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Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Finland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Financial Services Finland investments
Maki.vc	6
Visionplus	5
Business Finland	4
Redstone.VC	4
Finnvera Venture Capital	3
Icebreaker.vc	3
Lifeline Ventures	2
Anthemis	2
Inventure	2
Taaleri	2
Tera Ventures	2
Butterfly Ventures	2
TX Ventures	2
Sparrow Ventures	2
Veho	2
Conor Venture Partners	2
Transdev	2
Ali Omar	2
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)	2
OXO Technologies Holding	1
Zrosk Investment Management	1
Greenlight Reinsurance	1
BlackFin Capital Partners	1
Wellstreet	1
Stephane Kurgan	1
Kurt Björklund	1
Goldman Startups	1
Nordic Makers	1
Rasheed Olaoluwa	1
Fintech Ventures Fund	1
Vidici Ventures	1
Vasamies Capital	1
Vendep Capital	1
Woorton	1
Novator	1
Speedinvest	1
Everywhere Ventures	1
3i Group	1
Sapphire Ventures	1
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal	1
Voland Partners	1
Random Ventures	1
Amor & Labor Oy	1
Johan Lorenzen	1
Athena Ventures	1
Everywhere Ventures	1
Concentric	1
Vitruvian Partners	1
Wintermute Ventures	1
octopus investments	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, Norway, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Ever Dye — A new standard for dyes. Naturally made, carbon emissions reducing, water protecting.
Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.

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.
ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
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.

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, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Lutso — Empowering older adults to live independently, safely, and with dignity. Lutso is the smarter way to support aging at home.
Cytely — Transforms microscopy from image-driven to data-driven through AI-powered autonomous targeting that captures high-resolution data of critical cellular events, enabling researchers to solve complex biological problems in minutes instead of years.
NROC Security — Prevent data leaks, govern shadow AI, prove compliance, and save 50% on GenAI subscriptions

Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

digitally native finance

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cariqa — Cariqa: An all-in-one app for EV drivers. It makes charging, trip planning & battery management easy, with personalised recommendations based on your usage.
Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.

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

Klevu — Klevu Oy is a self-learning search engine that helps online retailers turn visitors into customers. Its search for SMEs focuses on fast, relevant search with actionable insights into shoppers’ search and easy self-service integration.Klevu Oy’s enterprise edition provides natural language search with ease of catalog maintenance and insights intoshopping experience. It is based in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.
Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.

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.

Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
TWICE COMMERCE ® — Turn sustainability into revenue with Twice Commerce, the all-in-one resale and rental platform. Create your store for free!
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.

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

Atium — Clean water is one of the largest future challenges we stand before, and toxic pollutants are a large contributing factor. Heavy metals are some of the most toxic chemicals to human health and it is our goal, through our innovation, to contribute to a world where water treatment is more environmentally friendly and effective. Atium exists to helpensure clean water, for everyone.
Reactional Music — Reactional Music is creating a new commercial layer for the global games industry that uses premium, licensed music to drive both user acquisition and player engagement. The company’s technology allows developers and publishers to integrate commercial music at two critical points in the player lifecycle:- Music in User Acquisition – improvingconversion, ROI, and campaign lifespan in playable ads and performance marketing.- Music in Games – increasing retention, session length, and monetization through adaptive, personalized music experiences.Reactional’s platform combines a patented rule-based adaptive music engine, a licensed catalog of more than six million tracks, and an automated rights and royalty system. The technology is already integrated with Unity and Unreal and is deployed across live projects with leading publishers and studios.
Popit — 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.

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

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!
Particula — At Particula, we're at the forefront of the digital asset ecosystem. We've launched the first rating and data platform for tokenized real-world assets, focusing on alternative investments.

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.

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.

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

Neo4j — Connect data as it's stored with Neo4j. Perform powerful, complex queries at scale and speed with our graph data platform.
Blackwood Seven — 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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
Lingawa — Learn African languages online with expert tutors. Gain practical skills in Yoruba, Igbo, and more. Start your language journey today.
Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.

Greenlight Re (www.greenlightre.ky) is a specialist property and casualty reinsurance company based in the Cayman Islands and Ireland. The company provides a variety of custom-tailored reinsurance solutions to the insurance, risk retention group, captive and financial marketplaces. Established in 2004, Greenlight Re selectively offers customizedreinsurance solutions in markets where capacity and alternatives are limited. With a focus on deriving superior returns from both sides of the balance sheet, Greenlight Re's assets are managed according to a value-oriented, equity-focused strategy that complements the Company's business goal of long-term growth in book value per share.

