Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Finland (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Business Finland
VC Fund
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6 | Finland, United States, Sweden | Grant, Seed, Debt Financing | Software, SaaS, Biotechnology | $52k–$10M |
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Sparkmind.vc
VC Fund
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6 | Finland, Germany, Sweden | Seed, Series A | Education, E-Learning, Software | $793k–$10M |
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Gorilla Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Finland, Sweden, Estonia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $149k–$1.5M |
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Superhero Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Finland, Lithuania, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $212k–$7.3M |
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Inventure
VC Fund
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4 | Finland, Sweden, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $549k–$25M |
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Lifeline Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$20M |
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Oppiva Invest
VC Fund
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2 | Finland | Software, Education, EdTech | ||
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Leena Niemistö
Angel
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2 | Finland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $480k–$3.4M |
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TukkuHeino
VC Fund
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2 | Finland | Pre-Seed | Cooking, Children, Education | |
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Tesi
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, United States, Switzerland | Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $2.4M–$41M |
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Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | $695k–$10M |
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Ali Omar
Angel
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2 | Finland, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $53k–$2.2M |
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Marten Mickos
Angel
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2 | Finland, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, Enterprise Software, Internet | $550k–$4.5M |
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Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $137k–$6.8M |
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Reetta Rajala
Angel
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1 | Finland | Pre-Seed | Training, Education, Human Resources | |
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John Martin
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed | Software, Analytics, Education | |
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Look AI Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Austria, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | $116k–$5.4M |
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LähiTapiola
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Debt Financing, Seed, Series B | Manufacturing, Software, Apps | $5.4M–$16M |
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AngelList
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $100k–$23M |
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Martin Ostermayer
Angel
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1 | Germany, Spain, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, Apps, Software | $1.1M–$5.9M |
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Ascend Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, Israel, Austria | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Software, Medical Device | $1.5M–$12M |
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Omar Rebhan
Angel
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1 | Finland, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Internet, Apps, Coffee | |
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Finland, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $460k–$17M |
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Terhi (TJ) Vapola
Angel
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1 | Finland, Germany, The Netherlands | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Energy, Software | $176k–$28M |
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PINC
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Agriculture | $89k–$7.2M |
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Emerge VC
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, Software | $33k–$22M |
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Courage Ventures Management
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Apps, Web3 | $250k–$3.4M |
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Forestay Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, United States, Germany | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning | $2M–$110M |
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SanomaVentures
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A | Internet, SEO, Finance | $466k–$3M |
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NGP Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Series B, Series C, Series D | Software, Mobile, Internet | $10M–$150M |
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Eqvitec
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | $3.1M–$3.6M |
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Ria Parppei
Angel
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1 | Finland | Pre-Seed | Training, Education, Human Resources | |
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KSI Education
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Seed | EdTech, Education, E-Learning | |
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Dirk Freise
Angel
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1 | Germany, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, Software, Health Care | $680k–$3.3M |
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Bryant Chou
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Finland | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, FinTech, Analytics | $550k–$17M |
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Timo Hentunen
Angel
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1 | Finland | Pre-Seed | Training, Education, Human Resources | |
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daFUND
VC Fund
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1 | Croatia, Finland, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Hotel, Banking, FinTech | $114k–$3.3M |
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Aleksandr Gorovoi
Angel
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1 | Finland | Pre-Seed | EdTech, Mobile Apps, Language Learning | |
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Veritas Finland
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Debt Financing | EdTech, Farming, Seafood | |
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Practica Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, B2B, Information Technology | $219k–$30M |
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Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Denmark, Finland | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Gaming | $3.3M–$12M |
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Jukka Tapaninen
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed | Medical, Software, Education | |
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MPA Education
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Finland, United Kingdom | Seed | EdTech, Education, B2B | $524k–$1.1M |
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Alisa Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Debt Financing | EdTech, Software, Education | |
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Midinvest Management
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Information Technology, Internet | |
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Juha Harju
Angel
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1 | Finland | Convertible Note | Internet, Software, Education | |
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Excedea Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Software, Education, E-Learning | ||
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Liquido.VC
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Seed | Energy, Software, Education | |
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Almaral
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Seed, Convertible Note | Medical Device, Health Diagnostics, Software | $1.1M–$2.9M |
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Ali Ömer Horzum
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed | EdTech, Education, Primary Education | |
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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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Finland, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 229
- Round size: Seed $297k–$3.5M; Grant $52k–$10M; Debt Financing $241k–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- eMabler — EMabler is an EV charging infrastructure software company that develops an API-first platform used by businesses to operate, manage, and scale electric vehicle charging networks. It provides a centralized system for charge point management, billing, pricing, roaming, and energy optimization, allowing operators to control large networks of EVchargers from a single platform. The software connects charging hardware with business systems such as CRM, payment, and energy management tools through open APIs and a large library of integrations. The company focuses on enabling enterprises, such as energy utilities, parking operators, and retail businesses, to embed EV charging directly into their existing services and digital platforms rather than building standalone charging systems. This includes white-label solutions where charging is integrated into a company’s own app or customer experience under its brand.
