# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Finland in June 2026 ## Ali Omar - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu. ## Robert Gentz - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS 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. ## Eléonore Crespo - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Generative AI Eleonore Crespo is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Pigment. ## Kedar Dani - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software Kedar Dani, UiPath. ## Asko Schrey - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Asko Schrey ## Kulpreet Singh - Type: Angel - Location: London, General Santos, Philippines - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Kulpreet Singh is Managing Partner at Overture Capital. He attended IMD. ## Zach Shelby - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet of Things, Hardware, Software Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse. ## Ilkka Paananen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech 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. ## Miki Kuusi - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Miki Kuusi is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the CEO of Deliveroo and the Co-founder & CEO of Wolt. Miki previously worked at NoHo Partners as a Board Member. Miki Kuusi attended the Aalto University. Miki Kuusi has been received the Forbes 30 under 30 award. ## Leena Niemistö - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce Leena Niemistö ## Christian Jantzen - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Danish angel investor, based in London. ## Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change. ## Laurent Caraffa - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology Laurent Caraffa Managing Director, EU Senior Relationship Manager ## Juha Paananen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Gaming, Wellness Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba ## Keisuke Honda - Type: Angel - Location: Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do. ## Timo Soininen - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Gaming, FinTech 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. ## In Vestor - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software In Vestor ## Jari Ovaskainen - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Digital Media, Search Engine, Visual Search Jari Ovaskainen ## Daniel Fried - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence Daniel Fried ## Timo Rein - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Wearables, Artificial Intelligence Timo Rein is an individual investor. ## Jaana Rosendahl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Jaana Rosendahl ## Jukka Sonninen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Forestry, Software Aito’s Chairman of the Board. Jukka has worked over 20 years in different management positions within the IT- industry. He has been the founding member and CEO of SAP Finland and now sits at the boards of several companies such as Solteq. He has also supported the Finnish software company Basware and Endero in their international growth andlisting on the stock exchange. Now, he primarily works as the CEO and board member of Fifth Element Oy. ## Peter Sarlin - Type: Angel - Location: Turku, Western Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Database, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Peter Sarlin - Co-Founder & CEO @ Silo.AI ## Patrik Pehrsson - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: CRM, Analytics, Marketing Patrik Pehrsson - Senior Lecturer @ Arcada - University of applied sciences ## Mikko Pulkkila - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: CRM, Analytics, Marketing Mikko Pulkkila ## Kaj-Mikael Björk - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: CRM, Analytics, Marketing Kaj-Mikael Björk ## Johan Kronberg - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 Johan Kronberg is the Senior Advisor at Sponsor Capital. Johan attended Åbo Akademi University. ## Anniina Sulku - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fashion, Shopping, Marketplace Anniina Sulku is a Angel investor. ## Mikko Hypponen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Timo Larjomaa - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Artificial Intelligence Timo Larjomaa ## May Nasrallah - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence May Nasrallah ## Juha Vartiainen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Jiri Heinonen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Logistics, Generative AI, Search Engine Entrepreneur & Angel Investor. Co-Founder & Board member of Swappie ## Sune Alstrup - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe ## Tomi Tuominen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Tomi Tuominen ## Bjarke Staun-Olsen - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Developer APIs 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. ## Nicolas Dessaigne - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS 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. ## Marten Mickos - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet 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. ## Jonathan Scudder - Type: Angel - Location: Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Cyber Security Jonathan held key roles in a variety of large identity projects before co-founding ForgeRock in Norway, running finance and operations and then relocating to build the ForgeRock engineering lab in Bristol. He believes that awesome humans are the basis of great companies, and has spent the ForgeRock years proving this. He has sat on severalvoluntary, political and private boards and founded a handful of small companies in the past, but thinks ForgeRock is the best thing since sliced bread. Jonathan is a qualified youth and community worker, and has a degree in Informatics from the University of Oslo, Norway. ## Jyri Engestrom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University ## Risto Siilasmaa - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Risto Siilasmaa is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the Board of Direcctor of Donut Lab. He previously worked as Founder of F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University. ## Tue Lumbye - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Sports, FinTech, Software Tue Lumbye is the Head of Danish Market at Better Collective. He attended Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark. ## Harry Santamaki - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Animal Feed Harry Santamaki - Venture Partner @ Voima Ventures ## Mikko Kodisoja - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Hospitality Mikko Kodisoja ## Jukka Tapaninen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Software, Education 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. ## Hermann Hauser - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Jeremy Yap - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe. ## Shimada Tatsuro - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sales Shimada Tatsuro ## Stefan Lindeberg - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Software, PC Games Stefan Lindeberg was the Venture Partner and Co-founder of Nordic Game Ventures. He attended Linköping University. ## Kirsi Eräkangas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Kirsi Eräkangas