Juho Risku
Co-Founder, Partner @ Butterfly Ventures
Juho Risku is a seed investor at Butterfly Ventures focused on Health Care and Women's. Serial entrepreneur, inside knowledge of digital businesses, web, mobile, cloud services, social media, marketing, crowd sourcing, with his deep roots in the startup community and innovation systems in the OuluMore than 15 years of experience in founding companies and growing businesses. Gathered millions of venture financing, having deepunderstanding of founder–venture financier co-operation from practical as well as academic perspectives. Most recently since 2008, Founder and CEO of Tribevine Inc., in 2004-2007, Founder, CEO and CTO of Helmi Technologies Inc., in 1996-2010, Founder, CEO and Chairman at Visualway Design Ltd. In addition, Risku has been the Board member of Mainostoimisto VwD Ltd. (2010-2011), and Board member of Oulu Innovation (2006-2010), as well as, Steering committee member of Global Clusters program (2006-2008), and the Creative Business Management program/University of Oulu (2005-2007), Board member of Media Forum Oulu (2003-2006), and the Chairman of Young Entrepreneurs of Oulu network (2002). Risku is 36 years of age, and he holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Oulu.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Juho Risku invests in
Stages Juho Risku invests in
Countries Juho Risku invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (67%)
- Women's 1 (33%)
- Compliance 1 (33%)
- Biotechnology 1 (33%)
- Medical Device 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (33%)
- Convertible Note 1 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Flow Computing improves the CPU performance for AI and general-purpose parallel computing applications. | $4.3M / Pre-Seed / Jun 11, 2024 | ||
| Uute Scientific Oy is a biotechnology company that offers its products available to families with young children through several standard consumer products. Uute Scientific Oy was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Southern Finland, Finland. | $1.4M / Convertible Note / Jan 19, 2022 | ||
| Popit makes medication connected! We provide a unique, validated solution to reach the patient and keep track of how medications are taken. Popit's platform tracks how medication is consumed by using a smart device, an app & cloud. The data is available in real time for healthcare professionals at the patient's consent. | $1.4M / Seed / Jul 20, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About Butterfly Ventures
Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.
Butterfly Ventures Contacts
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Anette Nordvall
Venture partner
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Anti Kodar
Venture partner
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Juho Risku
Co-Founder, Partner
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Matti Kanninen
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
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Tanya Marvin-Horowitz
Partner
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What does Juho Risku invest in?
Juho Risku invests primarily in Health Care, Women's and Compliance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Juho Risku closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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