Jussi Salovaara

Co-founder, Antler; Managing Partner, Asia | Global VC backing the most ambitious founders from inception

📍 Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
VC🌍 Singapore
15
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Jul 2025
Ortcloud is a next-generation cloud infrastructure platform designed for AI-native workloads. Traditional cloud was built for stateless applications. AI agents are different; they persist, loop, and require stable, isolated, and secured environments. Ortcloud provides fully isolated micro-VMs with predictable monthly pricing, enabling developers and enterprises to run AI agents without the cost volatility and architectural limitations of hyperscalers. Each agent runs in its own dedicated environment, no shared compute, no shared fabric, no hidden interference. Our platform supports both cloud and on-premise deployments, allowing organizations to maintain full control over data, security, and compliance. With built-in behavioral monitoring and pre-emptive security layers, Ortcloud is designed to safely run AI agents at scale. Hard isolation. Soft elasticity. Ortcloud powers the next generation of AI systems where agents don’t just run, they live.
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2025
The Standard Electron Company is an American industrial and energy manufacturer building a new industrial energy service, one designed for the 21st century. We are vertically integrating the generation, storage, and distribution of energy to make energy a deployable product, not a construction project. Our mission is to deliver industrial-grade, affordable, and reliable energy anywhere on Earth, transforming how civilization is powered and how fast it can progress. Our work is rooted in the belief that prosperity comes from building; from manufacturing, engineering, and electrifying the world’s industries. Energy is the foundation of civilization; to expand human potential, we must expand access to energy. We operate with a simple cultural code: excellence, transparency, and speed. We celebrate learning through action, design through subtraction, and relentless curiosity. We build not just to improve today’s grid, but to create the infrastructure for humanity’s next frontier — from factories on Earth to settlements beyond it.
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Dec 2024
ChatCut is the worlds first autonomous video editing agent that behaves like an assistant editor.
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2024
QMill is a Finnish quantum-computing company founded in 2024, dedicated to developing quantum algorithms and software that provide near-term, practical benefits for industrial applications. By leveraging near-future quantum hardware, QMill aims to solve complex optimization problems and deliver significant value across various sectors. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
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Dec 2021
Metatheory Inc. is a technology-driven entertainment company. With a focus on blockchain, we build games, interactive multi-platform stories, and virtual world experiences imagined across innovative story franchise IPs. We are a remote-first dynamic team of builders, developers, and entrepreneurs that include key founding members from Twitch, as well as Emmy and Peabody Award winning producers and storytellers. Our flagship IP is DuskBreakers, an eccentric, interactive sci-fi saga set in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious alien ship (The Dusk) becomes a beacon of hope for humanity. The franchise spans games, video, NFTs, and other media formats. Our first project, DuskBreakers, can be found at duskbreakers.gg, twitter.com/DuskBreakers, and discord.gg/duskbreakers. Our company website is metatheory.gg
early stageComputer Games
Board Member
Nov 2021
Volopay is a financial solution provider that offers corporate cards, automated expense management, and accounting integrations that streamline financial operations, helping businesses save time and money while elevating the role of their finance teams. We are obsessed with empowering finance teams, transforming them from simple bookkeepers into strategic assets within organizations. Aspiring to drive change across the APAC region, we aim to become the go-to financial partner for businesses seeking growth and efficiency.
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Sep 2020
fileAI is the leading platform for automating unstructured data processing at scale, leveraging advanced AI to simplify data extraction, organization, and enrichment across all file types and documents. Trusted by global enterprises like MS&AD, Toshiba, KFC, DirectAsia, and Nippon, and Ernst & Young, fileAI processes over 200 million files annually, delivering transformative productivity gains and cost savings. With support for 200+ languages, fileAI empowers businesses of all sizes to eliminate manual processes, drive productivity gains and cost savings. For more information, visit file.ai.
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Aug 2020
Locad is the logistics engine enabling e-commerce brands to systematically store, pack, ship, and track orders across Asia-Pacific, GCC and the USA. Our tech platform syncs inventory across online channels and organizes end-to-end order fulfillment through our reliable network of warehouses and shipping partners across Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Australia, the USA, Saudi Arabia, and UAE with more locations opening soon. Hundreds of brands now have access to the Locad logistics engine, allowing faster shipping, reduced costs, and exponential growth. Equipped with the technology, infrastructure, and partners running on one integrated system, Locad is on a mission to propel every business forward. Locad. All Systems Go.
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Sep 2019
Reebelo is the worlds leading marketplace for refurbished tech devices & lifestyle products. We enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands or flexibly rent products instead of buying them. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for tech. Reebelo has offices in San Francisco Bay Area, Miami, Toronto, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur & Auckland. Join our VC-funded startup if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
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Sep 2019
Boxo is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of Super Apps globally. We enable the seamless integration of a range of value-added services, such as marketplaces, flight booking, and insurance, into any app. We deliver these services through pre-built, white-label miniapps across various sectors, such as e-commerce, travel, financial, and lifestyle. Headquartered in Singapore, Boxo is backed by tier-one venture capitalists (VCs) such as Gradient Ventures (Googles AI-focused fund), Founders Fund, 500 Global, SciFi VC, RTP Global, Antler, and Plug and Play.
