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Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Finland in February 2025

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

Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Finland in February 2025

Investor	Financial Services Finland investments
Maki.vc	6
Visionplus	5
Redstone.VC	4
Business Finland	4
Icebreaker.vc	3
Finnvera Venture Capital	3
Tera Ventures	2
Taaleri	2
Conor Venture Partners	2
Veho	2
Transdev	2
Ali Omar	2
Sparrow Ventures	2
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)	2
TX Ventures	2
Lifeline Ventures	2
Butterfly Ventures	2
Inventure	2
Anthemis	2
Rasheed Olaoluwa	1
Fintech Ventures Fund	1
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal	1
In Vestor	1
Lauri Priha	1
Vidici Ventures	1
Novator	1
Fedha Capital	1
octopus investments	1
Mediahuis	1
Vasamies Capital	1
OXO Technologies Holding	1
Vendep Capital	1
Coinbase Ventures	1
Speedinvest	1
Alexandria Asset Management	1
Woorton	1
Fernando Herrera	1
First Fellow Partners	1
Random Ventures	1
Zrosk Investment Management	1
Amor & Labor Oy	1
Estlander & Partners	1
Superhero Capital	1
Everywhere Ventures	1
Mikko Kuitunen	1
Partech	1
Karsan Otomotiv	1
Johan Lorenzen	1
Aioi Nissay Dowa	1
Visa	1

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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

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.

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
Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Liquid Sun — Liquid Sun Ltd. We fight against climate change by recoding CO2 emissions to fossil-free fuels and chemicals. Our technology is based low temperature electrolyzers.
PrecisionPhage — PrecisionPhage is a biotech business that specializes on bacteriophage technologies.

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
Grid Raven — Maximize the safety and capacity of your grid with accurate ratings based on our hyper-local weather model that accounts with every tree, building and hill.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

AISTI — AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile.
Nexstim — Nexstim is a medical device company that specializes in image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. The company is committed to improving the quality of life of patients with significant unmet clinical needs. It has developed a SmartFocus TMS technology designed for the treatment of the major depressive disorder.The company was founded in2000 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.

Tera Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia and focused on exceptional founders from Baltics, Scandinavia and CEE, disrupting digital space globally. Tera builds presence and networks in the markets where our portfolio companies want to expand to - the UK, the US, and Asia. With presence in Estonia, Finland, and California,Tera Ventures is supported by a global advisory network and provides portfolio companies with access to expertise and hands-on support necessary to grow from pre-seed and seed stage to successful exit. While investing we do not take a controlling shareholding as they believe that the management of the company should be adequately motivated by its shareholding in the company.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
CARÁ Health — CARÁ Health is creating a hybrid health and well-being platform for women throughout any stage of maternity to make them feel empowered and make informed choices. We do this by combining all verticals a woman needs (and does not yet knows she needs) during the maternity period, including education, products, podcasts, masterclasses, and servicerecommendations.

Taaleritehdas Wealth Management is helping all Finns see the advantages of ownership and find their own way to own.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Lending
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Rester — Rester is a Finnish company enabling the recovery of business textiles into a new textile fibre and quality raw material.
Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
Woodly Oy — Woodly® is an entirely new type of wood-based packaging material that can be used to substitute traditional fossil-based plastics. Woodly is recyclable can be made into transparent and flexible packaging, and the material mimics the best qualities of traditional plastics.

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.

Veho is the Finnish car retailer group, operating also in the Baltics and in Sweden. Veho provides a wide range of services and transportation solutions from passenger cars to commercial vehicles.

Investment focus

Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation
Seed, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.

Serving passengers, local authorities and companies, Transdev transports 11 million people worldwide every day.

Investment focus

Apps, Transportation, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Finland, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Mozio — Mozio is an airport ground transportation search engine. We help you travel that final mile from the airport to your final destination.Mozio originated out of founder David Litwak's travels, where he was constantly frustrated by flying into new destinations and realizing he had no clue how to actually get into the city.Mozio aggregatesall the local taxis, limos, public transit, shared-ride shuttles, airporters, rideshare etc. to help you navigate all the local options and make sure you get the best deal.We have raised a small seed round from Amidzad Partners, and a few angels, one of whom is the Chairman of the Board @ Orbitz. We are super excited to make this dream a reality!
Liftango — At Liftango we guide global organisations on how to plan, launch and scale their shared mobility programs. Our mobility suite of services offer simulation, carpooling, on-demand bus and smart shuttle tracking services.
MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.

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.

