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Katja Toropainen

Founder & CEO at Inklusiiv | Building better workplaces with DEI

Helsinki, Uusimaa

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI)
Teamwork
Positive Can-do Attitude
Business Development
Strategy
Management Consulting
Management
Angel Investing
Leadership
Project Management
Team Building
Early-stage Startups
Change Management
Product Development
New Business Development
Writing
Business Strategy
Information Technology
Startups
Entrepreneurship

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & CEO

    2019

    At Inklusiiv, we equip our clients with the knowledge, tools and strategic support to build better workplaces where people can thrive. Read more: www.inklusiiv.com

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Advisor

    2022

  • Angel Investor

    2021 - 2022

    Investing in early-stage startups in Europe.

  • Angel Investor - Angel Programme 2020

    2019 - 2020

    Investing in early-stage startups in Europe through Atomico Angel Programme 2020. More: https://www.atomico.com/introducing-the-atomico-angel-programme-year-2/

2020 - 2022

  • Angel Investor

    2020 - 2022

    Alma is an inclusive community of angel investors (all genders) who are passionate about actively investing in and supporting ambitious female founders building companies with global scale.

2016 - 2018

  • Chief Program Curator

    2017 - 2018

    I worked in the leadership team of Slush, leading the programming of 20,000 people tech event. In charge of main themes, content, program curation, speaker relations, invitation process and various operations. During the event time, leading the team of over 100 people curating the content and making the stage program, various startup matching services, key side-events and speaker operations happen.

  • Program

    2016 - 2016

    Program team fall team member with a few projects such as creating, developing and running the first-ever program studio, supporting speaker operations and co-organizing executive breakfast.

2016 - 2018

  • Co-founder & Chair of the Board

    2016 - 2018

    Luova Aalto is a student-run association, a creative community bringing together people from different schools, disciplines and backgrounds to raise awareness of the importance of creativity and provide everyone with opportunities to develop their creative capacity. In 2017, we organized for example Paint It All event in an empty hospital, coded our own music and developed new marketing concepts in a two-day creative business hackathon called Kuohu.

2016 - 2016

  • Product Development and Sales

    2016 - 2016

    Management consulting (trainee program) as part of Demos Helsinki's consulting arm

2015 - 2016

  • Editor at Slush News

    2015 - 2016

    https://news.slush.org/author/katjatoropainen/

2015 - 2015

  • Global Finance Process Trainee

    2015 - 2015