Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Finland in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Consumer startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Finland in November 2024
Investor | Consumer Finland investments |
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Tesi | 14 |
Lifeline Ventures | 14 |
Butterfly Ventures | 13 |
Business Finland | 12 |
Finnvera Venture Capital | 11 |
Innovestor | 9 |
Ali Omar | 8 |
VTT Ventures | 8 |
Maki.vc | 7 |
Inventure | 5 |
Redstone.VC | 5 |
Reaktor Ventures | 4 |
Voima Ventures | 4 |
Conor Venture Partners | 4 |
Superhero Capital | 4 |
OpenOcean | 3 |
Supercell | 3 |
Leena Niemistö | 3 |
VNT Management | 3 |
First Fellow Partners | 3 |
Metsa Spring | 3 |
Mikael Hed | 3 |
Wave Ventures | 2 |
Janne Jormalainen | 2 |
Ilkka Paananen | 2 |
Zach Shelby | 2 |
Mikko Kuitunen | 2 |
Vsquared Ventures | 2 |
CapMan | 2 |
Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment | 2 |
Forvia | 2 |
Nordea | 2 |
Harwick Overseas | 2 |
Ventech | 2 |
Otto Hilska | 2 |
Icebreaker.vc | 2 |
Summit Partners | 2 |
Salvia GmbH | 2 |
Vito Ventures | 2 |
Leaguer Venture Capital | 2 |
Infosto | 1 |
Timo Rein | 1 |
Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company | 1 |
Sasha Markvo | 1 |
FIH Mobile | 1 |
Sune Alstrup | 1 |
Sebastien Borget | 1 |
True Ventures | 1 |
Sixgen | 1 |
Takoa Invest | 1 |
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.
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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.
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
- GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
- Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.
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?
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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.
Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Germany, 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.
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- Distance Technologies — Distance Technologies seeks to develop glasses-free XR applications
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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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.
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Exein — Exein provides the most advanced IoT security solution to protect your devices and containers. Protect your IoT devices in real time and at scale.
- Carbonx — ClimeFi is your trusted carbon credits procurement and management partner for high-quality permanent carbon dioxide removals to reach your net zero targets.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
- Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Estonia, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
- TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.
- 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.
OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Authologic — Authologic is a system that helps businesses in checking the identity of their clients online.Authologic is a provider of identity verification solutions that includes tools for determining identity through online video, data, and digital IDs.Krzysztof Klimczak, Jarek Sygitowicz, and Marek Rogoziński founded Authologic in 2020 and is based inWarsaw, Poland.
- Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
- Future Run — Future Run embarks on an ambitious mission to redefine competitive gaming.
- Redly Games — Redly Games is an independent gaming studio.
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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.
VNT Management is a venture capital management company that offers its services to investors and entrepreneurs.The company offers investors with 3 venture capital funds, all of which focus on clean technology. Furthermore, it offers an IRR of 25% and a position in the top quartile of European venture capital funds. Entrepreneurs are offered withsupply management, business idea, application, and product concept development, and technology scanning and evaluation services.VNT Management was founded in 2002 and is based in Finland.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Electronics, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Finland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Visedo — Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.
- WeSustain — WeSustain develops and sells web-based software for enterprise sustainability management. The company’s ESM software is a management support system that helps companies go green and manage products, processes, and technologies in an environment-friendly manner.WeSustain’s ESM software enables the clients to establish a software-supported ESMsolution, as well as manage, improve, and report their ESM performance on a global basis while mitigating sustainability risks. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Buxtehude, Germany.
- Cajo Technologies — Cajo turnkey laser marking solutions for traceability & product markings are easy to use & optimized for industrial production processes.
A private investment firm run by Risto Siilasmaa and Kim Groop. Grounded in a deeply held set of values around entrepreneurship, trust, integrity and helping solve the world’s problems. We partner with strong and ambitious technology entrepreneurs driven by a mission to fix or build something important in the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- LumiDB — Transform terabytes of accumulated scans into a queryable database that you can actually use.
- Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
We boldly invest in and support promising startups and potential innovations that explore new uses for sustainably-grown Nordic wood.
