Tarja Teppo

Osakas

Tarja (MSc. In Engineering, PhD in Tech) has been involved with renewable energy and other cleantech research and advisory projects for Nordic institutional and industrial investors as a co-founder of Cleantech Invest (CTI). She has also been involved in the development of the CTI cleantech seed fund from the beginning. Tarja has carried out clean energy and other cleantech private equity (PE) fund evaluations and detailed due diligence (DD) projects on direct cleantech investments on behalf of CTI's clients. The PE funds include both clean energy project equity funds and cleantech venture capital funds. She has also carried out fundraising for a cleantech fund of funds.

Through CTI Tarja has been involved in organizing the Nordic cleantech venture day since 2005. She has also represented two cleantech alternative investment vehicles in the Nordic area, helped to build an clean energy equity fund for a Nordic bank, developed a renewable energy fund investment strategy for an electric utility, participated in offshore wind pre-development projects and carried out several other consulting assignments in the cleantech financing area.

Ms. Teppo has been following the development of the cleantech investment market since its early stages, through her PhD research at the Helsinki University of Technology. She defended her thesis on "Venture Capital Investment in Sustainable Energy Technologies" in 2006.

Tarja Teppo
GSM 050 599 6828
tarja.teppo@cleantechinvest.com