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Top 30 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Finland in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 30 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Education startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Finland in September 2025

Investor	Education Finland investments
Gorilla Capital	5
Business Finland	5
Sparkmind.vc	4
Inventure	4
Lifeline Ventures	3
Zanichelli Venture	2
Superhero Capital	2
Tesi	2
TukkuHeino	2
Reaktor Ventures	2
Courage Ventures Management	1
NGP Capital	1
Butterfly Ventures	1
KSI Education	1
Emerge Education	1
Aristo-Invest	1
AngelList	1
Redstone.VC	1
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)	1
Forestay Capital	1
Almaral	1
Oppiva Invest	1
MPA Education	1
Point Nine	1
Excedea Capital	1
PINC	1
Eqvitec	1
Practica Capital	1
Liquido.VC	1
LähiTapiola	1

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Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Mjuk — Marketplace for pre-owned, unique design furniture
Agenton AI — Transform your auto dealership with AI voice agents that handle every call, book service appointments, and convert leads 24/7. Increase revenue and never miss another service opportunity.
Orijin — A turnkey solution to solve EUDR for coffee & cocoa importers and producers

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AIATELLA — Automating medical image analysis
SparkReceipt — AI-powered Receipt Scanner and Expense Tracker for Individuals and Small Businesses. Create your free account now!
University of Eastern Finland — The University of Eastern Finland is a multidisciplinary university which offers teaching in more than 100 major subjects. The university comprises four faculties: the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Science and Forestry, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies.

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.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Germany, Sweden

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.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

ReOrbit — Looking for a way to keep your data flowing in space? ReOrbit has you covered with our line of autonomous and inter-networking satellites!
Hedera Dx — A diagnostics platform that makes liquid biopsies a reality in cancer care
Hamina Wireless — Fast and simple wireless network design and site survey tools for network engineers and IT admins - For better Wi-Fi, Private 5G, and wireless IoT. Get started in just 2 minutes!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.
Ovido — Ovido company specialises in supply chain and product data automation, with a focus on providing full product traceability and the establishment of Digital Product Passports (DPPs).

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.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

zick learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
Data Masters — I migliori corsi online di intelligenza artificiale, machine learning e data science. Formazione pratica, docenti esperti, lezioni on-demand e live. Entra ora!
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.

Some call you founders. We call you Superheroes. Seed stage VC investing in insight-driven startups in Finland and the Baltics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Estonia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Renow — Grow and make your business more sustainable with Renow’s AI-optimized recommerce platform for returns, trade-in and resell.
ZioSec — ZioSec is at the forefront of innovation in cybersecurity, creating Zio, an ethical AI hacker designed to empower cybersecurity professionals, such as penetration testers. Zio utilizes cutting-edge artificial intelligence to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in web applications and critical infrastructure. By automating and enhancing securityassessments, Zio enables security teams to respond faster and more effectively to potential threats, ultimately contributing to a safer and more secure digital world.
Hamina Wireless — Fast and simple wireless network design and site survey tools for network engineers and IT admins - For better Wi-Fi, Private 5G, and wireless IoT. Get started in just 2 minutes!

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

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
Hedera Dx — A diagnostics platform that makes liquid biopsies a reality in cancer care
DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models

TukkuHeino

Investment focus

Cooking, Children, Education
Pre-Seed
Finland

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Online Games
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rens Original — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Equally — Build engaging games for kids that encourage physical activity, personal development and exploration. Provide parents the data and oversight they need to reward positive behavior.
Meru Health — Meru Health is an online mental health provider that helps people improve their mental health long-term by treating depression, anxiety, and burnout.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Bito — Bito is a game-changing productivity tool for developers that accelerates software development using best in class AI models, like ChatGPT from OpenAI, and Anthropic. Bito’s plugin integrates seamlessly into a developer’s IDE and CLI, providing instant access to their own personal AI assistant. Nearly 100,000 developers are using Bito toincrease their productivity by an incredible 31%, performing more than 1 million AI requests a week. Bito is helping them more than 200 times per month, which is more than they use search. Developers from companies such as Google, Airbnb, Riot Games, Tesla, Houzz, and Goldman Sachs use Bito to increase their productivity significantly by shortening the time to quality code, reducing bugs, improving devs understanding of unfamiliar code, and allows developers to spend more time on critical thinking and less time on dull and irksome work.
NetBox Labs — NetBox Labs makes the management of complex networks easier for operators by delivering open and composable products. The company's product NetBox Cloud offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open-source NetBox.
Xona Space Systems — Xona's Pulsar service is the first high-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy. Our constellation of smallsats will provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy needed to enable modern devices to operate safely in any conditions.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
Brightplus Oy — Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level.
Polar Light Technologies — Polar Light Technologies focuses on developing the next generation of Nano and micro LED technology.