Board Member
Aug 2019
Staffinc is Indonesia’s leading digital staffing platform, covering the end to end workforce needs for established businesses and aspiring enterprises alike. Our services include: - Staffing: providing you skilled and curated workers from various industries, managing their recruitments to payrolls. - HR system: a software suite designed to provide maximum ease and visibility in recruiting, managing, payrolling, and providing benefits for your workers. - Procurement and rental: Equipping your workers with all the right tools for the job from laptops to vehicles. Established in 2018, Staffinc employs more than 1.500.000+ workers across 350+ cities in Indonesia, empowering businesses and workers alike to achieve their goals and create meaningful impact. At Staffinc, we pride ourselves in being powered by people, scaled through technology.
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Apr 2019
Bringing you pain-free connectivity while you travel. As travelers ourselves, we’ve faced the painful situations of not finding Wi-Fi, losing the SIM card you’ve carefully taped to the back of your phone, and the horror of coming home to an unexpected roaming bill. We believe that in today’s modern world, connectivity and freedom should be accessible to all. Airalo is here to take away the pain and stress of researching and seeking out the best roaming deal. We’re here to let everyone stay connected globally while keeping it simple and pain-free. Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store for travelers to access over 200+ eSIMs at the most affordable, local rates from around the world, all via eSIM-compatible smartphone, tablet, or PC. Airalo offers you both connectivity and freedom - you’ll never have to carry multiple SIM cards or change your number again, no matter where you are in the world.
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Apr 2019
Qashier (qashier.com) is The Ultimate Business Solution that readies restaurants and retailers for the ever-evolving digital economy. Powering over 6000 SMEs across Southeast Asia and Australia today, Qashier champions business growth with its one true integrated smart Point-of-Sale and payment solution. Available free on Play Store.
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Apr 2019
At Sama, we’re reimagining the migrant recruitment process for the 21st century, starting with the construction industry.
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Mar 2019
XanPool is an open finance infrastructure company that makes sending all forms of money across the world faster, cheaper, and lower risk. We do this by building our own custom software APIs that allow individuals and businesses more functionality in their financial infrastructures (such as Bank accounts, E-wallets, and cryptocurrency wallets). XanPool Software users can trustlessly connect their financial infrastructure with other Software users across the world, creating a highly liquid and efficient C2C network, capable of routing and settling payments outside of expensive and slow legacy financial infrastructure
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2025
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Jul 2025
Ortcloud is a next-generation cloud infrastructure platform designed for AI-native workloads. Traditional cloud was built for stateless applications. AI agents are different; they persist, loop, and require stable, isolated, and secured environments. Ortcloud provides fully isolated micro-VMs with predictable monthly pricing, enabling developers and enterprises to run AI agents without the cost volatility and architectural limitations of hyperscalers. Each agent runs in its own dedicated environment, no shared compute, no shared fabric, no hidden interference. Our platform supports both cloud and on-premise deployments, allowing organizations to maintain full control over data, security, and compliance. With built-in behavioral monitoring and pre-emptive security layers, Ortcloud is designed to safely run AI agents at scale. Hard isolation. Soft elasticity. Ortcloud powers the next generation of AI systems where agents don’t just run, they live.
Investor
2025
The Standard Electron Company is an American industrial and energy manufacturer building a new industrial energy service, one designed for the 21st century. We are vertically integrating the generation, storage, and distribution of energy to make energy a deployable product, not a construction project. Our mission is to deliver industrial-grade, affordable, and reliable energy anywhere on Earth, transforming how civilization is powered and how fast it can progress. Our work is rooted in the belief that prosperity comes from building; from manufacturing, engineering, and electrifying the world’s industries. Energy is the foundation of civilization; to expand human potential, we must expand access to energy. We operate with a simple cultural code: excellence, transparency, and speed. We celebrate learning through action, design through subtraction, and relentless curiosity. We build not just to improve today’s grid, but to create the infrastructure for humanity’s next frontier — from factories on Earth to settlements beyond it.
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
ChatCut is the worlds first autonomous video editing agent that behaves like an assistant editor.
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2024
QMill is a Finnish quantum-computing company founded in 2024, dedicated to developing quantum algorithms and software that provide near-term, practical benefits for industrial applications. By leveraging near-future quantum hardware, QMill aims to solve complex optimization problems and deliver significant value across various sectors. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
2021
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Dec 2021
Metatheory Inc. is a technology-driven entertainment company. With a focus on blockchain, we build games, interactive multi-platform stories, and virtual world experiences imagined across innovative story franchise IPs. We are a remote-first dynamic team of builders, developers, and entrepreneurs that include key founding members from Twitch, as well as Emmy and Peabody Award winning producers and storytellers. Our flagship IP is DuskBreakers, an eccentric, interactive sci-fi saga set in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious alien ship (The Dusk) becomes a beacon of hope for humanity. The franchise spans games, video, NFTs, and other media formats. Our first project, DuskBreakers, can be found at duskbreakers.gg, twitter.com/DuskBreakers, and discord.gg/duskbreakers. Our company website is metatheory.gg
early stageComputer Games
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