# Top 50 Enterprise Software Startup Investors in Finland in June 2026 ## Tesi - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care 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 ## Finnvera Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## OpenOcean - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki. ## Visionplus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER! ## Lifeline Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce 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. ## Marten Mickos - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Business Finland - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology 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. ## Maki.vc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology We partner with deep tech and brand-driven companies obsessed in challenging category norms. The Nordics are our home, but we take on a global front in spotting the unexpected - from B2B to B2C, with a sweet spot for scientific advances, strong IP, and customer understanding that looks beyond convention.We invest in early stage companies: fromtheir inception to series A and beyond. We share in the vision of founders as champions and challengers, drawing on our experiences from scaling some of the strongest tech companies ourselves. ## Gorilla Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Gorilla Capital helps ambitious startups grow with smart funding and support. Discover how our team invests in early-stage companies. ## 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. ## Kedar Dani - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software Kedar Dani, UiPath. ## Molten Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services Molten Ventures is a leading British venture capital firm backing Europe’s highest-growth private technology companies. Our expert investment team stay ahead of the curve, identifying transformative trends and next-generation companies before they break through. We combine multiple pools of capital to invest at all stages of the businesslifecycle—from seed and early stage to growth and late stage—focusing on disruptive sectors like Spacetech, Fintech, and AI. Our strategy is simple: back bold ideas, scale them with capital and expertise, and unlock high-value exits—whether through strategic acquisitions, trade buy-outs, or IPOs. Since our 2016 IPO, we’ve delivered strong realised returns, reinvesting into the next wave of innovation—creating a virtuous cycle of growth and value. ## Icebreaker.vc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Inventure - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more. ## Superhero Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Some call you founders. We call you Superheroes. Seed stage VC investing in insight-driven startups in Finland and the Baltics. Tickets 100 K€ - 1000 K€. ## Reaktor Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce 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. ## Summit Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Private Equity, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that invests in growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities in technology, healthcare and other growth sectors. ## Creathor Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed. ## Karista - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace. ## Aboa Venture Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turku, Western Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Hardware, Web Apps Aboa Venture Management Oy is a venture capital company in Southwest Finland concentrating in small and medium sized enterprises. ## Conor Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics, Semiconductor 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. ## Ali Omar - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## NordicNinja VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence NordicNinja VC invests in startups in the Nordic-Baltic region. ## Dawn Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies. ## Angular Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm committed to founders redefining global markets. ## Nordic Option - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Hardware, Software, Electronics 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. ## Bachmaier Invest GmbH - Type: VC Fund - Location: Grünwald, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Construction, Infrastructure Bachmaier Invest GmbH is an investment firm. ## Poland Prize Program - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Enterprise Software Poland goverment program to support startups ## Nexit Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, Advertising Venture Capital focused on digital disruption. Home bases in the Nordic countries and Silicon Valley. Investing in disruptive and scalable Nordic companies. ## octopus investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Andorra, Aragon, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Octopus Investments is a London-based venture capital firm that offers investment solutions to U.K. investors based on its experience in smaller company investing, along with a wide range of funding options for various companies. The entrepreneur-friendly investment firm invests from 250,000 to 25 million British pounds in a first round of funding.Founded in 1999, Octopus Investments works with over 60 companies, including Conversocial, graze.com, LoveFiLM, Property Partner, Secret Escapes, Sofar Sounds, SwiftKey, Swoon Editions, Uniplaces, tails.com, Zoopla Property Group, and Zynstra. ## Swisscom Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space. ## Industrifonden - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology Industrifonden is a Nordic evergreen venture capital firm with a fund size of $600m, that focuses on early-stage technology and life science companies with international potential. The company works long term with the entrepreneurs we invest in, and have a strong track record of building game changing companies. Industrifonden-backed companiesinclude tech companies Qlik, Arcam, Soundtrack Your Brand, Fishbrain, and life science companies CellaVision, Oncopeptides and AMRA. ## eEquity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Shoes eEquity invests in online related business models, primarily in the Nordics with the ambition to build large market leaders. The ambition for each investment is to build market-leading businesses in close partnerships with entrepreneurs.Since They have a comprehensive portfolio of companies within the same business fields the entrepreneurs willsignificantly benefit from being plugged into Their network and from exchanging experience and expertise between the portfolio companies.They look for passionate entrepreneurs with a scalable and differentiated business model that adresses a substantial market. They are opportunistic in their investment process. ## Nordic Angel Program - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Medical, Software International training and investment program for business angels ## Reetta Rajala - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Training, Education, Human Resources Reetta Rajala ## Gil Penchina - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Gil Penchina is retired ## Seed Fund Vera Ltd - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Electronics, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics Seed Fund Vera Ltd is an evergreen fund specializing in investments in seed and start up stage. The fund seeks to invest in companies in technology enterprises, technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises. ## First Fellow Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence First Fellow Partners is a private investment firm built on a founder-first philosophy. We invest only our own capital, backing bold, mission-driven technology entrepreneurs from idea to lasting impact. ## Martin Ostermayer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Apps, Software CEO of Shortcut Ventures GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.Martin Ostermayer is one of the CEOs of the venture capital firm, Shortcut Ventures, located in Hamburg, Germany. After graduating in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Ostermayer received his MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1998, majoring in telecommunicationsand business strategy.In 1999, he set up handy.de, which became Europe’s largest provider of mobile entertainment services with business partners Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise. They also created blau.de, the first independent wireless service discounter in Germany, in 2005. They led the company until 2011. ## Dirk Freise - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Software, TV Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet ## Ambient Sound Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce Ambient Sound Investments (ASI) was established in 2003 as an equal partnership by four founding engineers at Skype to hold a minority stake in Skype. At the end of 2005 ASI sold its Skype shares to eBay and now operates as a private investment vehicle. ## Ria Parppei - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Training, Education, Human Resources Ria Parppei ## Jyri Engestrom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University ## Notion Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud. ## OP Financial Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Energy, Financial Services, FinTech OP Financial Group is one of the largest financial companies in Finland. It consists of 180 cooperative banks and their central organization. The financial group has over 1.4 million customer-owners ## Butterfly Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Daniel Fried - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence Daniel Fried ## Timo Hentunen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Training, Education, Human Resources Timo Hentunen ## California Technology Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Pasadena, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology California Technology Ventures, LLC (CTV) is a venture capital fund that makes direct investments in technology and life science companies. CTV has built a strong reputation for its entrepreneurial approach to investing and working with companies. Unlike many investment funds, CTV can invest the smaller amounts required by early-stagecompanies, as well as larger investments for later-stage expansion. Initial investments typically range from $250,000 to $2 million, with up to $5 million over the life of the investment. CTV participates in seed/start-up companies, first and second round investments, and later stage investments.CTV invests primarily in companies engaged in the following industries:Information & Communications Technology, such as computer hardware, telecommunications, electronics, semiconductors, software and systems, multi-media, and Internet;Life Sciences, such as bio-pharmaceuticals and medical devices;When considering funding a company, CTV looks for:Experienced and capable management;Unique, "must-have" or proprietary products or services that meet a pressing need;The opportunity to create a leadership position in a large and growing industry;A compelling business model with clearly-defined milestones to reach profitability;A defensible and sustainable competitive position. ## Juha Vartiainen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence Juha Vartiainen is the co-founder and chief operations officer of IQM. He has more than ten years of R&D expertise from industry, especially in software development. He holds a PhD in quantum computing.