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Top 50 Angel Investors in Finland in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in Finland in November 2024

Investor	Finland investments
Ali Omar	53
Ilkka Paananen	13
Leena Niemistö	11
Risto Siilasmaa	9
David Helgason	9
Jyri Engestrom	8
Mikael Hed	6
Marten Mickos	4
Miki Kuusi	4
Stefan Lindberg	4
Mikko Kodisoja	4
Henric Suuronen	4
John Lindfors	4
Elias Aalto	4
Teemu Jokinen	4
Olli Sirkiä	4
Timo Soininen	4
Jari Ovaskainen	4
Hannu Turunen	3
Pekka Vartiainen	3
Andreas Mihalovits	3
Joakim Achren	3
Kristian Ranta	3
Veli-Matti Mattila	3
Olli Herlin	3
Ville Herlin	3
Otto Hilska	3
Jonas Dromberg	3
Johannes Schildt	3
Mika Ihamuotila	3
Moaffak Ahmed	3
Mikko Kuitunen	3
Laurel Bowden	3
Hannu Vaajoensuu	3
Lasse Järvinen	3
Janne Jormalainen	3
Christian Jantzen	3
Kim Groop	3
Kustaa Piha	2
Sauli Törmälä	2
Pekka Aakko	2
Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara	2
Alexis Bonte	2
Asko Schrey	2
Jussi Laakkonen	2
Kaj Hed	2
Tero Ojanperä	2
Riku Mäkelä	2
Kaj Hagros	2
Glyn Eggar	2

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Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
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.
Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.

Leena Niemistö

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

#Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Vapaus — A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility.
Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.

Risto Siilasmaa is the Founder at F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

#Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Meeshkan — Use Meeshkan to generate and run UI tests from the in-production behavior of your users, providing a flawless product-led growth pipeline for prospects, and reducing churn as you to ship your highest quality releases ever.Regular UI tests take forever to write, guesswork determines the most important tests, and they become out of date in a fewweeks. And manual testing, while more accurate, is the most inefficient use of developer time. Companies who choose not to write UI tests to save time struggle to acquire and retain users. Your UI is the only way users experience your product, so if it fails to delight, they'll fail to convert – or even worse, churn.Meeshkan enhances, and in many cases replaces, the "all hands on deck" pre-release testing with beautifully crafted, uncannily realistic artificial hands.Stop guessing. Test what matters. Release with confidence. Supercharge your growth.
The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

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.

Mikael Hed currently works as a Chairman for Yazen. He previously worked at Rovio Entertainment as a CEO. Mikael Hed attended Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Electronics, Hardware
Seed, Angel, Series B
Finland, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
CGTrader — Join the fastest-growing 3D model marketplace today!
Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!

Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

BrandBastion — The #1 choice for ad spenders and top brands. We provide 24/7 support by engaging with customers, removing harmful comments, and alerting you about issues.
Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.

Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
Seed, Angel, Series A
Finland, Kenya, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
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.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

Stefan Lindberg is co-owner of YSUB.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Wellness, Fruit
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

YSUB — YSUB produces a beverage containing hemp - lemonade with a hint of hemp seeds, soothing botanicals, and some vitamins. It also has CBD beverage, but cannot sell due to regulations in Finland and other Nordic countries and is trying to create a campaign to create awareness.
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.
StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

Mikko Kodisoja

Investment focus

Gaming, Music, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
SNAFU Records — SNAFU Records creates algorithms that scan through data from major music platforms like Spotify and Youtube to find artists and songs that stand out.

