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Riku Seppälä

GP at Icebreaker.vc (we invest from the idea stage)

Helsinki, Uusimaa

Work Experience

  • Co-founder and General Partner

    2016

    Investing €150-€1M in idea-stage teams in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Read more about the founders and companies we have invested in here: https://icebreaker.vc/companies Lead investor and working with: Shook Digital, pre-seed stage, Finland, 2023 Meed, Idea stage, Finland, 2023 Linecut, Idea stage, Finland, 2023 Aerit, Idea stage, Sweden, 2022 Reconfigured, Idea stage, Finland, 2022 Fondion, pre-seed stage, Finland, 2022 Ablemind, Idea stage, Sweden, 2022 Compular, Idea stage, Sweden, 2022 Nobody.engineering, pre-seed stage, Finland, 2022 Apiable, Idea stage, Finland, 2022 Nobula3D, Idea stage, Sweden, 2022 NectarAMP, Idea stage, Finland, 2022 Sqarp, Idea stage, Sweden, 2022 PRFCT, Idea stage, Estonia, 2022 Porkchop, Idea stage, Sweden, 2022 (shut down) Ambient, Idea stage, Sweden, 2021 Spaceit, pre-seed stage, Estonia 2021 Helppy, pre-seed stage, Finland 2021 DLDB, idea-stage, Estonia 2021 Coupleness, idea-stage, Sweden, 2021 Cachet, pre-seed, Estonia, 2021 ReOrbit, idea-stage, Finland/Sweden, 2020 Workfellow, idea-stage, Finland, 2020 Quantastica, idea-stage, Finland/Serbia, 2019 Aetlan, idea-stage, Finland, 2019 Neyra AI, idea-stage, Finland/Ukraine, 2019 (shut down) Sense of Space, idea-stage, Finland, 2019 Finnadvance, idea-stage, Finland, 2018 Puida, idea-stage, Finland, 2018 Aibidia, idea-stage, Finland, 2018 Dashbird, idea-stage, Estonia, 2018 MVision AI, idea-stage, Finland, 2018 Cerenion, idea-stage, Finland, 2018 Tesseract, idea-stage, Finland, 2018 PrompterAI idea-stage, Finland, 2017 (Acquired by Matchmade.tv), ide Ladimo, idea-stage, Finland, 2017 (Shut down) Connax, idea-stage, Finland, 2017 Sellforte, idea-stage, Finland, 2017 Hoxhunt, pre-seed, Finland, 2017

2011 - 2016

  • Principal

    2011 - 2016

    Board member at Nosto, Oppex. Led Investments in Nosto, AppGyver, Oppex and Unacast.

2011 - 2011

  • Marketing Engineer

    2011 - 2011

    Kick-started the infamous Hack/Reduce events

2009 - 2011

  • co-founder

    2009 - 2011

    Canvious is an HTML5 creation and publishing tool. We allow designers to easily create sites that can be improved by developers, all directly and collaboratively in the browser.

2009 - 2011

  • co-founder

    2009 - 2011

    NHybrid is developing an SQL/.Net platform for business applications. Today the company is called SQLNext that created https://appdb.studio/. Acquired.

  • Co-founder

    2008 - 2010

    Co-founder and active manager of the largest student entrepreneurship society in Europe. We also created Aalto Venture Garage (aaltovg.com) and Startup Sauna.

2009 - 2010

  • Business analyst

    2009 - 2010

    Business analysis for some portfolio companies and investments

2007 - 2007

  • Online Sales & Operations Intern

    2007 - 2007

2005 - 2007

  • President

    2006 - 2007

    President of the board of a company providing courses in Mathematics and Physics to prepare for the entrance examinations to Technical Universities. We are also currently expanding to provide schools with temporary work force.

  • CEO

    2005 - 2005

    CEO of Tietopoli Oy, responsible for marketing and management