Support students to develop knowledge, wisdom and skills

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Kide Science — Kide Science supports young children's scientific thinking through play-based learning, which predicts better learning outcomes in school.

Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.

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

Investment focus

Cooking, Children, Education
Pre-Seed
Finland

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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Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

axiTrust — Trust Platform serving MSMEs with Technology and Consulting towards obtaining Surety Bonds
Hardline — Hardline is a mobile-first, voice-powered SaaS platform built for construction teams. The app transforms phone calls and field conversations into structured, actionable project data—automatically syncing updates, tasks, and logs into tools like Procore and Buildertrend. By removing the burden of manual documentation, Hardline saves superintendentsand project managers over two hours a day, reduces costly miscommunication, and provides real-time visibility across the jobsite. Designed to work the way crews already communicate, Hardline helps contractors run faster, safer, and smarter projects without disrupting existing workflows.
Whisper Software — Whisper Software is an AI-powered sales chatbot to grow fans business.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

Credibur — Credibur automates reporting, SPV setup, and servicing for private credit and asset-backed lending. Built for originators and lenders.
Ochy — Ochy is an app that uses AI to analyse running form and gait to identify weak points and provide recommendations on what to do to improve.
Covision Media — 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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, Denmark, Finland

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 — Through its health & fitness AI platform, PEAR creates personalized digital coaching experiences to help people move smarter, get healthier, and live happier.

Forestay Capital is dedicated to investing in the tech sector and reflects Waypoint’s focus on innovative, forward-looking industries in which it can leverage its entrepreneurial heritage and long-track record in helping businesses to realize their ambitions for growth. It is passionate about technologies that transform conventional models withsoftware and data to make an impact on business, practices, and people. It invests in revenue-generating technology companies in Europe, Israel, and in the US, and favors software and data-driven businesses that challenge established models.Forestay Capital was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Geneve, Switzerland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Logistics
Series B, Series C, Series A
Switzerland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
Wasabi Technologies — Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has beenrecognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

Almaral provides risk management advice long-term strategy development budgeting operational function setup legal support early-stage sales and marketing function setup, and commercialization.

Investment focus

Software, Education, E-Learning
Seed, Funding Round
Finland

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Education, E-Learning
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Seppo — Seppo is an online programme for creating educational games. It can be used on all levels from pre-school to university.

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).

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, B2B
Seed
Italy, Finland, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
sensmore — Equip your machinery with autonomy built for the harshest conditions. Enhance safety, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with our advanced radar technology.
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.

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

Investment focus

Software, Education, E-Learning
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Seppo — Seppo is an online programme for creating educational games. It can be used on all levels from pre-school to university.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Elaniti — Elaniti uses recent advances in machine learning and DNA sequencing to make insights on soil biology accessible to farmers and agronomists, empowering precise decision making. Our proprietary outcome-based predictive analytics service, correlates soil biology with vital crop health outcomes like yield, disease prevalence and nutrient content. Thisenables growers to save time and money, for instance by improving the efficiency with which inputs are used, whilst also supporting environmental and sustainability objectives.Through our unique crop prediction insights, our goal is to demonstrate the value of soil’s complex biological makeup, enabling a viable, de-risked, and data-driven transition to Net-Zero agriculture.
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.
Win-Win — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

Eqvitec Partners is a privately owned and independent Nordic private equity firm, advising six funds with a total capital base of over â‚¬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).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Norstel — Norstel AB manufactures and develops wide bandgap semiconductor materials, including silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and epitaxial layers.
eBuilder — eBuilder is a global company that optimizes and automates administrative processes for corporations and public sector agencies through IT-based business process outsourcing.
MediSapiens — MediSapiens provides software solutions to clients in the biomedical field. Our solutions turn biomedical data into new insights and knowledge. Our clients

Practica Capital

Investment focus

B2B, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

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.
Atrandi Biosciences — Achieve your discoveries easier using high-throughput screening and droplet microfluidics. Create your own custom workflows for any R&D or academic applications.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Education
Seed, Funding Round
Finland

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.

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

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Apps, Health Care
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Enfuce — Unlock growth with our card issuing solutions. Our expertise in issuer processing can turn your ambitious vision into a reality.
Steady Energy — Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating.
Altum Technologies — Minimize production stops and expenses due to fouling and scaling. Discover Altum's ZPD ultrasound fouling mitigation solutions for zero process downtime.

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