- Coolbrook — Our RotoDynamic electric technology can cut 30% of industrial emissions annually, delivering hope at industrial scale.
- Solar Foods — Solar Foods is a food-tech startup that specializes in testing a technology that uses electricity to produce hydrogen which is combined with carbon dioxide, water, vitamins, and minerals to feed and grow microbial biomass that can be used as edible protein. The industrial biotech startup develops a protein called Solein, a nutritious, sustainablesubstitute for animal-derived proteins. Solein is created using elements from the air—CO2, water, nitrogen—and electricity. This single-cell protein is cultivated through gas fermentation, essentially deriving edible calories from hydrogen-oxidizing microbes.
Sparkmind.vc is the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. The company invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. The investment sweet spot of the company is from seed to international growth phase with single investments upto €5m.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $793k–$3.2M; Series A $3.9M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $64M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Tiney — Tiney are on a mission to reimagine at-home childcare & unlock the potential of every child. For parents, this means easy access to an exceptional and affordable childcare community that’s built around busy modern lives. For children, this means high quality and thoughtful play-based learning in safe settings that goes beyond nationalrequirements for early education. For childcare providers, this means allowing them to focus on the children in their care, relieving the burden of running a small business and ensuring maximum job satisfaction.
- AUTOVIO — Autovio offers digital concepts for driving schools.
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
Gorilla Capital helps ambitious startups grow with smart funding and support. Discover how our team invests in early-stage companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $297k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $149k–$680k
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Munchi — Munchi allows restaurants to manage all orders, payments and loyalty in one platform with the power of AI.
- Mobal — It is time to get your Business Profiles in shape. Meet your customers where they are and stand out where it matters most.
- Nordic Information Control — Inventering och klassificering av information, automatiskt med Nordic Information Control Platform. Automatic Regulatory compliance.
Some call you founders. We call you Superheroes. Seed stage VC investing in insight-driven startups in Finland and the Baltics. Tickets 100 K€ - 1000 K€.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Finland, Lithuania, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $212k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $618k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Zadaa — For Zadaa users: continue secondhand shopping and selling on Bought, the new app from Helsinki that automates listings from your past purchases.
- ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
- Creagent — Find designers. Screened & shortlisted. Easy, fast and cost-effective - the smart way of sourcing with AI.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.9M; Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $1.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $169M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Leetify — We help gamers identify their weaknesses, work on those weaknesses and track their progression.
- UpCloud — World's fastest cloud servers with a 100% uptime SLA! Sign up for a free trial today.
- ONEiO — ONEiO is a cloud-native integration service provider connecting people, processes, and tools – enabling seamless collaboration without traditional integration hassle. Provided as a turn-key solution, as self-service, or something in between. You choose.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 196
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.4M; Series A $2.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $171M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Thor Dynamics — Directed Energy Systems for Counter-Drone Defense
- Everywear Games — Metacore is a wearable game studio. The company was founded in 2014 by industry veterans from Remedy, Digital Chocolate and Rovio and it is the pioneer of smartwatch gaming. It’s award-winning Apple Watch launch title, Runeblade, has received worldwide recognition from press, fans and industry heavyweights and it’s games are consistently on top ofglobal charts.
- Hyperion Robotics — We are accelerating the transition to sustainable and automated construction with Concrete 3D Printing.
