Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Finland in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Finland in December 2024
Investor | Agriculture (agtech) Finland investments |
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VTT Ventures | 2 |
Nidoco | 2 |
Lifeline Ventures | 2 |
VTT Ventures | 2 |
Nidoco | 2 |
Seraphim Space | 2 |
Lifeline Ventures | 2 |
Seraphim Space | 2 |
FOUNDER.org | 1 |
Space Capital | 1 |
Taver Capital Partners | 1 |
Ålands Ömsesidiga Försäkringsbolag, | 1 |
Harry Santamaki | 1 |
Fredrik Hjelm | 1 |
Dylan Taylor | 1 |
Draper Associates | 1 |
Taver Capital Partners | 1 |
Innovestor | 1 |
Springvest | 1 |
Impulse VC | 1 |
Bas Godska | 1 |
Birger Steen | 1 |
Jyri Engestrom | 1 |
FOUNDER.org | 1 |
CapMan | 1 |
Springvest | 1 |
Ålands Ömsesidiga Försäkringsbolag, | 1 |
DNX Ventures | 1 |
Fredrik Hjelm | 1 |
Demeter Partners | 1 |
A.Partners | 1 |
Heino Group | 1 |
CapMan | 1 |
Toby Redshaw | 1 |
Reynir Indahl | 1 |
Birger Steen | 1 |
Nordic Foodtech VC | 1 |
Sparbanken Miljö | 1 |
FV Group Holding AB | 1 |
Business Finland | 1 |
True Ventures | 1 |
Starlight Ventures | 1 |
Space Capital | 1 |
DNX Ventures | 1 |
Jyri Engestrom | 1 |
Boris Kim | 1 |
Tesi | 1 |
Starlight Ventures | 1 |
Space Capital | 1 |
A.Partners | 1 |
VTT is a powerhouse of technology development and scientific research. Many of the most significant Finnish technology start-ups were brought to life at VTT. Do you want to invest in ongoing ventures?
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
- Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Nidoco AB is a Swedish investment company whose strategy is to create long-term value through active ownership of public and private companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
- eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
- Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
- Risk Ledger — Risk Ledger ensures your supply chain security by providing tools to run and respond to cyber security-led, third-party risk management programmes at scale.
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
VTT is a powerhouse of technology development and scientific research. Many of the most significant Finnish technology start-ups were brought to life at VTT. Do you want to invest in ongoing ventures?
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
- Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Nidoco AB is a Swedish investment company whose strategy is to create long-term value through active ownership of public and private companies.
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- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
- eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
- Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem. They are an ambitious team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in Venture. Collectively they have over 100 years’ experience, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses, returning more than £750 million to theirshareholders.They are also fortunate to have one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and experts in Earth Observation on board. They work closely with their portfolio companies and always strive to create meaningful value and endeavour to ensure that the full value of their network and partners is utilised.The backing of leading global corporates in the Space sector and the leading Space related Governmental Agencies in the UK and Europe brings significant value. They are able to leverage their capital, industry leading knowledge and networks, creating an ecosystem that delivers real results for your business. From roots to market, sales and marketing, partnerships, follow-on capital, and M&A they can deliver value creation across the company growth cycle globally.
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- Aerospace, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
- CarbonLaces — Automated Smart Energy Verifications for asset owners enabling regenerative finance.
- SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.
Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.
- In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridge the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
- In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridge the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem. They are an ambitious team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in Venture. Collectively they have over 100 years’ experience, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses, returning more than £750 million to theirshareholders.They are also fortunate to have one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and experts in Earth Observation on board. They work closely with their portfolio companies and always strive to create meaningful value and endeavour to ensure that the full value of their network and partners is utilised.The backing of leading global corporates in the Space sector and the leading Space related Governmental Agencies in the UK and Europe brings significant value. They are able to leverage their capital, industry leading knowledge and networks, creating an ecosystem that delivers real results for your business. From roots to market, sales and marketing, partnerships, follow-on capital, and M&A they can deliver value creation across the company growth cycle globally.
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- Aerospace, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ODIN Space — ODIN Space provides mission-critical intelligence for the entire Space sector,
- SaferPLACES — Geospatial, Satellite, Climate Data and AI-based models combined into a cloud computing environment provides incredible insights in terms of flood risk intelligence.
