Mikko Koponen

CEO | COO | Business unit director | Sales Director | Country Director | General Manager

📍 Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
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Board Member
Oct 2024
LFG is a brand house for beauty and wellness services, dedicated to ensuring the well-being of both employees and entrepreneurs. The company takes care of the infrastructure, tools, and administrative matters, allowing the staff of its service businesses to focus on their core expertise and deliver memorable customer experiences. Founded in 2024, LFG’s brands include M Room, which offers barber services, and Poslin, which specializes in sugaring services. The combined revenue of these franchises is 12.5 million euros (2024). For more information, visit www.lfgbrands.fi.
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Feb 2022
A Finnish brand Fighting for Happiness and Sustainability in Housework by developing sustainable, surprising and super-useful products for cleaning and for minimizing bacterial contamination.
early stageManufacturing
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2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
LFG is a brand house for beauty and wellness services, dedicated to ensuring the well-being of both employees and entrepreneurs. The company takes care of the infrastructure, tools, and administrative matters, allowing the staff of its service businesses to focus on their core expertise and deliver memorable customer experiences. Founded in 2024, LFG’s brands include M Room, which offers barber services, and Poslin, which specializes in sugaring services. The combined revenue of these franchises is 12.5 million euros (2024). For more information, visit www.lfgbrands.fi.
2022
Investor
Feb 2022
A Finnish brand Fighting for Happiness and Sustainability in Housework by developing sustainable, surprising and super-useful products for cleaning and for minimizing bacterial contamination.
early stageManufacturing
2021
Board Member
Jul 2021
The European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (Textile ETP) is the largest European network dedicated to textile research and innovation. Its main objectives are to ensure the long-term competitiveness of the EU textile and clothing industry through collaborative research across national borders in Europe and a rapid translation of research results into industrial innovation. Its services and activities include strategy and policy development for European textile research, information provision about EU textile research funding opportunities, brokerage of partnerships for EU research funding applications, dissemination of results of EU-funded textile research projects, organisation of conferences and seminars on textile innovation trends and new technology developments and networking among its members and other organisations interested in textile research and innovation in Europe. Textile ETP currently has about 300 member organisations from industry, research and higher education with a total of over 1200 registered individual experts.
Board Member
Jan 2021
Suomen Tekstiilit ovat mukana meidän jokaisen arjessa, jokaisessa päivässä. Suomen Tekstiili & Muoti ry on alan etujärjestö, joka tarjoaa asiantuntijapalveluita, koulutusta ja tapahtumia. Neuvottelemme työehtosopimukset, joita noudattavat kaikki alan yritykset. Jäsenyrityksemme tuottavat muun muassa vaatteita ja asusteita, sisustustekstiilejä, teknisiä tekstiilejä ja kuitukankaita. Tärkein tavoitteemme on suomalaisen tekstiili- ja muotialan kestävä kehittyminen ja globaali menestyminen.
2011
Global Process Owner, Customer Order and Availability Management
Feb 2011
Fiskars Group is the global home of design-driven brands for indoor and outdoor living. Our brands include Fiskars, Georg Jensen, Gerber, Iittala, Royal Copenhagen, Moomin by Arabia, Waterford, and Wedgwood, among others. Our brands are present in more than 100 countries and we have approximately 350 own stores. We are driven by our common purpose: pioneering design to make the everyday extraordinary. Since 1649, we have designed products of timeless, purposeful, and functional beauty, while driving innovation and sustainable growth. Our shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki (FSKRS). We have close to 7,000 employees and our global net sales in 2022 were EUR 1.2 billion.
Investment activity
2021–2024 · 4 investments
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