Oppiva Invest offers capital-based loan financing to companies, especially for business activities related to the development of vocational training learning environments and teaching aids, and for export promotion.
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- Industry: Software, Education, EdTech
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Seppo — Seppo is an online programme for creating educational games. It can be used on all levels from pre-school to university.
- Edudata.io — Edudata.io allows students to view and understand the processing of their personal data. For Schools Edudata.io is the Data Privacy platform which saves resources spent on EU GDPR Data Protection Impact Assessments.
Leena Niemistö
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $480k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
- Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
TukkuHeino
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- Industry: Cooking, Children, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carrot Kitchen — Versatile recipes, designed by food education experts, and a game-like cooking experience guarantee a fun and safe cooking hobby in the child's own home.
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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$41M; Series B $3.1M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
- Vexlum — A #laser company providing high-power #VECSELs for #QuantumTechnology
- CurifyLabs — CurifyLabs enables 3D printed personalized medicines in pharmacies and hospitals. Always close to the patient.
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Browse database — It's Free!Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better.We willsupport and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent.We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders’ way otherwise, if we don’t add value.We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest globally, following trusted, local lead investors.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $695k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $704k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- Anthropos — Assess workforce skills and capabilities with AI readiness workforce assessment tools. Identify gaps, benchmark readiness, and develop teams for AI transformation.
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster delivers customized employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students. They demonstrably improve the acquisition and retention of customers and employees.
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $263k–$2.2M; Angel $53k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $165k–$724k
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
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.
- Retailgrid — Agentic AI pricing platform for mid-market retailers. Turn messy retail data into structured, explainable price decisions in days, not months.
Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Finland, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
- Tangled — The next-generation social coding platform.
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
Reaktor Ventures they invest in seed stage companies and helps them to create markets.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $137k–$2M; Pre-Seed $159k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- allies.digital — Allies is a match-making platform curating businesses with IT-, digital and creative agencies. No more miss-matches when buying IT & creative services.
- StarBerry Games — StarBerry Games GmbH is a mobile games company based in Berlin, Germany. The company develops free-to-play casual mobile games and is best known for its games Merge Mayor and Idle Coffee Corp.
Reetta Rajala
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- Industry: Training, Education, Human Resources
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
John Martin
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- School Day — AI-enhanced School Wellbeing Solution for K12 Education. Making school wellbeing a natural part of every school day and removing all barriers from learning. Provides a safe, simple and real-time channel and voice for students and teachers in their wellbeing. Analytics and insights making wellbeing phenomena visible early on for actionable lighttouch classroom interventions. Learning doesn’t happen without wellbeing.
Look AI Ventures (LAIV) is the first investment fund in the Czech Republic focusing exclusively on early-stage AI startups.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United Kingdom, Austria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $288k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $510k–$1.8M; Convertible Note $116k–$564k
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — CheckStep provides a AI-powered Trust & Safety and UGC management software to online platform worldwide. It enables company to manage the full policy management life-cycle.
- Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
- Sodex Innovations — Unlocking embedded power at any shape
LähiTapiola is based on mutual company form, a group of companies owned by its customers, serving the personal, farm, entrepreneurial.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Apps
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Debt Financing $5.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Verda (formerly DataCrunch) — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
- Steady Energy — Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating.
- Aspocomp Group — Heart of your technology, official Twitter account. #PCB manufacturer and supplier with own factory in Oulu and a partner network in Europe and China.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 181
- Round size: Seed $343k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.8M; Series A $2.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Datakrew — Datakrew delivers real-time EV battery analytics and AI-powered fleet intelligence. Smarter, safer fleets start here. Explore our solutions.
- PodcastAI — Upload one episode. PodcastAI generates transcripts, clips, social posts, a website, and distribution automatically.
- Hardline — Hardline, the AI-powered platform for construction teams, transforms jobsite communication into actionable summaries and detailed documentation.
CEO of Shortcut Ventures GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.Martin Ostermayer is one of the CEOs of the venture capital firm, Shortcut Ventures, located in Hamburg, Germany. After graduating in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Ostermayer received his MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1998, majoring in telecommunicationsand business strategy.In 1999, he set up handy.de, which became Europe’s largest provider of mobile entertainment services with business partners Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise. They also created blau.de, the first independent wireless service discounter in Germany, in 2005. They led the company until 2011.
