Juha Ristolainen

CPTO | Building & scaling fintech platforms | Wise · Upvest · Alpaca · BUX | Board & NED roles

📍 Berlin, Berlin, Germany🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Angel Investor
Jul 2023
Kodarit is the largest private programming school in Finland. We are proud to have introduced children, teens and adults to the world of coding since 2015.  Kodarits coding courses are fun and diverse. We teach programming skills, algorithmic thinking, game design and computer sciences in learning environments that are visual and designed to be beginner-friendly. We believe that coding is for everyone and want to share this vision internationally. To be able to include everyone on the Kodarit journey, we have compiled everything we know in a Licensing Package. We want to offer high-quality education based on the Finnish educational model, where everybody is included and no one is left behind. Our courses stand on accessibility, open-source tools, fun learning, and the creation of opportunities. These opportunities are aimed at students, teachers, and entrepreneurs, to create new careers, new jobs, new futures. We are looking for licensees that share our views and want to grow with us and help their communities to get closer to these opportunities. Open a Kodarit school, from Finland with love. Contact us to join the journey!
Board Member
Jun 2019
Vaana is an agile software company located in downtown Helsinki with a fresh perspective on IT for social & health. We are specialized in delivering multi-party financial solutions, such as electronic personal budget and voucher scheme platform. Service vouchers and personal budgets are powerful tools for giving social and health care service consumers a way to affect their own treatment while at the same time ensuring that the treatment is of high quality. These instruments reduce costs in public social and health care while giving public officials more time to do what they are supposed to do: take care of you, your grandma and your children. We already work with more than 80 municipalities in Finland, and over 80 million euros in social and health transactions are made through Vaana’s voucher scheme and personal budget solutions. Thanks to our rapidly growing business and customer-oriented solutions Vaana is in a stable financial position and lucky to have owners with long-term commitments. Our goal is to create solutions that are applicable across the world. We like to keep our system running on a modern tech stack, and we are actively looking into the latest technologies to take our industry further. Vaana is owned by The Orange Company, a family business, and it's employees. Find out more at www.vaana.fi.
Experience · 8 entries
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2024
Advisor
Feb 2024
Venture capital for the most impactful digital-first green transition startups in Europe
2023
Angel Investor
Jul 2023
Kodarit is the largest private programming school in Finland. We are proud to have introduced children, teens and adults to the world of coding since 2015.  Kodarits coding courses are fun and diverse. We teach programming skills, algorithmic thinking, game design and computer sciences in learning environments that are visual and designed to be beginner-friendly. We believe that coding is for everyone and want to share this vision internationally. To be able to include everyone on the Kodarit journey, we have compiled everything we know in a Licensing Package. We want to offer high-quality education based on the Finnish educational model, where everybody is included and no one is left behind. Our courses stand on accessibility, open-source tools, fun learning, and the creation of opportunities. These opportunities are aimed at students, teachers, and entrepreneurs, to create new careers, new jobs, new futures. We are looking for licensees that share our views and want to grow with us and help their communities to get closer to these opportunities. Open a Kodarit school, from Finland with love. Contact us to join the journey!
2022
Member
Jan 2022
FiBAN is a Finnish non-profit association of private investors and one of the largest and most active business angel networks in Europe with 600+ investor members in 12 countries. A matchmaker of growth-ready early-stage startups and private investors. Our three main activities are: 👉 Matchmaking startups and private investors 👉 Sharing and developing angel investing best practices via certified investor training. 👉 Representing private investors​ interest in societal matters and through producing data from the early-stage investment landscape. FiBANs Data: www.fiban.org/data For Startups: www.fiban.org/apply For Members: www.fiban.org/join In all FiBAN events and contexts, we expect our members and partners to follow our Code of Conduct. Please find it here: https://fiban.org/code-of-conduct/ FiBAN Notification Channel for reporting inappropriate behavior: https://fiban.ilmoituskanava.fi/ and on the footer of our website.
2021
Partner and Startup Mentor
Apr 2021
A Startup Ecosystem builder, designing programs and joint ventures to improve Startup growth.
2020
Chief Technology Officer / Co-founder
Jun 2020
Offer investments to your end users via our Investment API. Regulatory licenses included. 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞: 𝐔𝐩𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐁𝟐𝐁 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐩𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭.𝐜𝐨, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐦. 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐞: 𝐔𝐩𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝟐𝐁-𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐤𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐤𝐭 𝐚𝐧. 𝐖𝐞𝐧𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐣𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦 𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧, 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐭, 𝐔𝐩𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐳𝐮 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨̈𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐦𝐨̈𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐤𝐞𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐭, 𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐟 𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭.𝐜𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧, 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐨̈𝐜𝐡𝐬𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐡𝐫𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐮𝐦 𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠.
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