Risto Rautakorpi is known as the Nordic Institutional Super Angel who created the camel investing model, a data-driven approach that focuses on sustainable growth and multiple mid-sized exits rather than chasing unicorns. With over 40 years in IT-powered businesses including senior roles at Microsoft and the original Xbox launch team, he combines deep technical understanding with his learning before earning philosophy to help founders focus on fundamentals before chasing valuations.
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Gorilla Capital positions itself as the Nordic institutional super angel, combining the speed of an angel investor with the structure and scale of an institutional VC while making around 30 investments per year at pre-seed and seed stages with €50k-€1M tickets. The fund deliberately backs capital-efficient, resilient tech startups they call camels instead of chasing unicorns, focusing on companies in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Estonia that solve real business problems with realistic paths to sustainable growth and early exits.
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