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- Industry: Education, Apps, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.3M; Series A $4.8M–$5.9M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AUDAVIS — AUDAVIS is developing the most innovative approach that will revolutionize auditing. With data-driven full automation by AUDAVIS and a new AI-based approach, every financial statement becomes a breeze with unprecedented efficiency.
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Graswald AI — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
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Browse database — It's Free!Founded by two Wall Street professionals in 2002 with the goal of making companies successful by helping them raise capital and improve their management standards. This was done by taking an active role in running these companies (at the Board level and operationally) and helping to secure strategic partnerships.Over USD 100 million in assetsgenerated from successful investments in China, and more recently in Europe. All invested funds come from our partners; no 3rd party money is managed. Since the partners are investing their own capital, they are dedicated to making their investments successful.Led by Monita Mo, one of the founders and a serial entrepreneur. Our partners have decades of experience across a wide range of industries and geographical regions. All investment partners have done business in Asia and bring an extensive network of contacts for our investments. Additionally, they have started, managed, and sold businesses and understand the challenges involved.See the need to share more developed technology to other markets, especially in China, where growth opportunities may be greater. That is why we are currently focusing on companies in Europe and other developed markets that have unique technologies that can be commercialized in their home markets, Asia, and the US.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical Device
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Finland, Israel, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DriveU.auto — Transform existing terminal tractors into autonomous vehicles. Fast ROI. Continuous operation in mixed traffic.
- Pionix — PIONIX develops EVerest, a fully featured commercial open source SW platform for charging stations. With our open platform, we will provide a broad ecosystem for EV charging that can be easily extended by the open-source community and utilized by any commercial party.PIONIX as main developer of the EVerest ecosystem offers integration andsoftware update services, cloud operations and productivity & security enhancements as subscriptions.
- piur imaging — PIUR´s tomographic ultrasound solutions turn any standard ultrasound system into a tomographic 3D imaging device, bridging the gap between 2D ultrasound and regular tomographic imaging modalities. With any conventional 2D ultrasound transducer, high-resolution tomographic images can be generated and stored as quantifiable volumes, enabling true AIpost-processing for efficient diagnostics. Current focus is on thyroid imaging where AI algorithms allow doctors a fast and objective analysis and classification of thyroid nodules.
Early Stage Angel Investor, Market Entry & Growth Strategist
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- Industry: Internet, Apps, Coffee
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coffinado — Coffinado is an e-Commerce platform providing a variety of coffee beans to customers & coffee shops from self-owned roasters.
- PerchPeek — PerchPeek is the easiest way to relocate your employees to hundreds of destinations around the world. With support globally from the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, AND MORE!
- Space Nation — Space Nation is a Finnish startup aimed at encouraging public participation in the burgeoning commercial space industry, has raised more than 2.2 million Euros in a crowdfunding campaign launched Feb. 2 for the Space Nation Astronaut Training Program, including one million Euros pledged in the first 43 minutes for the smartphones application forcitizen astronauts. Space Nation is an official partner of NASA and has lab space at the International Space Station. Space Nation has partnership agreements with a number of space tech companies, including Axiom Space for access to the ISS and spaceflight training experiences, and IceXtech in Iceland for astronaut field training in the extraterrestrial looking landscapes of the geothermal regions of North East Iceland. Space Nation is the first space travel company to become an affiliate of UNWTO, the United Nation World Travel Organisation.
