Timo Hakkarainen

Co-Founder Markku.fi / Co-Founder @ BOLT.works | Board @ Greenstar Hotels

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Private Investor
Mar 2026
Taiga AI Oy. Helsinki, Finland. Founded 2026. Every decade, a new capability arrives and the world rushes to use it. And every decade, someone quietly builds the layer underneath that makes it all actually work. In the 1990s, everyone built websites. Then someone built the infrastructure to host them. In the 2000s, everyone moved to the cloud. Then someone built the orchestration to manage it. In the 2010s, everyone shipped faster. Then someone built the pipelines to make that safe. The pattern never changes. The exciting thing arrives first. The essential thing arrives second. The essential thing always wins. We are in the earliest moments of the AI era. Code is being written by machines. Decisions made by models. Entire workflows running without human hands. The capability is arriving faster than anything before it. The essential thing underneath it has not been built yet. The ancient Finns understood this intuitively. The Kalevala tells the story of the Sampo, a mythical machine that produced endlessly on its own. But the story isnt about the machine. Its about who controlled it. Who decided what it should produce and why. Nations went to war not over the Sampos power, but over its direction. Three thousand years later, the question is the same. The machines are here. They produce at speeds weve never seen. The question that matters isnt what they can do. Its what sits underneath. What governs the direction. What makes the output trustworthy. Taiga AI exists because that question needs an answer. And because the best answers to hard problems have always come from small teams in cold places whod rather build than talk. Our founders carry decades of enterprise technology between them. Companies scaled. Failures survived. The kind of experience that teaches you what matters when systems meet reality at 2 AM on a Sunday. We are pre-seed. We are building from Helsinki, where sisu isnt a buzzword. Its the weather. More soon.
Board Member
May 2020
Pohjois-Karjalan lentopallon lippulaiva. Edustusjoukkue Miesten Mestaruusliigassa ja poikajunioritoimintaa Joensuussa. Suuria tunteita ja elämyksiä. #tunnehurmos
Member of the Board
Oct 2019
Henkilöstöala HELA on henkilöstöä vuokraavien sekä muita henkilöstöpalveluita tarjoavien yritysten työnantaja- ja toimialaliitto. Henkilöstöalan yritykset ovat työmarkkinoiden ja rekrytoinnin asiantuntijoita. Alan palvelut auttavat asiakasyrityksiä keskittymään omaan ydinosaamiseensa ja tarjoavat työntekijöille monipuolisia uramahdollisuuksia. Meillä on yli 400 jäsenyritystä ja olemme yksi Elinkeinoelämän keskusliitto EK:n jäsenliitoista. -- The Private Employment Agencies’ Association HELA is the employer and industry association for companies providing private employment services. Our key function is to improve the business prerequisites for our sector and our member companies. We are responsible for drafting the code of conduct and general terms and conditions for the sector, as well as negotiating collective agreements.
Co-Founder, Board Member
Apr 2018
We are an agile software development consultancy with a mission. We shape the future of premium remote software development services. Our humble goal is to build the best workplace in Croatia and the Balkan region for developers who love to craft kick-ass digital experiences for our clients - with a Nordic twist. Software Sauna was founded by two Finnish friends who wanted to combine the Nordic business culture with expertise of top notch engineers in the SEE area. We provide Full Stack software development in agile modern web and mobile technologies. Our fundamental principles are Quality and Transparency. Our team of senior developers with 5 to 15+ years of experience in software engineering has solid knowledge of various programming languages and frameworks. We operate as your remote development team according to your current needs.
Experience · 15 entries
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2026
Private Investor
Mar 2026
Taiga AI Oy. Helsinki, Finland. Founded 2026. Every decade, a new capability arrives and the world rushes to use it. And every decade, someone quietly builds the layer underneath that makes it all actually work. In the 1990s, everyone built websites. Then someone built the infrastructure to host them. In the 2000s, everyone moved to the cloud. Then someone built the orchestration to manage it. In the 2010s, everyone shipped faster. Then someone built the pipelines to make that safe. The pattern never changes. The exciting thing arrives first. The essential thing arrives second. The essential thing always wins. We are in the earliest moments of the AI era. Code is being written by machines. Decisions made by models. Entire workflows running without human hands. The capability is arriving faster than anything before it. The essential thing underneath it has not been built yet. The ancient Finns understood this intuitively. The Kalevala tells the story of the Sampo, a mythical machine that produced endlessly on its own. But the story isnt about the machine. Its about who controlled it. Who decided what it should produce and why. Nations went to war not over the Sampos power, but over its direction. Three thousand years later, the question is the same. The machines are here. They produce at speeds weve never seen. The question that matters isnt what they can do. Its what sits underneath. What governs the direction. What makes the output trustworthy. Taiga AI exists because that question needs an answer. And because the best answers to hard problems have always come from small teams in cold places whod rather build than talk. Our founders carry decades of enterprise technology between them. Companies scaled. Failures survived. The kind of experience that teaches you what matters when systems meet reality at 2 AM on a Sunday. We are pre-seed. We are building from Helsinki, where sisu isnt a buzzword. Its the weather. More soon.
