Top 10 Biotech Angel Investors in Finland (June 2026)

Leena Niemistö

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Finland, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 18
Round size: Seed $480k–$3.2M
Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Life Science, Biotechnology
Stage:Seed
Geography: Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Round size: Seed $584k–$1.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Medical, Software, Education
Stage:Seed
Geography: Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Aiforia — Aiforia provides software and services for pathologists, scientists and healthcare professionals to use artificial intelligence for image analysis.

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Master of Political Science (University of Helsinki), Master of Science (Econ.) (London School of Economics), Master of Science (Eng.) (Helsinki University of Technology).Chairman and CEO, Chairman of the Group Executive Board of Nokia Corporation 1999-2006, President and CEO, Chairman of the Group Executive Board of Nokia Corporation1992-1999, President of Nokia Mobile Phones 1990-1992, Senior Vice President, Finance of Nokia 1986-1989. Holder of various managerial positions at Citibank within corporate banking 1978-1985.Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Otava Ltd and member of the Board of Directors of Fruugo Inc. Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Helsinki. Chairman of the Boards of Directors and the Supervisory Boards of The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA and Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA. Member of The European Round Table of Industrialists. Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Vice Chairman of the Independent Reflection Group of the Council of the European Union considering the future of the European Union.Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company 2000-2008. Vice Chairman of UPM-Kymmene Corporation 2004-2008.

Investment focus

Industry: Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing
Stage:Seed
Geography: Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Dawn is Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, with assets under management of $1.5bn. Dawn partners with founders building the next generation of global software leaders, supporting them to harness extraordinary teams.Haakon has served on the boards of Self Trade and Wonga.com amongst others, and currently represents Dawn’sinterest at Conversocial, Crate.io, LeadDesk, Minute Media and Neo Technologies.Prior to formalising early stage investing at Dawn, Haakon worked with early stage companies from their first commercial efforts through to managing accelerated growth, often by serving as an interim manager or board member. They include G-Cluster (sold to Softbank Broadmedia) and Lateral Logic (sold to Electronic Arts).Mr. Overli studied Mathematics at the University of Oslo and holds a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from University of Durham.In his investment-banking career when the world was covered in ice, Haakon was a Director and Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking at ING Barings. Prior even to that, Haakon worked for JP Morgan in the M&A departments of New York and London.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Software, Analytics
Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Series A $3M–$12M; Series B $18M–$22M; Series C $15M–$62M
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

Minute Media — We are a digital-first media company with a global footprint, bringing passion to life with proprietary technology that powers best-in-class content and advertising partnerships.
Doubleword — From research to reality
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.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Denmark, Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 71
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.3M–$30M
Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

Yousician — Yousician is a fun way to learn the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele or singing. Enjoy thousands of songs with Yousician as your personal music teacher!
Absurd:Joy — absurd:joy is bringing joy to remote collaboration with Tangle
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

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Feroz Dewan is the chief executive officer at Arena Holdings.

Investment focus

Industry: Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing
Stage:Seed
Geography: Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Keenan Rice is the General Manager of Firebolt. He is a former vice president of marketing and alliances at Looker, a software company that employs business intelligence to make data accessible to organizations and data analysts. Prior to joining Looker, Rice led advertising, interactive marketing, and marketing operations at Turn.Rice obtainedher bachelor’s degree in marketing from San Diego State University-California State University.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: United States, Finland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 20
Round size: Seed $2.3M–$7M; Angel $390k–$2M; Series A $15M–$35M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Waldo — The codeless way to quickly build a comprehensive test suite for teams who don't compromise on speed and quality.
Matik — Remove the data bottleneck & pull numbers, tables, and charts directly into decks and PDFs
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.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Geography: Finland, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $550k–$4.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Tangled — The next-generation social coding platform.
Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.

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