Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Finland in September 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Finland in September 2025
Investor | Artificial intelligence Finland investments |
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Ali Omar | 7 |
Christian Jantzen | 2 |
Asko Schrey | 2 |
Ilkka Paananen | 2 |
Leena Niemistö | 2 |
Zach Shelby | 2 |
Kulpreet Singh | 2 |
Robert Gentz | 2 |
Kedar Dani | 2 |
Eléonore Crespo | 2 |
Anniina Sulku | 1 |
Mikko Kodisoja | 1 |
Jukka Tapaninen | 1 |
Timo Larjomaa | 1 |
Jan Goetz | 1 |
May Nasrallah | 1 |
Juha Vartiainen | 1 |
Mikko Hypponen | 1 |
Peter Therman | 1 |
Jiri Heinonen | 1 |
Keisuke Honda | 1 |
Hermann Hauser | 1 |
Timo Rein | 1 |
Sune Alstrup | 1 |
Tomi Tuominen | 1 |
Daniel Fried | 1 |
Henry Nilert | 1 |
Timo Rein | 1 |
Jeremy Yap | 1 |
Timo Soininen | 1 |
Shimada Tatsuro | 1 |
Ari Korhonen | 1 |
In Vestor | 1 |
Stefan Lindeberg | 1 |
Kim Groop | 1 |
Leif Linden | 1 |
Herman Kienhuis | 1 |
Bjarke Staun-Olsen | 1 |
Kirsi Eräkangas | 1 |
Jari Ovaskainen | 1 |
John Martin | 1 |
Jan Valkonen | 1 |
Lauri Priha | 1 |
Miki Kuusi | 1 |
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen | 1 |
Jaan Tallinn | 1 |
Laurent Caraffa | 1 |
Juha Paananen | 1 |
Nicolas Dessaigne | 1 |
Marten Mickos | 1 |
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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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.
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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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 the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
- 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.
Asko Schrey
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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 — Combining human expertise with the power of AI for efficient and high-impact radiotherapy.
- ReceiptHero — Say goodbye to paper receipts. Cut operational costs, reduce waste and deliver a better in-store experience for customers.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
- 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.
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Leena Niemistö
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rens Original — 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.
- Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
- 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.
Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse.
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, Wearables
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Augumenta — We develop intuitive and easy-to-use AR apps and tools that help companies improve their operational efficiency, quality, and safety.
Kulpreet Singh is Managing Partner at Overture Capital. He attended IMD.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Germany, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
- Workfellow — Find what breaks the flow of work and processes - automatically. Then just fix it!
- Integration App — Connect to any app your customers use. Build seamless integration logic and UI. Scale it to every relevant app with AI.
Robert Gentz is the Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Zalando SE. He previously worked at Unibicate as a CEO. Robert Gentz attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Finland, France
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.
- Taito.ai — Taito.ai provides an AI platform that allows users to develop and deploy intelligent applications. It supports various tools and features for building machine learning models. Users can access resources for training and optimizing their AI solutions.
- Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
Kedar Dani, UiPath.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Workfellow — Find what breaks the flow of work and processes - automatically. Then just fix it!
Eleonore Crespo is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Pigment.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Generative AI
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Taito.ai — Taito.ai provides an AI platform that allows users to develop and deploy intelligent applications. It supports various tools and features for building machine learning models. Users can access resources for training and optimizing their AI solutions.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
Anniina Sulku is a Angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Shopping, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Mikko Kodisoja
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Bob W — Book the smartest alternative to hotels and random rentals. Climate-neutral and locally designed apartments in handpicked districts. Stay days, weeks or months.
- MyGamez — With over 600 million mobile gamers, China is the biggest growth opportunity for global game companies.
- Studio 555 — Studio 555 operates as a tech company, that creates a category where interior design meets gaming and social apps.
