Jere Partanen

Principal

2022

Sisu is a (Pre-)Seed fund focused purely on games, with ticket sizes ranging from $100k - 1.5M. Our team has built 16 game studios and exited multiple companies over the last three decades, so we are intimately aware of the challenges faced by teams in the industry. Backed by prominent founders and studios, we act as a resource offering decades of studio-running experience and invest in game studios (and enabling tech) building across all genres, platforms, and geographies. Since 2014, we've invested in 80 companies and have incubated multiple studios.

Associate

2020 - 2022

CPO

2020

With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures, and Skanska, Pandatron supports the adoption of digital, agile, cultural transformations by 1000s of employees with conversational AI coaching. Scalable and personalized 1-on-1 coaching conversations also allow us to collect data on systemic issues. More info http://pandatron.ai/

People Strategist

2020 - 2020

Nonprofit on a mission to combat climate change by offering people ways to offset the emissions of everyday life. Compensate builds software solutions to enable compensation of CO2 emissions for businesses as well as consumers, regardless of context. I primarily focused on technical recruitment (recruited multiple senior developers) and organizational development.

COO

2018 - 2020

Head of Kickoff Events

2019 - 2020

Slush, the world’s leading startup conference, gathers 25,000 participants from 130 countries annually to slushy Helsinki. I was responsible for strategy and operations for 1,000-person Kickoff Events (official pre-events), Press Start and Ready to Launch. The events focused on the games industry and product management respectively. Also responsible for part of the gaming and product management content on the main stages of Slush while servicing our +200 side events and their organizers. https://www.slush.org/press-start/ https://www.slush.org/ready-to-launch/

Board Member - Collaboration

2017 - 2019

On top of my administrative and other responsibilities as a board member, I have been a part of numerous event teams with various roles such as sales, content marketing, general event planning and workshop facilitation. I also focused on finding new collaboration opportunities and communicating with existing partners.

Course Assistant - Quantitative methods

2018 - 2018

Taught statistical analysis and research methods using master's and bachelor's level students in social sciences.

Intern + Junior Researcher

2017 - 2018

Responsibilities included creating a pilot project to improve customer engagement. I also worked to improve Skhole's customer onboarding process in addition to contacting and planning cooperation with new partners. After the internship period I continued collaborating with the company in the form of several commissioned research projects.

Research Assistant

2016 - 2017

The Let's Move It -project is a behaviour change intervention trial concerning physical activity and sedentary lifestyles among adolescents in vocational schools. I was involved in arranging the data collection procedures in schools. This involved motivating the students to take part in the study and instructing them to ensure the collection of high-quality data. I was also responsible for resolving IT-issues and prepared equipment for use in the field.