- Frontier Space Technologies — Frontier Space Technologies plans to use space to quicken advances in biotechnology,to enhance the standard of living on Earth and beyond, Frontier Space is dedicated to democratizing space.
We invest in young innovators solving important problems and help them build world changing companies.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- RapidSOS — RapidSOS securely links life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
- Eko Health — At Eko every digital stethoscope from Eko comes with smart disease detection capabilities to help healthcare professionals confidently identify and diagnose heart and lung disease during physical exams.
- Upward Farms — Upward Farms grows leafy greens and fish with the highest ecological and quality standards so that everyone can easily and affordably nourish their body, family, and the planet. Our mission is to heal the broken food system and reconnect eaters with flavorful and nutritious local food.
Space Capital is an early-stage space venture capital fund focused on unlocking the value in space technology stacks. Start to invest in the future of humanity!
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
- Xona Space Systems — Xona's Pulsar service is the first high-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy. Our constellation of smallsats will provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy needed to enable modern devices to operate safely in any conditions.
- Gradial — AI-powered marketing, content operations, and content creation.
Taver Capital is a venture fund that invests in early stage artificial intelligence companies from around the world.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- CureSkin — Get free AI analysis and dermatologist-prescribed regimens to treat your skin & hair concerns. Holistic, safe & 100% effective. Learn more.
- Regology — Regology is the leading generative AI-powered Regulatory Intelligence Platform. We help compliance teams in all industries automate regulatory change management and compliance.
- iFarm — Technologies to grow fresh vegetables, berries and greens
Ålands Ömsesidiga Försäkringsbolag (Åland's Mutual Insurance Company) is an Åland-based non-life insurance company.
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- Farming, Seafood, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- FIFAX — Fifax Ab's business idea is to cultivate a first-class rainbow trout with a modern, innovative and environmentally friendly method. To this end, Fifax has built a fish farm for a dry land using the Circulating Technique (RAS). The plant is located in Eckerö, Storby, on the western Åland.Fifax Ab's goal is to produce the best, domestic,good quality and fresh rainbow trout.
Harry Santamaki - Venture Partner @ Voima Ventures
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- AgTech, Agriculture, Animal Feed
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Manna Insect — World-leading tech & solutions to black soldier fly farming: we enable turning organic waste into animal feed and fertilizer profitably, anywhere
- Adamant Health — Adamant Health’s unique technology to analyse Parkinson’s disease symptoms is based on over 15 years of academic research at the University of Eastern Finland. With the technology, clinicians have several days detailed visibility to the patient’s symptoms and is able to optimise the treatment accordingly. Pharma companies benefit from the objectiveand long-term RW data in their clinical and post market studies and can utilise it as complementary diagnostics tool for personalised medication.
Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Information Technology, Software, Pet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Sweden, France, Finland
Dylan Taylor is a global business leader, commercial astronaut, thought leader and philanthropist. Currently, Dylan serves as Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space, a multi-national space exploration firm focused on building the next generation of space infrastructure for NASA and other global space agencies.Dylan has been recognized by HarvardUniversity, SpaceNews, the BBC, the Financial Times, Pitchbook, CNBC, CNN and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. As an early-stage investor in more than 50 emerging space ventures, including Axiom, Kepler, York, Astrobotic, LeoLabs, Relativity, and Planet, Dylan is widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.Dylan’s technical background, global business experience and unbridled passion for space make him a unique figure within his industry. As a thought leader and futurist, he has written many popular pieces on the future of the space industry for Forbes, FastCompany, Newsweek, SpaceNews, The Space Review, and Space.com. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.Dylan has extensive global business experience as both a board director and CEO in several industries, including advanced electronics, finance and real estate. He previously served as a Director for UMB Bank, a Fortune 500 company based in Kansas City and as a mutual fund director for the Jackson Funds where he oversaw assets of $8B across 130 distinct funds. He has also served in the roles of CEO, President and Board Director for multinational companies like Prudential PLC, Honeywell, Colliers and Jones Lang LaSalle. Dylan was recognized as a Fortune 1000 CEO with P&L responsibility in excess of $3B and operations encompassing 15,000 employees in over 60 countries. In addition, Dylan has participated in 4 IPOs over the course of his career. Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017, he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.Dylan is an explorer of note. On December 11th, 2021 Dylan became just the 606th human to go to space as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s NewShepard Mission 19. Accordingly, Dylan earned his commercial astronaut wings with the FAA and his universal astronaut wings from the Association of Space Explorers.He is also one of only a handful of humans to have descended to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench as part of the Limiting Factor Expedition in July of 2022. In that mission, Dylan descended with pilot Victor Vescovo to a depth in excess of 10,800 meters (35,500 feet) into an area of the Mariana Trench that had never been visited by humans. Dylan is the youngest human to have been to the deepest part of the world’s oceans and crossed the Karman line into Space. Dylan has been a member of the Explorers Club since 2014.Dylan maintains an extensive philanthropic impact on the space industry. In 2017, Dylan founded the nonprofit and social movement, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable problems. Space for Humanity has successfully sent two citizen astronauts to space via Blue Origin including both the first Mexican-born woman (Katya Echazareta), and first African-born woman (Sara Sabry). Building upon his passion and support for the space industry, Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program and is a co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which promotes the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally, he is also a leading benefactor to the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and Mission: Astro Access.Dylan is the founder and Chairman of Multiverse Media, an integrated global media company focused on science and technology, with an emphasis on space. Multiverse is the parent company of the popular space philosophy website 2211.world as well as the Ad Astra Dinners, a Jeffersonian-style dinner series featuring some of the world’s leading influencers discussing the future of humanity in space. Another subsidiary of Multiverse Media, Multiverse Publishing, publishes books by leading authors including Frank White, Isaac Asimov and Gerard K. O’Neill. Multiverse is also the executive producer of the documentary film, The High Frontier and the forthcoming film, Fortitude. For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, Dylan has been honored with numerous personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and a full member of the World Economic Forum in 2014. That same year he was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In 2020, Dylan was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation with their top honor for business and finance, following in the footsteps of 2019’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen
and subsequent winners Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.Dylan Taylor earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. He is also a graduate of the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.Dylan and his family reside in Denver, Colorado where he is active locally with Colorado Concern and the Colorado Spaceport. In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, competing in triathlons and spending time outdoors. As a weekend warrior athlete, Dylan has more than 25 top ten finishes and 25 age group wins to his credit, and he regularly interviews world class athletes whom have shown extraordinary resilience as the host of the Legendary Podcast. He is married to legal expert, consultant and author Gabrielle V. Taylor with whom he has two teenage daughters.
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
- LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
- Space Forge — Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Rosy Soil — Rosy Soil is a gardening solution focused on sustainable practices that support the health of soil, plants, and the environment.
- CytoTronics — Visualize live cell function at scale for cell biology discovery with Pixel systems. Monitor cell viability, morphology, electrophysiology, metabolism and more.
- Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.
Gagarin Capital is a venture fund that invests in early stage artificial intelligence companies from around the world.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- CureSkin — Get free AI analysis and dermatologist-prescribed regimens to treat your skin & hair concerns. Holistic, safe & 100% effective. Learn more.
- EARTH AI — Earth AI is a high-performance explorer for clean energy minerals. We turbocharge metals exploration to build the electric future.
- Regology — Regology is the leading generative AI-powered Regulatory Intelligence Platform. We help compliance teams in all industries automate regulatory change management and compliance.
Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- AISPECO — AISPECO systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.
- Clair Scientific — CLAIR Z1 is a versatile microscope based on our patented bio imaging platform that is suitable for life science and nano science research
- Polku Therapeutics — Polku Therapeutics | Disease-Modifying Therapies for Neurodegeneration
The Citizenship Fund started out when the founders of the company discovered in their previous positions that a promising Finnish growth company will spend a great deal of time and energy in arranging financing. A good business idea and a team with excellent team could take months in financial negotiations and the outcome could be a return to thestart-up. At the same time, investors often wanted new types of higher potential investments alongside traditional alternatives.These two challenges were possible by removing the promising growth companies as investors, even for non-traditional venture capital investors. Citizenship wanted to create a service in which the company would be able to capitalize on business quickly and flexibly, but the decision-making business would be left to the company itself. From today's point of view, Springvest's goal is that an increasing number of Finnish investors can get involved in the story of Finnish growth companies and potential success.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Desentum — Allergen immunotherapy that is effective, safe, patient-friendly and approved by the regulatory authorities.
- Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
Fund for technological internet companies
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Investment focus
- Advertising, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Russian Federation, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
- GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
- Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.
General Partner & Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund.
Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm.
Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000.
Assisted 100+ companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant.
Personal angel investmentportfolio, overall company value nearing $3BN, follow-ons raised (>$150 MN) from Accel, Iconiq, Insight Ventures, EBRD, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe."Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019):
CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media.
CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Moscow School of Management MBA (3 years).Portfolio:
miro.com; harver.com; travelata.ru (co-founder); Chocofamily Holding: chocotravel.kz, chocolife.me, aviata.kz, chocomart.kz (exit), lensmark.kz, rahmet.kz, chocofood.kz, iDoctor.kz, HRbot;
Newzmate.com (partial exit to Piano.io); storyterrace.com, getobjectiv.com; Crossss (sold to Leadhit); clockster.com; linkpizza.com; zakaz.ua; urbandine.nl; 6nomads.com, instreamatic.ai., omdena.com, aura-aware.com, awesomic.com, memoryOS.com,
VC investments: leapfunder.com; respeecher.com; letsenhance.io; studyfree.org.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
- SuperWorld — The Virtual World mapped on top of the real world to create, discover and monetize content.
- knopka — knopka - is an advanced automated nurse calling system that ensures help is provided on time. One-hour installation. Completely wireless. Compatible with cardiac monitors, fitness trackers, and smartwatches.
Birger Steen is the Thematic Partner, Tech-enabled Transformation at Summa Equity . He attended INSEAD.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Farming, mHealth
- Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anicare Oy — Modern farm industry key sustainability and profitability challenge: Individual animal welfare tracking in vast units is impossible with traditional methods and causes significant losses in time, production and moneyAnicare Vision: Millions of different animals are under of real time welfare monitoring and in their farms productivity optimizationincreases hundreds of millions profits and hundreds of work years enabling sustainable meat productionAnicare Missio: Scaling up unique welfare monitoring solution for the global beef and dairy industry as everyday tool for animals welfare monitoring to increasing production efficiency, reducing risk of disease outbursts & reduced labor costsAnicare is a Northern European technology company delivering AI-based services, disrupting animal welfare markets.
- Wellpepper — Joining an ACO with us will help your organization implement a proven model of care to achieve quality improvement goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk.
Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
- Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
- Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.
We invest in young innovators solving important problems and help them build world changing companies.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- RapidSOS — RapidSOS securely links life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
- Eko Health — At Eko every digital stethoscope from Eko comes with smart disease detection capabilities to help healthcare professionals confidently identify and diagnose heart and lung disease during physical exams.
- Upward Farms — Upward Farms grows leafy greens and fish with the highest ecological and quality standards so that everyone can easily and affordably nourish their body, family, and the planet. Our mission is to heal the broken food system and reconnect eaters with flavorful and nutritious local food.
CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international.At CapMan, they build betterorganised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- Finland, Russian Federation, Sweden
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- Groweo — Groweo focus on smart, efficient growth through software and services is crucial for businesses looking to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
- TerraWise — TerraWise is an experienced and trusted partner for various types of infrastructure construction projects. The company focuses on delivering demanding projects related to environmental construction and specialized quarrying, offering a complete set of services in each area. TerraWise’s key value proposition is based on expertise, high-qualityresults and commitment to agreed schedules.
- fuZion A/S — Datacenter and infrastructure provider
The Citizenship Fund started out when the founders of the company discovered in their previous positions that a promising Finnish growth company will spend a great deal of time and energy in arranging financing. A good business idea and a team with excellent team could take months in financial negotiations and the outcome could be a return to thestart-up. At the same time, investors often wanted new types of higher potential investments alongside traditional alternatives.These two challenges were possible by removing the promising growth companies as investors, even for non-traditional venture capital investors. Citizenship wanted to create a service in which the company would be able to capitalize on business quickly and flexibly, but the decision-making business would be left to the company itself. From today's point of view, Springvest's goal is that an increasing number of Finnish investors can get involved in the story of Finnish growth companies and potential success.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Finland
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- Desentum — Allergen immunotherapy that is effective, safe, patient-friendly and approved by the regulatory authorities.
