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Top 50 Biotechnology Startup Investors in Finland in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotechnology startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotechnology companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Biotechnology Startup Investors in Finland in November 2024

Investor	Biotechnology Finland investments
Lifeline Ventures	11
Tesi	11
Springvest	8
Business Finland	8
Voima Ventures	8
Finnvera Venture Capital	7
Butterfly Ventures	6
Icebreaker.vc	4
Nordic Foodtech VC	3
VTT Ventures	3
Innovestor	3
Sofinnova Partners	2
European Investment Bank	2
Pontos Group	2
Broadview Ventures	2
Fazer	2
Stephen Industries	2
Inventure	2
HealthCap	2
EQT Life Sciences	2
Sitra	2
Leena Niemistö	2
Sauli Törmälä	2
Conor Venture Partners	1
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	1
Emerald Technology Ventures	1
Midinvest Management	1
Haakon Overli	1
Aqua Spark	1
Lynx Capital	1
Eqvitec	1
Gaingels	1
Nordea	1
Riitta Ekengren	1
KPMG	1
CPT Capital	1
Wave Ventures	1
Jorma Ollila	1
Athensmed	1
Advent Life Sciences	1
Stockholm Techstars Accelerator	1
Horizon 2020	1
Oy Hammaren & Co Ab	1
Feroz Dewan	1
Petri Pöyhönen	1
Novartis Venture Fund	1
Mikael Westerlund	1
H&M Group Ventures	1
Valio	1
Loudspring	1

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Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.
Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridge the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.

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
Basemark — Basemark: The automotive AR company - provider of software solutions and toolchains for automotive AR application development.

The Citizenship Fund started out when the founders of the company discovered in their previous positions that a promising Finnish growth company will spend a great deal of time and energy in arranging financing. A good business idea and a team with excellent team could take months in financial negotiations and the outcome could be a return to thestart-up. At the same time, investors often wanted new types of higher potential investments alongside traditional alternatives.These two challenges were possible by removing the promising growth companies as investors, even for non-traditional venture capital investors. Citizenship wanted to create a service in which the company would be able to capitalize on business quickly and flexibly, but the decision-making business would be left to the company itself. From today's point of view, Springvest's goal is that an increasing number of Finnish investors can get involved in the story of Finnish growth companies and potential success.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Analytics
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Desentum — Allergen immunotherapy that is effective, safe, patient-friendly and approved by the regulatory authorities.
Kuva Space — Kuva Space improves life on Earth through daily, space-borne hyperspectral imaging and AI. We offer Earth observation solutions for more sustainable business.
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.

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, Biotechnology
Seed, Grant, Debt Financing
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

QMill — QMill, with its innovative quantum algorithms for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, will usher in the era of practical quantum advantage.
Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Polku Therapeutics — Polku Therapeutics operates as a therapeutics company. Polku Therapeutics develops novel disease-halting therapies which provides new treatment options.

Voima Ventures’ mission is to solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and value adding capital. They shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build. Industry domains include bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics,software & ICT and AI. In addition, Voima Ventures has invested in more than 30 deep tech startups, including companies like Solar Foods, Infinited Fiber Company, and Dispelix. Cornerstone investors are VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and European Investment Fund (EIF), backed by Finnish private and institutional investors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

NADMED — The standard of NAD measuring
Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

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.

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

10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
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.

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, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
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 investing in #FutureFood. Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Life Science, Water
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
EvodiaBio — EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial firm that creates natural, sustainable scents for the food and beverage industries. Founded in 2021 and is based in Copenhagen, Capital Region.
NPHarvest — NPHarvest is a company with expertise in organic waste management, wastewater treatment, and nutrient recovery. NPHarvest is a research project aiming to enable efficient and profitable nitrogen recycling from waste flows to the fertilizer market, utilizing energy-efficient hydrophobic membrane stripping and ballasted sedimentation of phosphoruswith lime.

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.

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

Kausal — Kausal helps cities turn their climate goals into action through a digital platform that enables smarter collaboration around key data.
Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.
Polku Therapeutics — Polku Therapeutics operates as a therapeutics company. Polku Therapeutics develops novel disease-halting therapies which provides new treatment options.