Founding Partner of Play Ventures. He previously co-founded Nonstop Games which was acquired by King for US$32m+ earnout.Henric has over 16 years of experience building mobile games and studios around the world. Before co-founding Nonstop Games in Singapore, Henric was Product Management Director at Digital Chocolate (Helsinki and Barcelona) andHead of Studio at Wooga (Berlin). After King’s acquisition of Nonstop Games, Henric served as Senior Creative Director at King.Henric also has a successful portfolio of angel investments in gaming including Huuuge Games, Futureplay Games, Traplight Games, Matchmade, Omniata (acquired by King), DataTiger (acquired by Apple) and Astralis Group (IPO on Nasdaq). In total, his investments have raised >$125M of venture financing and made 5 exits + 1 IPO. Henric is based in Singapore and frequently travels to the main gaming hubs in Europe and the US. He holds double masters’ degrees in Computer Science and Business.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, India, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
Matchmade — Matchmade is the leading influencer marketing agency for YouTube and Twitch. Connect with top creators and drive impactful campaigns. Elevate your brand today!
Hipfire Games — VIVAMASTER78 adalah situs game online yang sempurna bagi siapa saja yang mencari variasi permainan yang luas, pengalaman bermain yang aman, dan promosi yang menguntungkan

John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Communities, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Series D
Finland, South Korea, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
Pixieray — Pixieray modernizes traditional eyeglass optics by introducing a pioneering adaptive solution giving anyone perfect vision.

Elias Aalto is Wolt's Advisor and a Co-Founder before that.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Video
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Cluby — Cluby is a technology platform that provides restaurants with the best tools for managing and communicating with loyal consumers.
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.

Experienced founder, board member, advisor and investor. Currently in 15+ companies (early stage) angel / pre-seed investor. Focus on platforms, marketplaces, SaaS and deep tech.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Sensor
Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.

Olli has background in management consultancy (McKinsey & Company 2007-2009) and software business (LeadDesk Oyj (publ) 2010-2018).

Investment focus

Marketplace, Beauty, Internet
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Freska — Freska, voted one of the hottest tech start-ups in Finland, is an online home services company currently disrupting the traditional home cleaning industry in the Nordics, backed by top-tier VCs (Acton, Spintop and Addventure) post Series A. Freska delivers top quality cleaning services with total flexibility for the customer to select a time,decide on the service and manage the subscription in an easy-to-use online interface or a native app. However, Freska does not only clean homes, it creates real jobs. All Freska cleaners have been subject to a thorough recruitment process followed by a thorough Freska-onboarding. They are all skilled professionals and core members of the Freska family, knowing that they will earn a good living from their job and have a community that supports them.
Offerilla — Offerilla is the most popular marketplace for local discounts. Offerilla was founded by entrepreneurs Risto Juntunen, Mikko Ollikkala and Aleksi Paavola.
Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.

Timo Soininen is the co-founder at Small Giant Games. Timo Soininen is the CEO and co-founder of Small Giant Games, maker of the hit game Empires & Puzzles. Small Giant joined Zynga, Inc (ZNGA) in December 2018, when Zynga acquired 80% of Small Giant at $700M valuation. Prior to Small Giant he was the longtime CEO of Habbo Hotel and is also anactive angel investor in several technology startups ranging from biomaterials and digital health to games (Spinnova, Aiforia, Critical Force). Timo holds a M.Sc. degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University and just loves tennis.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
MyGamez — With over 600 million mobile gamers, China is the biggest growth opportunity for global game companies.

Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet of Things, PC Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Invstr — Invstr is an award-winning investment app that helps you invest smarter. Invstr gives you the confidence, knowledge and expertise to start investing to build your wealth. Unlike other investing apps, Invstr is committed to educating you before you even make your first trade. Because we believe that investing isn’t just about buying and sellingstocks. It’s about understanding the markets and making more informed investing decisions before risking real money. Invstr lets aspiring investors learn and practice with Fantasy Finance, a virtual portfolio management game. Get smart with our huge wealth of educational resources, including an in-app investing course, daily podcasts, and live news and updates. When you’re ready, invest from just $5 with our commission-free brokerage and banking platform. Track and improve your performance with Stats, and get personalized investment picks with Portfolio Builder. It’s everything you need to invest confidently and take charge of your financial future today. Invstr also boasts a huge community of over 800,000 members. The social aspect of the app makes it unique in that our members can share updates and post to their feeds, send group or private messages, create private leagues to compete against friends and socialize all within the app, forming the first active investing community of its kind. Invstr was founded in 2013 by Kerim Derhalli, who created Invstr after seeing first-hand how a lack of knowledge and confidence bars individuals from starting to invest.
CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
Kizy Tracking — Kizy Tracking provides global supply chain visibility with real-time IoT data. Benefit from small size, long autonomy, low cost. Start tracking now!

