Riku Asikainen
Managing Partner at Founder at Evli Growth Partners
Founder and Managing Partner of EGP, a growth capital fund for new Nordics.
Seasoned entrepreneur with strong emphasize on growth investments on small and medium-sized companies.
During my entrepreneurial, management and investment career, which started in year 1988, I have been founder, director and investor in more than thirty ventures. Out of those companies,ten have been exited and five gone to zero (some valuable lessons learnt from these) while the rest are still in my portfolio.
During my tenure two companies have grown from zero revenue to five million range, one company to ten million, one to twenty million and one over thirty million of annual revenue.
Specialties: -Over 20 years of experience on B-to-C business as owner, manager and investor in several different fields of business.
– Several financing and re-financing rounds in micro to medium size companies
– Areas of interest: Private equity financing, Growth, Execution, Financing and IT development as a strategic tool in managing customers and sales