We are a Zurich-based Venture Builder and Growth Equity Investor. With our ambitious team of highly customer-focused entrepreneurs, we are committed to putting our expertise to work and strive to make an impact.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Real Estate
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Properti — "building the world's greatest real estate company"Properti is a modern, young and pioneering PropTech startup founded in November 2019. Through our unique Properti System, which combines the latest technologies, in-depth expertise and world-class marketing, we provide an exclusive service. Our mission is to change the real estateindustry sustainably with the symbiosis of technology and people to build trustworthiness and transparency. Our goal is to offer customers a full service around the housing ecosystem.
HelloBetter — HelloBetter (hellobetter.de) was founded in 2015 under the name GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH (geton-institut.de) by internationally renowned research psychologists, and in close partnership with one of the largest public health care insurance companies in Germany (BARMER). HelloBetter is a pioneer in the field of e-mentalhealth and a leading provider of online mental health courses. Its work has a strong scientific basis – the courses were developed, evaluated, and implemented in a practice setting, and their effectiveness has been proven in 33 randomized controlled trials according to the highest standards of scientific practice. HelloBetter offers the widest range of evidence-based online mental health courses worldwide, with 11 digital courses covering 8 problem areas (stress, depression, insomnia, depression in the case of chronic illness, chronic pain, alcohol consumption, excessive worry, and panic and anxiety).In October 2021, the digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' has been permanently approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a Digital Health Application (DiGA) and thus is available by prescription free of charge for more than 50 million adults. It is the world’s first and so far only prescription digital therapeutic for the treatment of burnout symptoms.Through diverse cooperations with national and international research groups (including FAU Erlangen, University of Ulm, VU Amsterdam, and Harvard University) HelloBetter finds practical applications for the latest research innovations. Our products and our team have been awarded numerous national and international prizes. These include the Novartis & Sandoz/Hexal Digital Health Prize 2018, the Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association, and the Good Practice in Mental Health & Wellbeing seal of approval as part of the EU Compass 2018, which recognises high-quality mental health initiatives in Europe in order to guide health care providers to effective and proven services.
Selma Finance — With Selma you will get an investment plan that fits to your life and goals. Get started in minutes and let your money work for you.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

We help smart startups to establish and enhance their products and services. We also assist our holdings with their strategic planning activities and offer them shared services and networking platforms. Our collaboration with these entrepreneurs is focused on the pursuit of long-term goals.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Trever — Start operating with digital assets and manage trading, treasury management, and bookkeeping within a single connection. Quick integration, 24/7 availability and fully compliant.
Lyfegen — Lyfegen is the first of its kind, a company making value-based healthcare contracting for high-cost therapies a reality for all healthcare stakeholders.
Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!

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.

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

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.

digitally native finance

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
Acre — Fundamentally redesigning homeownership
Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.

Rasheed’s career kicked off in 1988 with Arthur Andersen where he qualified as a chartered accountant. He later moved into the banking sector where his stellar performance saw him pioneering game-changing initiatives across the industry, in an executive capacity, with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), United Bank for Africa (UBA) and later as the ManagingDirector of Bank of Industry (BOI).Rasheed joined Axxela in 2019 as the Chief Operating Officer, bringing with him outstanding commercial experience that cuts cross expansion strategies, infrastructural development and organisational profitability.Rasheed has a First Class Honours degree in Civil Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University and an MBA from IESE Business School.

Investment focus

Mobile, Mobile Payments, Emerging Markets
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.

Early Stage Fintech and Insurtech Venture Capital Firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Japan, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vint — Make the wine market investable
Kredit — Kredit allows you to resolve accounts in collections, all in one place and without sharing sensitive financial information with debt collectors. Sign up. Your path to financial health starts today!
Steady Technologies — Steady Rent offers property managers solutions that share the same goal: Remove risk for property owners, boost profits for property managers, and save time with automation.

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.

Investment focus

Computer, Collaboration, Software
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
Somewhere — Somewhere is the visual platform for sharing your work. The company aims to bring innovation to a space dominated for years by a single "big blue" category leader by building a platform that represents what work is actually like today and in the future.

