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Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Finland (June 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
Gorilla Capital
VC Fund
5 Finland, Sweden, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $149k–$5.5M
Business Finland
VC Fund
4 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Grant, Seed, Debt Financing Software, Biotechnology, SaaS $53k–$11M
Superhero Capital
VC Fund
4 Finland, Lithuania, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $212k–$3.1M
Inventure
VC Fund
4 Finland, Sweden, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $549k–$23M
Sparkmind.vc
VC Fund
4 Finland, Germany, Sweden Seed, Series A Education, E-Learning, EdTech $768k–$10M
Lifeline Ventures
VC Fund
3 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $547k–$20M
Ali Omar
Angel
2 Finland, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $53k–$2.1M
Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund
2 Finland, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Software, E-Commerce $137k–$6.6M
Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
2 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech $713k–$10M
Marten Mickos
Angel
2 Finland, United States, Sweden Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Enterprise Software, Internet $550k–$4.5M
TukkuHeino
VC Fund
2 Finland Pre-Seed Cooking, Children, Education
Leena Niemistö
Angel
2 Finland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, E-Commerce $480k–$3.2M
Ascend Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Finland, Israel, Austria Series A, Seed Health Care, Medical Device, Software $1.5M–$12M
Practica Capital
VC Fund
1 Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A B2B, Software, Information Technology $219k–$25M
Almaral
VC Fund
1 Finland Seed Medical Device, Software, Education $1.1M–$2.9M
Timo Hentunen
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, Health Care $505k–$17M
Takeoff Partners
VC Fund
1 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Seed Software, CRM, Sales $500k–$823k
Jukka Tapaninen
Angel
1 Finland Seed Medical, Software, Education
Liquido.VC
VC Fund
1 Finland Seed Energy, Software, Education
Dirk Freise
Angel
1 Germany, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, Software, TV $680k–$3.6M
Butterfly Ventures
VC Fund
1 Finland, Sweden, Norway Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, Information Technology $110k–$4.4M
PINC
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Agriculture, Food and Beverage $549k–$7.4M
Martin Ostermayer
Angel
1 Germany, Spain, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, Apps, Software $1.1M–$5.3M
Omar Rebhan
Angel
1 Finland, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Apps, Coffee
KSI Education
VC Fund
1 Finland Seed EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Terhi (TJ) Vapola
Angel
1 Finland, Germany, The Netherlands Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Energy, Software $176k–$28M
Courage Ventures Management
VC Fund
1 Finland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Apps, Shoes $250k–$3.2M
Aristo-Invest
VC Fund
1 Finland Pre-Seed Cooking, Children, Education
Juha Harju
Angel
1 Finland Convertible Note Internet, Software, Education
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Denmark, Finland Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Gaming $3.3M–$12M
Markko Vaarnas
Angel
1 Finland Convertible Note Internet, Software, Education
Lennu Keinanen
Angel
1 Finland Convertible Note Internet, Software, Education
Midinvest Management
VC Fund
1 Finland Seed, Convertible Note Software, Information Technology, Internet
MPA Education
VC Fund
1 Italy, Finland, United Kingdom Seed EdTech, Education, B2B $524k–$1.1M
Tomi Hilvo
Angel
1 Finland Convertible Note Internet, Software, Education
Excedea Capital
VC Fund
1 Finland Software, Education, E-Learning
AngelList
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $121k–$23M
SanomaVentures
VC Fund
1 Finland, The Netherlands Seed, Series A Internet, SEO, Finance $466k–$3M
Eqvitec
VC Fund
1 Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology $3.1M–$3.6M
Ali Ömer Horzum
Angel
1 Finland Seed EdTech, Education, Primary Education
LähiTapiola
VC Fund
1 Finland Debt Financing, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Apps $5.4M–$16M
Reetta Rajala
Angel
1 Finland Pre-Seed Training, Education, Human Resources
Point Nine
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $900k–$53M
Oppiva Invest
VC Fund
1 Finland Software, Education, E-Learning
Ria Parppei
Angel
1 Finland Pre-Seed Training, Education, Human Resources
Bryant Chou
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Finland Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $550k–$17M
daFUND
VC Fund
1 Croatia, Finland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Hotel, Banking, FinTech $549k–$3.5M
Antler
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $104k–$29M
Tesi
VC Fund
1 Finland, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Health Care $2.2M–$41M
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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, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $149k–$680k; Series A $2.6M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Upsy Company — Join Zotabet Casino today to enjoy special benefits and an amazing gaming environment with a wide range of slots!
  • 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.
  • Nordic Information Control — Inventering och klassificering av information, automatiskt med Nordic Information Control Platform. Automatic Regulatory compliance.
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Business Finland
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 investments in Finland Education startups