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

deepc — The Radiology AI Platform - Your effortless access to AI
Genespire — Genespire is a biotechnology company focused on the development of transformative gene therapies for patients affected by genetic diseases, particularly primary immunodeficiencies and inherited metabolic diseases.
Micropep Technologies — Micropep Technologies developes a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants. Micropep, founded in 2016 in Toulouse, focuses on bioherbicides and biostimulants. The company uses plants’ natural molecules, called “micro-peptides”, to temporarily control expression of their genes and regulate plant growth but leaving their DNA intact.The company currently works on four development programs: germination, flowering, growth, and weed control.

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

BURN — The future of clean cooking
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.

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!

Broadview Ventures, Inc. (Broadview) was established in 2008 as a new program conceived by the Leducq family. Through Broadview, the trust will work to accelerate the development of promising technology in cardiovascular and neurovascular disease through targeted investment in and support of early stage technology ventures.The FoundationLeducq, based in Paris, France, is the beneficiary of a charitable trust. In order to further the Foundation Leducq's mission in cardiovascular and neurovascular disease, the trust has made funds available to Broadview to develop a program which will promote early state technology in these fields through investments, licensing agreements and consortium funding arrangements, as well as professional, management and consulting support.With this initiative the trust joins other leaders in the venture philanthropy movement in seeking creative solutions to the problem of what is commonly referred to as the 'translational gap', a significant component of which is a lack of funding at a critical moment in the development of new technology and science.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Series A, Seed, Debt Financing
United States, Israel, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Nyra Medical — MitraPlug has created a catheter-plug technology for repairing a leaky mitral valve in the heart.This adjustable device needs only a two-inch surgical incision and can be inserted directly into the heart. Then the cardiologist can use the catheter to adjust the size and position of the plug to correct the leakage. When correctly fitted, thecatheter is removed, and the incision is closed, leaving only a small scar.
RapidPulse — RapidPulse, Inc. is a privately held medical device company that develops minimally invasive vascular products for ischemic stroke. The company is advancing the development of the RapidPulse™ Cyclic Aspiration System, which includes a novel aspiration pump to allow rapid and consistent removal of blood clots from the brain. RapidPulse is a spinoutof Syntheon LLC., a medical device incubator dedicated to developing innovative products in the medical device industry
Cardiosense — Cardiosense offers a physiological waveform AI platform to develop predictive biomarkers for the detection and treatment of disease. Its platform leverages multi-modal sensors and industry-leading AI to develop predictive biomarkers for the detection and treatment of disease.

Fazer Group mission is to create taste sensations. Customer orientation, quality and operations are based.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food Processing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

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.

We fund futurebreakthroughs

Investment focus

Apps, Water, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Fiberwood — Fiberwood is a new eco-friendly wood fiber insulation that can be used for a variety of purposes. Fiberwood has excellent insulating properties, is entirely bio-based, and thus contains no plastic or other fossil-based materials.
NPHarvest — NPHarvest is a company with expertise in organic waste management, wastewater treatment, and nutrient recovery. NPHarvest is a research project aiming to enable efficient and profitable nitrogen recycling from waste flows to the fertilizer market, utilizing energy-efficient hydrophobic membrane stripping and ballasted sedimentation of phosphoruswith lime.
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.

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

Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

HealthCap, a life science investor and company creator. Our motivation is to find innovative ideas and invest that could impact healthcare and society.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Kivu Bioscience — At Kivu Bioscience, we leverage advanced, next-generation proprietary ADC technologies to deliver more precise and effective cancer treatments.
Rampart Bioscience — Rampart Bioscience develops gene medicines to provide long-lasting treatments for a wide range of diseases. It also offers proprietary development and delivery platforms, which together, create optimized therapeutics in a revocable, non-viral format. It also assists patients with genetically driven diseases by integrating capabilities from avariety of key scientific disciplines including gene delivery, protein sciences, and clinical translation.
SynOx Therapeutics — SynOx Therapeutics is a biotechnology research company that focused on developing the treatment of diffuse tenosynovial giant cell tumors. SynOx Therapeutics raises EUR 37m to develop emactuzumab to improve the lives of patients with tenosynovial giant cell tumors November 16, 2020. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Dublin City, Ireland.