Jukka Tapaninen is an experienced IT business executive and a board member at Fimmic. Jukka also holds board positions at weVision, Addoro Ab, Findity and MeshWorks Wireless Oy.Jukka has a strong background in the IT industry on managing companies and business units globally. His leadership experience, from large companies like SAP and HP, aswell as from strong midsize companies has given him industry knowledge and excellent network within the strategic ecosystem and major customers. Jukka has experience in working in the United States, Singapore and multiple locations in Europe that have given him a good understanding on how business is done in different parts of the world.Jukka holds a M.Sc. degree from the Helsinki School of Economics.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Software, Education
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Aiforia — Aiforia provides software and services for pathologists, scientists and healthcare professionals to use artificial intelligence for image analysis.
Timo Larjomaa
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round
- 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.
Jan Goetz is a quantum physicist and CEO of IQM. His strong experience in superconducting circuits is partly based on his past research in QCD Labs at Aalto University and in Walther-Meissner-Institute at Technical University of Munich campus. Jan is globally connected and has a strong drive to develop the future of quantum technologies.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.
May Nasrallah
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- GetJenny — A customer service chatbot platform for professionals who want to reduce first response and resolution times, and deliver better customer experiences.
Juha Vartiainen is the co-founder and chief operations officer of IQM.
He has more than ten years of R&D expertise from industry, especially in software development. He holds a PhD in quantum computing.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.
Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of WithSecure. Mikko Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific America and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge and he has delivered the most watched computer security talk on theinternet.Mikko Hypponen has been the subject of hundreds of interviews in global media, including a 9-page profile in Vanity Fair.Mikko Hypponen, born in 1969, was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.Mikko Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum and a member of the advisory board of T2.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Louhe — LOUHE is yourtireless physicalsecurity companion. Double the reach of your existing physical security investment with a fraction of the cost. Let LOUHE detect and respond to security anomalies on your site, and use it to audit your physical security posture.
Peter Therman
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Angel
- Finland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Flashnode — Integrate applications you're using in your daily work. With our software integration, you can automate repeating processes so that your company can focus on your business. Our service includes the necessary stages of definition, implementation, data transfer, and support.
- Gertrud digital — Gertrud is the tool that was developed to automate all routine tasks in the preparation and organization of your next board meeting and saves 50% of the time needed.
Entrepreneur & Angel Investor.
Co-Founder & Board member of Swappie
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Generative AI, Search Engine
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
- Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport
Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
- Freecracy — FreeC a platform that connects millions of employers and job seekers by utilizing intelligent matching technology that is powered by AI.
Hermann Hauser is the Co-founder, Director, and Venture Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners. He previously worked at IXI as a Founder. Hermann Hauser attended the University of Vienna.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, Austria, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
- NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
- Fractile — Fractile is building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale.
Timo Rein - Co-Founder @ Pipedrive
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Estonia, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- YuMuuv — YuMuuv is an employee wellness platform that uses science-based formulas to capture data and keeps track of physical activity & leaderboard.
- Antegenes — Antegenes’ novel genetic tests assess a patient’s personal cancer risks, and include clinical recommendations for personalized cancer prevention. The tests are based on innovative polygenic risk score technology which helps to clarify a person’s genetic predispositions to cancer. It therefore allows for more accurate prevention and early detectionmeasures – crucial in the fight with cancer. The tests are currently being used to determine the genetic risk for four cancers: breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and skin melanoma.
- Bidrento — One powerful platform for your entire portfolio. The leading property and tenant management software. Scale your operations and maximize your profit with Bidrento. Try it already today!
Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.
- Hybird Energy — Discover how Hybird's intelligent electrical panels can save up to 30% in energy consumption. With source-level transparency and enhanced control, manage your electricity usage efficiently. Invest in Hybird for sustainable energy management.
- Doublepoint — Doublepoint provides smartwatches, wristbands, and other wearables with gesture recognition technology. This provides future computing platforms more comfortable, robust and intuitive interactions.
Tomi Tuominen
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Louhe — LOUHE is yourtireless physicalsecurity companion. Double the reach of your existing physical security investment with a fraction of the cost. Let LOUHE detect and respond to security anomalies on your site, and use it to audit your physical security posture.
Daniel Fried
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.
Henry Nilert
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Latvia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nordigen — Nordigen is a free open banking API that provides PSD2 data connections to all major European banks.
- 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.
