Top 25 Digital Media Startup Investors in Finland in September 2025
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Digital Media Startup Investors in Finland in September 2025
Investor | Digital Media Finland investments |
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Picus Capital | 2 |
Click Ventures | 2 |
Bonnier Capital | 2 |
01Ventures | 1 |
Arteel Ventures | 1 |
Butterfly Ventures | 1 |
Atte Jääskeläinen | 1 |
Nordea | 1 |
Urban Gillström | 1 |
Tharald Nustad | 1 |
Lifeline Ventures | 1 |
Sixgen | 1 |
Finnvera Venture Capital | 1 |
Elias Aalto | 1 |
Ringier Digital Ventures | 1 |
Paavo Kettunen | 1 |
Reaktor Ventures | 1 |
Wallstreet Group | 1 |
Business Finland | 1 |
Urban Gillström | 1 |
Mikko Jalava | 1 |
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) | 1 |
Fredrik Rönnlund | 1 |
Jari Ovaskainen | 1 |
Eqvitec | 1 |
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
- ReelSaga — ReelSaga produces short films and content for mobile entertainment.
- Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market
Click Ventures is a Seed to Series A venture capital firm investing in highly scalable technology startups across promising sectors.
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- Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
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- Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
- Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
- Bite Investments — Access alternative investments in a seamless, end-to-end investment process. Bite's financial technology platform expands access to alternative investments.
Bonnier Capital is the investment division of the Bonnier Group. Since 2016, we invest in promising companies in structurally growing industries and have become a reliant investment partner to companies of various sizes.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Digital Media
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Airmee — Airmee provides a new last mile delivery solution. Whether you want to integrate Airmee into your webshop or simply book a local delivery today, we’ve got you covered. Airmee gives customers more – a great deal more – choice and convenience. Items when you want them. Where you want them. In as fast as an hour.
- MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
- Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
01 Ventures supports Europe's top entrepreneurs on their journey from vision to unicorn. We are an early stage investor, and offer significant operational support to our startups.
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- Machine Learning, Content Discovery, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
- Valossa — Valossa turns video to text and conversational AI chat worklows. Transcribe, generate captions and metadata, find scenes, and clip highlights with AI.
- Teralytic — Teralytic is an AgTech firm that helps farms increase yield and reduce costs by combining soil science, IoT sensors, and machine learning. It focuses on improving the farm's yield by monitoring and improving the condition of soils. Healthy soils are the foundation for increasing crop yields, use less water, need less fertilizers and otherinputs, and sequester carbon, which is great for the environment. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Arteel Ventures is a fully independent and invests from its balance sheet. As an investment vehicle, we are focused on innovative early stage start-ups with capable management team and disruptive idea in areas of internet, mobile device based services and solutions. We make investments between 25.000 – 150.000 €.Arteel Ventures is not a fund, sowe don’t have a need to stamp any sell before dates to company we invest in. We invest not only equity but also our time, knowledge and network to the use of our portfolio companies. Our investment approach is active and hands-on, as is our approach to ownership. We believe in independence, openness and clarity when partnering with entrepreneur-driven management teams.
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- CRM, Mobile Apps, Innovation Management
- Seed, Angel
- Finland, Estonia, United States
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- Zapflow — Zapflow is the all in one solution for investment professional working in venture capital, private equity and alternative investments.
- Wellness Foundry — MealLogger, your photo food journal and nutrition network, is the fast and easy way to keep track of your personal wellness. App available on iOS and Android
- EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.
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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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
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- Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
- Brightplus Oy — Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level.
- Polar Light Technologies — Polar Light Technologies focuses on developing the next generation of Nano and micro LED technology.
I´ve been working with management of journalism and media organizations since 1995. I've led the leading Finnish news organization successfully through digital transformation to become an internationally recognized, even admired forerunner. My core task has always been managing change in a complex environment. Being among those who arebuilding the future organisations and individuals have to be able to trial, learn and adapt.Specialties: Change management, Digital services, Multimedia news processes & distribution, Sports rights, Newsroom management.
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- Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.
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
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- 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.
Our CEO Urban is a C-level executive with three decades of global experience in communications, media and technology. He is responsible for taking the vision to action with the Greenworlder team. He is also a senior advisor in business and private equity and business angel with scalable media platform and sustainable start-ups. On his free time,Urban can be found running, cycling, and spending time with his family.https://greenworlder.com/urban-gillstrom/
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Journalism, Social Media
- Seed
- Finland, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- Greenworlder — Greenworlder is a platform for sustainability. You can share and learn tips for sustainable living, reflect on your sustainable experiences, and read or write articles on sustainability.
- Videobot — Grow your business with personalised video funnels that engage your audience with human interaction, capture leads, guide your users, enhance customer satisfaction and increase conversion rate.Short videos have already become dominant across social media platforms. Now, this beloved user experience is available on company websites as well. The applications are vast and varied. Discover how it all works by reserving your own presentation slot.
- EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.
Tharald Nustad is the Founder and Owner of Nordic Impact, Founder and Owner of Katapult, and Co-Founder of Katapult Ocean. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Mallin AS. He attended Pacific Lutheran University.