Hannu Turunen is the Member of the Board of Exalocus. He was a Board Member at Men&Mice.

Investment focus

SaaS, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
Picosun — Picosun is the leading manufacturer of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) reactors for micro- and nanotechnology applications. Picosun provides the customers with versatile, reliable, and user-friendly ALD process tools, which offer world leading process quality and unique scalability from basic research to fully automated high throughput industrialproduction. Picosun is based in Espoo, Finland, its production facilities are located in Masala (Kirkkonummi), Finland, its US headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, and its Asian headquarters in Singapore. PICOSUN™ ALD process tools have been installed in various prominent industries and high-level reasearch organizations across Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. Picosun has world-wide sales and support network with distributors and representatives in over 30 countries.

Pekka Vartiainen - Board Member @ Inbot

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inbot — We are world-leading experts in algorithmic influence. We help ethical businesses and executives leverage algorithms to grow their audience and influence.
Singa — Singa is the Spotify of karaoke for personal and commercial use. Access a catalog of 20 000+ songs to sing effortlessly anywhere, any time and with any platform.Easy to use is Singa’s main operating principle. You don’t need to buy a console, or a microphone, or even a DVD-player. Singa is platform agnostic. To use Singa, you’ve already goteverything you need either in your pocket (mobile phone), on your table (PC) or in your living room (TV).* One account works on all devices, mobile, browser or Smart TV* Each user gets to test Singa for free before signing up to a Premium account* Singa works fluently with external accessories
Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.

Joakim Achren is Co Founder at Next Games. Previously, he has worked as Director of Analytics at Supercell.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, MMO Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
Social First — We create games that are social experiences, span decades and extend beyond gaming; giving our players platforms to create meaningful relationships with people all across the world.
Superbloom — Superbloom is a lifestyle games studio, creating next generation social games for women. A female-led team headquartered in New York is working on the first title of the studio.

Kristian Ranta is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Meru Health.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
Veri — Reveal the foods that help you feel and perform at your best. Track your metabolic health to manage weight, reduce stress and improve sleep.
Vital — Vital is an API for wearables, medical devices and lab tests. We make it easy to connect to hundreds of wearables such as Oura, Garmin, Fitbit, Omron, and deliver at home custom branded lab tests through an API.

Veli-Matti Mattila

Investment focus

Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Alvar Pet — Alvar Pet offers personalized meal plans based on the dog's individual needs, formulates its recipes using sustainable ingredients and minimizes CO2 emissions across the value chain from supplier selection to energy usage, logistics and packaging materials.

Olli Herlin is an Angel Investor.

Investment focus

Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Alvar Pet — Alvar Pet offers personalized meal plans based on the dog's individual needs, formulates its recipes using sustainable ingredients and minimizes CO2 emissions across the value chain from supplier selection to energy usage, logistics and packaging materials.

Ville Herlin is an Angel Investor.

Investment focus

Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Alvar Pet — Alvar Pet offers personalized meal plans based on the dog's individual needs, formulates its recipes using sustainable ingredients and minimizes CO2 emissions across the value chain from supplier selection to energy usage, logistics and packaging materials.

