Jyri Engeström Email Address

Partner and Co-Founder

True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.

I am responsible for product management at Boosted, a lightweight electric vehicle manufacturer. I also serve as Entrepreneur in Residence and member of the investment team at True Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm; and on the board of Iceye, a radar satellite startup. I founded Jaiku, a mobile social network acquired by Google; and Ditto, a mobile local recommendations application acquired by Groupon. I've invested in Moves (acquired by Facebook), Applifier (acquired by Unity), Superfeedr (acquired by Medium), etc. At Groupon I ran product for Groupon’s point of sale business. At Google I was the product manager responsible the Gmail mobile client, Mobile Calendar, and Google's social efforts. I am co-founder of Sesat School, a micro-school in San Francisco; and serve on the board of the Rare Cancer Research Foundation. I also co-own a café in Helsinki.