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- Farming, Information Technology, Communities
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ghana, Kenya, Norway
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- TikkTalk - powered by Skiwo — TikkTalk is an online marketplace for connecting businesses and consumers for interpretation services. TikkTalk is an open digital solution for managing interpretation services and holding video or phone meetings in a browser on any device. Anyone with interpretation skills can sign up, validate their skills by uploading certifications, and getaccess to interpretation jobs worldwide. Government organisations and businesses can get direct access to a global pool of interpreters, sorted by language, certification levels and ratings.
- ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
- Differ — Student life can be boring and challenging without friends. Differ help you connect with other students and help start those first awkward conversations
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
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- Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
- Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.
- Ovido — Ovido company specialises in supply chain and product data automation, with a focus on providing full product traceability and the establishment of Digital Product Passports (DPPs).
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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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Computer
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 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
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
- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- AISTI — AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile.
- ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
- Nexstim — Nexstim is a medical device company that specializes in image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. The company is committed to improving the quality of life of patients with significant unmet clinical needs. It has developed a SmartFocus TMS technology designed for the treatment of the major depressive disorder.The company was founded in2000 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
Elias Aalto is Wolt's Advisor and a Co-Founder before that.
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Investment focus
- Internet, News, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Cluby — Cluby is a technology platform that provides restaurants with the best tools for managing and communicating with loyal consumers.
- ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
- Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, Austria
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- yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
- Regimen — Regimen is the first effective digital therapeutic for men's most intimate health issues – starting with erections.
- Archilyse AG — Digital archive, smart plans Archilyse.one makes the quality of architecture and properties digitally and objectively measurable, comparable and understandable. This is all done using globally unique analyses, backed by AI. Start here and now: TEST NOW ARCHILYSE.ONE ADVISE ME
Paavo Kettunen
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Investment focus
- Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.
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.
Wallstreet is specialised in private equity investments as well as wealth management for safeguarding assets and maximizing capital growth.We serve institutional investors, private clients and entrepreneurs with advanced value creative products and services.Founded in 2006, we have over 45 professionals serving over 13 000 customers.Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.
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Investment focus
- Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.
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, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- AIATELLA — Automating medical image analysis
- SparkReceipt — AI-powered Receipt Scanner and Expense Tracker for Individuals and Small Businesses. Create your free account now!
- University of Eastern Finland — The University of Eastern Finland is a multidisciplinary university which offers teaching in more than 100 major subjects. The university comprises four faculties: the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Science and Forestry, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies.
Urban combines strong leadership and transformation skills with more than 25 years of experience from global executive roles in ICT, mobile, internet and media. He has been working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 2015 as Vice President, telco vertical leader, strategic customer initiatives leader and client executive with strategic accounts.During the past few years he was an independent advisor and consultant with Accenture, Private Equity Companies and Business Angel with start-ups. Previously he was the President and CEO of Tradedoubler, a publicly listed leading pan-European internet marketing company. Recently he was a senior leader at C-level in the telecom industry with more than 15 years with Ericsson, Sony Ericsson and Comverse, living and working over several continents, driving significant client centric transformations with substantial sales and profitability growth. Urban holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Management and Engineering from the Linkoping Institute of Technology in Sweden and diplomas from Columbia University in the US and Sony University in Japan.
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Investment focus
- Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
- Seed
- Finland
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- EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.
Head of Branch Line at Danske Bank
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Investment focus
- Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) is a venture capital firm with a portfolio of investments in the Information and Communications Technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Sweden, Denmark, Finland
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- Bitbar — Bitbar is a technology and service company that offers mobile app and game developers with automated software build and test environments. Its portfolio of products includes Testdroid Cloud: an online service for testing applications on real Android and iOS devices; Testdroid Enterprise: an in-house software solution for managing all aspects ofautomated testing on multiple real Android and iOS devices simultaneously; Testdroid PrivateCloud: a cloud-based Devices-as-a-Service that enables companies to access pre-selected real Android and iOS devices for app development and testing; and Testdroid Recorder: a tool for recording user actions, generating reusable Android JUnit test cases, and running them in Testdroid Cloud. Its portfolio of resources includes research papers, eBooks, webinars, slides, and videos.Bitbar has customers from various industries such as gaming, utilities, technology, e-commerce, mobile and communications, social media, and lifestyle. Facebook, Rovio, Avast, Google, Mozilla, eBay, PayPal, Deutsche Telekom, Skype, Flipboard, and Pinterest are some of its customers.Bitbar is operated from Helsinki, Finland.
- ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
- PEAR Health Labs — Through its health & fitness AI platform, PEAR creates personalized digital coaching experiences to help people move smarter, get healthier, and live happier.
Fredrik Rönnlund
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Investment focus
- Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.
Jari Ovaskainen
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, Search Engine, Visual Search
- Seed, Angel
- Finland
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).
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Norstel — Norstel AB manufactures and develops wide bandgap semiconductor materials, including silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and epitaxial layers.
- eBuilder — eBuilder is a global company that optimizes and automates administrative processes for corporations and public sector agencies through IT-based business process outsourcing.
- MediSapiens — MediSapiens provides software solutions to clients in the biomedical field. Our solutions turn biomedical data into new insights and knowledge. Our clients
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