Otto is a serial entrepreneur who started his first software company at the age of 18. His second company Flowdock raised money from Silicon Valley and got acquired by Rally Software in 2013. After that he spent four years scaling Smartly.io from 30 to 350 people as the Chief Product Officer.After leaving Smartly.io, Otto started working on yetanother startup. Founded in November 2019, Swarmia is building a B2B SaaS product to help self-organizing software teams to continuously improve their ways of working based on data from development tools.Otto has served as the chairman of Startup Foundation, that’s behind the Slush conference, Junction hackathon, Maria 0-1 startup space, and many other ecosystem projects.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Advertising, Electronics
Seed, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
Smartly.io — Smartly.io automates every step of social advertising to unlock greater performance and creativity on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Internet
Funding Round, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
Klevu — Join thousands of other ecommerce teams using Klevu technology to improve conversion and automate workflows. Personalized search, merchandising, and product recommendations that just work.

Johannes Schildt, a true serial entrepreneur who founded or co-founded more than 3 companies, started his first company while still in school. Schildt later made a meteoric career at Stardoll working alongside people like Henrik Torstensson & Marcus Gners. Johannes successfully launched Stardoll's first official Facebook game, reaching1,000,000 monthly unique users within 3 months after launch. Today, Johannes is the CEO & Co-founder of Kry. By combining new technology with leading medical expertise KRY has built a platform to make healthcare digital.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Helppy — Helppy is redefining elderly care. We are the trusted companion of seniors and their families. Helppy is a personalized elderly care platform supported by technology. We provide personal care, family support and a broad range of additional services to elderly at home.
Valar Labs — AI to Make Oncologists Smarter
Vital — Vital is an API for wearables, medical devices and lab tests. We make it easy to connect to hundreds of wearables such as Oura, Garmin, Fitbit, Omron, and deliver at home custom branded lab tests through an API.

Mika Ihamuotila - Board of Directors @ Rovio Entertainment Corporation

Investment focus

Sustainability, FinTech, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
Sulapac — Sulapac brings solutions to the global plastic waste problem with biodegradable packaging innovation.Sulapac combines luxury, sustainability, and unlimited design possibilities. Sulapac packages can be manufactured using injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding techniques. Sulapac has comparable properties to plastics and by using Sulapacbarrier coatings water, oil, and oxygen barrier properties can be further improved.
NoHo Partners — NoHo Partners Plc is a Finnish restaurant group behind approximately 250 restaurants, bars, pubs, nightclubs and entertainment centres. The name derives from the words ‘Nordic Hospitality Partners’, which communicate the key goals, opportunities and strengths of the Group.

Serial entrepreneur and hands-on early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia.

Investment focus

Music, Cryptocurrency, Video Conferencing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Finland, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ovoro — Ovoro is an automated crypto trading app that offers users a streamlined, efficient and convenient way to manage their investments. With an intuitive interface, Ovoro allows you to easily set up and monitor your trades, eliminating the hassle of manual trading. Trying out Ovoro is risk free as trading can be done in a simulated environment with noreal money involved.
Yousician — Yousician is a fun way to learn the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele or singing. Enjoy thousands of songs with Yousician as your personal music teacher!
Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.

Mikko Kuitunen is the Founder and Executive Chair at Vincit. He attended Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018.

Investment focus

Mobile, Hardware, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series C
Finland, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Tylko — Tylko offers uncompromising quality at a fair price, while perfectly fitted to your space & easily ordered online.
Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
The Planet Company — The Planet Company is a SaaS-based seed-stage startup, building the next sustainability unicorn.

