Ilkka Kivimäki
Founding Partner & Advisor of Maki.vc
Maki.vc (Web3)
Check: Maki Fund III currently states €300K–€3M initial tickets in pre-seed and seed rounds below €5M, with follow-on reserves. This is the active firm's range, not Ilkka's personal or current new-deal authority; his stated remit focuses on existing portfolio companies.
Ilkka co-built Maki around entrepreneurial DNA, technical depth, non-consensus first-round decisions and Nordic founders with global category ambition. His documented portfolio work spans gaming, smartphone diagnostics, industrial ultrasound, simulation and glasses-free mixed reality—teams translating difficult science or engineering into a product with striking customer value. His current role is portfolio advisor rather than the lead for new investments.
Pre-SeedSeedFirst Institutional Round