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, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 196
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$3.5M; Grant $53k–$11M; Debt Financing $241k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
  • Marginum — Pioneering the next-generation quantitative surgical techniques.
  • Valio — We are Valio Group: the most innovative dairy and food company in the world.
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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, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Lithuania, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $212k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $618k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
  • Creagent — Find designers. Screened & shortlisted. Easy, fast and cost-effective - the smart way of sourcing with AI.
  • Pricen — Pricen is an AI-driven dynamic pricing platform for retail and e-commerce. Used in over 32 countries, Pricen helps retail and e-commerce businesses to maximize profitability with an AI-driven pricing solution that intelligently optimizes product prices at every stage, from launch to markdown. The platform integrates seamlessly with your ERP, PIMand major e-commerce ecosystems.AI-Driven Pricing Pricing Simulator Pricing Automation Pricing Management Platfom
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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: 165
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$6M; Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $1.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $169M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Finch — Optimize building design with AI and graph technology. Get immediate feedback on performance, detect errors and find optimal solutions.
  • Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.
  • 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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Sparkmind.vc
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 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, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, Germany, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$3.8M; Series A $3.9M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $64M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • AUTOVIO — Autovio offers digital concepts for driving schools.
  • Swap Language — Swap Language is a language learning platform that delivers Danish lessons to companies and international employees.
  • 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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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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 179
  • Round size: Seed $547k–$5.4M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $171M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
  • Thor Dynamics — Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with a European base in Finland, Thor Dynamics specializes in directed energy systems for defense against drones and drone swarms. The company’s innovative solutions are available worldwide to protect critical infrastructure and enhance national security. Laser Armor™ is a complete directed energy counter-dronesolution. Utilizing advanced radar and optical systems it can detect, track, and target hostile targets. High-power directed energy from Thor’s Laser Engines then eliminates the threat in seconds. Multiple safety systems ensure accurate target identification and minimal collateral damage.
  • 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.
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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, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$2.1M; Angel $53k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $163k–$724k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.
  • React & Share — High volume, high quality feedback directly from your customers. React & Share helps digital comms teams improve their websites and satisfy their customers.
  • Plain Complex — VUOROX IS AN AI-POWERED ROSTER SCHEDULING APP FOR HEALTHCARE
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Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Finland Education startups

Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $137k–$2M; Pre-Seed $159k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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
  • Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
  • Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
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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: 16
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $713k–$1.6M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
  • Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
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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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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 Revolution — 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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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: 18
  • Round size: Seed $480k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.
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Ascend Capital Partners
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Israel, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pionix — open source software as a service for charging stations / e-mobility
  • 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.
  • Nanoflex Robotics — Nanoflex Robotics develops a soft robotic system that precisely inserts specially made guidewires and catheters deep into the brain. The company provides patented magnetic navigation technology but also the necessary surgical devices. Nanoflex Robotics was established in May, 2021 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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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: B2B, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $334k–$2.4M; Series A $2.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Creem — Creem provides Indie Hackers, Micro-SaaS and SaaS businesses with instant financial tools and functionality. As a Merchant of Record our pre-integrated embeddable components tap your existing data, boosting revenue effortlessly. No costs—pure growth potential for your business.
  • Handwave — Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal.
  • Outcraft AI — Outcraft AI develops autonomous revenue agents that convert, retain and grow customers across voice, SMS, email and messaging.
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Almaral
VC Fund · Kaarina, Western Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
  • Marginum — Pioneering the next-generation quantitative surgical techniques.
  • Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
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Timo Hentunen
Angel · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Timo Hentunen

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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

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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $505k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • UpHill — Clinical algorithms, medical events, scientific evidence and a simulation software in one place
  • ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
  • Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
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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: 6
  • 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.
  • Buildie — Buildie is a software company that develops and sells software products for building documentation and quality management.
  • 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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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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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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Dirk Freise
Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, TV
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$3.6M; 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.
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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: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $110k–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atium — Clean water is one of the largest future challenges we stand before, and toxic pollutants are a large contributing factor. Heavy metals are some of the most toxic chemicals to human health and it is our goal, through our innovation, to contribute to a world where water treatment is more environmentally friendly and effective. Atium exists to helpensure clean water, for everyone.
  • Reactional Music — Reactional Music is creating a new commercial layer for the global games industry that uses premium, licensed music to drive both user acquisition and player engagement. The company’s technology allows developers and publishers to integrate commercial music at two critical points in the player lifecycle:- Music in User Acquisition – improvingconversion, ROI, and campaign lifespan in playable ads and performance marketing.- Music in Games – increasing retention, session length, and monetization through adaptive, personalized music experiences.Reactional’s platform combines a patented rule-based adaptive music engine, a licensed catalog of more than six million tracks, and an automated rights and royalty system. The technology is already integrated with Unity and Unreal and is deployed across live projects with leading publishers and studios.
  • Popit — Popit makes medication connected with a unique, medical grade solution. It tracks medication use automatically and reminds ONLY if you miss. Developed together with healthcare professionals.
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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, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$7M; Pre-Seed $549k–$2.8M; Series A $4.1M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
  • EvodiaBio — Mirroring nature with pioneering bioscience for natural flavors
  • BlueRedGold — Discover BlueRedGold - the home of exquisite Swedish Saffron, ethically grown and harvested with precision in Sweden. Experience the unparalleled quality of our saffron, perfect for culinary enthusiasts and chefs alike. Join us in embracing sustainable luxury.
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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: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.6M; Series A $4.8M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
  • 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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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: 4
  • 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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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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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: 28
  • Round size: Seed $176k–$3M; Series A $5.8M–$21M; Series B $27M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
  • 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.
  • 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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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, Shoes
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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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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 Revolution — 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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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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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: 31
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$12M; Series B $4M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $135M in 2005