Laurel is a General Partner at 83North (formerly Greylock IL), which she joined in 2008. Her areas of focus include: software, internet and fintech. Laurel has led investments in many leading European companies, including Just Eat (LSE: JE), Qliktech (NASDAQ: QLIK) and Hybris (acquired by SAP).Her current company boards and investmentsinclude Workable, Mirakl, NotontheHighStreet, Wonga, Wandera, iZettle, BlueVine, Ebury and Investec PLC & Ltd.Laurel was previously at GE and JVP. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from INSEAD.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series C, Series B, Series D
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Huuva — We believe today’s food delivery market is broken and aim to fix this for all value chain stakeholders by making virtual food courts the new industry standard.Huuva develops a plug-n-play solution for restaurateurs to scale their brands to new markets with healthy unit economics. For consumers, Huuva creates unique virtual food court experiencesdirectly into food delivery applications.
SellerX — We buy and build Amazon businesses, helping entrepreneurs realise the next stage of their businesses, and their lives.
Pandas — We are Green Panda and our mission is to give consumers the most value out of their smartphone with zero hassle, by empowering them to sell/trade it in the fastest, safest, and easiest way possible. 1Bn (with a B!) smartphones stop being used, every year after you upgrade to the latest and greatest. But there is a solution as simple astrading them in and getting paid while participating in the circular economy. So, why aren’t people selling their old phones, we wondered? This is where Green Panda comes in. Inspired by humans and powered by tech, we make sure that the frustrating experience of selling your smartphone is now as quick and easy as using a kiosk near you. Our patented A.I. technology in the Green Panda kiosks allows us to evaluate a smartphone’s condition, from the smallest nick to serious technical issues, with unprecedented accuracy. Oh, and we pay users on the spot, straight to their bank account/credit card.

Hannu Vaajoensuu - Chairman of the Board of Directors @ Nervogrid

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Angel
Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.
Frosmo — Our AI-driven personalization strategies optimize each step of the customer journey across all channels.
HappySignals — Experience Management Platform for IT - Lead IT and Service Management with Employee Experience and use to manage your Experience Level Agreements (XLAs).

Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway

Investment focus

Marketplace, Restaurants, Software
Angel, Funding Round, Seed
Finland, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
Hostaway — Hostaway Vacation Rental Software and Airbnb Management System Helps You Grow Your Vacation Rental Property Management Business By Automating And Streamlining Every Aspect Of Your Business across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and many more.
Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.

Janne Jormalainen is a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at New Nordic School. He is also a serial entrepreneur and angel investor.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Hardware
Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UMNAI — Welcome to UMNAI and our Hybrid Intelligence technology. Hybrid Intelligence is a framework for developing Neuro-symbolic AI solutions that are fully-explainable, auditable and performant.
Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
NurseBuddy — Meet Nursebuddy: a smart, intuitive platform engineered in Finland and built to help tomorrow's homecare businesses thrive.

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides a digital commerce platform with a built-in framework for customization.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Kim Groop - Managing Partner & co-founder @ First Fellow Partners

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mendor — Mendor is a Finnish company, committed to the design, development and marketing of advanced diabetes management products. Mendor has launched a revolutionary, discreet, easy to use, portable all-in-one blood glucose meter and web-based software application for the daily management of diabetes. Mendor has designed its products together with usersand diabetes experts to address the needs of people with diabetes requiring regular blood glucose monitoring.
Youredi — Youredi is the leading integration solution provider for the Supply Chain and Logistics industries.
Detectify — Detectify's external attack surface management tool - assess, prioritize, remediate continuously growing external attack surfaces.

Healthcare business development, management, and investing. Very good knowledge on healthcare services and public health. Kustaa Piha is interested in new business and investment opportunities and better ways of producing excellent healthcare services.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, mHealth
Seed, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Sooma — Sooma provides unique therapy solutions that combine effectiveness with ease-of-use. Therapies are based on tDCS method.
Klinik —
Kaiku Health — Kaiku Health is a digital health company with a mission to improve quality of life through health data science. We have built an intelligent digital platform for monitoring patient-reported outcomes in several therapy areas, such as cancer care, fertility treatments and preventive health care. Its unique algorithms enable early interventions andpersonalized patient support. Currently over 30 European hospitals and clinics are using our platform to better monitor their patients, reducing manual work and allowing prioritization of clinical actions. This along with the capture and analysis of real-world data paves way for more personalized and effective care of each patient. The company, founded in 2012 by five software developers deeply passionate about health care technology, has now grown to team of 20+ dedicated employees. The company is backed by Reaktor Ventures, along with other venture capital funds and private investors, and is supported by Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation.

Sauli Törmälä is the Board Member, CFO at Promilless Oy. He attended University of Oulu.