EQT life science develops innovative medicines, devices, and tools to address the single important thing that matters to the preservation of health. The organization believes that such opportunities add value to all stakeholders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, The Netherlands, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Asceneuron — Asceneuron develops effective therapeutics for orphan tauopathies and Alzheimer’s disease. By focusing on areas of high unmet medical need, Asceneuron aspires to become a leading biotech company specialized in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases.Tauopathies are currently untreatable neurodegenerative diseases thatrapidly progress towards debilitating conditions. The appearance of deposits of the microtubule-associated tau protein as e.g. neurofibrillary tangles in neurons of the brain is a common feature of tauopathies that is shared with Alzheimer’s disease. Neuronal tau deposits are known to be a major contributor to neurodegeneration and mutations in the tau gene are causative of the tauopathy fronto-temporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).Due to increasing life expectancy, Alzheimer’s disease is viewed as one of the largest healthcare problems of this century, imposing a major economic burden on societies in the Western and developing world. Current treatment options provide limited benefits supporting the urgent need for more efficacious and better tolerated medicines that address symptomatic relief as well as disease progression.
PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
Vico Therapeutics — Vico Therapeutics is a developer of ribonucleic acid (RNA) modulating therapies for rare neurological disorders. The company discovers, develops, and delivers therapies for CNS disorders. Its initial focus is on SCA which is a subgroup of hereditary ataxia, HD which is a neurodegenerative disorder, and RTT-a neurodevelopmental disorder primarilyaffecting girls that enable clients with providing therapy for it.Vico Therapeutics was founded in 2019 by Luc Dochez, Josh Mandel-Brehm, Judith van Deutekom, and Gail Mandel and it is headquartered in Leiden, The Netherlands.

Sitra is the venture capital investment arm of Sitra specializing in investments in seed, start-ups, early stage opportunities, and other funds. The firm invests through its three programmes namely, Health Care Programme, the Food and Nutrition Programme, and the Environmental Programme. Within the Health Care Programme, investments are focused oncompanies engaged in paper-free health care, seamless services, decentralised specialised health care, and support services. Within the Food and Nutrition Programme, investments are made in enterprises engaged in the food and nutrition sector, including value-adding upgrading of raw materials and new applications and service concepts in food and nutrition technology.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Finland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
NaturVention — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
SET Ventures — Venture capital firm focused broadly on innovative energy generation, distribution storage and efficiency.

Leena Niemistö

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

#Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Vapaus — A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility.
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.

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

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
Finland

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.

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.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuuron — Nuuron is a neurotech startup that is developing the Memory-Pacemaker, a non-invasive photonic neurostimulation device that allows Alzheimer's sufferers to store and retrieve memories anew.
GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
Cloudsquid — is an an artificial intelligence based revenue orchestration company intended for companies with usage-based pricing models.

We provide venture capital for companies with cutting-edge technology that solves key issues in the transition to a net zero emissions world.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

sewts — Founded in 2019 and based in Munich, sewts GmbH provides cutting-edge perception software, pushing the boundaries of robotics in processing of easily deformable materials. sewts has developed and demonstrated a unique technology that uses high-precision finite element method (FEM) simulations to efficiently train machine learning algorithms. Theintelligent software solution enables countless applications in industrial automation like the handling of textiles in industrial laundries or the manufacturing of garment. sewts is backed by APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators and a couple of highly experienced business angels.
INDRA — Smart and decentralized Water Treatment Systems
Colibri Energy — Colibri Energy - Lithium Batteries produces battery solutions for GSE & Logistics to reduce costs of operations and provide sustainable alternatives.

Midinvest Management is a Finnish private equity firm specialized in ownership arrangements for small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Humap — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
Quosis — As of March 18, 2008, Quosis Oy was acquired by Proactum Oy. Quosis Oy operates as an open source software service company. It offers open-source based solutions and services, including portal solution for managing organizationâ€™s information and services; content management for gathering, sharing, saving, and producing information; businessprocess management for automating, monitoring, managing, and improving key processes; integration of information systems; and instant messaging for improving the organizational information exchange. The company also offers open source consultation and software development services. It serves the paper industry. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.