Investment focus

Insurance, InsurTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

InRev — The modern surety underwriter
District Cover — District Cover takes a data-driven approach to understanding city-based businesses' risk profiles and creates tailored insurance policies for small businesses. We exist to ensure brokers and small businesses can rely on consistent access to insurance solutions that empower continued growth. Our proprietary, non-admitted commercial insuranceproduct provides a new solution as existing options become harder to get, less relevant, and more expensive.
Vivere Partners — Vivere is a tech-enabled MGA providing specialty property and management liability solutions for complex risks. We combine industry expertise with advanced analytics to deliver faster quotes, tailored coverage, and competitive terms.

BlackFin Capital Partners is the leading pan-European Financial Services PE Platform. The team consists of +35 experienced professionals from several nationalities.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Private Equity, Series B
France, Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Tuum — Tuum frees financial institutions from legacy constraints with a cloud-native core built for fast launches, progressive modernization, and scale.
Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Mooncard — Mooncard was created with an ambition: to put the new payment technologies at the service of the day-to-day management of all companies to enable them to gain in simplicity, efficiency and therefore profitability. Currently, many purchasing and spending processes remain manual and complex, ranging from routine purchases and expenses to expenseclaims. Businesses of any size, and often the small ones, lose valuable time to make and manage these payments. Mooncard completely transforms this situation by proposing an innovative payment solution, piloted in real time, secure and deployable very easily. Thanks to the most modern technologies (web, big data, IA ...) the payment and management circuit is completely automated.Mooncard supports all companies to enable them to take full advantage of the revolution of means of payment.

Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Retail
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
Key Ward — Accelerate your engineering projects with data intelligence. Mitigate the risk of late stage failures in your AI adoption journey with our no-code platform.
Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.

Stephane Kurgan has served on our Board of Directors since April 2012 and as our chief operating officer since April 2011. Stephane has more than 20 years of management experience at high-growth technology businesses. Prior to joining King, Stephane served as the chief financial officer atTideway Systems Ltd., a data centre management software company that was acquired by BMC Software, Inc. He has also served as senior vice president and managing director of enba plc, held various sales and product management roles at Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing BV and was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. Stephane has served as a member of the Board of Directors of HK Ltd. since January 2006 and previously served on the Board of Directors of Lasker Fund LP and Gladstone Capital Management LLP until December 2012. Stephane holds a B.A. in Economics from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, a Diploma in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University SAIS School, Italy and an M.B.A. from INSEAD, France. Papa Pear Saga is the only King game where Stephane is remotely ahead of his wife.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Developer APIs
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fuzey — Fuzey is the n1 solution you need to grow your local business. Engage your leads and customers in one inbox, and sell more!
Homesome — Elevate your grocery business using powerful platform that helps you drive sales, retain more profits and win loyal customers!
Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.

Kurt Björklund

Investment focus

Mobile, Mobile Payments, Emerging Markets
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zevoy — Expense management solution
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.

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Investment focus

SaaS, Web3, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Abonesepeti — Abonesepeti is one and only subscription management platform in Turkey. While subscribers can make smart subscription decisions and easily manage their subscriptions, Service providers can easily gain incremental subscribers by using Abonesepeti’s online and offline sales platforms. Abonesepeti raised seeds round in 2017 via www.sirketortagim.comAngel Investor Ban. Up to Date; Abonesepeti generate 16x growth based on revenue and serves more than 1M subscribers.
Bloklab Limited — Experience the future of poker in our AI-enhanced VR metaverse. Play, earn, and socialize in the most immersive blockchain gaming platform.

Nordic Makers invests in early-stage Nordic B2B software startups, offering capital and founder support to help them scale globally.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
Grand PMS — More efficient operations. Increased revenue. Enhanced guest experiences. Grand is a web-based PMS that helps you bring new levels of excellence.
GRAND — More efficient operations. Increased revenue. Enhanced guest experiences. Grand is a web-based PMS that helps you bring new levels of excellence.

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.

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.

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

We back early-stage B2B SaaS founders in the Nordics & Baltics with capital, expertise, and long-term partnership. See how we invest and support growth.

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.

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.

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.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vocca — Vocca manages your patient calls, bookings, and reminders 24/7 so your team spends less time on admin and more time on care. Tailored to all specialties. Trusted by thousands.
Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
Runware — Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API.

Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ciphero AI — Ciphero is the first AI Verification Layer that collects, verifies, and governs all corporate AI interactions, promoting safe and ethical AI use across all enterprises.
Suma Wealth — SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.
OpenLaw — OpenLaw is a legal services marketplace launched in April 2023 with a mission to make justice more accessible and affordable. Using a proprietary intake/distribution engine, OpenLaw automates client intake, triages case complexity, and instantly matches individuals with vetted attorneys across family, civil, traffic, criminal, and immigrationlaw. Clients typically connect with an attorney in under five minutes, realizing up to 70% savings in fees and dramatically shorter case-initiation timelines. At the same time, OpenLaw empowers attorneys and small–medium law firms by delivering pre-qualified, well-matched cases directly to them and providing an integrated suite of practice-management tools—e-signatures, payments, scheduling, document portals, docket tracking, and AI assistance—so they can focus on practicing law rather than marketing or administrative tasks.