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Seed $460k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $1.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Nomerra — The AI Coworker in Private Market Operations
- LimX Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
- Zhuji Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
Terhi J. Vapola is an experienced venture capitalist, entrepreneur and international business executive, with proven track record in creating new tech businesses and driving growth through board work. Her experience spans from managing high tech start-ups and growth companies to venture capital and corporate venturing. Currently she is the leaderand founder of Helen Ventures, the investment arm of Finnish energy company Helen Ltd. She has also worked as a CEO of leading Finnish early growth phase investment firm and as a managing director of a seed VC firm. A startup that she co-founded won the coveted Red Herring Europe and Red Dot Design awards. Whilst at Nokia she participated in bringing WCDMA to the global markets (the technology that enables us to bring internet into our mobile phones), and orchestrated setting up two mobile startup funds with Silicon Valley and Seattle based partners. Through her Ph.D. dissertation and work experience, she has a profound understanding of how to successfully manage the partnering between startups and multinational corporations in global innovation ecosystems.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Energy, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Finland, Germany, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $176k–$4M; Series A $6.2M–$19M; Series B $27M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TINYAPP — TinyApp is the pedagogical solution for early education that offers equal learning opportunities for every child using the power of technology. TinyApp enables sharing meaningful content between kindergarten and home. It provides comprehensive picture of young children's learning to teachers and parents by facilitating personalizedpedagogical documentation & learning experience, linking activities to life-long learning targets.
- Ora Computing — Ora Computing is an AI infrastructure startup focused on compressing and optimizing large AI models, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), to make them cheaper and more efficient to deploy.
- Supercritical — Supercritical helps businesses get to net zero. Our software enables you to footprint, reduce, and offset your climate impact, quickly and permanently.
PINC was launched as Paulig Incubator in 2018 to help Paulig stay in the forefront of relevant innovations, as well as to contribute to a tastier, healthier and more sustainable planet. Today, our ambition is the same, but we have developed into a corporate venture arm. We aim for strategic, financial, and societal impact in our investments,fostering a sustainable food system for tomorrow. We are investing across the agrifood value chain in three primary impact themes: Improve planetary health and diet within the current food system: This includes innovations in agriculture and food security, such as advanced crop breeding or green fertilizers, innovative ingredients and next generation healthy foods, as well as solutions for tracking and improving climate and nature. Novel technologies to feed 10 BN people by 2050: Technologies needed to sustainably produce enough food for our growing population. This includes food production without land use change, such as precision fermentation and cell-culture. A circular system for food & materials: Regardless of whether we grow our food in soil or in bioreactors, the system needs to be circular. Some examples are upcycled ingredients, food from unused sources, new coating and packaging solutions, as well as technologies to prevent or make better use of side streams. We are looking for entrepreneurs in an attractive market space with an intrinsic drive to find a solution to the problem they are addressing, a clear and scalable plan for success, a reliable team and partners whom we can trust and work closely with.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $907k–$7M; Pre-Seed $89k–$2.8M; Series A $4.1M–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amatera — Amatera is a biotechnology research company that leverages the latest techniques in biotechnology, to create coffee varieties. Amatera urges to make coffee varieties more sustainable and climate resistant to fill that massive demand. Founded by Omar Dekkiche and Lucie Kriegshauser in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.
- Mycoverse — Mycoverse is a agri-biotech startup specializes in developing fungal-based biological crop protection solutions to replace chemical pesticides, targeting row crops with an initial focus on potato late blight.
- Rainbow Crops — Rainbow Crops is a next-generation Agtech company developing climate-resilient, high-performing crop varieties.
Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $33k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
- 5U AI — 5U AI gives freight teams an AI workforce that's connected across multiple communication channels to understand, reason and act on data.
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
Courage Ventures is a seed investment fund with global networks. The fund focuses on health, education and environment verticals where its partners and advisors can add significant value to the companies’ growth.
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rens Original — 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.
- Equally — Build engaging games for kids that encourage physical activity, personal development and exploration. Provide parents the data and oversight they need to reward positive behavior.
- Meru Health — Meru Health is an online mental health provider that helps people improve their mental health long-term by treating depression, anxiety, and burnout.
We are a team of enterprise software investors providing growth capital to category-defining companies at their inflection point.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Series A $12M–$28M; Series B $2M–$49M; Series C $7M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Convelio — Convelio is a global logistics startup specialized in bulky, fragile and high-value items.
- Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
SanomaVentures is the venturing arm of European media company Sanoma Corporation (SAA1V), aiming to support innovative start-ups in digital information, entertainment and education by providing them with capital, media exposure, expertise and access to Sanoma’s business network.SanomaVentures focuses on early stage investments in start-ups activein online consumer services, e-commerce, mobile, video, online advertising and education. SanomaVentures has offices in Amsterdam and Helsinki.
