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Top 30 Automotive VC Funds in Finland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 30 VC 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 30 Automotive VC Funds in Finland

Investor	Automotive Finland investments
Business Finland	7
VTT Ventures	4
Finnvera Venture Capital	3
Conor Venture Partners	3
Inventure	2
Leaguer Venture Capital	2
Jerry Pruttz Holding Ab	2
Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment	2
Maki.vc	2
Tesi	2
Nordea	2
Innovestor	2
Butterfly Ventures	2
ELY Center	1
Nexit Ventures	1
DENSO Corporation	1
Infosto	1
Horizon 2020	1
Sidekick Simo Oy	1
Pluupi Ventures Oy - Seppo Kolari	1
CIP Consulting Oy	1
Pontos Group	1
S & S Sivonen Oy - Sami Sivonen	1
Ascend Capital Partners	1
European Investment Bank	1
NordicNinja VC	1
ETF Partners	1
Icebreaker.vc	1
Dawn Capital	1
ITOCHU Corporation	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, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Teamspective — Teamspective's SaaS solution helps companies create culture of performance and wellbeing in their organization through - Actionable and real-time visibility to employee wellbeing and effectiveness of teams' collaboration - Replacing heavy 360 feedbacks with timely collection of high quality feedback that activates personal development -Modernizing performance evaluations with a process that takes only minutes per employee and eliminates rater bias - Understanding organization's dynamics through ONA surveys that are 10x faster and cheaper than consulting-driven versionsTeamspective's customers have 2x higher amount of employees satisfied with the feedback they receive.
Supersight — 100% privacy preserving mobile app for people counting, revolutionising real world business process automation. A Finnish high-tech product is most efficient method on the market for counting the number of people in a space with our AI technology, ensuring complete privacy and a productive environment for all. Customers in Finland and France.
Linio Biotech Ltd — Science by nature, Inspired by biology, driven by curiosity. We redefine skin regeneration.

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

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, 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.

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 — Enfuce is a cloud-based financial services provider that specializes in card issuing and payment processing services. It helps banks, fintech, and financial institutions become and remain fully PSD2 compliant, and helps them give third-party service providers access to digital accounts.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inEspoo, Finland.
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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
UltiHash — Data powers breakthroughs. UltiHash is the storage foundation to accelerate them: blazing fast, highly efficient, and built for sustainable long-term growth.
Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.

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

Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
China, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

EXCEEDDATA — EXCEEDDATA provides enterprise customers with one-stop big data intelligent analysis products and consulting. The company was established in 2015 and is based in Haidian, Beijing, China.
Micro Creative — Micro Creative focuses on the development of millimeter-wave radar sensor chips and solutions for related application scenarios.
Li Krypton Technology — Likrypton Technology provides product research and development in key areas of new energy vehicles and autonomous driving.

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Investment focus

Video, Database, Automotive
Seed
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.

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

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

Enfuce — Enfuce is a cloud-based financial services provider that specializes in card issuing and payment processing services. It helps banks, fintech, and financial institutions become and remain fully PSD2 compliant, and helps them give third-party service providers access to digital accounts.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inEspoo, Finland.
CardioSignal — Access information about your heart health in just one minute using your phone.
Magic Feedback — Magic Feedback is an AI business creating a platform that compiles user reviews into one location and analyzes everything automatically using its own AI.

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

Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.

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.

Welcome to Innovestor! We are a Finnish investment company focusing on venture capital, corporate venturing services, and real estate.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.
Kausal — Kausal helps cities turn their climate goals into action through a digital platform that enables smarter collaboration around key data.
Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

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

RiACT — Software for robots. Real-time development platform for creators and users of flexible robot applications.
Embedl AB — Efficient Deep Learning by Deep Learning model optimization
EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems

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.

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.

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.

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!

