Patrik Louko

CEO at SmartCap | Venture capital for Estonian growth

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2013
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CFO, Board Member
Mar 2013
SportIQ is making sports intelligent by applying information technology in team sports by doing advanced analysis of an event in real-time using various sources like statistics, scoreboard, player movements and combining that into the event footage and beyond. Real-time player and equipment tracking Tracking the players not as individuals but as a team makes it possible to find locations compared to other players in the same team or the opponent team. Offense and defense tactics data can be collected to the use of statistical data and coaching. Combining the tracking with video feed When the real-time tracking of the players and equipment such as a ball or a puck allows a variety of video solutions for the use of broadcasters, coaches and viewers. SportIQ is a marketing name for SstatzZ Oy a Finnish sports analytics company.
Board member
Jun 2008
Indeo is a Finnish company specialized in IBM Collaboration Solutions (Notes/Domino) and SmartCloud technologies. Since 2005, we have created ingenious collaboration solutions for our clients. Our goal is to bring you the best that industry leading technology can offer, effectively and efficiently, create solutions that match your business needs and keep your objectives on track. We work with our clients from the initial phases where the need is articulated through the application life cycle with design and development. We round off our services with support, maintenance and training. Our seasoned consultants have an average of 10 years experience in the industry and we stay on top of latest software with relevant training and certifications. We are certified in ITIL service life cycle management and agile methodologies and we strive to apply these in our services.
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2026
Chief Executive Officer
Sep 2026
We aim to ensure best seed and growth financing opportunities, mainly through private sector venture capital funds, to develop Estonia’s venture capital market and enable conditions to provide capital in all economic cycles. Our contribution to Estonia’s capital market is via anchor investments into VC funds, which enable ambitious and innovative Estonian companies development and growth globally. We are a fund manager registered with the Estonian FSA and a subsidiary of Estonian Business and Innovation Agency. Visit for more information: www.smartcap.ee
2022
Co-Founder & Chairman
Jan 2022
You rely on your feet for almost everything, so keeping them happy is pretty important, right? Investing in good shoes is critical but unfortunately our current options for shoe buying are rife with issues. Most consumers now prefer to buy shoes online and return rates of 40% have become the norm. Making matters worse, 77% of consumers actively suffer from foot pain. So even after you go through all the work of finding shoes that fit, youre still likely to experience problems. The entire system needs to be overhauled and Shoely is leading the way.
Venture Partner
Jan 2022
Courage Ventures is the first purely digital health focused venture capital fund in the Nordics. We invest in early-stage Digital Health startups in the Nordics and Baltics, the region with the most sophisticated Digital Health ecosystem driving the next wave of innovations. We have exceptional access to early deal flow in the Nordics and Baltics from our extensive networks. We have an established record of taking Nordic companies to the US, the worlds most attractive growth and exit market in healthcare.
2014
Founder, Chairman
Jan 2014
AT A GLANCE. Zero Gravity Inside, Inc. (commercially known as Zero G) is the world’s largest fully custom performance footwear company. We are a people-focused, technology-driven company that is reshaping the footwear industry. OUR MISSION AND METHODS. Zero G is committed to making fully-customized footwear accessible worldwide. To that end, we’ve developed patent-pending 3D tools, footwear customization materials, and integrated physical-to-digital processes which enable customers to have perfectly fitting footwear crafted locally and additional pairs ordered online to provide the same custom fit. OUR PRODUCTS. We currently offer 2 lines of fully custom insoles: Flash, optimized for agile sports, and Force, which provides lasting comfort in endurance activities. With their streamlined fitting process and superior performance, Zero G insoles are preferred by retailers and wearers alike, boasting the highest combined sales volume and the lowest return rates of all mass custom insoles since 2014. OUR TEAM. Founded in 2014 by veterans of the sporting goods industry, Patrik Louko and Antti-Jussi Ahponen, Zero G is guided by experienced sportswear entrepreneurs and hands-on innovators. All 10 of Zero G’s employees bring advanced technical, sales, logistics, communications or sportswear experience, ensuring the company stays small yet effective with only active contributors. OUR WAY: ACHIEVEMENTS AND GOALS. In its first 2 years of operation, Zero G filed 4 patents, opened offices in 3 continents, acquired key U.S. customers, and sold nearly 1 million units. Pursuing our goal of providing custom wear globally, we will acquire key retail partners in Europe, Asia, and Australia in 2019, and will continue to advance the technology and processes that enable footwear to be customized locally and ordered digitally. At Zero G, we’re shaping the future of custom footwear. Reach out for information on how you can step up and stand out with Zero G.
early stageConsumer Goods
2013
CFO, Board Member
Mar 2013
SportIQ is making sports intelligent by applying information technology in team sports by doing advanced analysis of an event in real-time using various sources like statistics, scoreboard, player movements and combining that into the event footage and beyond. Real-time player and equipment tracking Tracking the players not as individuals but as a team makes it possible to find locations compared to other players in the same team or the opponent team. Offense and defense tactics data can be collected to the use of statistical data and coaching. Combining the tracking with video feed When the real-time tracking of the players and equipment such as a ball or a puck allows a variety of video solutions for the use of broadcasters, coaches and viewers. SportIQ is a marketing name for SstatzZ Oy a Finnish sports analytics company.
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