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitbar — Bitbar is a technology and service company that offers mobile app and game developers with automated software build and test environments. Its portfolio of products includes Testdroid Cloud: an online service for testing applications on real Android and iOS devices; Testdroid Enterprise: an in-house software solution for managing all aspects ofautomated testing on multiple real Android and iOS devices simultaneously; Testdroid PrivateCloud: a cloud-based Devices-as-a-Service that enables companies to access pre-selected real Android and iOS devices for app development and testing; and Testdroid Recorder: a tool for recording user actions, generating reusable Android JUnit test cases, and running them in Testdroid Cloud. Its portfolio of resources includes research papers, eBooks, webinars, slides, and videos.Bitbar has customers from various industries such as gaming, utilities, technology, e-commerce, mobile and communications, social media, and lifestyle. Facebook, Rovio, Avast, Google, Mozilla, eBay, PayPal, Deutsche Telekom, Skype, Flipboard, and Pinterest are some of its customers.Bitbar is operated from Helsinki, Finland.
  • ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
  • PEAR Health Labs — 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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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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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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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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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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Excedea Capital
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

Excedea Capital is a private investment company. It finances growth companies and special real estate opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, E-Learning
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% 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.
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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: 167
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Pre-Seed $121k–$2M; Series A $2.8M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Life360 — Life360 is the leading family location safety app. Stay connected with your loved ones to ensure their safety with Life360.
  • PodcastAI — Podcast like a pro: easily create transcripts, show notes, viral clips and publish your podcast everywhere all in just a few clicks of a button. Powered by AI, built for podcasters.
  • Nova Benefits — We help companies find affordable health insurance and wellness benefits that their employees can trust.
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SanomaVentures
VC Fund · Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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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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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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LähiTapiola
VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Finland Education startups

LähiTapiola is based on mutual company form, a group of companies owned by its customers, serving the personal, farm, entrepreneurial.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Debt Financing $5.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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 — Aspocomp offer products, includes digital pcb, hdi pcbs, high layer count multilayer pcbs, pcbs with component cooling features for thermal management, high frequency pcbs. Thier services include QTA pcbs, design support services, logistics solutions, and working with supply services.
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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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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: 255
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $9M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Athenian — Introducing the world to software engineering metrics that help teams, and improve processes. Athenian is built for GitHub and Jira users.
  • Lottielab — Easiest animation editor for design and tech teams.
  • Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
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Oppiva Invest
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 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, E-Learning
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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.
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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, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$12M; Series A $16M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gentrace — Test generative AI across teams. Automate evals, tune retrieval systems, and edit prompts for reliable LLM products and agents. Start for free today.
  • Census — Census is the leading reverse ETL tool delivering operational analytics to hundreds of the world's most data-driven companies. Start syncing data with your free account.
  • Alloy Automation — Alloy is a no-code tool for creating automated workflows. It is a YC-backed e-commerce automation platform to help in reclaiming time and focus on growth. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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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 $549k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LegalAI — LegalAI uses artificial intelligence to automate the pre-court litigation process for mass cases. They are instant legal assessments, free of charge, and totally performance-based.
  • 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.
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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: 1198
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
  • Getplace.io — Delivery data intelligence platform. Track visibility, monitor competitors, analyze reviews, and optimize pricing across delivery platforms.
  • Leather Corp — The New Sound of Entertainment
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Tesi
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 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: 142
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$41M; Series B $3.1M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wirepas — Wirepas offers a standards-based, ultra-reliable mesh connectivity for infrastructure-grade IoT. Proven in millions of devices worldwide.
  • Kide Science — Kide Science supports young children's scientific thinking through play-based learning, which predicts better learning outcomes in school.
  • MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.
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Education Investor funding in Finland at a glance

Stats across 59 deals from 61 investors.

61
investors
in Finland Education startups
59
deals
in Finland Education startups
$535k
median round
in Finland Education startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
32%
Seed
most common funding stage
70/30
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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