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Top 35 Automotive Startup Investors in Finland in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Automotive Startup Investors in Finland in January 2025

Investor	Automotive Finland investments
Business Finland	7
VTT Ventures	5
Conor Venture Partners	4
Finnvera Venture Capital	3
Ali Omar	2
Leaguer Venture Capital	2
Maki.vc	2
Forvia	2
Nordea	2
Butterfly Ventures	2
Tesi	2
Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment	2
Innovestor	2
Jerry Pruttz Holding Ab	2
Inventure	2
ETF Partners	1
ITOCHU Corporation	1
Ascend Capital Partners	1
S & S Sivonen Oy - Sami Sivonen	1
CIP Consulting Oy	1
Voland Partners	1
ELY Center	1
Pluupi Ventures Oy - Seppo Kolari	1
European Investment Bank	1
Pontos Group	1
Horizon 2020	1
DENSO Corporation	1
Kaj Hagros	1
Nexit Ventures	1
Gorilla Capital	1
Sidekick Simo Oy	1
Infosto	1
NordicNinja VC	1
Dawn Capital	1
Flashpoint	1

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Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Serres — Serres provides fluid management, surgical suction system, supply chain management, and medical devices services.
Grafintec — Grafintec Oy is a Finnish company focused on developing and utilizing carbon technology to produce graphite. Graphite is an essential material in many industries, particularly in energy storage, electronics, and battery technologies, due to its unique properties such as high conductivity, heat resistance, and stability.
Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made

VTT is a powerhouse of technology development and scientific research. Many of the most significant Finnish technology start-ups were brought to life at VTT. Do you want to invest in ongoing ventures?

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group — Attribute, predict and optimize the business outcome of marketing and media plans with Blackwood Seven's Unified Marketing Modeling platform.
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.

Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Enfuce — Unlock growth with our card issuing solutions. Our expertise in issuer processing can turn your ambitious vision into a reality.
Nordcloud — Nordcloud is a European leader in public cloud infrastructure solutions and cloud-native application services. Since 2011 we have completed more than 500 deployments to help our enterprise customers gain the maximum benefits of the cloud, including security, agility, scalability and overall cost-savings.
Aurealis Pharma — Multi-target cell and gene therapies for unmet medical needs. Developing therapies for chronic wounds, cancer and inflammatory diseases.

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.

Shenzhen Leaguer Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a high-tech venture capital company founded by Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) in August 1999. Its current registered capital is RMB 333.3333 million, managing assets amounted to RMB 1.5 billion. With solid capital strength, rich experience of investment and flexiblemechanism, Leaguer VC has invested more than 50 portfolio companies, ranging from IT, new material, medicine, electronics to optomechatronics and hi-tech incubators, etc. The average IRR for the current investments exceeds 30%. Leaguer VC has successfully finished its fund-raising of RMB 160 million in 2009 and set up fund management companies and venture capital companies located in Changzhou and Wuxi.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Wuwen Zhike — Wuwen Zhixing is an intelligent driving service provider dedicated to offering professional and cutting-edge integrated solutions for AI data and simulation verification, as well as developing AI data infrastructure and accelerators.
Guoke Tanmei — Guoke Tanmei is a visionary enterprise focused on developing materials for carbon-based energy storage. It directs at application scenarios including base stations, two-wheelers, electric cars, industrial cars, and energy storage.
Qiu Shui Semiconductor — Qiu Shui Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that specialized on Micro-LED display technology.Qiu Shui Semiconductor's core products are Micro-LED micro display chips and modules, which are widely utilized in digital car lighting, micro projection, and augmented reality displays.

Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Germany, United Kingdom

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.
Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
Distance Technologies — Distance Technologies seeks to develop glasses-free XR applications

FORVIA is the 7th biggest technology supplier worldwide in the automotive industry. We are a tech company, placing Sustainability at the heart of our activities and relying on our people to address the challenges of our industry.

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Electronics
Series A, Corporate Round, Funding Round
France, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Canatu — We create the most advanced carbon nanotubes for industry-transforming products. Discover more!
Outsight — Defeat the complexity of working with 3D Data thanks to the first LiDAR pre-processor.
Moovency — As specialists in the prevention of MSDs, we offer measurement solutions and support to better take care of your teams.

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made

Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government-owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state-owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses.Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with privateco-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings.The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Seaber — Seaber is a cloud-based real-time planning, optimisation and communication solution for bulk cargo & vessels. Our solution improves the efficiency of bulk & break bulk charterers, shipowners & brokers through schedule planning and stakeholder communications over the lifecycle of a voyage.
Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.

