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Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Finland (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Finland Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Finland Education startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Business Finland
VC Fund
6 Finland, United States, Sweden Grant, Seed, Debt Financing Software, SaaS, Biotechnology $52k–$10M
Sparkmind.vc
VC Fund
6 Finland, Germany, Sweden Seed, Series A Education, E-Learning, Software $793k–$10M
Gorilla Capital
VC Fund
5 Finland, Sweden, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Information Technology $149k–$1.5M
Inventure
VC Fund
4 Finland, Sweden, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $549k–$25M
Superhero Capital
VC Fund
4 Finland, Lithuania, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $212k–$7.3M
Lifeline Ventures
VC Fund
3 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $549k–$20M
Ali Omar
Angel
2 Finland, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $53k–$2.2M
TukkuHeino
VC Fund
2 Finland Pre-Seed Cooking, Children, Education
Oppiva Invest
VC Fund
2 Finland Software, Education, EdTech
Marten Mickos
Angel
2 Finland, United States, Sweden Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Enterprise Software, Internet $550k–$4.5M
Tesi
VC Fund
2 Finland, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $2.4M–$41M
Leena Niemistö
Angel
2 Finland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, E-Commerce $480k–$3.4M
Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund
2 Finland, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $137k–$6.8M
Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
2 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech $695k–$10M
Practica Capital
VC Fund
1 Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, B2B, Information Technology $219k–$30M
Butterfly Ventures
VC Fund
1 Finland, Sweden, Norway Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $110k–$4.3M
Juha Harju
Angel
1 Finland Convertible Note Internet, Software, Education
Markko Vaarnas
Angel
1 Finland Convertible Note Internet, Software, Education
Lennu Keinanen
Angel
1 Finland Convertible Note Internet, Software, Education
MPA Education
VC Fund
1 Italy, Finland, United Kingdom Seed EdTech, Education, B2B $524k–$1.1M
Alisa Bank
VC Fund
1 Finland Debt Financing EdTech, Software, Education
Aleksandr Gorovoi
Angel
1 Finland Pre-Seed EdTech, Mobile Apps, Language Learning
Ali Ömer Horzum
Angel
1 Finland Seed EdTech, Education, Primary Education
John Martin
Angel
1 Finland Seed Software, Analytics, Education
daFUND
VC Fund
1 Croatia, Finland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Hotel, Banking, FinTech $114k–$3.3M
PINC
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Agriculture $89k–$7.2M
KSI Education
VC Fund
1 Finland Seed EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Omar Rebhan
Angel
1 Finland, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Apps, Coffee
Aristo-Invest
VC Fund
1 Finland Pre-Seed Cooking, Children, Education
AngelList
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $100k–$23M
Point Nine
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $900k–$62M
Jukka Tapaninen
Angel
1 Finland Seed Medical, Software, Education
Courage Ventures Management
VC Fund
1 Finland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Apps, Web3 $250k–$3.4M
Look AI Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Austria, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $116k–$5.4M
Terhi (TJ) Vapola
Angel
1 Finland, Germany, The Netherlands Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Energy, Software $176k–$28M
Takeoff Partners
VC Fund
1 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Seed Software, CRM, Sales $500k–$823k
Martin Ostermayer
Angel
1 Germany, Spain, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, Apps, Software $1.1M–$5.9M
Reetta Rajala
Angel
1 Finland Pre-Seed Training, Education, Human Resources
Redstone.VC
VC Fund
1 Germany, Finland, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $460k–$17M
Eqvitec
VC Fund
1 Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology $3.1M–$3.6M
Antler
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Veritas Finland
VC Fund
1 Finland Debt Financing EdTech, Farming, Seafood
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Denmark, Finland Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Gaming $3.3M–$12M
Liquido.VC
VC Fund
1 Finland Seed Energy, Software, Education
Midinvest Management
VC Fund
1 Finland Seed, Convertible Note Software, Information Technology, Internet
Tomi Hilvo
Angel
1 Finland Convertible Note Internet, Software, Education
Ria Parppei
Angel
1 Finland Pre-Seed Training, Education, Human Resources
Bryant Chou
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Finland Seed, Series A, Angel Software, FinTech, Analytics $550k–$17M
Poland Prize Program
VC Fund
1 Estonia, Poland, Ukraine Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, FinTech, Internet $38k–$94k
NGP Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series B, Series C, Series D Software, Mobile, Internet $10M–$150M
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Business Finland
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 6 investments in Finland Education startups, 19 in the past 12 months