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

Advertising, SaaS, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

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.
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.
Crate.io — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value

Aqua-Spark is an investment fund with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) they invest in are working toward the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in ways that do not harm their oceans. Their investors value the fact that each investmentaims to create triple impact—specifically, each investment is chosen for its potential to generate significant financial returns while also activating positive environmental and social outcomes.Aqua-Spark believes that committing to a long-term vision is the way to realize effective and lasting impact results. When it comes to investments, they do not seek quick exits; instead, they look for entrepreneurs who strive to build and scale toward the future, who see their business as major economic opportunities that can also help solve looming environmental and food security challenges over the long-term. As an essential of each investee, Aqua-Spark seeks sustainability.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Aquaculture, Seafood
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Norway, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.
Kuehnle Agrosystems — Kuehnle AgroSystems curates a unique set of algae originating from pristine waters and ecosystems of Hawaii, as well as tropical botanical accessions representing plants prized by Polynesian voyagers.
Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.

cross-border, healthcare, life science, investment, VC, China, US

Investment focus

Therapeutics, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Bone Index Finland — Bindex® is – in addition to DXA devices – the only device that can be used for osteoporosis diagnostics with international guidelines (ISCD) and the Finnish Current Care Guidelines (04/2014).Bindex® is applied by measuring the cortical thickness of tibia. The results, combined with other patient data, are used to estimate the hip region’sbone mineral density. Bone mineral density values (g/cm2) are normally only received via the large DXA devices used in hospitals.Bindex®’s quickness and simplicity make its use possible in high volume risk group screenings. It makes the identification of an osteoporosis risk possible before the first bone fracture has even occurred. Thus, it both improves the patient’s quality of life and saves on public health care expenses.
Aurealis Therapeutics — Multi-target cell and gene therapies for unmet medical needs. Developing therapies for chronic wounds, cancer and inflammatory diseases.

Eqvitec Partners is a privately owned and independent Nordic private equity firm, advising six funds with a total capital base of over â‚¬500 million. Equity funds invest in technology companies in all phases from early-stage to buyouts. Mezzanine funds focus on buyouts and expansion financing.Eqvitec Partners offers a combination of experienceand expertise to companies with an attractive business model and solid growth potential. They spend a lot of time with the portfolio companies working closely with the management on a board level. Their aim is to add significant value, particularly via intellectual capital, with a focus on strategy implementation and business development. In addition, they bring a significant network and financial know-how to their portfolio companies. Eqvitec funds typically exit the investments after 3-6 years through a trade sale or a stock exchange floatation.Eqvitec Partners was established in 1997 and currently has 15 employees in the Helsinki and Stockholm offices.They are a member of the Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA), Swedish Venture Capital Association (SVCA), European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) and Nordic Venture Network (NVN).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Norstel — Norstel AB manufactures and develops wide bandgap semiconductor materials, including silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and epitaxial layers.
eBuilder — eBuilder is a global company that optimizes and automates administrative processes for corporations and public sector agencies through IT-based business process outsourcing.
MediSapiens — MediSapiens provides software solutions to clients in the biomedical field. Our solutions turn biomedical data into new insights and knowledge. Our clients

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

MealMe — MealMe: We compare services for delivery pickup and groceries to ensure that we are the fastest food delivery app, the cheapest food delivery app, and the food delivery app with the largest selection.
Further — Further is on a mission to empower first-time home buyers to achieve their dream of homeownership with confidence and ease. We simplify the complex home buying process through innovative tools and personalized guidance, ensuring that buyers are well-prepared every step of the way. Our platform offers financial planning, tailored insights, andresources designed to make homeownership more accessible. At Further, we believe that with the right support, anyone can realize their goal of owning a home. Join us as we help make the path to homeownership clear and attainable for all.
Wildfire Systems — We are the only white-label cashback and shopping rewards loyalty platform that helps companies monetize e-commerce everywhere.