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Investment focus
- Cosmetics, Medical, Chemical
- Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- FineCell — FineCell is a sustainable cellulose microfibers provider that enables manufacturers to make new products with reduced carbon footprints and differentiated properties.The company's cellulose microfibers possess physical and chemical properties that differ from competing products and provide differentiated benefits for the users. It has beensupported by Vinnova (Sweden’s innovation agency) and EIT InnoEnergy.The Linköping, Ostergotlands Lan-based company was established in 2015 by Jonatan Henschen, Jonas Engstrand, Monica Ek, and Kloce Dongfang Li.
- 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.
- Montinutra — Montinutra develops and commercializes bioactive compounds from secondary material flows in forest industrial processes to be applied in developing novel solutions in cosmetics, food, and beverage and technical chemical industries. They produce sprucegum from sawdust, which is a commercially relevant, underutilized forest industry side stream.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Consumer Electronics, Hardware
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- Finland, Lithuania
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.
- CGTrader — Join the fastest-growing 3D model marketplace today!
- Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
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.
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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.
Janne Jormalainen is a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at New Nordic School. He is also a serial entrepreneur and angel investor.
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Hardware
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- UMNAI — Welcome to UMNAI and our Hybrid Intelligence technology. Hybrid Intelligence is a framework for developing Neuro-symbolic AI solutions that are fully-explainable, auditable and performant.
- Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
- NurseBuddy — Meet Nursebuddy: a smart, intuitive platform engineered in Finland and built to help tomorrow's homecare businesses thrive.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.
Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse.
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, Wearables
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Augumenta — We develop intuitive and easy-to-use AR apps and tools that help companies improve their operational efficiency, quality, and safety.
Mikko Kuitunen is the Founder and Executive Chair at Vincit. He attended Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Hardware, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Finland, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Tylko — Tylko offers uncompromising quality at a fair price, while perfectly fitted to your space & easily ordered online.
- Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
- The Planet Company — The Planet Company is a SaaS-based seed-stage startup, building the next sustainability unicorn.
Vsquared Ventures invests in early-stage deep-tech companies that are tackling society's most pressing challenges, with a focus on quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, AI/ML, new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. It is committed to a partnership and will go to any length to help accelerate and scale vision,unlocking all seemingly impossible possibilities.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Product Design
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Lightium — Production-grade photonic foundry for thin-film lithium niobate. From MPW to production, bring the performance of TFLN to your next-gen PICs.
- Dynelectro — Dynelectro is a green energy technology company that focuses on reducing CO2 emissions by transforming fossil fuels into green fuels.
- INBRAIN Neuroelectronics — We are scientists, doctors, techies and humanity lovers, with the mission of building neuroelectronic interfaces to cure brain disorders.
CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international.At CapMan, they build betterorganised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- Finland, Russian Federation, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Groweo — Groweo focus on smart, efficient growth through software and services is crucial for businesses looking to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
- Tana — Tana provides machines and equipment for the mechanical processing of solid waste. The company manufactures landfill compactors and recycling machinery. Tana uses electrical control systems and artificial intelligence solutions in its equipment. An online inquiry form is available on the company website.
- TerraWise — TerraWise is an experienced and trusted partner for various types of infrastructure construction projects. The company focuses on delivering demanding projects related to environmental construction and specialized quarrying, offering a complete set of services in each area. TerraWise’s key value proposition is based on expertise, high-qualityresults and commitment to agreed schedules.
The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres) are responsible for the regional implementation and development tasks of the central government.Finland has a total of 15 ELY Centres, which are tasked with promoting regional competitiveness, well-being and sustainable development and curbing climate change.ELY Centres have three areas of responsibility:- Business and industry, labour force, competence and cultural activities.- Transport and infrastructure.- Environment and natural resources.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Lighting
- Grant, Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
- Palofy Analytics Oy — Palofy Analytics is a customer loyalty partner and Worldline ISO for SME's. We are developing analysis and forecasting tools that help merchants to get more sales and predict staffing needs. This also enables getting accurate analysis and predictions on channel, store, product group, or product level.Our licenced technology leveragesexisting payment cards as customer loyalty cards, reducing customer friction and removing work overhead from staff.Service areas: • Restaurant and hospitality • RetailPalofy Analytics is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) for Europe's largest payment acquirer Worldline and multiple SaaS and Fintech companies. Our Alfa Rating is AA
FORVIA is the 7th biggest technology supplier worldwide in the automotive industry. We are a tech company, placing Sustainability at the heart of our activities and relying on our people to address the challenges of our industry.
