Coventures
Ville Riikkala is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in business development and technology leadership. Currently serving as a Board Member at Pentonet and an Entrepreneur In Residence at Coventures, Ville contributes to building digital ventures in collaboration with corporations. Previously, Ville held the position of Head of Business Development at Lendiron Ltd, focusing on internationalization efforts, and was a Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer at Industryhack Oy, facilitating partnerships between large companies and startups in emerging technologies like IoT and AI. Ville's earlier roles include advisory and technical leadership at Olento Life Ltd and various management positions at Digia and TietoEnator. Ville holds a Master of Science in Computer Software Engineering from Aalto University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Helia.
Coventures
Coventures is a platform for impact entrepreneurship. We connect bright entrepreneurs with corporate assets and know-how to build meaningful ventures. We believe entrepreneurship has the potential to solve truly important challenges, but it requires cooperation. We need corporates with assets and know-how to work together with entrepreneurs in creating truly meaningful digital ventures With our Co-venturing model, we help organizations to identify the strategically important whitespaces where digital ventures can play a key role. Then we validate the market risk and technical feasibility of the venture to build a solid business case. Finally, we build the venture as a stand-alone independent business. We, our partners, and our network of entrepreneurs provide all the know-how and expertise needed from developing and validating the idea, to building and scaling the venture.