2025
2024
Board Member
May 2024
Olemme hotelliketju, joka on perustettu palvelemaan ihmisten ja ympäristön tarpeita. Vastuullisuus näkyy kaikissa valinnoissamme – ekologisilla ratkaisuilla säästämme ympäristöä ja kustannuksia. Teemme yhteistyötä paikallisten toimijoiden kanssa. Yhteistyö on meille tärkeää, sillä jaamme kumppaneidemme kanssa samat vihreät ja vastuulliset arvot. Kannamme ylpeydellä Suomen ensimmäisen hiilineutraalin hotelliketjun titteliä.
2023
Board Member
Nov 2023
EK on suomalaisten yritysten merkittävin puolestapuhuja. Me EK:ssa rakennamme yhteiskuntaa, jossa suomalaiset yritykset menestyvät, tarjoavat ihmisille työtä ja rahoittavat hyvinvointiyhteiskuntaamme. Teemme työtä uudistuvan markkinatalouden puolesta. Me EK:ssa edustamme kahta kolmasosaa yksityisen alan työpaikoista, viennistä ja innovaatiotoiminnasta. Kun yritykset pärjäävät, ne pystyvät luomaan Suomeen taloudellista elinvoimaa, tarjoamaan ihmisille työtä sekä maksamaan veroja ja rahoittamaan hyvinvointiyhteiskunnan palveluita​. EK toimii vastuullisen markkinatalouden puolesta. Uskomme avoimeen kilpailuun ja reiluihin pelisääntöihin, joita kaikkien on noudatettava niin Suomessa kuin kansainvälisillä markkinoilla. Kaikki suomalaiset täytyy pitää mukana. EK edustaa kattavasti yksityisiä toimialoja ja kaikenkokoisia yrityksiä: - 20 toimialaliittoa niin palvelusektorilla kuin teollisuudessa - Yli 15 000 jäsenyritystä, joissa noin 900 000 työntekijää - 96 prosenttia jäsenistöstä edustaa pk-sektoria - Jäsenyritysten mediaanikoko​ on 12 henkilöä. Yli 60 % jäsenistöstä on Uudenmaan ulkopuolella. The EK – Confederation of Finnish Industries – is the leading business organisation in Finland. It represents the entire private sector, both industry and services, and companies of all sizes. Our main task is to make Finland an internationally attractive and competitive business environment. Successful business activities are the foundation for the Finnish welfare society. EK represents the entire private sector and companies of all sizes: - 20 member associations - Over 15,000 member companies across all business sectors - Member companies employ about 900,000 workers EK is a member of BUSINESSEUROPE, the European-level association for employers, commerce and industry. We are also active in the OECD and the ILO.
2022
Principal Consultant
Jan 2022
EXE Headhunting on vaativien asiantuntijoiden, päälliköiden ja johdon suorahakuihin erikoistunut yritys, joka tekee asiat hieman toisin kuin muut. EXEn takana olevilla henkilöillä on yli 100 suorahaun kokemus. Tällä hetkellä EXEn tiimissä työskentelee neljä henkilöä. Toimipisteemme sijaitsevat Tampereella ja Helsingissä.  Me haluamme ravistella pölyttyneitä rekrytointeihin ja erityisesti suorahakuihin liittyviä toimintatapoja tekemällä asioita tehokkaasti, mutta rohkeasti rennolla otteella. EXE Headhuntingin missio on auttaa parhaiden yrityksien ja parhaiden osaajien tarinoiden kohtaaminen. EXE Headhuntingin taustaa Teemme suorahakualalla sen minkä Bolt.Works teki henkilöstöpalveluissa: tuomme vahvalla teknologia- ja markkinointiosaamisellamme alan nykyaikaan.  Suomen nopeimmin kasvava henkilöstöpalveluyhtiö Bolt.Works Oy laajentaa suorahakuliiketoimintaan EXE Headhunting -brändin alla. Se tarjoaa palveluita johto-, asiantuntija- ja päällikkötason henkilöiden suorahakuun. EXE:n tavoitteena on nousta Suomen suurimpien suorahakupalveluja tarjoavien yritysten joukkoon muutamassa vuodessa. Se tuo toimialalle uudenlaisen tavan hyödyntää teknologiaa rekrytoinneissa sekä tarinallistaa ja markkinoida suorahakupalveluita.
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