- Kuva Space — Kuva Space improves life on Earth through daily, space-borne hyperspectral imaging and AI. We offer Earth observation solutions for more sustainable business.
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
Ålands Ömsesidiga Försäkringsbolag (Åland's Mutual Insurance Company) is an Åland-based non-life insurance company.
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- Farming, Seafood, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- FIFAX — Fifax Ab's business idea is to cultivate a first-class rainbow trout with a modern, innovative and environmentally friendly method. To this end, Fifax has built a fish farm for a dry land using the Circulating Technique (RAS). The plant is located in Eckerö, Storby, on the western Åland.Fifax Ab's goal is to produce the best, domestic,good quality and fresh rainbow trout.
DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Israel
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- Butlr — Butlr protects people's health and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic with a low-cost thermal imaging system that captures people’s behavior in indoor and outdoor environments. Butlr’s proprietary hardware pairs with advanced AI to gain insight into people’s movements in physical space, providing actionable intelligence to assistedliving, homes, and public spaces, all while safeguarding privacy. Butlr is a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab. Butlr’s sensor network captures human dynamics through state-of-art sensory monitoring and AI, understanding users’ needs to achieve a seamless automation experience, preventing risk, and monitoring health. Responsive architecture is a vision of a future where the built environment is as customizable as a streaming music podcast, based on simple, intelligent architectural objects. The natural world is in a constant state of flux; combinations of moisture, breeze and temperature change continuously. When we are inside our buildings, however, our environment loses its dynamism, and we’re forced to constantly tweak the conditions to achieve optimal comfort. Responsive architecture uses intelligent objects to mirror the processes of the natural world, creating environments and “microclimates” that are suited to individuals or small groups based on the heat signature of their bodies. Today the team at Butlr uses small, low-cost sensors to track the motions and body heat of Each person has a biometric heat signature as unique as a fingerprint. The Butlr sensors recognize an individual’s heat signature, and can modify room temperature and lighting for ideal comfort. Unlike cameras that track and record faces, the Butlr system relies on a heat signature, which is unique, but cannot be used to trace your identity. Starting from home applications, the future vision for responsive architecture is to empower cities with networks of heat sensors that can make cities responsive, predicting and responding to vehicle flows, pedestrian density, and weather conditions on the fly. Using thermal data provides many news layers of interaction not possible with cameras.
- Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
- Mirai no Genba — Mirai no Genba is an IT company that offers AI form creation, input assist, data analytics,and visualization services.
Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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- Information Technology, Software, Pet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Sweden, France, Finland
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- Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Lovable — Lovable is building software that builds software. We are makers of GPT Engineer app - an AI software engineer.
Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the ecological transition. We invest from €1m to €30m to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.
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- Manufacturing, Energy, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, Germany, United States
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- ICTYOS — Ictyos is a startup that creates marine leathers using a circular and sustainable economy logic. It recycles fish skins from the culinary and catering industries.
- Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
- Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.
A.Partners invests globally in early-stage startups. We believe that successful business models arise in different regions often simultaneously and we can leverage this phenomenon. Nonetheless, we are especially keen on emerging markets, such as LatAm, MENA, and SEA.
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- Education, Mobile Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Russian Federation, Peru
Heino Group is a food and drink industry company that has grown into an active entrepreneur, investor, owner, and supporter of foodtech companies.
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- B2B, Fruit, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- Vegemi — Vegemi is a free smartphone app that promotes eating fruits and vegetables through gaming. The software was designed with the entire family in mind, but especially to demonstrate youngsters the health advantages of fruits and vegetables in a way that motivates and inspires them.
- Arctic Farming — Disrupting food production by making vertical farming mainstream.
- Nordic Umami Company — Developing all-embracing sustainable flavours to accelerate plant-based eating.
CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international.At CapMan, they build betterorganised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- Finland, Russian Federation, Sweden
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- Groweo — Groweo focus on smart, efficient growth through software and services is crucial for businesses looking to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
- Tana — Tana provides machines and equipment for the mechanical processing of solid waste. The company manufactures landfill compactors and recycling machinery. Tana uses electrical control systems and artificial intelligence solutions in its equipment. An online inquiry form is available on the company website.