In Vestor

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Palofy Analytics Oy — Palofy Analytics is a customer loyalty partner and Worldline ISO for SME's. We are developing analysis and forecasting tools that help merchants to get more sales and predict staffing needs. This also enables getting accurate analysis and predictions on channel, store, product group, or product level.Our licenced technology leveragesexisting payment cards as customer loyalty cards, reducing customer friction and removing work overhead from staff.Service areas: • Restaurant and hospitality • RetailPalofy Analytics is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) for Europe's largest payment acquirer Worldline and multiple SaaS and Fintech companies. Our Alfa Rating is AA

Lauri Priha

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Software
Convertible Note
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Palofy Analytics Oy — Palofy Analytics is a customer loyalty partner and Worldline ISO for SME's. We are developing analysis and forecasting tools that help merchants to get more sales and predict staffing needs. This also enables getting accurate analysis and predictions on channel, store, product group, or product level.Our licenced technology leveragesexisting payment cards as customer loyalty cards, reducing customer friction and removing work overhead from staff.Service areas: • Restaurant and hospitality • RetailPalofy Analytics is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) for Europe's largest payment acquirer Worldline and multiple SaaS and Fintech companies. Our Alfa Rating is AA

Vidici Ventures (Vidici Fund I, Vidici Fund II & “Vidici”) is a Nordic FinTech investor, founded in 2012 by entrepreneurs who saw the opportunity to develop a FinTech-focused venture capital fund in the Nordic Region.Vidici works together with entrepreneurs and management teams to create winning partnerships that drive the long-termdevelopment of high potential FinTech companies.The expertise and lessons learnt in scaling high-growth fintech companies over Vidici’s history is essential to a large and growing number of ambitious, fast-growing and emerging FinTech companies today.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Cardlay — We deliver fast-scalable white-label solutions to enable and serve financial institutions with the newest commercial payment infrastructure and front end.
ReceiptHero — Say goodbye to paper receipts. Cut operational costs, reduce waste and deliver a better in-store experience for customers.
Limina Investment Management Solution — Limina supports the asset management industry with modern IBOR, compliance & portfolio management software that optimises processes and portfolio performance.

Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies. While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Online Games
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
Better.com — Better Mortgage Corporation is a direct lender dedicated to providing a fast, transparent digital mortgage experience backed by superior customer support.
Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.

Fedha Capital is a venture capital firm for early-stage start-ups (Seed and Series A).

Investment focus

Financial Services, Gift, Real Estate
Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

The investments we manage help thousands of advisers and their clients plan for their financial future. See how we can help you.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Trafi — Stay connected Be the first to hear about our product updates, city launches, and more.
Weev — End To End EV Solution
Perfect Ward — Unleash the power of your quality data from the frontline to CQC inspections

Mediahuisis a venture capital arm of the independent publishing and media company is on a mission to support founders who are changing the way we learn and work. As a lead investor, MHV participates in European EdTech & HRTech companies, from Series A and beyond.

Investment focus

Education, Human Resources, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!
Impactpool — Job vacancies in the European Union, United Nations and International Organizations.

Equity investment company

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Palofy Analytics Oy — Palofy Analytics is a customer loyalty partner and Worldline ISO for SME's. We are developing analysis and forecasting tools that help merchants to get more sales and predict staffing needs. This also enables getting accurate analysis and predictions on channel, store, product group, or product level.Our licenced technology leveragesexisting payment cards as customer loyalty cards, reducing customer friction and removing work overhead from staff.Service areas: • Restaurant and hospitality • RetailPalofy Analytics is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) for Europe's largest payment acquirer Worldline and multiple SaaS and Fintech companies. Our Alfa Rating is AA

OXO Technologies Holding is an investment firm in the tech sector in the CEE region. It includes a network of business angels as well as various financial and strategic investors as equity partners. The firm's investment policy targets the funding, partial or full buyout of early-stage tech ventures, accelerate their growth and marketexpansion and prepare them for subsequent funding rounds and exits.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Hungary, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

iconicchain — iconicchain is on a mission to turn regulatory compliance into an automated, real time process. We disrupt the manual, sample based, Big Four consulting dominated approach by using private, distributed ledgers / blockchains shared between regulated companies, auditors, and regulators.
BitNinja.io — State-of-the-art server security with an all-in-one platform - Eliminate false positives and experience the proactive full-stack Linux protection
Blue Colibri — With the Blue Colibri App and engage your workforce! Our cloud based, secure multi platform solution creates a meaningful connection with your non-desk colleagues.

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.

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Shinami — Tools to build the next wave of decentralized applications
Pond — Pond is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on creating a comprehensive ecosystem for training Web3 AI models. Pond's approach is quite exciting because it merges two powerful, innovative technologies: AI and Web3.
Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

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Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, Crowdfunding
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Invesdor — We are Europe's crowdinvesting platform: Invest directly and become part of corporate success stories. Get to know us today

We provide liquidity globally to the digital asset industry. Woorton is an algorithmic trading desk enabling liquidity for the next wave of digital assets.

Investment focus

Lending, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Tesseract — Tesseract Investment is a regulated institutional digital asset management company based in Finland and supervised by FIN-FSA, providing digital asset yield-generating solutions to institutional clients.

