Jyri Engestrom
Advisor at Yes Investor
Helsinki, Uusimaa
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2024 - Current
Early-stage venture investing in Finland
Advisor
2018
All the things we love–humanity, community, possibility, opportunity–are once again ascendant. Let’s make the future, let’s do great things. Yes? Yes!
Seed Investor
2014 - 2017
I sourced, led or otherwise contributed to several investments—Iceye 🦄, Metacore (acq. Supercell), Tinkercad (acq. Autodesk), Gyroscope, Callstats, Yousician.
True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Director of Product Management
2012 - 2013
After Groupon's acquisition of Ditto, I became responsible for Groupon's payment and point-of-sale products, used daily by millions.
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies.
Raised $1,387,000,000.00 from MIG Capital, RTP Global and Atairos.
Founder & CEO
2010 - 2012
Backed by True Ventures & Betaworks, Ditto was a local recommendations app acquired by Groupon.
Product Manager
2007 - 2009
I joined Google through the acquisition of Jaiku. Our team developed many apps with top Google engineers, including the Gmail and Calendar native/mobile web apps
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Co-Founder
2006 - 2007
Jaiku grew into the leading early mobile social app on Nokia’s platform. Jaiku was acquired by Google and the code base merged into Google App Engine.
Senior Product Manager, Internet Handhelds
2005 - 2006
I was responsible for a line of internet-focused mobile devices (Internet Handhelds)
Product Manager
1998 - 2000
I was one of two PMs responsible for our largest customer, Nokia. Our team grew from 10 to over 100 people and we went public on the Helsinki Stock Exchange in 2000.
Designer
1994 - 1998
CD-ROM, web, and game productions. I went to school during the day and designed, animated, wrote using a scripting language called Lingo and managed our various projects at night. The median age of our team was well under 20. To the Point was acquired by Satama Interactive in 1998.
Education
PhD (unfinished)
2002 - 2006
MA
1997 - 2002
Mineur
1998 - 1999