The EU framework programme for research and innovation

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fairbrics — Fairbrics is developing the first synthetic fiber with a net positive impact on climate change and capable of meeting the demand of the market.
Partseeker — Partseeker is digital platform for buying and selling automotive used spare parts online.Connecting supply and demand, enriching and controlling spare parts information and thanks to our technology, we offer a smart way for consumers and professional car wrecker to sell and buy automotive used spare parts through our platforms.We provide abetter alternative to new product offering original parts, used or renewed allowing consumer to save time, money and our planet resourcesFor more information please visit www.partseeker.it
Neuron soundware — Neuron Soundware is a deep tech startup in AI and IoT using audio analysis to detect broken machines.Neuron soundware develops a detection system that detects machine problems. By recording audio data via sensors and the subsequent automatic evaluation, failures or abnormal behaviors of machines are detected and production breakdowns areprevented.Neuron soundware was named “Idea of the Year 2016” in the Czech Republic for the combination of artificial intelligence and IoT (using acoustic sensors). Founded in 2016 by Pavel Konečný in Prague, the company received EUR 600,000 investment by J&T Ventures in 2017. In 2018, Neuron soundware was classified as a “Cool Vendor in Acoustic Technologies for Predictive Maintenance” by Gartner. And one year later the company closed Round A with EUR 5.75 milion investment from INVEN CAPITAL and LEAD VENTURES.We are proud to work with clients such as Airbus, Siemens, BMW, Skoda, MVV Energie, Bosch, LG or Daimler."We listen - so you can fix it before it breaks."

Simo Hämäläinen

Investment focus

Video, Database, Automotive
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Grumblo — Automotive Digital Marketing

Automotive industry software development

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

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!

Supercar racingteam owner

Investment focus

Video, Database, Automotive
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Grumblo — Automotive Digital Marketing

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, Automotive
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Battlesnake — Controlled by a web server you build, and the code you write, Battlesnakes move to find food, avoid others, and stay alive.
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.

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, Software
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
France, Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Eldrive — The largest charging point operator in Eastern Europe | Our network is expanding rapidly yet our focus is fixed on renewables, for a greener future. We provide AC & DC charging across Bulgaria, Romania and Lithuania.
ABN AMRO Bank — Als bank leggen wij de focus op inclusiviteit, duurzaamheid, sociaal ondernemen, innovatie, dagelijkse bankzaken en meer.
Enel Green Power — Enel Green Power is the company that deals with renewable energy from every perspective: from direct sales through PPA, to commitment at the forefront with its plants worldwide.

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

Arbonics — Fair income for landowners and proven carbon credits for companies through afforestation and impact forestry. We help landowners earn income from carbon.
Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
Onego Bio — Onego Bio is a cell ag company, specialized in animal-free egg white protein. We produce bioalbumen with an innovative precision fermentation process.

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, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Wirepas — Wirepas vision is to enable profitable large-scale business for their customers by unique multi-hop mesh network solution in the fast growing Internet of Things market. Wirepas Pino is the only connectivity solution in the market offering deterministic performance, local radio adaptability capability and very high reliability at any scale, solvingone of the most common problems in IoT platforms.
Basemark — Basemark: The automotive AR company - provider of software solutions and toolchains for automotive AR application development.
Eagle Genomics — Unlocking radical innovation by enabling the conversation between microbiome data and the scientist

Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
Fixably — Fixably is the repair management solution to seamlessly connect all users, from the end customer to the technician, and all repair systems within your service business.
Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.

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, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Brite Payments — The next generation of payment solutions. We create smarter, faster, more financially sustainable ways to pay and be paid.
Qogita — A leading global wholesale supplier that offers a wide variety of products, brands, and categories across geographies.
Vulcan Cyber — Welcome to Vulcan Cyber, the platform for everything cyber risk management, cloud security, application security. Get a FREE demo today!

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, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eze — Wholesale Electronics: Shop Wholesale iPhones, MacBook, iPad, Samsung Watch, Apple accessories & other electronics in bulk at wholesale prices
ecommit — Ecommit is a venture company that creates new environmental businesses with reuse and recycling as the main axis
Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.

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