- Inscripta — PROFESSIONAL DICTATION MADE EASY
Timo Rein is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Wearables, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Doublepoint — Doublepoint provides smartwatches, wristbands, and other wearables with gesture recognition technology. This provides future computing platforms more comfortable, robust and intuitive interactions.
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
- Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable digital future
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Studio 555 — Studio 555 operates as a tech company, that creates a category where interior design meets gaming and social apps.
Shimada Tatsuro
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sales
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Fuku — fuku specializes in software development and sales services.
- Crediation — Crediation is a digital finance provider that provides small and medium-sized businesses with complete access to financial services to build their enterprises by providing seamless mobile lending experiences. is a stock finance facility focused on helping business owners receive the capital they need to refill their enterprises through convenient,inexpensive, and sustainable loans.
- Ai-Dounyu.com — Ai-Dounyu.com is a platform that helps organizations looking to integrate AI choose their ideal AI implementation partner for free.
Ari Korhonen - Angel investor and entrepreneur @ Lagoon Capital
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flashnode — Integrate applications you're using in your daily work. With our software integration, you can automate repeating processes so that your company can focus on your business. Our service includes the necessary stages of definition, implementation, data transfer, and support.
- Surveypal — Surveypal Insights is an AI-powered data solution that automatically delivers the most essential customer service analytics and insights.
- Videobot — Grow your business with personalised video funnels that engage your audience with human interaction, capture leads, guide your users, enhance customer satisfaction and increase conversion rate.Short videos have already become dominant across social media platforms. Now, this beloved user experience is available on company websites as well. The applications are vast and varied. Discover how it all works by reserving your own presentation slot.
In Vestor
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Palofy Analytics Oy — Palofy Analytics is a customer loyalty partner and Worldline ISO for SME's. We are developing analysis and forecasting tools that help merchants to get more sales and predict staffing needs. This also enables getting accurate analysis and predictions on channel, store, product group, or product level.Our licenced technology leveragesexisting payment cards as customer loyalty cards, reducing customer friction and removing work overhead from staff.Service areas: • Restaurant and hospitality • RetailPalofy Analytics is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) for Europe's largest payment acquirer Worldline and multiple SaaS and Fintech companies. Our Alfa Rating is AA
Stefan Lindeberg was the Venture Partner and Co-founder of Nordic Game Ventures. He attended Linköping University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Denmark, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
- The Wild Ventures — A house of sustainable brands, designed for disruption, differentiated by creativity, and supercharged by AI.
- Blue Scarab Entertainment — Blue Scarab Entertainment is Stockholm-based video game studio developing a surprising MMORPG for fans of cozy escapism, true-crime, supernatural mystery, and horses.
Kim Groop - Managing Partner & co-founder @ First Fellow Partners
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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.
Leif Linden
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Investment focus
- Retail, Analytics, Predictive Analytics
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Avansera — Avansera delivers real-time predictive analytics and targeted digital marketing solutions for FMCG companies to improve their marketing and supply chain processes. Consumer actions and purchase data is recorded live from active user interaction with Avansera's Ostosnero (ShopperStar) grocery shopping information and optimization platform.
Founder and managing partner of River Venture Partners angel syndicate. Venture partner at VC firm Newio. Tech investor focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies in Northern Europe. Supporting investors and entrepreneurs in building digital businesses that change people's lives. Former chemical engineer, strategist, digitalproduct development executive, founder of SanomaVentures and Managing Director of KPN Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- The Netherlands, Finland, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Fledger — Fledgerr develops cutting-edge equity management solution.
- Contentoo — Contentoo lets you build your own team, with all the professional talent you need. Our platform is used by 300+ vetted freelancers, working in 12 languages and every industry. You can find the best freelancers for any specialisation. Our specially developed onboarding method ensures that your freelancers become a part of your organisation, eventhough they’re not on your payroll and don’t work in your office. We handle management, invoicing and payment for you. That means you get all the advantages of in-house and freelance, combined.
