Jenni Risku
Jenni Risku, Chief Strategic Partner, Click Ventures Family Office
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Biography
Click Ventures is a Singapore and Hong Kong based, first generation Single Family Office. Family office invests in both public and private markets globally, with a passion to invest in emerging seed-stage VC funds. Prior to its transition into a family office, Click Ventures operated close to a decade as an early stage, top performing venture capital firm, founded by serial entrepreneur (exited) and investor veteran Carman Chan in Hong Kong.
Jenni joined Click Ventures in 2021 after her entrepreneurial journey, thus shifting her focus on investments. Jenni is currently the country head and primary representative for Singapore, and focuses on wealth generation by private markets investments and deal sourcing (alongside the Founding Principal). She collaborates with family offices, LPs, GPs, and aims for strategic relationships to build premium access and channels for high conviction and difficult to access deals and fund investment opportunities. She also looks at Impact within the family office.
Named “Northern Star” Young Future Leader by European Business Leaders Convention (2023) and “Top Innovator” in VC by World Economic Forum and Uplink (2022), Jenni’s work has been featured by various news media including Channel News Asia featuring her “Women in Tech” movement in Asia (2018). Jenni is a frequent speaker at various family office, HNW/UHNW, wealth management, LP/GP, and tech events.
Prior to Click Ventures, Jenni founded Women in Tech Asia - an impact and event platform, partnering with National Research Foundation under the Prime Minister’s Office Singapore, and a network of 50+ partners/sponsors including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, UN Women, TEDx, etc. Its annual conferences brought together 4,000+ delegates from 30+ countries in Singapore.
Jenni was Founding Partner of the Innovation and Sustainability Alliance (IxSA), and former co-chair of Nordic Female Business Angel Network NFBAN - a member of European Business Angel Network. From 2008-2012 Jenni worked in cross-border investments and trade (PE, M&A) heading special projects between Hong Kong, China and Europe for a Hong Kong&China based trade and investment group, and establishing the group's European office in Warsaw, Poland. Jenni was born in Finland, studied in Hong Kong, lived in five and worked across fifteen countries, now based in Singapore since 2015.