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- Industry: Internet, SEO, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $466k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Venuu — Venuu is an event services company that provides solutions for parties, weddings, seminars, meetings and other events. To venue owners, it provides a cost-effective sales and marketing channel to find customers. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Southern Finland, Finland.
- Peerby Classic — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.
- Yogaia — Yogaia is the first live, interactive online yoga studio in the world. With Yogaia, the studio is where you are, allowing you to attend classes in the convenience of your home with professional teacher instructing you personally via webcam. Yogaia is available on desktop, iOS, Android and Apple TV in English, German and Finnish.
We help exceptional founders turn their big ideas into companies that shape a better future.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series D
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Round size: Series B $10M–$65M; Series C $14M–$90M; Series D $10M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Swype — Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input.In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units
- Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Series A $3.1M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
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
Ria Parppei
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- Industry: Training, Education, Human Resources
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
Support students to develop knowledge, wisdom and skills
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kide Science — Kide Science supports young children's scientific thinking through play-based learning, which predicts better learning outcomes in school.
Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet
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- Industry: Education, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $680k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Mindsurance — At Mindsurance, we believe that a thriving workforce starts with prioritizing mental health. Our range of evidence-based solutions empowers businesses to create a supportive environment that nurtures employee well-being. From targeted training programs to confidential counseling services, we offer a holistic approach that addresses the unique needs of your organization. Join us in fostering a healthier, happier, and more engaged workforce.
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
Bryant Chou - Co-founder & Chief Architect @ Webflow
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $550k–$12M; Angel $2M–$2M; Series A $8M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gumloop — Gumloop is the multiplayer AI agent builder. Let anyone at your company build agents with any AI model, any integration while IT controls access.
- Gentrace — Test generative AI across teams. Automate evals, tune retrieval systems, and edit prompts for reliable LLM products and agents. Start for free today.
- Scrunch — Monitor brand presence in AI search, analyze and optimize your website, and deliver content directly to AI agents with Scrunch.
Timo Hentunen
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- Industry: Training, Education, Human Resources
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
daFUND is a venture capital fund which invest in early stages propelled by software.
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- Industry: Hotel, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Croatia, Finland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $543k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $114k–$280k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- InsiderCX — Turn patient feedback into actionable insights to optimize processes, enhance engagement, and drive revenue while maintaining quality control.
- Muffin — Muffin is an intuitive web and mobile app designed to digitize the process of F&B acceptance.
- Butterflye Solutions — Butterflye helps you increase transparency, engage customers & gather useful feedback that drives valuable change for those customers.
Alexander, a serial entrepreneur and investor, is a member of FiBAN, Finland's most prominent and active business angel network. His extensive experience in finance and investments has been a cornerstone of his successful career.
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- Industry: EdTech, Mobile Apps, Language Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- ThinkAI Oy — Revolutionizing Language Learning for Immigrants. AI-Powered App To Learn Language With The Help of Scientifically Proven Flash Cards Approach Combined With Audio Mode.
Veritas is an entrepreneur’s pension insurer, with a human touch.
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- Industry: EdTech, Farming, Seafood
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- FIFAX — Fifax Ab's business idea is to cultivate a first-class rainbow trout with a modern, innovative and environmentally friendly method. To this end, Fifax has built a fish farm for a dry land using the Circulating Technique (RAS). The plant is located in Eckerö, Storby, on the western Åland.Fifax Ab's goal is to produce the best, domestic,good quality and fresh rainbow trout.
- Sanako — Sanako provides cross-curricular technology products and consulting to the education and corporate sector. It is is associated with integrated ICT multimedia platforms and specializes in multimedia language labs. Sanako was launched in September 2003 to unite existing brands Tandberg Educational, Teleste and Divace.
Practica Capital
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- Industry: Software, B2B, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $219k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.4M; Series A $2.4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Creem — Creem is the all-in-one platform where software companies run payments, taxes, affiliates and revenue - together Finance for humans building online
- kopa.ai — AI agents for e-commerce growth.
- Outcraft AI — Outcraft AI is the autonomous revenue engine built to drive growth across the entire customer lifecycle.