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Software, Electronics
- Series A, Corporate Round, Funding Round
- France, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Canatu — We create the most advanced carbon nanotubes for industry-transforming products. Discover more!
- Outsight — Defeat the complexity of working with 3D Data thanks to the first LiDAR pre-processor.
- Moovency — As specialists in the prevention of MSDs, we offer measurement solutions and support to better take care of your teams.
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.
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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.
Harwick Overseas is an investment company managed by Jari Ovaskainen.
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- Fashion, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed, Funding Round
- Finland
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- Stylewhile — Stylewhile creates next generation fashion shopping experience on mobile. With Stylewhile, users can try and buy outfits instead of just clothes. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Stylewhile targets the US apparel e-commerce with a strong team with backgrounds in games, e-commerce and apps.Stylewhile was launched on iOS in September 2013 togetherwith Saks Fifth Avenue. The company is backed by Lifeline Ventures, Harwick Overseas and Reaktor Polte.
On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, Germany, United States
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- Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
- Xpln.ai — Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless.
- Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Advertising, Electronics
- Seed, Series A
- Finland
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- Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
- Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
- Smartly.io — Smartly.io automates every step of social advertising to unlock greater performance and creativity on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
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- 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.
Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that invests in growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities in technology, healthcare and other growth sectors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
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- Onestock — Unlock your full omnichannel potential with the Distributed Order Management System used by market-leading retail & supply chain businesses.
- PostPilot — PostPilot is the leading direct mail platform for ecommerce and DTC.
- Earned Wealth — Forme Financial is a platform that offers estate planning, debt management, insurance planning, and investment management services.
Salvia is a private investment company based in Holzkirchen near Munich, which was founded in 2014 by Helmut Jeggle. Originally started with traditional angel investments, Salvia has developed into an entrepreneurial venture capital investor.
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- Music, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Finland
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- InPlanet — Our vision is to to remove gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere while regenerating soils in the tropics.
- OQmented — Outstanding MEMS-based laser scanning for top-notch 3D environment perception and AR projections. Unmatched in terms of size, performance and reliability.
- Bambusa Therapeutics — Bambusa Therapeutics operates as biotechnology company, that focuses on developing bispecific antibodies.
Die Digitalisierung stellt uns vor neue Herausforderungen, denen wir mutig begegnen. Mit VC/O gestalten wir die Zukunft mit und investieren in sie.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Finland, United States
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- IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
- Wirepas — Wireless mesh connectivity for industrial IoT. Proven, ultra-reliable and scalable. Lowest total cost of ownership. The best mesh for IoT.
- CrateDB — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value
Shenzhen Leaguer Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a high-tech venture capital company founded by Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) in August 1999. Its current registered capital is RMB 333.3333 million, managing assets amounted to RMB 1.5 billion. With solid capital strength, rich experience of investment and flexiblemechanism, Leaguer VC has invested more than 50 portfolio companies, ranging from IT, new material, medicine, electronics to optomechatronics and hi-tech incubators, etc. The average IRR for the current investments exceeds 30%. Leaguer VC has successfully finished its fund-raising of RMB 160 million in 2009 and set up fund management companies and venture capital companies located in Changzhou and Wuxi.
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- Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Finland
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- Wuwen Zhike — Wuwen Zhixing is an intelligent driving service provider dedicated to offering professional and cutting-edge integrated solutions for AI data and simulation verification, as well as developing AI data infrastructure and accelerators.
- Guoke Tanmei — Guoke Tanmei is a visionary enterprise focused on developing materials for carbon-based energy storage. It directs at application scenarios including base stations, two-wheelers, electric cars, industrial cars, and energy storage.
