Jukka Alanen
Education
Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Doctor of Business Administration (In Progress), 2022-01-01 - 2025-01-01
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Executive Program for Growing Companies (EPGC), -
University of California, Berkeley
Venture Capital Executive Program, -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy Program, -
Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration
M.Sc. (Economics and Business Administration), Economics, Business Administration, Finance -
Helsinki University of Technology
M.Sc. (Engineering), Industrial Management & Engineering, Telecom Software -Work Experience
Rebellion Ventures
Current
Rebellion Ventures
PagerDuty
2018-01-01 - 2022-01-01
PagerDuty
Black Duck
2015-01-01 - 2018-01-01
Black Duck
Arxan Technologies (now Digital.ai)
2012-01-01 - 2015-01-01
Arxan Technologies (now Digital.ai)
Symantec
2007-01-01 - 2011-01-01
Symantec
McKinsey & Company
2000-01-01 - 2007-01-01
McKinsey & Company
Merrill Lynch
1999-01-01 - 2000-01-01
Merrill Lynch
Skills
Summary
Jukka is the Managing Partner of Rebellion Ventures. Rebellion Ventures—The Autonomy Fund—is a seed/pre-seed VC firm in Silicon Valley at the forefront of the Autonomy Revolution. We back founders who unlock 10–100x productivity with vertically specialized autonomous systems and agentic AI that sense, decide, and act—transforming core operations of essential industries, such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, logistics, and beyond. Our portfolio benefits from an LP community of 70+ unicorn founders and operators and a track record of multi-billion-dollar exits. To learn more, visit rebellionvc.com. Previously, Jukka was a senior operating executive and built three VC-backed companies to $3.5B in IPO and M&A exits. Most recently, he was SVP of Strategy, Business & Corporate Development at PagerDuty, where he helped take the company public ($2.8B IPO) and led the strategy to revolutionize digital operations with AI & Automation. During his over 20 years in leadership roles, Jukka has helped build tens of businesses and product lines and led 500+ partnerships and 30+ M&A deals in the ecosystem worth >$5B. He is a sought-after strategic advisor and industry expert in autonomous operations and agentic AI. 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.