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Browse database — It's Free!Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) is a venture capital firm with a portfolio of investments in the Information and Communications Technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Series A $3.3M–$12M; Series B $4M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $135M in 2005
Portfolio highlights
- Bitbar — Whether web, native, or hybrid, securely test your app across the real environments you need. No lab maintenance required.
- 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 — Pear Sports is a health and fitness software platform that delivers digital coaching solutions. The platform pushes the consumer experience to the next level with dynamic, interactive audio and video workouts and personalized coaching.
Jukka Tapaninen is an experienced IT business executive and a board member at Fimmic. Jukka also holds board positions at weVision, Addoro Ab, Findity and MeshWorks Wireless Oy.Jukka has a strong background in the IT industry on managing companies and business units globally. His leadership experience, from large companies like SAP and HP, aswell as from strong midsize companies has given him industry knowledge and excellent network within the strategic ecosystem and major customers. Jukka has experience in working in the United States, Singapore and multiple locations in Europe that have given him a good understanding on how business is done in different parts of the world.Jukka holds a M.Sc. degree from the Helsinki School of Economics.
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- Industry: Medical, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Aiforia — Aiforia provides software and services for pathologists, scientists and healthcare professionals to use artificial intelligence for image analysis.
MPA Capital is looking for mission-driven entrepreneurs developing inclusive EdTech solutions to tackle the challenge of human talent shortage (labour & skills shortages, mental health crisis).
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, B2B
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy, Finland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $524k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Lifeed — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
- Blackbullion — Blackbullion is the all in one student money space where you can build your money management skills, gain financial confidence and apply for student funding.
- Kide Science — Kide Science supports young children's scientific thinking through play-based learning, which predicts better learning outcomes in school.
The best partner bank in the Nordics.
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- Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Sanako — Sanako provides cross-curricular technology products and consulting to the education and corporate sector. It is is associated with integrated ICT multimedia platforms and specializes in multimedia language labs. Sanako was launched in September 2003 to unite existing brands Tandberg Educational, Teleste and Divace.
Midinvest Management is a Finnish private equity firm specialized in ownership arrangements for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Humap — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
- Quosis — As of March 18, 2008, Quosis Oy was acquired by Proactum Oy. Quosis Oy operates as an open source software service company. It offers open-source based solutions and services, including portal solution for managing organization’s information and services; content management for gathering, sharing, saving, and producing information; businessprocess management for automating, monitoring, managing, and improving key processes; integration of information systems; and instant messaging for improving the organizational information exchange. The company also offers open source consultation and software development services. It serves the paper industry. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
- Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
Mr. Juha Harju is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Woolman. He is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Education
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Finland
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
Excedea Capital is a private investment company. It finances growth companies and special real estate opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Education, E-Learning
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Seppo — Seppo is an online programme for creating educational games. It can be used on all levels from pre-school to university.
We help startups in building pre-seed and seed financing rounds from designing the pitch deck to closing the round. We also build our own startup portfolio by investing and supporting the carefully selected growth companies.
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- Seppo — Seppo is an online programme for creating educational games. It can be used on all levels from pre-school to university.
- Polar Night Energy — Polar Night Energy - Seasonal heat storage in district heating and industrial applications. The energy revolution is here.
Almaral provides risk management advice long-term strategy development budgeting operational function setup legal support early-stage sales and marketing function setup, and commercialization.
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- Industry: Medical Device, Health Diagnostics, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fepod — Fepod Oy Ltd develops a point-of-care diagnostics platform for rapid blood concentration measurement of pain medicine and other markers. Using a mobile phone, portable reader, and disposable sensors, it delivers quick, accurate results in minutes, enabling timely treatment decisions in acute care settings. The company aims to be the #1 acute carePOC diagnostics platform by 2030.
- Marginum — Pioneering the next-generation quantitative surgical techniques.
- Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Ali Ömer Horzum
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Primary Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- New Nordic School — New Nordic Schools is transforming current systems of education. Our K-12 educational system empowers all students to explore their natural creativity.
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All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.
Can I download investor list?
To download the EdTech Investors in Finland investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.
You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.
Can I access investor database?
To access all 91 investors investing in Finland EdTech startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
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