Risto Rautakorpi

Founding & General Partner

2018 - Current

The Nordic industrial angel. We back camels – the ambitious yet resilient startups. We provide an alternative path to build a startup. We offer financing and professional support to ambitious and realistic founders who favour a rational approach to risk, rather than counting on being the next unicorn. Our investment strategy is based on what is likely to happen, rather than what could happen. By investing in a high number of companies, we de facto invest in startups as an asset class. We strive for market returns with lower risk and have a solid track record in execution. www.gorillacapital.fi

Co-Founder

2012

Helping start-up companies realize their full potential and succeed. We started as an Accelerator, later focused more on our role as an Investor. As we are now full time managers at Gorilla Capital, Gorilla Ventures continues as a GP for the first Fund.

General Partner

2013

Gorilla Acceleration Fund is a pre-seed/seed investor coinvesting with Angel Investors We have invested in 37 companies altogether and the Fund is fully invested. It has already returned the original capital ca. 2x and there are good companies left in portfolio

Board Observer, Advisor

2015

The easiest way to pay in B2B ecommerce www.enterpay.fi

Board Observer

2017 - 2023

Mentor

2015 - 2022

The World's Premier Idea-Stage Accelerator and Startup Launch Program

Board Member

2015 - 2022

Board Member

2017 - 2018

Readpeak boosts the power of native advertising both for the publisher and the advertiser

Senior Advisor

2015 - 2018

Unrelated to my technology start-up day job, I am also involved with environmentally sustainable solutions for recycling Aircraft De-icing Fluids http://vilokanadf.com/

Startup coach & mentor, OP Lab

2016 - 2017

The ultimate "startup whisperer", trying to combine the best of corporate and startup ways of working.