Ari Korhonen

Ari Korhonen General Information

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Mr. Ari Korhonen is the Founder of Lagoon Capital. He also serves as a Growth Partner at Evli Growth Partners. He serves as a Senior Advisor at Spintop Ventures. He serves as Vice Chairman at DealDash. He serves as Chairman at VERSO. He serves as a Investor and Partner at True Global Ventures. He serves as an Advisory Board Member at Finnish Industry Investment. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Chairman at Klevu. He served as a Board Member at Helpten. He also served as Chairman at Miradore. He Co-Owned XMLdation.com and served as its Board Member. He co-owned and served as a Board Member at Sympa. He is a Co-Owner of Citysocialising. He also co-owned Twid and served as Chairman. He is the Owner and serves as the Chairman of the Board at Paytrail. He holds an MS (Master of Science) in Engineering from the Lappeenranta University of Technology. Within the last 10 years, he has made Angel investments in 29 companies, with 86 investment rounds in total. These include MariaDB, DealDash, Surveypal, Miradore, In4mo, FlashNode, Thirdpresence, and 360 Cities. From these, he has had three successful exits; Severa, Paytrail, and The Switch. He is also an investor in venture capital funds that include Seedcamp, 500 Start-ups, and True Global Ventures. In Spintop he is also Senior Advisor and Investment Committee member. He is also a member of the Seedcamp Investment Committee. He is an Investment council member of Finnish Industry Investments. He was nominated by EBAN as European Business Angel of the Year in 2009 and elected by FiBAN as Business Angel of the Year in Finland in 2014. He is a co-founder of FiBAN and was Vice Chairman of the Board from 2010 to 2012. He has been an EBAN board member and Vice-President since 2012. He is also a member of EstBAN. He has been featured in several business magazines and blogs. He holds a Master of Science degree in engineering from Lappeenranta University of Technology.