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.

Riitta Ekengren is an Angel Investor.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Origin by Ocean — We rid the oceans of harmful algae and turn it into everyday goods.

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax & Advisory services.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wokelo AI — Wokelo is a secure GenAI platform for accelerated business research. It helps create customized in-depth analyses for market intelligence and investment research. Wokelo is reimagining the future of work by unlocking human-like syntheses at scale. It utilizes state-of-the-art LLM models and proprietary technology to uncover rich insights. Wokelo isbeing leveraged by Private Equity, Investment Banks, Corporate Strategy and Venture capital professionals.
ContextLabs — Providing solutions that utilize machine learning, artificial intelligence, cryptographic proofing and blockchain to build ground truth and trust with partners and customers.
Cranium — Gain visibility into your AI systems, identify AI security risks, and demonstrate internal and 3rd-party AI compliance.

Investing in the Future of Protein.We invest in visionary founders creating the future of food and materials.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ENOUGH — ENOUGH makes protein sustainable by producing ABUNDA mycoprotein, made by fermenting fungi with the natural sugars from grains. It is a whole protein with all 9 essential amino acids & rich in fibre. It is a B2B ingredient, neutral in taste and fibrous in texture, like meat. The most sustainable
PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.

Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
Daze — Daze provides a first-mile pickup service for e-commerce and recommerce.
Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.

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

Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing
Seed
Finland

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.

Athensmed Oy

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, mHealth
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

VideoVisit — VideoVisit is a Nordic health technology company, developing digital solutions for home care and healthcare sectors. They make healthcare available to everyone, anywhere and anytime, and strive to provide solutions that help people live independently at home for as long as possible. They collaborate with healthcare specialists to ensure that oursolutions are available to everyone.
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.
Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol

Advent Life Sciences is a venture team investing in life sciences businesses. The team consists of 11 professionals with extensive scientific, medical and operational experience, and a long-standing track record of entrepreneurial and investment success across the UK, Europe and the US. The Firm invests in a range of sectors within life sciences,principally in new drug discovery, enabling technologies, and med tech. Realizations in the last three years include Algeta, Avila, CN Creative, EUSA, Micromet. Current investments include Acutus, Biocartis, Cellnovo, f2G, NeRRe,

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Moximed — Moximed Inc. is dedicated to improving the standard of care for patients with osteoarthritis, and is investigating therapies to treat a number of affected joints. The lead product, the KineSpring® Knee Implant System, is designed for patients with knee osteoarthritis.
Tridek-One — Tridek-One is a private biotechnology company founded in 2018, based on groundbreaking research by our scientific founders at INSERM, Paris on the role of CD31 in the modulation of the immune response.
PIC Therapeutics — PIC Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on fundamentally changing how we treat cancer by developing a new generation of therapeutics based on the modulation of RNA translation.

The Stockholm Techstars Accelerator invests in early-stage, high-growth companies looking to build and expand in the Nordic-Baltic startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

Pet, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed
Israel, Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

goscore — Fair human credit scoring, credit check, and assessment for you
Terrawaste — TerraWaste is a next-generation chemical recycling company that turns non-recyclable waste into value by creating new, climate-positive materials with a pollution-free process. TerraWaste focuses on lowering the level of need for virgin oil extraction by recycling plastics with chemical recycling technology 'htloop' into high-qualityclimate-positive crude oil, biochar, and high-value chemicals to support companies globally to become more sustainable and circular. Our technology (htloop) is developed on a process developed in the laboratory for over 20 years and hasn’t been commercialized until recently. TerraWaste is the first company to use HTL to recycle plastic waste and turn it into new plastic products. The unique thing is the state-of-the-art technological system that will recycle waste in a continuous-flow system, at the same time reusing heat and water in a loop, that way dramatically decreasing energy consumption. Our process is pollution free, and we produce carbon-negative output materials, that way offsetting other, carbon-heavy industries.
Five Letter Foods — Real food for dogs. Ultra-processed junk food is boring and makes your dog sick. Our meal kits have a full swing of variety. Death to kibble.

