Risto Valtakari

Investor, advisor and scale-up coach

๐Ÿ“ Austria, Austria๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 8 investments๐Ÿ“… 20 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Jun 2022
Operator-angel๐ŸŒ Austria
8
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Board Member, Partner
Jun 2022
A growth company digitalizing building heating systems SiMAP Oy has developed a disruptive heating control system that improves comfort, saves energy, and reduces carbon footprint for homes and buildings. The system brings room-level temperature control to virtually all buildings with hydronic heating regardless of their age, heat source or construction. In the core of the SiMAP system is a unique ultra-low-power radio network specifically designed for building control. Low power consumption guarantees very long battery lifetime and wide radio coverage makes installation extremely simple, both reflecting to low lifetime cost. The system is accompanied with an easy-to-use cloud service for data storage, monitoring, and remote control. Comprehensive measurements, running 24/7, provide large amounts of data. This data is essential in digitalizing building management, and it is needed to improve property management throughout the propertyโ€™s complete life cycle enabling โ€œGreen Buildingsโ€ with significant savings in energy and potential carbon emissions.
Board Member
Jun 2017
Nordcloud is a European leader in cloud implementation, application development, managed services and training. Itโ€™s a recognised cloud-native pioneer with a proven track record helping organisations leverage public cloud in a way that balances quick wins, immediate savings and sustainable value. As well as partnering with VMware, Nordcloud is triple-certified across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services โ€“ and is featured in Gartnerโ€™s Magic Quadrant. Nordcloud has 10 European hubs, over 1700 employees and has delivered over 1,000 successful cloud projects for companies ranging from mid-size to large corporates. IBM announced its acquisition of Nordcloud on December 21, 2020.
Board Member, Partner
Jan 2017
RECOGNIZE Assets emit abnormal sounds when they start to fail. Our solutions recognize these sounds better than any human. ANALYZE Utilizing machine learning we make sense of sound by turning it into valuable information. UNDERSTAND We turn sound into value by helping our customers fix critical assets early.
Board Member, Partner
Aug 2015
CAP Data Technologies has ended its operations in 2020. CAP Data Technologies was founded in late 2014 as a spin-off from University of Jyvรคskylรค. CAP has the unique ability to spot anomalies automatically without fingerprints in large volumes of data using machine learning algorithms.
Board member, Partner
Nov 2010
SVS Innovations, Ltd. specializes in mobility, 3D and BIM technologies. We are pioneering the way mobile devices are used in city planning, pre-sales and facility maintenance. Our products and services leverage visual 3D models for building interactive and meaningful solutions to our clients. Our work is based on bundling the cloud and mobile devices together to quickly deliver information to users at the right time. Our powerful solution enables fluent mobile experiences even with very large sets of 3D information.
Board Member
Jan 2006
Bluegiga is committed to provide innovative and easy-to-use, short-range wireless connectivity solutions to OEMs, device manufacturers and system integrators. Our technology portfolio includes Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Our products include a wide range of wireless modules, varying from ultra-low power Bluetooth Smart modules to best in class long range Bluetooth Classic and Wi-Fi products. Bluegiga was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. We have offices in Atlanta, GA, and Hong Kong, China. Our products are available globally in more than 70 countries through an extensive distribution network, consisting of more than 50 partners. Our competitive edge is our unique combination of high performance radios, connectivity software and customer support, which in turn leads to the creation of a solid customer base that includes industry leaders to start-ups in the sectors of consumer electronics, health / wellness, auto aftermarket, sports / fitness, M2M and industrial.
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2022
Board Member, Partner
Jun 2022
A growth company digitalizing building heating systems SiMAP Oy has developed a disruptive heating control system that improves comfort, saves energy, and reduces carbon footprint for homes and buildings. The system brings room-level temperature control to virtually all buildings with hydronic heating regardless of their age, heat source or construction. In the core of the SiMAP system is a unique ultra-low-power radio network specifically designed for building control. Low power consumption guarantees very long battery lifetime and wide radio coverage makes installation extremely simple, both reflecting to low lifetime cost. The system is accompanied with an easy-to-use cloud service for data storage, monitoring, and remote control. Comprehensive measurements, running 24/7, provide large amounts of data. This data is essential in digitalizing building management, and it is needed to improve property management throughout the propertyโ€™s complete life cycle enabling โ€œGreen Buildingsโ€ with significant savings in energy and potential carbon emissions.
2018
Senior Advisor, Partner
Sep 2018
CollectiveCrunch - AI for Sustainable Forestry and Nature-based Solutions Do you have challenges understanding the inventory and health of your forests? At scale? Are your inventories crude samples that are too inaccurate to drive decisions? Are you at risk of bark beetle outbreaks destroying your forests? These are the things we specialise on, so you can make data driven decisions and can respond to bark beetle outbreaks early. CollectiveCrunch is a firm that โ€˜collectsโ€™ process, climate and geo data to โ€˜crunchโ€™ these data for deep insight and prediction. 8 of the Top 10 forestry companies in the European Nordics rely on our solution. Leading companies in Spain and Chile use our product to make better decisions. Find out more on www.collectivecrunch.com
2017
Board Member
Jun 2017
Nordcloud is a European leader in cloud implementation, application development, managed services and training. Itโ€™s a recognised cloud-native pioneer with a proven track record helping organisations leverage public cloud in a way that balances quick wins, immediate savings and sustainable value. As well as partnering with VMware, Nordcloud is triple-certified across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services โ€“ and is featured in Gartnerโ€™s Magic Quadrant. Nordcloud has 10 European hubs, over 1700 employees and has delivered over 1,000 successful cloud projects for companies ranging from mid-size to large corporates. IBM announced its acquisition of Nordcloud on December 21, 2020.
Board Member, Partner
Jan 2017
RECOGNIZE Assets emit abnormal sounds when they start to fail. Our solutions recognize these sounds better than any human. ANALYZE Utilizing machine learning we make sense of sound by turning it into valuable information. UNDERSTAND We turn sound into value by helping our customers fix critical assets early.
2016
Senior Advisor, Partner
Jul 2016
Qvistorp's mission is to enable smarter, more agile and fact driven decision making process within every kind of organisation. In our vision we see the world getting a little smarter by introducing tools and frameworks that would benefit every party involved, the organisation, its clients and society. The company's core product, Qvistorp Growth, provides organisations with powerful tools and processes for KPI driven capital management. The platform facilitates standardised approach for investment planning and ensures that projects are comparable across the organisation and investment portfolios. It supports complex what-if analyses for individual projects as well as large project portfolios. Qvistorp Growth also acts as a centralised platform for risk analysis and quantifies the qualitative information gathered across the organisation. Furthermore, the platform provides real-time decision making support tools for the board as well as C-level management and reports for various groups of stakeholders.
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