3i is an investment company specialising in Private Equity and Infrastructure. We invest in mid-market companies headquartered in Europe and North America.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

WaterWipes — WaterWipes are 99.9% water, perfect for sensitive skin. Our water wipes are approved by Allergy UK, National Eczema Association and Vegan Society.
OMS Prüfservice — OMS Prüfservice is one of the leading testing service providers and a strong partner for electrical safety. They provide customers with safe equipment, systems, and machines in accordance with DGUV regulation 3 (formerly BGV A3).
Constellation — Constellation is a France company that offers cloud and artificial intelligence powered information technology services.

Sapphire Ventures is an enterprise VC firm making direct investments at the growth and expansion stage.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series D, Series C, Series E
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EliseAI — Elise is an artificially intelligent leasing agent for multifamily communities. As an AI leasing assistant, Elise responds, follows up, and books showing appointments.
Gem — Source and nurture diverse talent pools, and gain unparalleled visibility into your recruiting funnel with Gem's modern recruiting platform.
Jeeva AI — Jeeva AI provides a sales automation platform that delivers products and services centered on agentic-AI workflows for prospecting and engagement. The platform offers automated lead discovery that identifies decision-makers across numerous data sources and enriches records with missing contact and firmographic details. It includes tools forgenerating personalized outreach through email and LinkedIn, enabling consistent communication based on role, industry, and observed behavior. Jeeva AI also supplies inbox and calendar management services that draft replies, prepare meeting briefs, schedule calls, and record notes to reduce manual administrative tasks. These combined capabilities create a unified environment that supports sales teams and individual sellers throughout the prospecting and engagement cycle.

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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Cloud Management, Software
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Luxid — Luxid helps clients break open silos to create customer experiences and end-to-end journeys that drive sales and support buyers.
ReadPeak — Readpeak is one of the free fastest growing Native Advertising and content promotion platforms. With Readpeak you turn readers into customers and drive key conversions.
Profit Consulting — Kokonaisvaltaisena IT-kumppaninasi takaamme projektisi onnistumisen suunnitteluvaiheesta toteutukseen.

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

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.

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

Athena Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Singapore, focusing on cutting-edge blockchain technologies. We deliver a wide range of services spanning the whole investment cycle.

Investment focus

Consulting, Finance, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

BTA Protocol — BTA Protocol is a decentralized ecosystem protocol based on BTC that includes applications such as staking, liquidity, range stability, launch pool, and lending protocols.
THE BRAND BOOSTERS — We are specializes in enhancing business potential with innovative marketing strategies and comprehensive solutions. We focus on driving brand visibility and fostering business growth through tailored approaches designed to meet the unique needs of each client. Our expert team collaborates closely with businesses to understand their vision anddeliver impactful results, ensuring a strong market presence and long-term success. At THE BRAND BOOSTERS PRIVATE LIMITED, we are committed to helping our clients achieve their goals and stand out in a competitive landscape.
Learning With Care Preschools — Learning With Care Preschools provides a nurturing and educational environment designed to foster early childhood development. Our dedicated staff focuses on creating a safe, engaging, and inclusive atmosphere where children can thrive. We offer a comprehensive curriculum that promotes cognitive, social, and emotional growth, ensuring a strongfoundation for lifelong learning. At Learning With Care Preschools, we are committed to partnering with families to support each child's unique needs and potential.

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
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
Outfox Health — Healthcare answers quick as a fox

We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Relai — Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
Satlantis — Making anywhere, home. A fast growing network of bitcoiners, nomads and freedom lovers, built on Nostr. It’s the world’s first “travel and community network” that uses your social graph to connect you with like-minded people from cities all around the world.50 cities are on there with home pages that help you find the best places to eat &drink, the best things to do, the coolest events to attend along with key travel & nomading stats and much more.

Vitruvian Partners is an equity firm that specializes in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts, and growth capital investments. Independent private equity firm that specialises in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts and growth capital investments in the UK and elsewhere. The company backs exceptional management teams in businesses where thereis a major opportunity to create strategic value. They seek out companies where this opportunity exists through change or “Dynamic Situations”.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
Private Equity, Series E, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Civitatis — Worldwide activities, transfers, tickets, guided tours and excursions in English. Book online with the lowest price guaranteed.
ObjectiveHealth — ObjectiveGI is a operator of an integrated research and technology services platform intended to improve patient outcomes through partnerships with leading physicians.The company's model seamlessly integrates gastroenterology (GI) research services into local community-based GI practices in support of patient care and practice enhancement,offering research infrastructure, optimal trial selection, study implementation and key research personnel management, thereby providing patients affected by NonAlcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH) with improved and better outcomes.
Aduro Advisors — We support the success of the leading venture firms Over 600 firms & counting. We are committed to empowering our partners

Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets. Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projectswith hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.

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

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