dig idag.

Linkedin is one of the most powerful tools in the world if you know how to use it correctly. 

I have been using the last month to sort out and unfollow so many people. 

The reason. 

I want to use it as an intelligence platform where I get info and speak to people where we can bring value in Jack Foged A/S. 

It has increased the quality of the platform sooooo much. 

Its seems that is the recipe for taking the "normal" social media out of linkedin and putting it back in to my arsenal as a powerful sales tool. 

Have you also been tired of the state of linkedin for a long time, maybe it is time for you to clean it like I have done. 

What do you think is the best thing about linkedin these days?

Enjoy Group 

Jamie Harford is a seasoned F&B operator and strategic leader with over 15 years of experience in scaling hospitality brands and executing complex M&A transactions. Raised in a family-run restaurant business, Jamie launched his first concept in 2012, later partnering with a UK PLC to scale multiple locations. Since relocating full-time to Mallorca in 2019, he has built deep local expertise, speaks Mallorquín, and has raised over €100M in institutional capital across ventures.


As head of M&A, Jamie will lead Enjoy Group’s next phase of growth, building on a strong foundation to open new venues, drive profitability, and maintain operational excellence. Backed by the Ferrer family and internal team, he will oversee finance, expansion, marketing, and leadership development, ensuring both continuity and ambition from day one.

Head of Mergers and Acquisitions

Jamie Harford Fundraising Advisor

Over a 6.5-year period, I established myself as one of Europe’s most trusted and effective early-stage fundraising advisors, supporting over 150 startups in raising more than £100 million across Pre-Seed to Series A+ rounds.

My approach was rooted in speed, precision, and real-world experience. As a former VC-backed and bootstrapped founder, I brought a unique lens to every deal—combining strategic insight with hands-on execution.

I worked directly with A-list celebrities, elite athletes, household-name founders, and some of Europe’s most ambitious startups. I advised across the full funding journey, from narrative development and deck creation to investor outreach, financial modelling, and close support.

Highlights:

Personally raised or structured over £100M in early-stage funding

Closed multiple 7-figure rounds under high pressure and short timelines

Built a reputation as a "rainmaker" and the #1 early-stage fundraising advisor in Europe

Helped founders refine positioning, secure strategic investors, and increase valuation multiples

Led investor communications and built strong cap table alignment strategies

I no longer support early-stage rounds but continue to advise founders and growth-stage businesses preparing for later-stage funding, M&A, or exits.

Fundraising Consultant

MJJ Exclusive

Interim Chief Investment Officer

CareRooms

I oversaw the digital transformation and creation of the D2C channels for this very disruptive health tech company.

Marketing Director

Muss Styling 

Muss Styling established its self as the UK's premium Auto Styling centre. We provided the exclusive after market styling for Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin and other blue chip dealerships. Attracting A list clients such as Anthony Joshua, Floyd Mayweather and  Premier League footballers. The business then received VC funding before its unfortunate collapse. In this time I learnt the foundations of my fundraising knowledge, how to avoid bad deals and how to grow a luxury operation.

Founder

Ninety Nine Fast Food

Ninety Nine was the first ever healthy fast food store in Newcastle. In 2013 we pioneered at home delivery of grocery boxes and recipe meals. We gained a huge following, transformed the fast dining scene and were acquired by Malhotra PLC after scaling to multiple sites.

Biglukes Buffet

Biglukes was a very busy buffet restaurant in Europe's largest shopping centre. Serving over 10m customers, I was responsible for the operational costs of the business and lead the company to record results before its private sale.

Director Of Operations

I grew up in restaurants. My mum opened her first sandwich shop at 21 and later ran a buffet in Newcastle city centre. We were only closed three days a year—Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, and Easter Sunday. The rest was go, go, go. High volume, low margin, full throttle service. I was raised in pressure. Conditioned to deliver. That environment taught me more about business than any textbook ever could.

In 2012, I launched Newcastle’s first healthy fast food company. I scaled it to multiple sites, built out meal prep and catering arms, and exited through a PLC partnership. Then I created one of the UK’s leading automotive styling businesses, working with Premier League footballers, luxury brands like Rolls-Royce, and high-profile personalities.

I didn’t start with capital. I started with grit, clarity, and the ability to outwork anyone.

But in 2018, everything collapsed. A toxic VC deal took it all away. I moved my young family to Spain with nothing but a secondhand laptop and a refusal to quit.

That’s when I found fundraising.

Over the next 6.5 years, I raised over £100 million from pre-seed to Series A+. I worked with more than 150 companies and became known as Europe’s #1 early-stage fundraising advisor. Founders called me when the round had to close. I got the job done.

I’ve worked with A-list celebrities, global athletes, world-class brands, and breakout startups. I’ve built personal brands, created investor narratives, and minted more millionaires than I can count.

But it came at a cost.

I missed birthdays. Holidays. Family moments I can’t relive. Fundraising is relentless. 24/7. Every day someone’s cup final. Desperation before breakfast. Deck edits on Christmas morning.

So I stepped back.

I’ve retired from early-stage work. That chapter’s done.

