# Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Finland in June 2026

## Ali Omar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Ilkka Paananen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

## Marten Mickos
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet

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.

## Jyri Engestrom
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

Jyri Engeström  is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

## Miki Kuusi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Miki Kuusi is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the CEO of Deliveroo and the Co-founder & CEO of Wolt. Miki previously worked at NoHo Partners as a Board Member. Miki Kuusi attended the Aalto University. Miki Kuusi has been received the Forbes 30 under 30 award.

## Leena Niemistö
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

Leena Niemistö

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

## Zach Shelby
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet of Things, Hardware, Software

Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse.

## Pekka Vartiainen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Apps

Pekka Vartiainen - Board Member @ Inbot

## Jonas Dromberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Internet

Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl

## Henry Nilert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Henry Nilert

## John Lindfors
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series D
- Focus: E-Commerce, Eyewear, Internet

John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.

## Risto Siilasmaa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Risto Siilasmaa is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and  is the Board of Direcctor of Donut Lab. He previously worked as Founder of F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.

## Kim Väisänen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Video, Internet, E-Commerce

Kim Väisänen - Growth Partner @ Evli Growth Partners

## Urban Gillström
- Type: Angel
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Journalism, Social Media

Our CEO Urban is a C-level executive with three decades of global experience in communications, media and technology. He is responsible for taking the vision to action with the Greenworlder team.  He is also a senior advisor in business and private equity and business angel with scalable media platform and sustainable start-ups. On his free time,Urban can be found running, cycling, and spending time with his family.https://greenworlder.com/urban-gillstrom/

## Lasse Järvinen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway

## Cecily Drucker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Content

Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.

## Glyn Eggar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, 3D Printing

Glyn Eggar

## Kaj Hed
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Internet, Marketing

Kaj Hed is Chairman at Rovio Entertainment.

## Olli Sirkiä
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Beauty, Internet

Olli has background in management consultancy (McKinsey & Company 2007-2009) and software business (LeadDesk Oyj (publ) 2010-2018).

## Niklas Zennström
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Apps, FinTech

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo.  Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

## Mikko Kodisoja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Hospitality

Mikko Kodisoja

## Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, 3D Printing

Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara

## Kedar Dani
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software

Kedar Dani, UiPath.

## Elias Aalto
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, News, Video

Elias Aalto is Wolt's Advisor and a Co-Founder before that.

## Otto Hilska
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Advertising, Electronics

Otto is a serial entrepreneur who started his first software company at the age of 18. His second company Flowdock raised money from Silicon Valley and got acquired by Rally Software in 2013. After that he spent four years scaling Smartly.io from 30 to 350 people as the Chief Product Officer.After leaving Smartly.io, Otto started working on yetanother startup. Founded in November 2019, Swarmia is building a B2B SaaS product to help self-organizing software teams to continuously improve their ways of working based on data from development tools.Otto has served as the chairman of Startup Foundation, that’s behind the Slush conference, Junction hackathon, Maria 0-1 startup space, and many other ecosystem projects.

## Kim Groop
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Kim Groop - Managing Partner & co-founder @ First Fellow Partners

## Pekka Koskinen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Content

Founder at Leadfeeder

## Jari Ovaskainen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tampere, Western Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, PC Games

Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight

## Robert Gentz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Robert Gentz is the Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Zalando SE. He previously worked at Unibicate as a CEO. Robert Gentz attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Tero Ojanperä
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Music, Software

Tero Ojanpera co-founded Silo.AI. He is also the executive chairman of the company.

## Riku Mäkelä
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Computer, Software

Riku Mäkelä is a COO at Wolt. He Attended Aalto University.

## Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani is the Chief Executive Officer at DAAL. He attended Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University.

## Ari Korhonen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lappeenranta, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS

Ari Korhonen - Angel investor and entrepreneur @ Lagoon Capital

## Herman Kienhuis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Founder and managing partner of River Venture Partners angel syndicate. Venture partner at VC firm Newio. Tech investor focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies in Northern Europe. Supporting investors and entrepreneurs in building digital businesses that change people's lives. Former chemical engineer, strategist, digitalproduct development executive, founder of SanomaVentures and Managing Director of KPN Ventures.

