Green Campus Innovations

Investment decisions are led by the firm's partners: CEO Pertti Miettunen, Tero Lehikoinen, and Tuomo Ronkko. The partner-led structure provides operational separation from LUT University's academic governance, though the firm's mandate remains tied to commercializing university-derived and affiliated technologies.

Green Campus Innovations is the investment arm of Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, co-founded with Saimaa University of Applied Sciences and the Vitako Association. It serves as the primary vehicle for converting university research and spin-offs into equity investments, and operates alongside the LUT Research Foundation, which handles philanthropic and grant-based funding.

The firm covers the full spectrum from seed-stage spin-offs emerging from university labs to expansion and growth-stage companies. It also handles divestiture of mature assets originally developed within the university ecosystem, giving it an unusually broad mandate for a university-linked investor.

No. While spin-offs form a core part of the pipeline, the firm's strategy explicitly includes external early-stage and growth-stage ventures. Its participation in the Greenreality Network expands its reach to companies aligned with the region's sustainability goals that may not have a direct university affiliation.

The firm concentrates on cleantech, renewable energy, resource efficiency, and digital solutions for industrial decarbonization. This focus aligns with LUT University's research strengths in energy systems and sustainable technology, and with the Greenreality Network's mission to build a carbon-neutral economy in South Karelia.