# Top 50 Biotechnology Startup Investors in Finland in June 2026 ## Business Finland - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology 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. ## Tesi - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care 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 ## Voima Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Lifeline Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce 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. ## Finnvera Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Butterfly Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Springvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy 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. ## Icebreaker.vc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Nordic Foodtech VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Life Science, Water We are investing in #FutureFood. Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food ## Stephen Industries - Type: VC Fund - Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Apps We fund futurebreakthroughs ## Innovestor - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services. ## European Investment Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy The European Investment Bank (EIB) offers lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily within the European Union. It provides project loans for public and private sectors, loans to banks and intermediaries, structured finance products, guarantees, and securitization instruments for debts. Additionally, EIB offers equity and fund investmentproducts, including infrastructure and environmental funds, as well as venture capital funds. EIB also supports microfinance and risk-sharing finance for research and innovation and provides technical expertise for sustainable energy projects. Its services include infrastructure advisory, urban development support, guarantees for transport infrastructure, and funding for public-private partnerships and small- to medium-sized enterprises. The bank serves various sectors, including transportation, energy, health, education, and agriculture. ## VTT Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Sensor 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. 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Our motivation is to find innovative ideas and invest that could impact healthcare and society. ## Leena Niemistö - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce Leena Niemistö ## Sofinnova Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical 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. ## Nordic Science Investments - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Diagnostics We partner with founders to transform unseen scientific discoveries into future breakthroughs, jointly moving businesses, people, and the world forward. ## Inventure - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more. ## Fazer - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vantaa, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Food Processing Fazer Group mission is to create taste sensations. Customer orientation, quality and operations are based. ## Sauli Törmälä - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology Sauli Törmälä is the Board Member, CFO at Promilless Oy. He attended University of Oulu. ## Sitra - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics 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. ## Pontos Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Genetics, Hospital, Automotive Pontos is a family owned Finnish private equity and real estate investment company operating in Finland, the Baltic States, and Portugal. ## Finnish Climate Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing The Climate Fund focuses on combating climate change, boosting low-carbon industry and promoting digitalisation. ## Marten Mickos - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland. ## Jukka Tapaninen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Software, Education Jukka Tapaninen is an experienced IT business executive and a board member at Fimmic. Jukka also holds board positions at weVision, Addoro Ab, Findity and MeshWorks Wireless Oy.Jukka has a strong background in the IT industry on managing companies and business units globally. His leadership experience, from large companies like SAP and HP, aswell as from strong midsize companies has given him industry knowledge and excellent network within the strategic ecosystem and major customers. Jukka has experience in working in the United States, Singapore and multiple locations in Europe that have given him a good understanding on how business is done in different parts of the world.Jukka holds a M.Sc. degree from the Helsinki School of Economics. ## K5 Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Backing category-defining companies from inception to IPO. ## HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors. ## Kiilto Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Construction, CRM, Hospital Kiilto Ventures is a family-owned company. Kiilto invests strongly in growth and renewal, determined to keep on reinventing and challenging themselves beyond their present core business. ## KPMG - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax & Advisory services. ## Unifund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Software, Collaboration, Management Consulting Unifund Jyväskylä Ltd is to support the start-up of research-based businesses. ## Haakon Overli - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics 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. ## Eqvitec - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software Eqvitec Partners is a privately owned and independent Nordic private equity firm, advising six funds with a total capital base of over €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). ## Creathor Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed. ## Green Campus Innovations Oy - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Electric Vehicle, Manufacturing, Energy Provide an effective, outsourced incubation and acceleration platform . ## Ananda Impact Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology We are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us. ## Aqua Spark - Type: VC Fund - Location: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Aquaculture, Seafood 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. ## Stockholm Techstars Accelerator - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Pet, FinTech, Finance The Stockholm Techstars Accelerator invests in early-stage, high-growth companies looking to build and expand in the Nordic-Baltic startup ecosystem. ## H&M Group Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Textiles H&M Group Ventures is the venture capital arm of the H&M Group. ## Illusian Founder Office - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Illusian is the Founder Office of people who have founded and scaled companies like Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, and Smartly. While the group is still busy running their businesses, they've aligned their networks, capital, and expertise to simultaneously support the next generation of builders. ## Conor Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics, Semiconductor 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. ## Visionplus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER! ## Kristian Ranta - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Internet Kristian Ranta is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Meru Health. ## The Forum Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Biotechnology Fortum Oyj is a global learning and development firm specializing in strategy execution for companies in a broad array of industries. ## Takoa Invest - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Mobile, Retail Takoa Invest is a Finnish family-owned investment company that owns and develops companies and properties with growth potential in Finland and abroad. Takoa Invest is a Finnish family-owned investment company. It owns and develops companies and properties with growth potential in Finland and abroad. ## Bridford Investments - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Food Processing Bridford Investments ## Ascend Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Software 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. ## Tiger Global Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud. ## Thames Trust - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Finance Thames Trust ## David Helgason - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology 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.