- Nostalgia Technology — Nostalgia Technology is a MicroLED chip and device design and development company, particularly engaged in the design, R&D, manufacture and sales of MicroLED chips and devices.
Infosto is a Finland-based venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments.
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- Sensor, Organic, Automotive
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Finland
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- Canatu — We create the most advanced carbon nanotubes for industry-transforming products. Discover more!
Timo Rein is an individual investor.
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- Hardware, Software, Data and Analytics
- Seed
- Finland
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- Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company operates as a pension insurance company in Finland. It provides pension insurance services, including insurance and pension services, vocational rehabilitation, insurance contribution estimates, and calculations. The company also provides training and guidance related to well-being at work and to socialsecurity while working abroad. In addition, Varma's additional services include online services; client financing services for pension foundations and funds; and advisory services for insured employees and entrepreneurs. The company was founded as Varma-Sampo Mutual Pension Insurance Company in 1998 and changed its name to Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company in December 2003. Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.
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- Dental, Medical, Computer
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Finland
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- IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers
- eBrands — eBrands is an ecommerce group company that acquires, operates and scales small and medium-sized consumer brands
- Haltian — End-to-end IoT solutions and world-glass product design services from Haltian
Sasha Markvo
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- Electronics, Cloud Computing
- Seed
- Finland
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- Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
FIH Mobile is a handset manufacturing and Integrator services company.
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- Software, Apps, Augmented Reality
- Funding Round, Series B, Post-IPO Equity
- United States, China, India
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- Lingxi AR — Lingxi AR is an AR optical display technology provider, providing optical solutions for partners developing AR glasses. It is committed to the development of lightweight glasses with large field of view. The optical modules are equipped with nano-scale coupling gratings and optical waveguide technology. AR 3D imaging can be achieved with an angleof view of up to 36 degrees.
- SoundHound — SoundHound Inc. is the only company offering an independent voice AI platform that delivers a custom branded voice assistant, allowing companies to keep their brand, customers, and data.
- Journey Technology — An augmented reality technology company.
Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, France
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- Go Dogo — Go Dogo provides mental workout for dogs - It's an app-controlled wall-mounted robot that uses the home TV to give instructions and feedback. The combination of computer vision and treat releases enables brain games that slowly gets more and more challenging. Over-the-Air updates ensures that Go Dogo never gets old.
- Rerun — Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.
- Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Estonia
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- Cookie3 — Cookie3 utilizes off- and on-chain analytics and an AI data layer to determine quality users who bring value on-chain and reward them for their contribution. It's a three-platform hub for businesses, creators, and users with a unique value offering for all.
- BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.
- OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.
A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
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- MODE — MODE offers customized solutions to unleash the power of real-world data for your business.
- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- AccessPay — AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
SIXGEN assesses devices, networks, and critical infrastructure for vulnerabilities. Our cybersecurity experts power commercial, Government, and military red teams with the RAVEN portable cyber toolkit / flyaway kit. We support and unify cyber missions from penetration tests to CMMC compliance.
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- Apps, Mobile, Computer
- Seed
- Finland
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- Dazzboard — dazzboard is the universal media manager, web application that connects mobile devices, PC and the Web and manages media between those dazzboard is like open iTunes, supporting all portable devices, mobile phones, MP3 and media players. with dazzboard you can download YouTube videos and Flickr pictures to a mobile phone, upload photos andvideos to Facebook - connect your portable device to your favourite services
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.
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- Biotechnology, Mobile, Retail
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- Finland, Israel
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- Theranica — Theranica is a medical device company that has combined neuromodulation therapy with modern wireless technology to develop proprietary wearable solutions that address various medical conditions and disease states. The noninvasive and therapeutic 'smart' patches are controlled by a smartphone app to allow for personalized, portable, andaffordable care. The patch consists of a proprietary 'smart' chip that delivers electrical pulses to neuro-modulate the sensory nerves under the skin. The first application of the technology is for treatment of migraine headaches.
- 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.
- IndoorAtlas — Discover the power of indoor positioning technology with IndoorAtlas. Build innovative indoor location-based solutions using our cross-platform SDK. Explore case studies and start developing today.
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