## Pekka Aakko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

Pekka Aakko is an Advisor/organizer of Assembly Organizing. Pekka Aakko attended University of Helsinki.

## Eléonore Crespo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Generative AI

Eleonore Crespo is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Pigment.

## Alexis Bonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Apps

Alexis Bonte is based out of Madrid, Madrid, and is the President and Group CEO of Stillfront Group. Alexis previously worked at eRepublik Labs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Alexis Bonte attended Regent's University London.

## Hannu Vaajoensuu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Hannu Vaajoensuu - Chairman of the Board of Directors @ Nervogrid

## Kulpreet Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, General Santos, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Kulpreet Singh is Managing Partner at Overture Capital. He attended IMD.

## Enrique Dillon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Advertising, Cyber Security, Digital Marketing

Enrique Dillon

## Jiri Heinonen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Logistics, Generative AI, Search Engine

Entrepreneur & Angel Investor.
Co-Founder & Board member of Swappie

## Oskari Saarenmaa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Computer

Oskari Saarenmaa - CEO & Co-founder @ Aiven

## Irena Goldenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, B2B

Irena is a co-founder and General Partner at Highland Europe, which invests exclusively in growth stage software and internet businesses. Highland Europe’s portfolio includes eGym, GetYourGuide, Malwarebytes, MatchesFashion, and WeTransfer. Irena joined Highland Capital Partners in Boston and moved from the US in 2007 to establish the firm’sEuropean office alongside Fergal Mullen. She worked closely with Privalia (acquired by Vente-Privee for over $500M) and currently represents Highland Europe on the boards of eGym, Jampp, JUNIQE and WeTransfer.Irena grew up in the Ukraine and Wisconsin, and speaks Russian and French. She attended MIT as an undergrad and Harvard for her MBA.

## Leif Linden
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Analytics, Predictive Analytics

Leif Linden

## Manny Fernandez
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Internet

Manny Fernandez is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author featured on CNBC's Make Me A Millionaire Inventor's premiere episode on Thursday, Oct 6th. He has been successful investing in his own ideas as well as taking companies from startup to exit. Fernandez was named by Inc. Magazine as one of 33 entrepreneursto watch in 2016. —In 2013, Fernandez founded SF Angels Group and has been an angel investor with TiE Angels since 2012. In 2014, he was named SF Angel Investor of the Year and received the Equity Crowdfunding Leadership Award. In 2016, Menlo College Named Fernandez Silicon Valley Equity CrowdFunding Pioneer. Fernandez recently became a #1 bestselling author with his new book, How to Make Money Investing in Pre-IPO Stocks, which is available on Amazon. He is also the #14 Angel Investor to Follow on Twitter and has the #1 most viewed equity crowdfunding video on YouTube. He has been featured on mainstream media including CNBC Squawk Box, NBC, CNN Latino, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Fox News and more. Fernandez’s energetic and inspiring presence has lead to him being a frequent judge, speaker, and panelist for Silicon Valley corporations, startup demo days and universities. He has been a featured guest speaker for events at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Harvard University, Angel Capital Association Summit (ACA), University of San Francisco (USF), Pepperdine University, Draper University, Plug and Play, Yahoo!, USAWeek in Europe, Qianhai Equity Exchange in China, Intel, California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s (CHCC), SharkTank, Startup Grind, AngelHack Global Demo, Shanghai Slush, Finland Slush, Startup Weekend, SXSW and many more. All of Fernandez’s experience in the investment landscape has culminated, under his leadership with the launch of RealtyReturns.com

## Joshua Schachter
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

## Kevin Wall
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Internet, Advertising

Kevin Wall is an American media entrepreneur, global event producer, investor and activist. He is the CEO and founder of the investment fund PTK Capital, the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality start up, and the founder and CEO of Control Room, a Los Angeles-based production company. The first personto receive an Emmy Award for interactive content, Wall is noted for his role in the development and adoption of media technologies including online and multi-platform distribution and media practices such as international rights acquisition and licensing.

## Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN and General Partner at Owl Ventures. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includestwo IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11 acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

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