# Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Finland in June 2026 ## Ali Omar - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu. ## Ilkka Paananen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology. ## Leena Niemistö - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce Leena Niemistö ## Mikael Hed - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Electronics Mikael Hed currently works as a Chairman for Yazen. He previously worked at Rovio Entertainment as a CEO. Mikael Hed attended Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business. ## John Lindfors - Type: Angel - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series D - Focus: E-Commerce, Eyewear, Internet John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010. ## Otto Hilska - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Advertising, Electronics Otto is a serial entrepreneur who started his first software company at the age of 18. His second company Flowdock raised money from Silicon Valley and got acquired by Rally Software in 2013. After that he spent four years scaling Smartly.io from 30 to 350 people as the Chief Product Officer.After leaving Smartly.io, Otto started working on yetanother startup. Founded in November 2019, Swarmia is building a B2B SaaS product to help self-organizing software teams to continuously improve their ways of working based on data from development tools.Otto has served as the chairman of Startup Foundation, that’s behind the Slush conference, Junction hackathon, Maria 0-1 startup space, and many other ecosystem projects. ## Mikko Kuitunen - Type: Angel - Location: Tampere, Western Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series C - Focus: Mobile, Hardware, Software Mikko Kuitunen is the Founder and Executive Chair at Vincit. He attended Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018. ## Zach Shelby - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet of Things, Hardware, Software Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse. ## Janne Jormalainen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Hardware Janne Jormalainen is a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at New Nordic School. He is also a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. ## David Helgason - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Olli Sirkiä - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Marketplace, SaaS Olli has background in management consultancy (McKinsey & Company 2007-2009) and software business (LeadDesk Oyj (publ) 2010-2018). ## Mikko Kodisoja - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Music, Gaming, Mobile Mikko Kodisoja ## Sune Alstrup - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe ## Risto Siilasmaa - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Risto Siilasmaa is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the Board of Direcctor of Donut Lab. He previously worked as Founder of F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University. ## Timo Soininen - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Gaming, FinTech Timo Soininen is the co-founder at Small Giant Games. Timo Soininen is the CEO and co-founder of Small Giant Games, maker of the hit game Empires & Puzzles. Small Giant joined Zynga, Inc (ZNGA) in December 2018, when Zynga acquired 80% of Small Giant at $700M valuation. Prior to Small Giant he was the longtime CEO of Habbo Hotel and is also anactive angel investor in several technology startups ranging from biomaterials and digital health to games (Spinnova, Aiforia, Critical Force). Timo holds a M.Sc. degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University and just loves tennis. ## Steve Chen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley. ## Jeffrey Zirlin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis. ## Jeremy Yap - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe. ## Sebastien Borget - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong. ## Peter Vesterbacka - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fashion, Computer, Education Peter Vesterbacka served as the Chief Marketing Officer and Mighty Eagle of Rovio Entertainment Oy. Vesterbacka manages the Rovio Entertainment’s business strategy, including expanding Angry Birds into broader entertainment franchise. He serves as Senior Advisor of Transfluent Oy. Previously, he has founded Some Bazaar, he has held severalcommunications industry related positions at Hewlett Packard and founded the Hewlett Packard Mobile E Services Bazaar and he is the co-founder and original initiator of MobileMonday. He serves as a Director of Star Wreck Studios, Start Up Sauna, BlueGiga Technologies Oy, Oy Filmkompaniet Alpha Ab and American Chamber of Commerce in Finland. He served as a Director of F-Secure Oyj since 2014 until April 7, 2015. Vesterbacka has studied marketing at Åbo Akademi. ## Trung Nguyen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Shoes, Gaming Trung Nguyen CEO at Axie Infinity. He attended FPT University during 2010-2017. ## Juha Paananen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Gaming, Wellness Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba ## Jyri Engestrom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University ## Kevin Lin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University. ## Sasha Markvo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Electronics, Cloud Computing Sasha Markvo ## Ville Vesterinen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods Co-founder and CEO at Grey Area. ## Timo Kiravuo - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Electronics, Cloud Computing Timo Kiravuo - Researcher @ Aalto University ## Mikko Silventola - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Transportation Mikko is an active investor, with over 50 investments globally. Besides Europe, he is also active in Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Lat Am. He is the first investor of Bolt (Estonia), an investor of Rappi (Colombia), and of Hugo (El Salvador). He has founded 3 international media companies which in total have generated over €35M in sales overjust a few years. He has helped companies with internationalization, fundraising and M&As in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. ## Vladimir Ashurkov - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Electronics, Cloud Computing Vladimir Ashurkov ## Sami Marttinen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fashion, Shopping, Marketplace Sami Marttinen is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Swappie. He previously worked as the CEO and Co Founder of Viking Shave Club Oy Ab. He completed his degree from Aalto University. ## Marianne Vikkula - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B - Focus: Marketplace, Fashion, Fitness Marianne Vikkula is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the COO of Wolt. Marianne previously worked at Slush as a Board Member. Marianne Vikkula attended the Aalto University. Marianne Vikkula has been awarded Aalto Athlete 2013. ## Dave Morin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel. ## Lance Armstrong - Type: Angel - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Food and Beverage, B2B, Video Lance Armstrong is the Managing Partner and