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Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Finland in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Enterprise startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Finland in January 2025

Investor	Enterprise Finland investments
Business Finland	48
Icebreaker.vc	37
Visionplus	33
Finnvera Venture Capital	31
Lifeline Ventures	30
Inventure	30
Tesi	29
Superhero Capital	28
Reaktor Ventures	23
OpenOcean	20
Maki.vc	18
First Fellow Partners	18
Ali Omar	17
Gorilla Capital	17
Innovestor	16
Vendep Capital	14
Butterfly Ventures	13
VTT Ventures	11
Conor Venture Partners	9
Spintop Ventures	8
Wave Ventures	6
Redstone.VC	6
Voland Partners	5
Illusian Founder Office	5
Sisu Game Ventures	5
Jyri Engestrom	5
Ilkka Paananen	5
Trind Ventures	5
Voima Ventures	5
Marten Mickos	4
LVP	4
Leena Niemistö	4
Initial Capital	4
Jerry Pruttz Holding Ab	4
Nordea	4
DN Capital	4
Vito Ventures	4
Nordic Option	3
Andreas Mihalovits	3
Ventech	3
Wellington Partners	3
Flashpoint	3
Proxy Ventures	3
Nauta Capital	3
Kim Groop	3
Leaguer Venture Capital	3
Valve Ventures	3
Xiaomi	3
Pekka Vartiainen	3
SanomaVentures	3

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Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Serres — Serres provides fluid management, surgical suction system, supply chain management, and medical devices services.
Grafintec — Grafintec Oy is a Finnish company focused on developing and utilizing carbon technology to produce graphite. Graphite is an essential material in many industries, particularly in energy storage, electronics, and battery technologies, due to its unique properties such as high conductivity, heat resistance, and stability.
Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made

Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.

WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
BetterDoctor — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.

Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Enfuce — Unlock growth with our card issuing solutions. Our expertise in issuer processing can turn your ambitious vision into a reality.
Nordcloud — Nordcloud is a European leader in public cloud infrastructure solutions and cloud-native application services. Since 2011 we have completed more than 500 deployments to help our enterprise customers gain the maximum benefits of the cloud, including security, agility, scalability and overall cost-savings.
Aurealis Pharma — Multi-target cell and gene therapies for unmet medical needs. Developing therapies for chronic wounds, cancer and inflammatory diseases.

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

Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.

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

Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

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, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Seaber — Seaber is a cloud-based real-time planning, optimisation and communication solution for bulk cargo & vessels. Our solution improves the efficiency of bulk & break bulk charterers, shipowners & brokers through schedule planning and stakeholder communications over the lifecycle of a voyage.
Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AISPECO — AISPECO systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.
TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.
CyberUpgrade — Easily manage ICT compliance audits by tracking controls, handling ever increasing requirements, and sharing policies. Gain control over cyber security measures.

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.

OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Surglogs — Surglogs streamlines and automates the administration of logbooks, medications, supplies, in-services, and drills in healthcare facilities. The outdated pen-and-paper method is replaced with a HIPAA compliant state of the art digital application, complemented with a desktop portal that serves as an administrative dashboard.Surglogs was founded in2015 and headquartered in California, United States.
Authologic — Authologic is a system that helps businesses in checking the identity of their clients online.Authologic is a provider of identity verification solutions that includes tools for determining identity through online video, data, and digital IDs.Krzysztof Klimczak, Jarek Sygitowicz, and Marek Rogoziński founded Authologic in 2020 and is based inWarsaw, Poland.
Embeddable — Embedded analytics, done right. Embeddable is a toolkit for crafting remarkable customer-facing analytics experiences into your app, in just 10% of the time.

Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
Distance Technologies — Distance Technologies seeks to develop glasses-free XR applications

A private investment firm run by Risto Siilasmaa and Kim Groop. Grounded in a deeply held set of values around entrepreneurship, trust, integrity and helping solve the world’s problems. We partner with strong and ambitious technology entrepreneurs driven by a mission to fix or build something important in the world.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

LumiDB — Transform terabytes of accumulated scans into a queryable database that you can actually use.
Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.

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

Orijin — A turnkey solution to solve EUDR for coffee & cocoa importers and producers
Planmark Oy — Planmark develops an AI-powered reporting platform that streamlines ESG data collection and report generation, allowing companies to focus on core business.
Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!

Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

AISPECO — AISPECO systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.
Clair Scientific — CLAIR Z1 is a versatile microscope based on our patented bio imaging platform that is suitable for life science and nano science research
Polku Therapeutics — Polku Therapeutics | Disease-Modifying Therapies for Neurodegeneration

B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cluby — Cluby is a technology platform that provides restaurants with the best tools for managing and communicating with loyal consumers.
Claimlane — Claimlane is an end-to-end returns management solution for brands and retailers to manage any type of return, across all sales channels and markets. Perfectly document claims and returns. Streamline workflows. Get quality insights. Turn unhappy claimers into loyal customers. That's Claimlane.
Eyeball — Eyeball operates as a digital platform for youth football.