Now I focus on helping more mature companies scale faster, sharpen their operations, and get ready for high-value outcomes, whether that’s growth, investment, or acquisition.

I help you:

-> Scale sales and marketing with precision and systems
-> Fix what’s slowing you down operationally
-> Raise late-stage capital or prep for M&A
-> Build a brand that punches above its weight
-> Unlock value with strategy that actually converts

I still support business owners. Just not all of them. Only the ones who are already winning and ready to level up.

Jamie Harford

In 2018 my VC backed business went bust. In 2025 I lost everything again to a rare Bone Marrow Cancer.

After building a successful healthy fast food business with multiple sites in 2013, I moved into my other passion. I built the largest indoor automotive styling business in the north. We won Rolls Royce contracts. We worked with A list celebrities, Olympic champions and elite athletes. Built a massive YouTube and social following. 

A few bad funding decisions and a lot of naivety brought the whole thing down. 

I lost everything. 

The crash was brutal and the darkness that comes afterward is something I would not wish on anyone. I felt completely broken by it. To be very honest I was ready to go with it. 

It took my confidence, my direction and every part of the life I was trying to build. 

I moved to Spain with nothing and spent nearly seven years rebuilding brick by brick. I worked with hundreds of founders and helped raise more than €150 million. I wrote 13 percent of all successful crowdfunding rounds in Europe in 2020. I built communities for thousands of entrepreneurs and slowly rebuilt my own life through hard work and time.

In 2025 I lost it all again when I was diagnosed with a rare bone marrow cancer. I have not been able to work since the summer and everything I had rebuilt has fallen away, eroded piece by piece.

Now the fight is on two fronts. 

My health and the future of my work. 

The truth is brutally simple. 

You can only reach the finish line if you survive long enough to get there.

Success is impossible without health. Some people get to take the lucky route. 

Some of us get hit twice. 

Some of us have to rebuild more than once.

I am not finished. I just need to win the first battle to earn my chance to start again.

Entrepreneur | €150M raised | VC funded and bootstrapped founder since 2012. Currently on sabbatical with chronic blood and bone marrow cancer.

August 26th changed everything.

I was taken into hospital and after nearly 3 weeks was diagnosed with a rare blood and bone marrow cancer. 

It did not appear out of nowhere. I had migraines for years, a bad episode in January and months of feeling wrong leading up to summer.

Every symptom was dismissed as stress or burnout, including by me.

My first reaction was fear. 

I did not want to tell anyone in case people thought I was weak or unreliable.
 
I worried about losing work and opportunities. It is strange how quickly illness makes you question your value.

I am sharing this because I want people to take their health seriously. Do not ignore symptoms. Do not let everything be written off as stress. Get your bloods done and stay on top of it. Early action matters more than you realise.

I haven't worked now since August and everything I had built is pretty much gone. I will document the rebuild like I always have. If this post helps even one person catch something early or feel less alone, it is worth writing.

Thank you to the entrepreneur and startup community for stepping in to support me. There are some incredible people. 

Thank you to my clients for allowing me the time to navigate this new challenge and take time out to recover. 

Thank you to everyone who has sent me love, ideas and experiences with cancer. 

It has been super helpful.

You are only ever one doctors appointment away from life changing health. 

Don't take it for granted.

There will be lots of posts soon from people sharing everything they achieved this year.

For anyone who needs to hear this. 

It is okay if the only thing you managed was getting through it. 

It is okay if you went backwards. 

Progress is not always forwards.

Sometimes the most painful stretches of life are the ones that shape you the most, even if no one else can see it happening.

If you survived a year that took more than it gave, you still moved. 

You still fought. 

You still carried yourself through days that would have flattened a weaker version of you.

I'm proud of you.

Medical gaslighting is not always intentional. Sometimes it is the easy answer.

I have lived at a relentless pace since 2012. 

Sixteen hour days. Five or six hours sleep. Ten calls a day. Fifty calls a week. Constant WhatsApp groups, non stop pitch decks, fundraising rounds, strategy, operations. The list goes on. 

I built the North East largest automotive styling company with VC backing. I opened a healthy fast food chain. I raised more than £150 million for early stage startups. I ran restaurants that opened seven days a week and only closed three days a year. 

High pressure has been my normal for more than a decade.

Because of that, every symptom I ever had was written off as burnout.

Migraine? Burnout.
Fatigue? Burnout.
Crashes? Burnout.
Leg pain? Burnout.
Muscle ache? Burnout.
Brain fog? Burnout.

Even at GP appointments I was told it was burnout without a single blood test. 

When I told friends or colleagues how I felt, they said the same. 

Stress. Overworking. Burnout. 

No one thought I was being dramatic. They just saw the workload and reached for the easiest label.

Burnout has become a catch-all term that hides real medical problems. 

It is used so quickly that people stop looking any deeper. That is the danger. 

Because all of the symptoms I live with now were there long before my diagnosis. They were just dismissed one by one.

I am sharing this because I want people to take their health seriously. 

Do not let everything be explained away by your job, your ambition or your pace.

Burnout is real, but it should never replace proper medical checks.

If something feels wrong, push. Ask for tests. 

Trust your instincts.

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