Riku Asikainen

Riku is an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth hacker. He started his first company while in high school, and sold it as Finland´s leading internet bookstore fifteen years later. Since then he has been a founder, active investor and board member in more than 40 companies. He has had several nice upswings, ten exits and one IPO, but he is still looking for his first billion dollars.

As he saw need for more hands on collaboration for angel investments in Finland, he was one of the Co-founders and chairman of FiBAN (Finnish Business Angel network). FiBAN has more than 600 investor members, which do more than 200 investments every year. FiBAN has been awarded by EBAN as Europe´s best business angel network in 2013 and 2015. Currently he serves as vice chairman of the EBAN board. He is proud co-founder of Startup-foundation, behind both phenomenal SLUSH, Europe´s biggest tech conference and Startup sauna, a leading incubator program for the region. 

He has served as Head Coach for Startup Sauna for two years. They have +200 graduate companies, which have raised more than 200 million euros of funding since graduation. He has studied in and graduated from Aalto University School of Business (M.Sc, Helsinki) and he was nominated as the Alumni of the year 2014.