The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres) are responsible for the regional implementation and development tasks of the central government.Finland has a total of 15 ELY Centres, which are tasked with promoting regional competitiveness, well-being and sustainable development and curbing climate change.ELY Centres have three areas of responsibility:- Business and industry, labour force, competence and cultural activities.- Transport and infrastructure.- Environment and natural resources.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Lighting
Grant, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
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

Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

AISPECO — AISPECO systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.
Clair Scientific — CLAIR Z1 is a versatile microscope based on our patented bio imaging platform that is suitable for life science and nano science research
Polku Therapeutics — Polku Therapeutics | Disease-Modifying Therapies for Neurodegeneration

Investor

Investment focus

Video, Database, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Grumblo — Automotive Digital Marketing
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.

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
Next Sense — Next Sense creates climate-neutral buildings with data insights, simulations, and AI control.
Beams — From plan to build, Beams is an end-to-end service that makes home renovation simpler for customers and builders, and greener for the planet.Beams simplifies the design and construction process with its cutting edge technology that lets customers design and manage their build end to end, all in one place.Redefining the way customers andbuilders collaborate by connecting homeowners with vetted builders that they can trust.Championing sustainability at every stage to reduce CO2 emissions and make the build as energy efficient as possible.

The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter "ITOCHU") dates back to 1858 when the Company's founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles,machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
Javelin — Javelin Global Commodities provide a one stop shop for marketing, trading, hedging, transporting, financing, advising and investing in commodities.

Founded by two Wall Street professionals in 2002 with the goal of making companies successful by helping them raise capital and improve their management standards. This was done by taking an active role in running these companies (at the Board level and operationally) and helping to secure strategic partnerships.Over USD 100 million in assetsgenerated from successful investments in China, and more recently in Europe. All invested funds come from our partners; no 3rd party money is managed. Since the partners are investing their own capital, they are dedicated to making their investments successful.Led by Monita Mo, one of the founders and a serial entrepreneur. Our partners have decades of experience across a wide range of industries and geographical regions. All investment partners have done business in Asia and bring an extensive network of contacts for our investments. Additionally, they have started, managed, and sold businesses and understand the challenges involved.See the need to share more developed technology to other markets, especially in China, where growth opportunities may be greater. That is why we are currently focusing on companies in Europe and other developed markets that have unique technologies that can be commercialized in their home markets, Asia, and the US.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Internet of Things
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

piur imaging — PIUR´s tomographic ultrasound solutions turn any standard ultrasound system into a tomographic 3D imaging device, bridging the gap between 2D ultrasound and regular tomographic imaging modalities. With any conventional 2D ultrasound transducer, high-resolution tomographic images can be generated and stored as quantifiable volumes, enabling true AIpost-processing for efficient diagnostics. Current focus is on thyroid imaging where AI algorithms allow doctors a fast and objective analysis and classification of thyroid nodules.
Inflection.io — Marketing technology for product-led companies
Nanoflex Robotics — Nanoflex Robotics develops a soft robotic system that precisely inserts specially made guidewires and catheters deep into the brain. The company provides patented magnetic navigation technology but also the necessary surgical devices. Nanoflex Robotics was established in May, 2021 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Supercar racingteam owner

Investment focus

Video, Database, Automotive
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Grumblo — Automotive Digital Marketing

Seed phase startup investments

Investment focus

Video, Database, Automotive
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Grumblo — Automotive Digital Marketing

Voland is a hands-on technology growth investor. A trusted partner for entrepreneurs, applying our expertise to enhance our portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Cloud Management, UX Design, Legal
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Biila — Biila primarily offers car transfer services.
Balanco — Balanco on nykyaikainen, aito ja asiantunteva tilitoimisto ja kumppani taloushallintoon. Mietimme aina asiakkaalle sopivimman taloushallinnon ratkaisun.
Cloud1 Oy — Use data to make better business decisions, develop enterprise innovations and streamline your operations.

Speech and Language therapy center with a special concentration and expertise in social cognitive development.

Investment focus

Lighting, Automotive, Electronics
Debt Financing
Finland

Portfolio highlights

TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.

Automotive industry software development

Investment focus

Video, Database, Automotive
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Grumblo — Automotive Digital Marketing

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
France, Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

GEWOBA — GEWOBA is a real estate company that manages and provides a diverse portfolio of rental real estate apartments and properties.
Acea — Acea operates in six business segments. The water segment collects, purchases, transports and distributes drinking water, and manages the sewerage system and the purification of wastewaters. The company serves 9 million residents served in Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria, Molise and Campania; The energy segment manages the transmission and distributesroughly 9 TWh of electricity, public lighting; commercial and trading segment activities include energy management, sale of electricity and gas, energy efficiency for domestic customers. The company is targeting growth in electricity generation from renewable (photovoltaic) sources and in electric mobility, with a view to effectively contributing more and more to the energy transition and decarbonisation. The environment segment provides laboratory, research and related consultancy services on the environment and control functions within the water cycle; engineering services and overseas operations providing water services in Latin America.
TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.

