About - Rebellion Ventures

Jukka Alanen

Managing Partner

Jukka is the Managing Partner of Rebellion Ventures. He is focused on helping AI & Automation startups accelerate their business, raise more capital, and scale their companies, leveraging his operating track record of building three VC-backed companies to $3.5B in IPO and M&A exits, specialized expertise in AI & Automation, and relationship networks in the industry.

Prior to Rebellion Ventures, Jukka was a senior operating executive in SaaS/Software with over 20 years in leadership roles. He helped grow three VC-backed companies to $3.5B in IPO and M&A exits, leading strategy and business & corporate development and building businesses in AI and Automation.

Most recently, Jukka was SVP at PagerDuty and helped take the company public ($2.8B IPO) and build it into an Operations Cloud powered by AI and Automation. He led the building and execution of PagerDuty’s strategy to revolutionize operations for modern enterprises, powered by AI and Automation. Jukka helped build PagerDuty into a market leader in AI Operations and Process Automation.

Jukka has led 500+ partnerships and 30+ M&A deals in the ecosystem worth >$5B. He has advised CEOs and executive teams of both early-stage startups and the world’s leading software companies on how to drive business growth, strategic expansion, and disruptive innovation. Prior to building startups, Jukka was a Vice President at Symantec, leading strategy, business development, alliances, M&A, and portfolio product management. Previously, he was a top management consultant with McKinsey & Company for over 6 years, leading strategic and operational initiatives with CEOs and executive teams in software & technology companies.

Jukka holds M.Sc. (Economics and Business Administration) and M.Sc. (Technology) degrees with distinction. He has completed the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Venture Capital Executive Program at UC Berkeley, and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy program at MIT.

Dr. Ramesh Raskar

Venture Partner

Ramesh is a Venture Partner with Rebellion Ventures. He is the Associate Director of MIT Media Lab and Associate Professor at MIT, specializing in AI, ML, and Computer Vision.

Ramesh has worked on special research projects at Google [X], Facebook, Apple and co-founded and advised several startups. He launched REDX.io, a platform for young innovators to explore AI-for-Impact. He frequently consults for dynamic organizations to conduct ‘SpotProbing’ exercises to spot opportunities and probe solutions.

Ramesh holds 125+ US patents. At MIT, his co-inventions include a camera to see around corners, femto-photography, automated machine learning (auto-ML), private ML (split-learning), low-cost eye care devices (Netra,Catra, EyeSelfie), a novel CAT-Scan machine, motion capture (Prakash), long distance barcodes (Bokode), 3D interaction displays (BiDi screen), new theoretical models to augment light fields (ALF) to represent wave phenomena and algebraic rank constraints for 3D displays(HR3D).

Ramesh has received numerous awards, such the Lemelson Award, ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award, Technology Review TR100 award, Global Indus Technovator Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship award, and Darpa Young Faculty award.

His work has appeared in NYTimes, WSJ, CNN, BBC, NewScientist, TechnologyReview etc.

Aaron Aubrecht

Venture Partner

Aaron is a Venture Partner with Rebellion Ventures. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Century Seven Advisors, where he is advising startup CEOs on product, strategy, and go to market.

Most recently, Aaron was the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Venafi, where he was responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Machine Identity Management as a multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS platform, resulting in a $1.2B exit.

Previously, Aaron provided products & strategy leadership to a wide range of enterprise software companies, including serving as the CPO and CMO of Covisint. At EMC, he served as the Vice President of Products, SaaS Solutions, Engineering Operations, and Enablement for the Information Intelligence Group. At Symantec, he led several enterprise security product lines. At McKinsey & Company, Aaron advised Fortune 500 tech and telecom executives on strategy, sales & marketing and operations. He has also held leadership positions at Morgan Stanley, Accenture, and began his career as a United States Air Force officer.

Aaron holds a Master of Business Administration from The University of Chicago, and a Bachelor’s degree with highest honors from North Carolina State University in Electrical Engineering.

The Mensarius Oath

As a financial professional that invests in enterprises using personal or investor capital, I hereby pledge to honor these values. If it is determined by myself or a panel of my peers that I have violated these values without reconciliation agreed between all involved parties, then I will voluntarily leave the industry.

In my profession of finance, I endeavor to help create positive outcomes for all of humanity.
With my dealings, I create positive outcomes financially and otherwise for all of those involved, including the conscious avoidance of harm to any parties.
Being in the industry, I will help others to achieve the highest standards that I set for myself and my organization.
As a steward of the trade, I work against any abuse of power that leads to unfair advantage, seduction, corruption or mistreatment.
As a person who can affect the outcome, I commit to reducing inequality and increasing fairness in society.
In honor of the community, I pledge to treat all that approach me with fairness, equality and the attention that each opportunity deserves.
As a professional, I am open and honest in all of my dealings with those that I serve, including Investors and Founders.
As part of my work, I keep all matters that are understood to be private with all available protections to keep safe from public or other unwanted disclosure.
To continuously improve, I solicit and respect feedback from those that I serve and from my wider industry professionals.

I swear to honor, to the best of my ability and judgment, the values of the Mensarius Oath.

Leveraging our specialized focus in AI & Automation, operating track record, and network of leading operators and experts as LPs.

Leadership

Jukka Alanen

Venture Partners

Dr. Ramesh Raskar

Aaron Aubrecht

Operator LPs and Rebellion Advisor Network

Force-multiply our expertise and networks, leveraging our collective operating track records in building industry-leading businesses and growing startups to high-value outcomes.

Help entrepreneurs grow outstanding companies and build and scale key business functions (e.g., sales, marketing, product, engineering, customer success, HR, finance, etc).

Bring specialized industry expertise and high-value industry networks in AI & Automation.

Can serve as mentors, advisors, or board members for entrepreneurs and their companies.