- TerraWise — TerraWise is an experienced and trusted partner for various types of infrastructure construction projects. The company focuses on delivering demanding projects related to environmental construction and specialized quarrying, offering a complete set of services in each area. TerraWise’s key value proposition is based on expertise, high-qualityresults and commitment to agreed schedules.
Toby Redshaw is the Chief Executive Officer at Verus Advisory. He was a CEO at Kevington Advisors.
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- AgTech, Farming, Fitness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States
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- NESTRE — NESTRE is a Neuro-Strength Company that provides mental and cognitive strength training and solutions.
- Anicare Oy — Modern farm industry key sustainability and profitability challenge: Individual animal welfare tracking in vast units is impossible with traditional methods and causes significant losses in time, production and moneyAnicare Vision: Millions of different animals are under of real time welfare monitoring and in their farms productivity optimizationincreases hundreds of millions profits and hundreds of work years enabling sustainable meat productionAnicare Missio: Scaling up unique welfare monitoring solution for the global beef and dairy industry as everyday tool for animals welfare monitoring to increasing production efficiency, reducing risk of disease outbursts & reduced labor costsAnicare is a Northern European technology company delivering AI-based services, disrupting animal welfare markets.
Reynir is the Managing Partner of Summa Equity.Previously, he was Partner of Altor Equity Partners where he joined at inception in 2003. Prior to this, he was CEO of Ignis Photonyx, Investment Director with Kistefos Venture Capital, and Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company. Reynir holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. inEconomics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Reynir is a board member of eGain and Sortera.Reynir is the Managing Partner of Summa Equity.Previously, he was Partner of Altor Equity Partners where he joined at inception in 2003. Prior to this, he was CEO of Ignis Photonyx, Investment Director with Kistefos Venture Capital, and Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company. Reynir holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Reynir is a board member of eGain and Sortera.
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- AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- Anicare Oy — Modern farm industry key sustainability and profitability challenge: Individual animal welfare tracking in vast units is impossible with traditional methods and causes significant losses in time, production and moneyAnicare Vision: Millions of different animals are under of real time welfare monitoring and in their farms productivity optimizationincreases hundreds of millions profits and hundreds of work years enabling sustainable meat productionAnicare Missio: Scaling up unique welfare monitoring solution for the global beef and dairy industry as everyday tool for animals welfare monitoring to increasing production efficiency, reducing risk of disease outbursts & reduced labor costsAnicare is a Northern European technology company delivering AI-based services, disrupting animal welfare markets.
Birger Steen is the Thematic Partner, Tech-enabled Transformation at Summa Equity . He attended INSEAD.
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- AgTech, Farming, mHealth
- Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Finland, United States
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- Anicare Oy — Modern farm industry key sustainability and profitability challenge: Individual animal welfare tracking in vast units is impossible with traditional methods and causes significant losses in time, production and moneyAnicare Vision: Millions of different animals are under of real time welfare monitoring and in their farms productivity optimizationincreases hundreds of millions profits and hundreds of work years enabling sustainable meat productionAnicare Missio: Scaling up unique welfare monitoring solution for the global beef and dairy industry as everyday tool for animals welfare monitoring to increasing production efficiency, reducing risk of disease outbursts & reduced labor costsAnicare is a Northern European technology company delivering AI-based services, disrupting animal welfare markets.
- Wellpepper — Joining an ACO with us will help your organization implement a proven model of care to achieve quality improvement goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk.
We are investing in #FutureFood. Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food
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- Biotechnology, Life Science, Water
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
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- Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
- EvodiaBio — Mirroring nature with pioneering bioscience for natural flavors
- Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made
Sparbanken Miljö fund's investments can be roughly divided into four different asset classes: capital investments, ie direct investment in companies or projects,
direct investments in listed shares, investments in equity funds , fixed-income investments. The goal is for approximately a quarter of the fund's assets to be invested inprojects that have a clear environmental theme, e.g. to build a wind farm. In the choice of the fund's direct equity investments, it is taken into account that part of the company's turnover must come from activities that benefit the environment. Other environmental criteria have also been set for the companies.
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- Farming, Seafood, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- FIFAX — Fifax Ab's business idea is to cultivate a first-class rainbow trout with a modern, innovative and environmentally friendly method. To this end, Fifax has built a fish farm for a dry land using the Circulating Technique (RAS). The plant is located in Eckerö, Storby, on the western Åland.Fifax Ab's goal is to produce the best, domestic,good quality and fresh rainbow trout.