Pontos is a family owned Finnish private equity and real estate investment company operating in Finland, the Baltic States, and Portugal.

Investment focus

Genetics, Hospital, Automotive
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Valmet Automotive — Valmet Automotive, a Uusikaupunki, Finland-based electric vehicle developer and manufacturer. Valmet Automotive provides engineering, manufacturing and business services for the automotive industry. In 2009, the company generated net sales of â‚¬56m and employed some 800 people. It manufactures Porsche Cayman sports cars, electric Garia golf carsand THINK City urban cars in Uusikaupunki, Finland. Cuca
Blueprint Genetics — We offer complete genetic testing and genetic diagnostics to medical professionals worldwide. Learn more about our winning clinical-grade NGS offering!

The EU framework programme for research and innovation

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NovaMea — NovaMea is a cleantech startup that designs and commercializes electrochemical systems for energy storage and conversion.Its purpose is to create technology, services, and products for the storage and conversion of energy using electrochemical processes, as well as to produce, store, sell, and distribute these products and their components.
Perciv AI — Perciv provides artificial intelligence (AI)-based software solutions to unlock the latent possibilities of radars and allow resilient and economical autonomous systems with Lidar-like performance even in severe weather circumstances.
Neuron Soundware — Neuron Soundware uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in combination with the analysis of sound and other physical parameters.

DENSO Corp., headquartered in Kariya, Aichi prefecture, Japan, is a leading global automotive supplier of advanced technology, systems and components in the areas of thermal, powertrain control, electronics and information and safety. Its customers include all the world's major carmakers. Worldwide, the company has more than 200 subsidiariesand affiliates in 38 countries and regions (including Japan) and employs more than 150,000 people. Consolidated global sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017, totaled US$40.4 billion. Last fiscal year, DENSO spent 9.0 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and development. DENSO common stock is traded on the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges.

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
Funding Round, Series A, Series D
United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Canatu — We create the most advanced carbon nanotubes for industry-transforming products. Discover more!
Airbiquity — Airbiquity is a global leader in connected cars, OTA updates, vehicle tracking systems and automotive telematics. With more than seven million connected vehicles on the road, specializing in vehicle telematics, including fleet tracking systems and connected vehicle services. Airbiquity's Choreo platform manages millions of transactions each day across its infrastructure, and Airbiquity has conducted more than five million OTA updates to date.
Envoy Technologies — Envoy is an electric car sharing service offering affordable, convenient and sustainable transportation options by offering Mobility as an Amenity where you live, work, or stay. Headquartered in Los Angeles.

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.

Venture Capital focused on digital disruption. Home bases in the Nordic countries and Silicon Valley. Investing in disruptive and scalable Nordic companies.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Advertising
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Boksi — Influencer marketing campaigns. Custom brand photos and videos with full usage rights. Over 10,000 amazing creators. All on one easy-to-use platform.
HDmessaging — We are the backbone for text 2.0. Our free, fully featured API and open source clients provide everything developers need to build killer group messaging apps.We're powering a revolution in text messaging- Group conversations- Photo + media sharing- Location sharing- Facebook, Twitter integration- SMS integration &connectivityWe provide a free API to anyone who wants to add group messaging to their service or application. Mobile device OEMs, network operators and app developers are all using the API today to build white label messaging services.
Rightware Oy — Rightware makes Kanzi UI design software, enabling rapid creation and deployment of stunning user interfaces for cars, including clusters, IVIs, and HUDs.

Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Orijin — A turnkey solution to solve EUDR for coffee & cocoa importers and producers
Planmark Oy — Planmark develops an AI-powered reporting platform that streamlines ESG data collection and report generation, allowing companies to focus on core business.
Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!

Simo Hämäläinen

Investment focus

Video, Database, Automotive
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Grumblo — Automotive Digital Marketing

Infosto is a Finland-based venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments.

Investment focus

Sensor, Organic, Automotive
Series A, Series B, Series C
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Canatu — We create the most advanced carbon nanotubes for industry-transforming products. Discover more!

NordicNinja VC invests in startups in the Nordic-Baltic region.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
VSPARTICLE — VSPARTICLE develops nanoparticle generators for various applications such as sensors, batteries, catalysis, solar cells, healthcare, additive manufacturing, nano safety, and more. It also enables research and industry to generate new materials at the push of a button.They specialize in nanoparticle production and integration. The technologyspeeds up the developments of customers by producing the desired nanoparticles on location and integrate them directly in the final product. VSPARTICLE was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Delft, The Netherlands.

We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
Cover Genius — Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real-time, enablingcustomers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.The company was founded in 2014.

Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.

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