Pasi Vainikka

CEO at Solar Foods Ltd

📍 Eastern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Co-Founder, Board Member
Nov 2017
Solein is a game-changing protein for the global food industry. Produced from air – CO2, water, nitrogen – and electricity, our unique natural single-cell proteins are not dependent on agriculture, weather or the climate. Creating the future of sustainable food with an unlimited diversity of proteins.
Co-Founder, Board Member
Nov 2016
For centuries, human beings have been treating Earth like a rental. Carbon pollution levels are accelerating. The result is deadly: a climate emergency that is already killing countless living organisms, displacing people, and sowing the seeds for famine, epidemic, poverty, and war. The reality is that we do not have time. IPCC has consistently warned about the dangers and costs of continuing on the path of exceeding planetary boundaries. We are now at a point where humanity has to rely on capturing heat-trapping gas CO2 from the atmosphere if we are to keep the warming of the planet within 1.5°C. Real estate accounts for nearly half of all emissions. Hence, any successful green transition towards a sustainable future will have to engage the built environment and present compelling financial futures for the real estate sector, both commercial and private. Building Integrated Carbon Capture technology can play a vital role in reaching net zero and thereafter accelerating the regeneration of the atmosphere. We turn buildings into carbon-capturing machines. Our patented onsite carbon capture technology empowers commercial property owners to reduce buildings CO2 emissions while making significant cost savings. Soletair Power modular carbon capture systems operate plug-and-play, enabling property owners to rapidly and easily install carbon capture solutions in buildings. We are collaborating with scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs pursuing solutions to lower emissions, remove carbon, actively cool the planet, and save human, animal, and plant life as we know it. Our values live through the entrepreneurial spirit of our diverse and inclusive network.
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2019
Co-Founder
Apr 2019
For centuries, human beings have been treating Earth like a rental. Carbon pollution levels are accelerating. The result is deadly: a climate emergency that is already killing countless living organisms, displacing people, and sowing the seeds for famine, epidemic, poverty, and war. The reality is that we do not have time. IPCC has consistently warned about the dangers and costs of continuing on the path of exceeding planetary boundaries. We are now at a point where humanity has to rely on capturing heat-trapping gas CO2 from the atmosphere if we are to keep the warming of the planet within 1.5°C. Real estate accounts for nearly half of all emissions. Hence, any successful green transition towards a sustainable future will have to engage the built environment and present compelling financial futures for the real estate sector, both commercial and private. Building Integrated Carbon Capture technology can play a vital role in reaching net zero and thereafter accelerating the regeneration of the atmosphere. We turn buildings into carbon-capturing machines. Our patented onsite carbon capture technology empowers commercial property owners to reduce buildings CO2 emissions while making significant cost savings. Soletair Power modular carbon capture systems operate plug-and-play, enabling property owners to rapidly and easily install carbon capture solutions in buildings. We are collaborating with scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs pursuing solutions to lower emissions, remove carbon, actively cool the planet, and save human, animal, and plant life as we know it. Our values live through the entrepreneurial spirit of our diverse and inclusive network.
Day1 co-founder, start-up mentor
Jan 2019
LUT Entrepreneurship Society (LUTES) is a student-based society for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurially-minded students. We are on a mission to drive student entrepreneurship with our events, community and programs. If you are interested in entrepreneurship and you are a student at LUT University or LAB University of Applied Sciences, you should get to know better with LUTES. Our goal is to gather all entrepreneurially-minded students around the same table. After that, the sky’s the limit. When innovative ideas meet each other there is no boundaries or strict lines how to go further. And yes, it is possible. We have very powerful supporters. A posse ad esse – From possibility to reality.
2017
Co-Founder, Board Member
Nov 2017
Solein is a game-changing protein for the global food industry. Produced from air – CO2, water, nitrogen – and electricity, our unique natural single-cell proteins are not dependent on agriculture, weather or the climate. Creating the future of sustainable food with an unlimited diversity of proteins.
Principal Scientist
Jan 2017
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd is the leading research and technology company in the Nordic countries. Our research and innovation services give our partners, both private and public, all over the world a competitive edge. We pave the way for the future by developing new smart technologies, profitable solutions and innovation services. We create technology for business – for the benefit of society.
2016
Co-Founder, Board Member
Nov 2016
For centuries, human beings have been treating Earth like a rental. Carbon pollution levels are accelerating. The result is deadly: a climate emergency that is already killing countless living organisms, displacing people, and sowing the seeds for famine, epidemic, poverty, and war. The reality is that we do not have time. IPCC has consistently warned about the dangers and costs of continuing on the path of exceeding planetary boundaries. We are now at a point where humanity has to rely on capturing heat-trapping gas CO2 from the atmosphere if we are to keep the warming of the planet within 1.5°C. Real estate accounts for nearly half of all emissions. Hence, any successful green transition towards a sustainable future will have to engage the built environment and present compelling financial futures for the real estate sector, both commercial and private. Building Integrated Carbon Capture technology can play a vital role in reaching net zero and thereafter accelerating the regeneration of the atmosphere. We turn buildings into carbon-capturing machines. Our patented onsite carbon capture technology empowers commercial property owners to reduce buildings CO2 emissions while making significant cost savings. Soletair Power modular carbon capture systems operate plug-and-play, enabling property owners to rapidly and easily install carbon capture solutions in buildings. We are collaborating with scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs pursuing solutions to lower emissions, remove carbon, actively cool the planet, and save human, animal, and plant life as we know it. Our values live through the entrepreneurial spirit of our diverse and inclusive network.