# Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo

> Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is a Series A investor at Tamoco backing Mobile and Retail. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tamoco](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tamoco)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olli-pekka-kallasvuo-7215ba4

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is a Series A investor at Tamoco focused on Mobile and Retail. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of June 1, 2006.Olli-Pekka joined Nokia in 1980 as Corporate Counsel, and has held roles of increasing responsibility since that time. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Vice President, Legal Department, and in 1988 he was named Assistant Vice President, Finance. In1990 he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance.In 1992, Olli-Pekka was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1997-1998 he served as Corporate Executive Vice President, Nokia Americas, being responsible for all Nokia’s business operations in the Americas. He returned to the position of Chief Financial Officer at the beginning of 1999, the position he had held prior to moving to the United States. From 2004-2005 Kallasvuo was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Phones. On October 1, 2005 he was named President and COO before his appointment to the current position.Olli-Pekka has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia since 1990. On April 1, 2007, Olli-Pekka was appointed Chairman of the Board of Nokia Siemens Networks. In May 2007, Mr. Kallasvuo was nominated as member of the Board of Directors at Nokia. Starting January 2009, he will also serve as a Member of the Board of the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK.He holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Helsinki. Prior to joining Nokia, Olli-Pekka held a variety of positions with the Union Bank of Finland.Olli-Pekka was born on July 13, 1953, in Lavia, Finland. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, tennis and reading about political history.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 100% |
| Retail | 1 | 100% |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Wireless | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |

8 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Walkbase | Walkbase is Europe's leading in-store retail analytics provider. With Walkbase’s solution retailers can measure and improve the impact of marketing on physical stores and personalise the in-store shopping experience. The company’s real-time system combines WiFi and beacon technology. Walkbase was founded in 2009 as a result of a researchproject at Finland’s Åbo Akademi University, which studied scalable cloud-based indoor positioning. Since 2011 the company has had several successful investment rounds and in 2013 it raised 3€ million A-series venture capital funding. The investors included SBT Venture Capital and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, former CEO of Nokia. Walkbase is headquartered in Finland with offices in Helsinki and Turku. In 2014 the company opened its first offices in UK and US.For more information visit www.walkbase.com or follow on Twitter @walkbase . | $3.3M | Series A | Jan 30, 2014 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fort Ross Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortross-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SBT Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbt-venture-capital-4da3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tamoco

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Since 2012, Tamoco's mission has been to bridge the physical and digital world. We believe that in order to truly create personalised, relevant and useful experiences for consumers, as well as accurate and meaningful data for businesses, geospatial data is an essential component for this to happen. From 2016 onwards, Tamoco has worked totransform a broken, inaccurate and covert dataset into something that is accurate, consented and transparent, with scale. Using proprietary algorithms and data-harmonisation techniques including it's market leading SDK, Tamoco now help businesses worldwide supercharge their products and services with some of the world's smartest geospatial data products. To find out more, please visit: www.tamoco.com

4 contacts available at Tamoco.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | Advisor to Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olli-pekka-kallasvuo |
| Daniel Angel | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-angel |
| Dimitrij Denissenko | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimitrij-denissenko |
| Sam Amrani | Executive Chairman and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-amrani |

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## FAQ

### What does Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo invest in?

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo invests primarily in Mobile, Retail and Big Data startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo closed in Jan 2014. Shizune tracks 1 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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