We discover to impact the built environment through investments.

Kiilto Ventures is a VC funding and building early-stage startups that regenerate nature and future-proof the built environment

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Founders

Who are impact-driven as much as skilled. Share your problem with us.

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Partners

Investors. Researchers. Innovators. The next revolution is cooperative impact, are you in?

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Buildings are the challenge of our generation

climate
crisis

The built environment is responsible for about 40% of global carbon emissions.

For the sake of livability and resource efficiency, buildings need to get with the times.

poor
productivity

Globally, labor-productivity growth in construction has not kept pace with manufacturing or the total economy. *McKinsey&Co

By adopting a digital-first approach, construction can better manage data and decision-making, collaborate in real-time, and enhance safey and compliance. More accuracy means less uncertainty and risk.

Sick building
syndrome

Mistakes in design, construction and maintenance can lead to chronic human health conditions known as sick building syndrome.

Indoor air pollution alone causes around 4.2 million premature deaths annually. *WHO

Biodiversity
challenge

Roughly half of the raw materials we extract go into the world's built environment. *BBC

That's why construction waste should be recovered for reuse.

Meet your new
venture partner
for the built environment

Gain a long-term investor with 100 years of industrial RDI and market know-how, and a vision looking towards 2080.

We partner with early-stage ventures to make the Built Environment more livable and sustainable.

KIILTO VENTURES IS PART OF
KIILTO

Get inspired beyond your bottom line

Tackle the challenges that matter, regardless of size or struggle

Kiilto venture portfolio

We’re all about the long game

Ventures

Origin by Ocean, founded in 2019, is a platform-based algae refining company based in Finland.

Ventures

Asumma is a construction technology company. Creating innovative, sustainable CLT houses.

Ventures

Improve construction processes with Aiforsite's Productivity Platform and services.

Ventures

Our mission is to lower CO2 emissions and the use of virgin raw materials in construction.

Ventures

Our innovations strive to eliminate microorganisms. We strive to deliver bio-decontamination for everyone, everywhere.

Ventures

Revolutionising Hygiene Safety. Detecting bacteria and viruses from surfaces with artificial intelligence.

Funds

We are the VC backing the innovators who are transforming our relationship with the built world.

 
Manifesto

Born to be
a wild child

STORY OF KIILTO

Generations of courage and growth, starting in Finland 1919.

A time of short supply when resourceful entrepreneurs decided to make a difference.

Early employees named us Kiilto –Finnish for gloss –inspired by our first products of paints, polishes and waxes...

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STORY OF KIILTO VENTURES

100 years later..

KiiLTO VENTURES® was established in 2019. Coincidence, maybe. Same startup spirit, you better believe it.

Now we’re an Operational VC who dares to define the future of its parent company by courageously opening new markets.

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an impact together

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