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

  • 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.
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Sparkmind.vc
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 6 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Gorilla Capital
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in Finland Education startups

Gorilla Capital helps ambitious startups grow with smart funding and support. Discover how our team invests in early-stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Inventure
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 investments in Finland Education startups

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Superhero Capital
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Lifeline Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 3 investments in Finland Education startups

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

  • 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.
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Ali Omar
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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TukkuHeino
VC Fund · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

TukkuHeino

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Oppiva Invest
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Marten Mickos
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Tesi
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government-owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state-owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses.Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with privateco-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings.The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570

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Investment focus

  • 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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Leena Niemistö
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

Leena Niemistö

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

Reaktor Ventures they invest in seed stage companies and helps them to create markets.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Practica Capital
VC Fund · Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Practica Capital

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Investment focus

  • 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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Butterfly Ventures
VC Fund · Oulu, Oulu, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $110k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DREV — DREV is a cleantech company manufacturing contamination control solutions for the world’s most advanced manufacturing facilities.
  • 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.
  • Polar Light Technologies — Polar Light Technologies focuses on developing the next generation of Nano and micro LED technology.
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Juha Harju
Angel · Jyväskylä, Western Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Mr. Juha Harju is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Woolman. He is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Education
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
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Markko Vaarnas
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Markko Vaarnas is specialized in internationalizing B2B software and service companies. His experience accumulates from Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA), a company he co-founded in 1995 and successfully exited in late 2014. At the time that the company was sold, GIA had 10 offices across 4 continents, and a vast majority of the 15 mEURrevenue came from outside its home market, Finland. In January 2015, Markko co-founded Takeoff Partners with the mission to create positive impact to people and the society by helping business owners to grow their businesses internationally. He executes this mission through serving as a part-time advisor, coach and angel investor for growth companies, as well as a consultant and interim leader for targeted internationalization projects and programs.In his various roles, he wants to share his experiences on how to internationalize B2B software and service business, and more specifically help companies to build strategic business plans, conceptualize offerings, improve customer experiences, raise finance and facilitate the implementation of new market entries.During his time at GIA, Markko became one of the global thought leaders in Market Intelligence. He is the author of the book “The Handbook of Market Intelligence” published by Wiley in September 2011, and has presented and facilitated workshops in numerous international conferences. http://bit.ly/HandbookMIMarkko graduated from the Helsinki School of Economics with a Master's degree (International Business). He is married with three children, and speaks fluent English and Finnish, and is also able to converse in German and Swedish. In his free time he enjoys playing soccer and coaches a junior soccer team.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Education
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
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Lennu Keinanen
Angel · Jyväskylä, Western Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Lennu Keinanen is a Co-founder of Flashnode. He attended University of Eastern Finland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Education
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
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MPA Education
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Alisa Bank
VC Fund · Turku, Western Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

The best partner bank in the Nordics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
  • Stage:Debt Financing
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Aleksandr Gorovoi
Angel · Rauha, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Mobile Apps, Language Learning
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Ali Ömer Horzum
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Ali Ömer Horzum

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Education, Primary Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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John Martin
Angel · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

John Martin

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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daFUND
VC Fund · Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

daFUND is a venture capital fund which invest in early stages propelled by software.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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PINC
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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KSI Education
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Support students to develop knowledge, wisdom and skills

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Omar Rebhan
Angel · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Early Stage Angel Investor, Market Entry & Growth Strategist