Founding Partner at NEXT VENTŪRES. ## Niko Derome - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Online Portals Niko Derome is the Co - Founder & Server Architect at Supercell. A veteran on designing large-scale game servers, Niko has spent the last 15 years in developing real time and asynchronous systems that serve tens of millions of users at companies like, Codeonline, Sulake, Digital Chocolate . ## Shaquille O'Neal - Type: Angel - Location: Newark, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Wearables, Health Care Shaquille ONeal is based out of Atlanta Metropolitan Area and is the Founder of Jersey Legends Productions. Shaquille previously worked at National Basketball Association as a Professional Basketball Player.Shaquille ONeal attended Louisiana State University. ## Annika Sjoberg - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fashion, Shopping, Marketplace Annika Sjöberg is a Principal Consultant at Anthesis Group. ## Nicolas Dessaigne - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size. ## Ryan Rzepecki - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning Ryan Rzepecki was the founder and CEO of NYC-based JUMP Bikes (acquired by Uber in 2018), focused on developing innovative solutions for urban transportation. Early in his career, Rzepecki worked as a planner in the bikes division of New York City’s Department of Transportation. During that time, he worked extensively to bring bike facilities tomore New Yorkers. It was this experience that led him to design a high-tech bike share model that he entered in the Copenhagen Design Competition. By 2010, he founded the company under its original name Social Bicycles, and set out to realize his vision of using bicycles as a smarter, cleaner, and more fun mode of urban transportation. His company pioneered "smart bike" technology, allowing bike share to go dockless and become more accessible and convenient for riders.In 2013, Rzepecki was named one of the 100 Coolest People in Tech by Business Insider and one of the Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UBM’s Future Cities. He received his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his bachelor’s degree in marketing and international business from Pennsylvania State University. ## Renaldas Zioma - Type: Angel - Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Software Renaldas Zioma ## Timo Rein - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Wearables, Artificial Intelligence Timo Rein is an individual investor. ## Will Smith - Type: Angel - Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Will Smith is an actor, producer and musician, two-time Academy Award® nominee four-time Grammy nominee and winner Will Smith has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television and multiplatinum records.Smith’s vast filmography includes transformative portrayals of true-life icons in “Ali,” “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “Concussion.” Hehas headlined an extraordinary list of films, including “Hitch,” “I am Legend,” “I, Robot,” “Independence Day,” “Men in Black I, II, and III” and “Suicide Squad".Currently, Smith can be seen in Walt Disney Pictures “Aladdin” in the iconic role of the Genie. The movie was directed by Guy Ritchie and has made over $1 billion worldwide since its release on May 24, 2019. Smith will next be seen staring in Ang Lee’s action/thriller, “Gemini Man” out this fall. Next year, he’ll grace the screen once again in the beloved franchise, Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” premiering around the world in January 2020, in which he will once again reprise his iconic role as Detective Mike Lowrey opposite Martin Lawrence. Smith will next go into production on Warner Brother’s “King Richard” where he will star in the titular role of Richard Williams, the father of renounced tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.Recently, Smith created the daring Facebook Watch series, “Will Smith’s Bucket List” where he challenges himself to a different item from his bucket list each week, including performing standup comedy with Dave Chappelle, skydiving in Dubai, swimming with sharks, and racing a Formula 1 car in Abu Dhabi. The show was a massive success for the platform. He began his career as a musician selling millions of records worldwide before crossing over into television with the beloved “Fresh Prince of Bel Air.” In 1998 he and partner James Lassiter founded production and management company Overbrook Entertainment, which has produced numerous top film and television projects.In addition to his artistic achievements, Smith is a successful business owner. Along with his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, he launched a new media venture, Westbrook Inc. This is a cross-platform holding company formed to execute the Smith Family’s global content and commerce business strategy. Westbrook Inc. will encompass subsidiary companies including the existing Overbrook Entertainment, Red Table Talk Enterprises and the recently formed Westbrook Studios, Westbrook Media, and Good Goods, the latter an elevated merchandise business. Additionally he and Jada founded the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation. WJSFF is a nonprofit, philanthropic organization committed to improving lives and investing in organizations and initiatives that empower traditionally overlooked communities. ## Harpreet Rai - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Mobile Apps Harpreet Singh Rai is the chief executive officer of Oura and a member of its board. He was previously at Eminence Capital, a L/S Equity Hedge Fund where he was a TMT Portfolio Manager. Previously he was at Morgan Stanley in their M&A Group in New York. ## David Shuman - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Fitness, Wearables David Shuman is Founder and owner of Lateralus Holdings. He is Chairman of the Board of Ōura and Chairman of the Board of webAI.David was previously a director of Czinger Vehicles and Divergent Technologies. Lateralus Holdings remains one of the largest shareholders in Divergent Technologies.David graduated from Williams College and HarvardBusiness School. He's been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2004, initially as a term member (2004) and then as a life member (2009). He previously served as a trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. ## Nicolas Brabeck-Letmathe - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Fashion, Computer, Lifestyle Nicolas Brabeck-Letmathe ## Jaan Tallinn - Type: Angel - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute. ## Aleksander Leonard Larsen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis. ## Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani - Type: Angel - Location: Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani is the Chief Executive Officer at DAAL. He attended Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. ## Luc De Vos - Type: Angel - Location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Analytics, Consulting, B2B Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven. ## Lasse Järvinen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway ## Kari Vatanen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fashion, Computer, Lifestyle Kari Vatanen