Aapo Bovellan

Investor in innovative, early stage companies. Experience as an early shareholder in 24 companies, including one decacorn. 16 of the investments to date are through Proxy, world's first venture capital company with its own brand studio designing brands for all of it's portfolio companies.
Type Angel Investor
Website linkedin.com

Investment info

Invests in
Idea
Product or prototype
Go to market
Growth and expansion
Investment range
€ < 25K
€ 25 - 50K
€ 50 - 100K
€ 100 - 500K
Primary markets
Consumer, Companies, Marketplace, Government
Investing in countries
Finland

Focus areas

Consumer Goods
Consumer Goods
Media & Entertainment
Media & Entertainment

Key people

Founding Partner

Aapo Bovellan

Invests in SDGs

sdg

More about Aapo Bovellan

Companies Aapo has branded include Supercell, Peak and Nokia. Lead and follow-on investor's in Proxy's portfolio companies include Index Ventures, Atomico, Creandum, DN Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and Sunstone Capital. Proxy has its own design studio that works with all portfolio companies, and select external commissions.

At Microsoft, responsible for defining the first Android range of devices, the Nokia X family. Prior to that, headed Nokia Brand and Marketing Studio, in charge of completely renewing Nokia's global brand identity and responsible producing the global launch assets for all new product launches at Nokia. Awarded with Design Museum's "Design of the Year 2012 / Graphic Design", D&AD, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, Clio Gold and more.

Specialties: Strategy and Vision creation, Product Management, Portfolio Management, Human-Centered Design, Branding and Identity, Marketing Management, Product Launches, Product Concepting, Graphic Design, Software and Service Design, Brand Management, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship

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