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Aristo-Invest
VC Fund · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Aristo-Invest is a family office of CapMan founder Ari Tolppanen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cooking, Children, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
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AngelList
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Apply privately to 130,000+ remote jobs and startup jobs near you with one application. See salary and equity upfront. Find the latest tech jobs, company overviews, benefits and more at AngelList Talent.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 265
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $10M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sereact — The only real-world verified Vision-Language-Action AI. Proven at scale. Trained on the world's largest dataset of robotic picks.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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Jukka Tapaninen
Angel · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aiforia — Aiforia provides software and services for pathologists, scientists and healthcare professionals to use artificial intelligence for image analysis.
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Courage Ventures Management
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Look AI Ventures
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Look AI Ventures (LAIV) is the first investment fund in the Czech Republic focusing exclusively on early-stage AI startups.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Terhi (TJ) Vapola
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Takeoff Partners
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Takeoff Partners are experienced growth advisors and private investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, CRM, Sales
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$823k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Humap — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
  • UPGRD Photos — UPGRD is a turnkey solution for sports franchises and entertainment brands who want to engage their fans and sell more fan merchandise.
  • CollectiveCrunch — CollectiveCrunch is an AI leader in the forestry industry. We collect and analyze a wide range of information, including climate, geo and process data, to bring best-in-class forest inventories and accurate carbon storage calculations to our customers. The largest forest owners the Nordics and Baltics are already using using our solution, LindaForest.With Linda Forest, our customers gain actionable insights, leading to improved forest management, informed forest investments and up-to-date carbon storage analytics. Overall, Linda Forest can reduce forest planning costs while increasing accuracy. We are currently focused on the Nordic and Baltic countries but are soon adopting the solution to Northern America, Russia and other forestry markets. Moreover, we are working with insurance companies to apply our expert analytics to new opportunities such as prediction of forest risk.
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Martin Ostermayer
Angel · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Reetta Rajala
Angel · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Reetta Rajala

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Finland Education startups, 24 in the past 12 months

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Eqvitec
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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

  • 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
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2215
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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Veritas Finland
VC Fund · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Veritas is an entrepreneur’s pension insurer, with a human touch.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Farming, Seafood
  • Stage:Debt Financing
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) is a venture capital firm with a portfolio of investments in the Information and Communications Technology.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Liquido.VC
VC Fund · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
  • Polar Night Energy — Polar Night Energy - Seasonal heat storage in district heating and industrial applications. The energy revolution is here.
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Midinvest Management
VC Fund · Jyväskylä, Western Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Midinvest Management is a Finnish private equity firm specialized in ownership arrangements for small- and medium-sized enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Tomi Hilvo
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Tomi Hilvo

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Education
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.
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Ria Parppei
Angel · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Ria Parppei

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Bryant Chou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Bryant Chou - Co-founder & Chief Architect @ Webflow

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Poland Prize Program
VC Fund · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Poland goverment program to support startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Estonia, Poland, Ukraine

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Grant $38k–$94k
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • muke — Muke is a vertical farming technology company that develops and produces fully automated, modular vertical farming systems that can be installed in supermarkets, restaurants, and other indoor locations like large distribution centers. Our technology uses 90% less water than traditional agriculture and does not require the use of pesticides orherbicides, making it a more sustainable and environmentally friendly way to produce food. We have learned our lesson from other companies' failures and invented technology that allows our clients to produce herbs, lettuce or exotic mushrooms at the price of traditional supply chains. It helps to maximize our clients profits and reduce negative aspects of growing and selling fresh produce (waste, carbon footprint, water usage) We were founded in 2021 by entrepreneurs and scientists who are passionate about solving the challenges of food production in the 21st century. We believe that vertical farming is the future of agriculture, and we are committed to making our technology accessible to everyone.Our technology is based on a number of innovative concepts, including: A fully automated system that reduces labor costs and improves efficiency. A responsive lighting system that provides the optimal amount of light for each type of plant. A multi-chamber cultivation system that allows us to grow a wider variety of crops. A focus on sustainability and environmental protection. We are currently in the process of commercializing our technology, and we are working with a number of commercial partners to bring our products to market. We are excited about the potential of our technology to make a positive impact on the world, and we are committed to making our technology as accessible as possible.
  • Zeew — Shopify for delivery, we empower entrepreneurs to start their own delivery business in 1 day.
  • OBORTECH — OBORTECH is Smart Logistics Hub underpinned by blockchain and IoT for all actors in supply chain.
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NGP Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

We help exceptional founders turn their big ideas into companies that shape a better future.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
  • Pelican Imaging — POKER369 Daftar Situs Poker Online Terpercaya Indonesia Agen Resmi IDN POKER Terbaik Game Terlengkap DominoQQ, Bandar Ceme Deposit Pulsa 10RB Bonus Member Baru
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Education Investor funding in Finland at a glance

Stats across 66 deals from 69 investors.

69
investors
in Finland Education startups
66
deals
in Finland Education startups
$518k
median round
in Finland Education startups
32%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage
71/29
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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