Bjarke Klinge Staun is a Principal at Creandum, a leading European early stage venture capital firm with a portfolio that includes Spotify, iZettle and Vivino.After starting his career at Goldman Sachs, Bjarke co-founded Alipes in 2008. Alipes is a technology company that never left stealth, as it became profitable very fast, has grownorganically and has a very specialized product. The company uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically read financial news and generate insights about the stock market. The company has about 20 employees in Copenhagen, most of them machine learning, physics and computer science PhDs.After running Alipes for 6 years, Bjarke left active management to his two co-founders in 2014, and is now a proud board member and shareholder. He then ran Vaniday in Berlin, a Rocket Internet funded global beauty and wellness marketplace, before joining Creandum.At Creandum, Bjarke spends a lot of time on the machine learning and AI space, as well as on Fintech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Developer APIs
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Credibur — Credibur automates reporting, SPV setup, and servicing for private credit and asset-backed lending. Built for originators and lenders.
- Kiku — Kiku is a platform that automates frontline hiring we help companies source, screen and shortlist the best-fit candidates. We have an ai-agent that through voice or chat engages with candidates 24/7, in +100 languages - all integrated in ATS. To find candidates we analyse your current talent pool, find new candidates in external sources and use. Kiku's value proposition: candidate are sourced and screened at the fraction of the cost of humans, 24/7 and a better candidate experience. We differentiate by 1) industry-specific integrations and setup 2) vertical focus for good onboarding, UX, and features.
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Kirsi Eräkangas
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Flashnode — Integrate applications you're using in your daily work. With our software integration, you can automate repeating processes so that your company can focus on your business. Our service includes the necessary stages of definition, implementation, data transfer, and support.
Jari Ovaskainen
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, Search Engine, Visual Search
- Seed, Angel
- Finland
John Martin
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Education
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- School Day — AI-enhanced School Wellbeing Solution for K12 Education. Making school wellbeing a natural part of every school day and removing all barriers from learning. Provides a safe, simple and real-time channel and voice for students and teachers in their wellbeing. Analytics and insights making wellbeing phenomena visible early on for actionable lighttouch classroom interventions. Learning doesn’t happen without wellbeing.
A strong desire to build something new or improve an existing one, love to dare dead practices to maintain competitiveness in an ever-changing environment.
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Investment focus
- Software, Career Planning, Human Resources
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- ForteAI — ForteAI is only a fully automated resume and AI-hive-driven platform to change Talent Management
Lauri Priha
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Convertible Note
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Palofy Analytics Oy — Palofy Analytics is a customer loyalty partner and Worldline ISO for SME's. We are developing analysis and forecasting tools that help merchants to get more sales and predict staffing needs. This also enables getting accurate analysis and predictions on channel, store, product group, or product level.Our licenced technology leveragesexisting payment cards as customer loyalty cards, reducing customer friction and removing work overhead from staff.Service areas: • Restaurant and hospitality • RetailPalofy Analytics is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) for Europe's largest payment acquirer Worldline and multiple SaaS and Fintech companies. Our Alfa Rating is AA
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.
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- E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Finland, Kenya, Lithuania
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- 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.
- Taito.ai — Taito.ai provides an AI platform that allows users to develop and deploy intelligent applications. It supports various tools and features for building machine learning models. Users can access resources for training and optimizing their AI solutions.
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN and General Partner at Owl Ventures. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includestwo IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11 acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, United Kingdom
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- Blue — An Operating System for your Personal Health. Join the waitlist here.
- Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.
- UrbanKisaan — UrbanKisaan builds vertical farms in India and sells the produce directly to consumers via subscription based app. The farms create a positive change at every step from seed to store ensuring quality and traceability. They grow fresh veggies locally produced which are grown without using soil using 95% less water. It aims to create a sustainablefuture for farming and feed the world in a way that is good for both people and the planet.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
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- LawZero — LawZero is committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems.
- TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
- Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
Laurent Caraffa Managing Director, EU Senior Relationship Manager
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- Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Seed
- Finland
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- Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.
Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba
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- Health Care, Wellness, Video Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Finland, Singapore
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- Talewind — Talewind specialises in creating immersive brand experiences on Roblox, helping businesses engage with audiences through custom-built virtual worlds and interactive games.
- Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, France, Germany
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- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
- Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.
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.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Finland, Sweden
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- 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 the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
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