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Inka Mero

Founder & Managing Partner at Voima Ventures

Helsinki, Uusimaa

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Funding
Exits
Start-ups
Business Strategy
Venture Capital
Sales Growth
Driving Growth
Product Innovation
New Business Development
Business Modeling
Mobile Technology
Product Management
Entrepreneurship
Mobile Applications
Strategic Partnerships
Business Development
Product Marketing
Leadership
Strategy
Mergers & Acquisitions

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder, CEO & Managing Partner

    2019

    Voima Ventures is a Nordic deep tech VC fund. We invest in and help founders to grow startups with scientific foundation to global markets. With the purpose to scale solutions for the People, Planet and Industry, our mission is solve the big global challenges humankind is facing through science, entrepreneurship and capital. We work closely with the Nordic academic institutions and VTT The Technical Research Centre of Finland, as well as all the leading universities in the Nordic & Baltic region. "World changing technology entrepreneurship is hard - still someone has to do it". www.voimaventures.com

2021 - 2024

  • Board Member (prev advisor of the BoD)

    2021 - 2024

    Board member during company’s growth journey until public acquisition.

2014 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2014 - 2023

2015 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2022

2013 - 2021

  • Investor & Board Member

    2013 - 2021

    Klevu Oy is a Finnish tech start up, helping online retailers turn visitors into customers. Klevu Search - a natural language search that goes beyond keyword matching, to connect shoppers and products, straight from the search box. More information on Klevu at www.klevu.com

2017 - 2019

  • Chairwoman

    2017 - 2019

2009 - 2019

  • Founder & Chairwoman

    2009 - 2019

    KoppiCatch is today a holding company, but for 10+ years we operated a seed stage startup investor, innovator and accelerator company. Our focus and expertise was media, e-commerce and analytics, but we invested also across internet/mobile services, technologies and solutions space. Our successful investments and startups: Zokem (exit), RapidBlueSolutions (exit), HappyOrNot, Cabforce (exit), IndoorAtlas (exit), TabletKoulu (exit), Klevu.com (exit). And our failures: Juhlapesu, SteamRepublic, DesignStory, Meetin.gs, Kiririnki, Joberate, Ciegus, Varaa.com

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2019

2016 - 2018

  • Founder & Chairwoman

    2016 - 2018

    Pivot5 (formerly known as KoppiCatch since 2008) is a seed stage technology startup investor specialized in growth venture building, disruptive growth strategies, corporate venturing and startup investments.

2012 - 2017

  • Chairwoman (and Investor/Co-Founder via KoppiCatch)

    2012 - 2017

    IndoorAtlas Ltd. is the world‘s first company to utilize magnetic anomalies inside buildings and smartphones to pinpoint positions indoors. The company was founded in 2012 as a spin-off company from the University of Oulu, Finland. Our offices are located in Oulu, Finland, and Sunnyvale, California, USA. On 09/2014 Baidu, China's largest search, and world's largest map company invested $10 M as part of series A to the company. www.indooratlas.com Keywords: indoor positioning, indoor navigation, location-based services LBS, indoor mapping, GPS, WiFi, geo-magnetic positioning, robotics, retail mobile applications, Android, iOS.