Robert Torvelainen

Chief Digital & Tech Policy Advisor, ex-Wolt, ex-Chair of the European Tech Alliance (EUTA)

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Angel investor🌍 Finland
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Board Member
Jan 2023
The European Tech Alliance is the sole organisation that represents home-grown European tech companies from across the whole industry. Our purpose is simple: we demonstrate that Europe has a vibrant and thriving home-grown tech industry. In the Alliance, we have combined our resources so that European policymakers are better educated about what the broad European tech sector needs in terms of better policies, and can help them understand the challenges we face in order to scale and create long term, high value jobs. We currently represent 26 diverse members from 15 European countries in our mission to provide a greater voice for European tech companies.
Board Member
Aug 2018
Herrainpukimo is a rapidly growing clothing store concept focused on made-to-measure clothing and classic style. Our current assortment includes suits, overcoats, blazers, chinos as well as goodyear welt shoes and high quality socks. Our stores are located in Herrainpolku 1, Turku and Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland. Online store serves our clients 24/7 at www.herrainpukimo.fi Please follow us on Facebook and Instagram for latest news and pictures!
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2023
Board Member
Jan 2023
The European Tech Alliance is the sole organisation that represents home-grown European tech companies from across the whole industry. Our purpose is simple: we demonstrate that Europe has a vibrant and thriving home-grown tech industry. In the Alliance, we have combined our resources so that European policymakers are better educated about what the broad European tech sector needs in terms of better policies, and can help them understand the challenges we face in order to scale and create long term, high value jobs. We currently represent 26 diverse members from 15 European countries in our mission to provide a greater voice for European tech companies.
2019
Senior Public Policy Associate
Sep 2019
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.
2018
Board Member
Aug 2018
Herrainpukimo is a rapidly growing clothing store concept focused on made-to-measure clothing and classic style. Our current assortment includes suits, overcoats, blazers, chinos as well as goodyear welt shoes and high quality socks. Our stores are located in Herrainpolku 1, Turku and Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland. Online store serves our clients 24/7 at www.herrainpukimo.fi Please follow us on Facebook and Instagram for latest news and pictures!
Board Member
May 2018
Meillä on 20 vuoden kokemus rakentamisen, logistiikan ja teollisuuden toimialoilta. Siksi tunnemme muutoksen, joka aloilla on käynnissä. Aikaisemmin työnantajat määrittelivät työn tekemisen. Nykyään sen tekevät työntekijät. Nykypäivänä työn pitää sopia elämään. Työtä tehdään, jotta voidaan elää, ei toisin päin. Työstä ei haluta ylimääräisiä huolia. Siksi Carrot tarjoaa laadukasta ja jämptiä henkilöstöpalvelua asiakkailleen, ja ennen kaikkea avointa ja inhimillistä asennetta työntekijöitä kohtaan. Meiltä saa työtä, joka sopii työnhakijan kulloiseenkin elämäntilanteeseen. Kun työntekijämme tuntee, että hänestä välitetään, me tunnemme onnistuneemme. Työllistämme vuosittain tuhansia eri toimialojen osaajia! Katso avoimet paikkamme: http://www.carrot.fi/avoimet-tyopaikat/ Löydät meistä lisää tietoa sivuiltamme: www.carrot.fi
2011
Porvoon Maske Oy
Board Member
Feb 2011
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