Fernando Herrera

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Insurance
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Redkik Inc. — Innovative embedded technology for the logistics industry enabling instant transactional insurance quotation for convenience and flexibility.

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.

Equity investment company

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Caidio — Caidio is here to maximize the quality and productivity of global concrete construction by top notch AI technologies We help our customers increase quality, decrease construction time, and cut cost.
Palofy Analytics Oy — Palofy Analytics is a customer loyalty partner and Worldline ISO for SME's. We are developing analysis and forecasting tools that help merchants to get more sales and predict staffing needs. This also enables getting accurate analysis and predictions on channel, store, product group, or product level.Our licenced technology leveragesexisting payment cards as customer loyalty cards, reducing customer friction and removing work overhead from staff.Service areas: • Restaurant and hospitality • RetailPalofy Analytics is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) for Europe's largest payment acquirer Worldline and multiple SaaS and Fintech companies. Our Alfa Rating is AA

Zrosk Investment Management is an investment firm that invests in early-stage startups. We invest across the pre-seed to series A spectrum. We typically target at least 10% ownership in businesses we invest in and tend to maintain that position until series A providing much-needed early follow-on capital for our portfolio companies. Our commitmentis to provide more than just capital and to be one of the most prominent value-added investors on a company's cap table.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress

Amor & Labor Oy is a venture capital that offers early stage investments for businesses.

Investment focus

Women's, Hardware, Software
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Augumenta — We develop intuitive and easy-to-use AR apps and tools that help companies improve their operational efficiency, quality, and safety.
Popit Ltd. — Popit makes medication connected with a unique, medical grade solution. It tracks medication use automatically and reminds ONLY if you miss. Developed together with healthcare professionals.

Investments

Investment focus

Lending, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Tesseract — Tesseract Investment is a regulated institutional digital asset management company based in Finland and supervised by FIN-FSA, providing digital asset yield-generating solutions to institutional clients.

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
Fractory — Custom metal fabrication services for project and series manufacturing. 1-1 engineering support and payment terms for companies.
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.

Everywhere Ventures (fka "The Fund") is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $70M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PlantBaby — We are developing a portfolio of clean-label, organic, plant-based foods and beverages to support families on the nutritional journey from infancy to adulthood.
Mesta — Mesta combines traditional banking with blockchain technology to provide seamless cross-border payments, enabling businesses to process global transactions efficiently and securely.
Starboard — Starboard revolutionize global trade by empowering SMB freight forwarders with cutting-edge AI tools.

Mikko Kuitunen is the Founder and Executive Chair at Vincit. He attended Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018.

Investment focus

Mobile, Hardware, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series C
Finland, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Tylko — Tylko offers uncompromising quality at a fair price, while perfectly fitted to your space & easily ordered online.
Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
The Planet Company — The Planet Company is a SaaS-based seed-stage startup, building the next sustainability unicorn.

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Payt — Payt is a cloud software company for debtor management and collection.
Presti — Photorealistic images of your furniture in seconds using AI
Roger (Sanos Group) — Roger develops and markets dental practice management software products for the dental industry.

Car and bus contract manufacturer, bus OEM

Investment focus

Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.

Johan brings more than a decade of experience with high growth internet companies, both from the founder and investor side. Johan joined Holvi from the venture capital firm Sunstone, to change the future of banking first hand. Prior to that Johan has also worked on both, the technology and infrastructure, sides of traditional banking, as welladvising and investing in #fintech companies. Holvi | Holvi provides small businesses, freelancers, sole traders and contractors a pan-European business platform of the digital age as well as a full replacement for the traditional bank account. Holvi is built completely separately from any existing banks allowing the company to have full flexibility on choosing partnerships and bringing services with most added value to the customer. Holvi's vision on the future of banking is a fully customisable financial hub where people can plug in the channels and services they actually need. Holvi's mantra? Stay human.

Investment focus

FinTech, Banking, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Willa — Willa is a fintech startup solving freelancers' biggest pain: getting paid on time, every time.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Kuda — Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London

Largest insurer in Asia

Investment focus

Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Osigu — Osigu provides an insurance management platform intended to be used for data processes and data transfers. The company's insurance management platform helps in all the transactions and data transfers that happen between insurance providers, insurance partners, and the customers eliminating all the over processed and haphazard paperwork foundin the back end systems, enabling clients with a reliable and efficient technology that helps them to serve their millions of customers easily without any hassle.The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Guatemala.
Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
InCorp Chain — Bridging Corporates Adoption Towards Crypto Through $ICNX

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