FV Group Holding AB is owned by Swedish Rolf Karlsson, the man behind the national taxi organization Fågelviks Group.
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- Farming, Seafood, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- FIFAX — Fifax Ab's business idea is to cultivate a first-class rainbow trout with a modern, innovative and environmentally friendly method. To this end, Fifax has built a fish farm for a dry land using the Circulating Technique (RAS). The plant is located in Eckerö, Storby, on the western Åland.Fifax Ab's goal is to produce the best, domestic,good quality and fresh rainbow trout.
Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Serres — Serres provides fluid management, surgical suction system, supply chain management, and medical devices services.
- Grafintec — Grafintec Oy is a Finnish company focused on developing and utilizing carbon technology to produce graphite. Graphite is an essential material in many industries, particularly in energy storage, electronics, and battery technologies, due to its unique properties such as high conductivity, heat resistance, and stability.
- Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made
A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Team-GPT — Team-GPT helps companies use any AI model, find the right use cases for it, keep data safe, organize workflows, and track results. It speed up work with pre-made prompts, use cases, and editable AI Pages. Team-GPT is built with enterprise security, privacy, and compliance in mind from day one.
- HomeBoost — HomeBoost operates as a home energy platform.
- Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.
Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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- Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, Spain
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- Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
- Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.
- Blue Energy — Blue Energy is a nuclear power plant company that provides reliable, clean, and abundant electricity.
Space Angels provides a world-class, easy-to-use platform that helps accredited investors make smart investment decisions.
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- Aerospace, Space Travel, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
- Xona Space Systems — Xona's Pulsar service is the first high-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy. Our constellation of smallsats will provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy needed to enable modern devices to operate safely in any conditions.
- Gradial — AI-powered marketing, content operations, and content creation.
DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Japan, United States, Canada
Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University
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- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Finland, France
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- Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
- Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
- Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.
Boris Kim has served as our director since May 2013 and as our chief executive officer since January 2020. He has also been served as chairman of our Board of Directors from June 2014 to January 2020. Mr. Kim is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the payment services industry. During his career, he held top roles in Russian banks.Mr. Kim is one of the co-founders of the e-port payment system and served as its Chief Executive Officer from November 2004 until September 2007 and from September 2007 until February 2010 was an advisor to the chief executive officer of e-port. From 2007 until 2012 Mr. Kim was the head of the payment networks and banking instruments committee at the Russian E-Market Participants National Association. From 2017 until 2018 Mr. Kim was an executive director at Association for Development of Financial Technologies. Mr. Kim graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1985 with a degree in chemistry, Russian Institute of Finance and Economics in 1996 with a degree in finance, Moscow State Law Academy in 2000 with a degree in law and Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2004 and in 2007 with a degree in psychology and a degree in philosophy respectively. He holds a Candidate of Sciences Degree in Chemistry (Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1989).
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- AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
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- Finland
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government-owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state-owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses.Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with privateco-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings.The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570
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- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, Argentina
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- Seaber — Seaber is a cloud-based real-time planning, optimisation and communication solution for bulk cargo & vessels. Our solution improves the efficiency of bulk & break bulk charterers, shipowners & brokers through schedule planning and stakeholder communications over the lifecycle of a voyage.
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- Basemark — Basemark: The automotive AR company - provider of software solutions and toolchains for automotive AR application development.
Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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- Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, Spain
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- Ephos — Manufacturing high-fidelity photonic chips that power the most advanced modular quantum architectures
- Thea Energy — Discover Thea Energy, a fusion energy company reinventing the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
- Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.
Space Angels provides a world-class, easy-to-use platform that helps accredited investors make smart investment decisions.
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- Aerospace, Space Travel, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
- Xona Space Systems — Xona's Pulsar service is the first high-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy. Our constellation of smallsats will provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy needed to enable modern devices to operate safely in any conditions.
- Gradial — AI-powered marketing, content operations, and content creation.
A.Partners invests globally in early-stage startups. We believe that successful business models arise in different regions often simultaneously and we can leverage this phenomenon. Nonetheless, we are especially keen on emerging markets, such as LatAm, MENA, and SEA.
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- Education, Mobile Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Russian Federation, Peru
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