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

Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made

VTT is a powerhouse of technology development and scientific research. Many of the most significant Finnish technology start-ups were brought to life at VTT. Do you want to invest in ongoing ventures?

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group — Attribute, predict and optimize the business outcome of marketing and media plans with Blackwood Seven's Unified Marketing Modeling platform.
Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Cambri — Cambri is concept testing software that helps global brands accelerate their innovation process.
Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
Tings — Tings is a mobile app that helps people to organize and retain, and sell non-required recyclable and used merchandise.

Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
Daze — Daze provides a first-mile pickup service for e-commerce and recommerce.
Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!

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

DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Voland is a hands-on technology growth investor. A trusted partner for entrepreneurs, applying our expertise to enhance our portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Cloud Management, UX Design, Legal
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Biila — Biila primarily offers car transfer services.
Luxid — Luxid helps clients break open silos to create customer experiences and end-to-end journeys that drive sales and support buyers.
Consultor Finland — Kokonaisvaltaisena IT-kumppaninasi takaamme projektisi onnistumisen suunnitteluvaiheesta toteutukseen.

Illusian is the Founder Office of people who have founded and scaled companies like Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, and Smartly. While the group is still busy running their businesses, they've aligned their networks, capital, and expertise to simultaneously support the next generation of builders.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.

Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.

Trind Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in Tallinn, Estonia. Investing in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. Trind Ventures partners are Joel Aasmäe, Ivar Siimar, Kimmo Irpola and Taavi Lepmets.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Estonia, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
Jobilla — Reach and activate your target group with a powerful recruitment solution. Increase the amount of applications and get 7X more qualified candidates.

Voima Ventures’ mission is to solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and value adding capital. They shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build. Industry domains include bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics,software & ICT and AI. In addition, Voima Ventures has invested in more than 30 deep tech startups, including companies like Solar Foods, Infinited Fiber Company, and Dispelix. Cornerstone investors are VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and European Investment Fund (EIF), backed by Finnish private and institutional investors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

NADMED — The standard of NAD measuring
Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

BrandBastion — The #1 choice for ad spenders and top brands. We provide 24/7 support by engaging with customers, removing harmful comments, and alerting you about issues.
Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Bitpart AI — BITPART.AI - The AI NPC engine built by game developers for game developers. Populate virtual worlds with characters that mimic real behavior.
Look North World — Publisher and Developer of interactive entertainment for Creator platforms like Fortnite (UEFN) and Curseforge. Enclave: Survival Skyward available now in ARK: Survival Ascended.
Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.

Leena Niemistö

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

#Rens — 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.
Vapaus — A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility.
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.

Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zebedee — Transform your game into an earning powerhouse with ZBD Rewards.
Yoko Robotics — Yoko is the affordable personal robot chef that enables you to eat healthier, save money, and spend your valuable time on the more important things in life.
Hot Wave Fitness — Hot Wave Fitness which owns the HOTME brand provides personalized, and private fitness services.

Investor

Investment focus

Video, Database, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Grumblo — Automotive Digital Marketing
Klevu — Join thousands of other ecommerce teams using Klevu technology to improve conversion and automate workflows. Personalized search, merchandising, and product recommendations that just work.

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
Plumery — Plumery provides an innovative Digital Banking Platform, empowering you to elevate your customer digital banking experiences.
Evidently — Evidently is a Cognitive AI platform powering the future of data-driven medicine. The EHR-embedded Evidently app gives clinicians superpowers to provide faster and better care.

Die Digitalisierung stellt uns vor neue Herausforderungen, denen wir mutig begegnen. Mit VC/O gestalten wir die Zukunft mit und investieren in sie.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
Wirepas — Wireless mesh connectivity for industrial IoT. Proven, ultra-reliable and scalable. Lowest total cost of ownership. The best mesh for IoT.
CrateDB — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value

Nordic Option is a private equity fund focusing its investments on growth companies. It provides capital investments in small and medium-sized growth companies that have already established themselves in Northern Finland. The fund's investment strategy includes the possibility to make up to 5 early-stage growth investments with one millioneuros.The firm's value of investments in portfolio companies is approximately EUR 10 million and the value of loans granted is approximately EUR 1 million.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series C
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Haltian — We solve the challenges of a sustainable future, one IoT innovation at a time
SensorFu — SensorFu detects new network leak paths before they are exploited. If you're required to operate isolated networking environments, SensorFu helps you to anwer question: is my network isolation working as intended? Leaks from isolated network segments can be a result of human error or malice, and they may violate security policies orcontractual obligations. SensorFu automates previously manual audit checks, and it empowers IT- and IT security ops to ensure continuous network, and network segment isolation that meets their mission specific policies and regulatory requirements. SensorFu Beacon is available as virtual appliance, software application and as hardware appliance.
Brightplus — 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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xpln.ai — Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless.
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
Omaha Insights — Omaha Insights is a company that provides standardized financial data and analytical tools to help investors do research and analysis.

Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time
CorFlow Therapeutics AG — CorFlow Therapeutics is a medtech startup that develops proprietary technologies for diagnosis and treatment of microvascular obstructions in heart attack patients. The CorFlow technologies enable interventional cardiologists to diagnose and treat MVO in severe heart attack patients thereby potentially reducing the short- and long-term complicationrates in these patients.

Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.

We have created brands for startup successes Supercell, Oura, Peak, Festicket and Fy! Being investors, we have an uniquely commercial branding approach.

Investment focus

Health Care, Marketplace, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Argent — Join over 2 million Argent users and get the best of Ethereum at a fraction of the cost. Easily buy, earn, stake and invest in crypto on Starknet.
Elo Health — Elo Health pioneers in delivering Smart Nutrition through personalized supplements, formulated with scientific precision to meet your unique health and performance goals.
Five Lives — Five Lives, your brain health coach. Take the risk assessment and start improving your brain health today!

We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
Mindflow — Mindflow is a No-Code & AI-driven Automation & Orchestration Platform that enables all Enterprise Cyber IT Professionals to Automate Mundane tasks.
HappySignals — Experience Management Platform for IT - Lead IT and Service Management with Employee Experience and use to manage your Experience Level Agreements (XLAs).

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mendor — Mendor is a Finnish company, committed to the design, development and marketing of advanced diabetes management products. Mendor has launched a revolutionary, discreet, easy to use, portable all-in-one blood glucose meter and web-based software application for the daily management of diabetes. Mendor has designed its products together with usersand diabetes experts to address the needs of people with diabetes requiring regular blood glucose monitoring.
Youredi — Youredi is the leading integration solution provider for the Supply Chain and Logistics industries.
Detectify — Detectify's external attack surface management tool - assess, prioritize, remediate continuously growing external attack surfaces.

Shenzhen Leaguer Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a high-tech venture capital company founded by Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) in August 1999. Its current registered capital is RMB 333.3333 million, managing assets amounted to RMB 1.5 billion. With solid capital strength, rich experience of investment and flexiblemechanism, Leaguer VC has invested more than 50 portfolio companies, ranging from IT, new material, medicine, electronics to optomechatronics and hi-tech incubators, etc. The average IRR for the current investments exceeds 30%. Leaguer VC has successfully finished its fund-raising of RMB 160 million in 2009 and set up fund management companies and venture capital companies located in Changzhou and Wuxi.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Wuwen Zhike — Wuwen Zhixing is an intelligent driving service provider dedicated to offering professional and cutting-edge integrated solutions for AI data and simulation verification, as well as developing AI data infrastructure and accelerators.
Guoke Tanmei — Guoke Tanmei is a visionary enterprise focused on developing materials for carbon-based energy storage. It directs at application scenarios including base stations, two-wheelers, electric cars, industrial cars, and energy storage.
Qiu Shui Semiconductor — Qiu Shui Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that specialized on Micro-LED display technology.Qiu Shui Semiconductor's core products are Micro-LED micro display chips and modules, which are widely utilized in digital car lighting, micro projection, and augmented reality displays.

Valve Ventures is a Helsinki-based angel and early-stage venture investor.

Investment focus

Energy, CleanTech, Oil and Gas
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
Woodio — Woodio is a digital designing agency.
Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

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Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Hardware
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Infinigence — Wuwen Core Dome is dedicated to providing AGI computing power solutions based on its large model energy efficiency optimization tools, with the goal of resolving the challenge of efficient and unified deployment of large model algorithms to large computing power chips.
Dezao Technology — Dezao Technology is an e-commerce transaction provider, mostly involved in the sales of electronic products, mobile phones, and mobile phone accessories.
Mihuo Intelligence — Mihuo Smart is a smart-home and appliance firm.

Pekka Vartiainen - Board Member @ Inbot

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inbot — We are world-leading experts in algorithmic influence. We help ethical businesses and executives leverage algorithms to grow their audience and influence.
Singa — Singa is the Spotify of karaoke for personal and commercial use. Access a catalog of 20 000+ songs to sing effortlessly anywhere, any time and with any platform.Easy to use is Singa’s main operating principle. You don’t need to buy a console, or a microphone, or even a DVD-player. Singa is platform agnostic. To use Singa, you’ve already goteverything you need either in your pocket (mobile phone), on your table (PC) or in your living room (TV).* One account works on all devices, mobile, browser or Smart TV* Each user gets to test Singa for free before signing up to a Premium account* Singa works fluently with external accessories
Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per

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Investment focus

Internet, SEO, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, The Netherlands

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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