Kiilto Ventures team

Matti Rönkkö
Head of Kiilto Ventures

Christopher Mills
Discovery Partner


Tanja Huohvanainen
Investment Manager


Anton Piippo
Analyst


Our email addresses are: [email protected]

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Matti Rönkkö

Experience & background

  • +15 years of startup and scaleup experience across different roles across multiple countries and continents
  • Previous experience from eg. Rocket Internet and as CEO of Nosto Solutions
  • Seen the ups and downs of the startup world


Focus area

  • Managing Director
  • Keep building an amazing team who can best support our portfolio companies in developing as well as find the future world class founders & teams
  • Help our portfolio founders and companies grow
  • Deliver value to our portfolio founders, our mother company, owners and the whole ecosystem within the sustainable built environment

Christopher Mills

Experience & background

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience inventing and commercializing chemical products and services
  • Extensive work with industry standards, regulations, and industrial processes
  • Involved in both greenfield and brownfield factory projects
  • 5+ years of experience in startup investments


Focus area

  • Responsible for discovery, venture building, and leveraging construction and industry data insights to support new deals
  • Active in board work and provides ongoing support for portfolio companies

Tanja Huohvanainen

Experience & background

  • 10+ years of experience in financial due diligence, M&A, IPO assessments, and impact investing especially in start-up and scale-up phases


Focus area

  • At Kiilto Ventures, she works across the full investment funnel, leads portfolio management, and integrates impact thinking into investment strategies
  • She also serves as Country Lead for Sweden
  • Passionate about cost-effective innovations with the potential to significantly reduce CO₂e emissions

Anton Piippo

Experience & background

  • 4 years of experience in venture capital and entrepreneurship, with a focus on the built environment


Focus area

  • At Kiilto Ventures, works across the full investment lifecycle from meeting early-stage founders to supporting their growth journeys
  • Enjoys learning through collaboration with ambitious teams solving critical problems
  • Especially interested in solutions that decarbonize and digitize the built environment

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Nobody Engineering

Founders: Ville Ilkkala, Iridian Kiiskinen, Kari Ilkkala

CEO: Ville Ilkkala

Founding year: 2018

Invested: 2024

Description: Nobody Engineering offers a patent-pending IoT device combined with software robotics to connect outdated building automation systems to modern digital services. This plug-and-play solution allows for real-time data collection and control, extending the life of existing HVAC and control systems. It eliminates the need for costly upgrades, enabling scalable deployment of digital solutions across diverse building types.

Impact: Nobody Engineering’s solution connects legacy Building Automation Systems (BAS) to smart services enabling energy and CO2e savings through optimization. This postpones the need for costly BAS upgrades / renovating of building till later.

Website: nobodyengineering.com

Kvist Solutions

Founders: Fabian Utigard, Mathias Engevik, Mathias Picker, Thomas Rankin, Henrik Udnes 

CEO: Fabian Utigard

Founding year: 2022

Invested: 2024

Description: Kvist Solutions’ software helps real estate and construction companies simplify and streamline green building certifications (e.g. BREEAM and LEED) and sustainability reporting (e.g. Taxonomy, CSRD, internal sustainability management).

Impact: Kvist helps accelerate the construction industry’s transition to sustainability by enabling easier and automated compliance with certificates, EU Taxonomy, CSRD and internal sustainability management, promoting more efficient resource use and lower environmental footprint of buildings.

Website:
kvistsolutions.com