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.AI is a spin-off from the Intelligent Vehicles group at TU Delft. We offer expertise in multi-sensor integration, sensor fusion and AI-driven perception solutions for autonomous driving, UAVs, smart cities and more.
Neuron Soundware — Neuron Soundware uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in combination with the analysis of sound and other physical parameters.

Oy Hammaren & Co Ab provides financial services and insurance activities.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, GreenTech
Funding Round, Angel, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
Heltti — We are Heltti! We help people and knowledge workplaces feel better.
NaturVention — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.

Feroz Dewan is the chief executive officer at Arena Holdings.

Investment focus

Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing
Seed
Finland

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.

Petri Pöyhönen

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Synoste Oy — Globus Medical develops, manufactures, and distributes musculoskeletal device solutions. Learn about the implants and products we manufacture.

Our primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. We balance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics or drug delivery systems. In our investments we look for unmet need and clinical impact, novel proprietary science and understanding of mechanism, management and board experience and capitalefficiency in the program.We prefer to have our initial investment at the early stage to build the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company:tm:s progress. We continue our approach of larger focused investments and anticipate total investments up to USD 30 to 50 mio per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100'000 USD to get started. We will increase our activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participate in larger syndicates. SectorsNew therapeutics & platformsMedical devices/implantsDiagnostics/biomarkersDrug delivery/biopolymersGeographyUSA/CanadaEuropeSwitzerlandAsia/Pacific

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
Hepalink — Hepalink is a manufactures ultra-pure pipeline control systems based on semiconductors and pan-semiconductor liquid circuits.
Mediar Therapeutics — Mediar Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing antibody-based therapeutics to halt fibrosis in a variety of organ systems, including lung, liver, kidney, and skin.

Mikael Westerlund is the Founder and Chief Business Activist at Origin by Ocean.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Origin by Ocean — We rid the oceans of harmful algae and turn it into everyday goods.

H&M CO:LAB is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Syre — Syre is a textile impact company with a mission to decarbonize and dewaste the industry through textile-to-textile recycling at hyperscale.
eComID — eComID is the world's first and only Proactive Software built for retail brands and businesses to Reduce and Prevent Product Returns.
A Retro Tale — A Retro Tale is an online boutique in Stockholm that sells exclusive vintage and second-hand fashion accessories from luxury brands. You can find bags, watches, and more from Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, and others.

We are Valio Group: the most innovative dairy and food company in the world.

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.

Loudspring is a cleantech accelerator in the Nordic region, boasting several fast growing and high impact companies that solve global challenges. The portfolio companies are active in energy- and resource efficiency as well as decentralized renewable energy and are based in Finland, Sweden and Germany. The company management consists of companybuilders and investors who have been active within the cleantech space for over a decade.The company is listed on First North Finland under the ticker LOUD and on First North Stockholm under the ticker LOUDS.

Investment focus

SaaS, Smart Building, Property Management
Series A, Seed, Grant
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuuka — Nuuka is a building SW scaleup from Finland. Nuuka specialises in diagnosing and optimising HVAC, energy systems, and indoor climate. The SaaS is optimal for large building portfolios, of new and old public and commercial buidlings, as it can be used with any BMS and HVAC system, IAQ sensor or energy meter. Nuuka improves indoor climate, energyefficiency, reduces operational cost and improves sustainability for real estate owners, developers, retail chains and whole cities. We use SW, AI and ML to transform and industry, and save the world one building at the time.
Swap.com — Swap is an online consignment and thrift store shop high-quality secondhand clothes. Shop the best brands at up to 90% off.
ResQ Club — ResQ Club is a Finnish company connecting sustainable restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores with consumers that appreciate eating affordable quality food. ResQ partners can drastically reduce their food waste with their proprietary location-based mobile and web service, as it enables consumers to find and rescue surplus food in their proximity.Every meal purchased via ResQ is one less meal thrown away, helping their urban communities to waste less and be more sustainable.They are on a mission to reduce food waste to zero at restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores. It's estimated that 10% of the already produced food in restaurants ends up in the trash instead of hungry mouths. On a global scale, this equals 11 million tons of food wasted every year.

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