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.

Pekka Aakko is an Advisor/organizer of Assembly Organizing. Pekka Aakko attended University of Helsinki.

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Lygg — LYGG is the first business travel platform that brings direct and customized flight connections anywhere as a service. Because time is flying.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, 3D Printing
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.

Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
Finland, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.

Asko Schrey

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Machine Learning
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zefort — Zefort is a powerful contract management software. Sign, store, share contracts and easily with your team. Set reminders and use a powerful search.
MVision AI — MVision develops technology that improves the treatment of various types of cancer by using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company has been built on the idea to be an impactful organisation by bringing AI assisted diagnosis and treatment to whoever needs it, especially in developing countries. This dramatically improves treatmentoutcome and saves money.The founding team consists of AI PhD’s, data platform architects and physicists with experience from companies such as Varian Medical Systems and GE healthcare.

CEO and founder of Applifier, cross-promotion network for social games and apps reaching tens of millions of MAU. Everyplay, Laakkonen's startup in the social gaming space, turned into Applifier recently.Business development director at Bugbear Entertainment, an independent game developer. Expertise in business development, sales,marketing, PR, production and process developmentCo-founder of ASSEMBLY Organizing, the arranger of the 5000+ participants four day computer festival held in Helsinki, Finland held since year 1992.Over five years of experience in data security software industry in R&D, product marketing and process re-engineering at F-Secure Corporation.Laakkonen is from Helsinki, Finland.

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
Seed, Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
Neon Koi — Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay.

Kaj Hed is Chairman at Rovio Entertainment.

Investment focus

Advertising, Internet, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Kiosked — We provide publishers and advertisers with automated, intelligent data gathering, reporting tools through our network of ad servers, partners, and data sources that help to monetize the website from mobile and desktop traffic.
Velory — With Velory, you can connect your entire IT ecosystem in one place. Finally have a unified view of your assets and streamline your IT lifecycle management, from the moment of purchase, through IT Asset Management, till the end of life of your devices.

Tero Ojanpera co-founded Silo.AI. He is also the executive chairman of the company.

Investment focus

Internet, Media and Entertainment, Music
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kiosked — We provide publishers and advertisers with automated, intelligent data gathering, reporting tools through our network of ad servers, partners, and data sources that help to monetize the website from mobile and desktop traffic.
Film Finances — Discover Film Finances Inc., the global leader in film completion guarantees, ensuring on-schedule and on-budget delivery for over seven decades. Explore our services and industry expertise.
Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

Riku Mäkelä is a COO at Wolt. He Attended Aalto University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Computer, Software
Angel, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

Kaj Hagros is Partner at Redstone based in Helsinki and covers the Nordic and Baltic countries. Kay has a broad history as an entrepreneur, investor, and C-level executive. Prior to Redstone, Kaj was the co-founder and CEO of seed investor and venture accelerator Pivot5, CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki traded Tecnotree Corporation, COO of FOX Mobile, VP ofMarketing of First Hop, and Head of Strategy and Business Development at Nokia Networks. Kaj has executed a broad range of early-stage investments and successful exits and chaired companies such as Booxmedia, Cabforce, Readpeak, Hibox, Heltti, and Inderes.Mr. Hagros attended Aalto University, NYU Stern School of Business, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), HEC Paris, TRIUM Global Executive MBA, Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan, and Merisotakoulu - Sjökrigsskolan - Naval Academy.

Investment focus

SaaS, Local, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Cabforce — Cabforce.com is on a mission to make the door-to-door travel experience agony free. They offer fixed price quote, secure online credit card payment and electronic receipts for taxi, private hire car, and minibus bookings in the top 40 European cities.
Booxmedia — Your Trusted Partner in IP Video Delivery. We have been delivering IPTV Set-Top Box and media player solutions to Pay TV, Digital Signage and Enterprise TV providers for over 25 years.
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.

Glyn Eggar

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, 3D Printing
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.

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