Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Finland in April 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Fitness startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fitness companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Finland in April 2025
Investor | Fitness Finland investments |
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Michael Widenius | 1 |
Paul Polman | 1 |
Sebastian Laine | 1 |
Ilari Kallio | 1 |
Sami Inkinen | 1 |
Reima Linnanvirta | 1 |
Fabian Sepulveda | 1 |
Martti Suomela | 1 |
Mahesh Kumar | 1 |
Teemu Takala | 1 |
Shamma Raghib | 1 |
Torsti Tenhunen | 1 |
Katja Toropainen | 1 |
James Corden | 1 |
Stefan Lindberg | 1 |
Michael “Monty” Widenius is the “spiritual father” of MariaDB, a renowned advocate for the open source software movement and one of the original developers of MySQL, the predecessor to MariaDB. In addition to being chief server architect for MariaDB Corporation, he also serves as a board member of the MariaDB Foundation. He was a founder at SkySQL,and the CTO of MySQL AB until its sale to Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Monty was also the founder of TCX DataKonsult AB, a Swedish data warehousing company. He is the co-author of the MySQL Reference Manual and was awarded the Finnish Software Entrepreneur of the Year prize in 2003. In 2015, Monty was selected as one of the 100 most influential persons in the Finnish IT market. Monty studied at the Helsinki University of Technology and lives in Finland.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Mobile
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Beddit — Every morning, the Beddit Sleep Tracker shows how you've slept. Scoring high enough gets you to the green zone and helps you learn what those good nights are made out of! You can easily dig deeper into your sleep details including your resting heart rate, respiration, sleep cycles, snoring and more.Beddit is placed right under the bedsheet, connected to your mobile device and all you need to do is sleep. Sleep tracking made as easy as stepping on weight scale!The company has been working with sleep technology since 2007 specializing in ballistocardiography, a scientific method for measuring the physical micro-movements caused by cardiac activity. Beddit has become a global leader in consumer focused sleep tracking solutions.
- MoSync — Mosync: Your go-to solution for fast, secure & automated cloud data sync, storage & file sharing. Transfer CIFS, NFS & more with ease. Try it today!
- import.io — Unlock a world of data with Import.io. We deliver the web data you need to power your business with intuitive apps, powerful APIs, and expert services.
Paul Polman was elected to the Dow Board of Directors in February 2010, and serves on the Environment, Health, Safety and Technology Committee.Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V. – Chief Executive Officer, January 2009 to date. Nestlé S.A. – Executive Vice President of Americas, January 2008-September 2008; Chief Financial Officer 2006-2008. TheProcter & Gamble Company (a provider of consumer, pharmaceutical, cleaning, personal care and pet products) – Group President Europe, 2001-2006; CFO of the Year 2007, Investor Magazine; Carl Lindner Award 2006, University of Cincinnati; WSJ/CNBC European Business Leader of the Year 2003. Member of United Nations high level task force on post 2015 development goals. President of the Kilimanjaro Blindtrust/Chair of Perkins International Advisory Board. Board member of Global Consumer Goods Forum. Member: International Business Council of WEF, Swiss American Chamber of Commerce and vice chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Member of the B-Team (a global initiative to help transform the future of business). Honorary degrees from Universities of Northumbria, UK in 2000 and University of Cincinnati in 2009.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Sustainability, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Finland, United States
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- Toast Ale — Toast ale is an award-winning craft beer brewed with surplus fresh bread that would otherwise be wasted. All profits go to the charity, Feedback, to end food waste.
- Freja — Award-winning bone broths from Freja Foods. Responsibly sourced and conveniently packaged, Freja bone broth is available online and via leading retailers.
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
Sebastian Laine
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Ilari Kallio
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Sami Inkinen is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Virta Health, a specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Previously, Mr. Inkinen was the co-founder of the leading online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO andpresident and board member until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group. He also worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. A physicist by training, Mr. Inkinen started his career as a radiochemist at a nuclear power plant and holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Helsinki University of Technology. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. He thinks his greatest luxury today is a small vegetable garden at his San Francisco Bay area home.
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- Health Care, Fitness, Medical
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Finland
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- Edamam — Edamam provides nutrition solutions to businesses in the food, health and wellness sectors, leveraging its proprietary cloud-based, structured-data semantic technology platform. Unlike traditional competitors, we deliver value-added nutrition data in real time and at fraction of the cost, saving clients both time and money. Clients include Nestle,Samsung, Epicurious, Gannett and The New York Times.
- Augmedix — Augmedix is a tech-enabled service that reclaims the hours physicians spend on the computer entering or retrieving data from electronic health records and refocuses them on what matters most: patient care. It uses wearable technology to connect its clinic with the Augmedix charting service. It is powered by Google Glass and Smartphone devices. Itwas founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Cricket Health — Interwell Health is a kidney care management company that partners with physicians on its mission to reimagine healthcare. Learn more online today.
Angel investor and board professional with a passion on helping startups and growth companies to fulfil their true potential.
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- Software, Marketplace, Fitness
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
- Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
Fabian Sepulveda
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Martti Suomela - Co-Founder & Partner @ Kodit.io
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Mahesh Kumar
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Teemu Takala
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Shamma Raghib
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
See https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttenhunen/
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Katja Toropainen is the founder of Inklusiiv. Prior to that, she served as a chief program curator at Slush. Katja holds a master's degree in information and service management from Aalto University.
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Investment focus
- Software, iOS, Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Finland
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- imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
James Corden
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Apps, Mobile
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Finland
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- Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- Imprint — Imprint partners with today's top brands to offer their customers branded credit cards, debit cards, and rewards programs at a fraction of the cost.
Stefan Lindberg is co-owner of YSUB.
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Investment focus
- Nutrition, Wellness, Fruit
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- YSUB — YSUB produces a beverage containing hemp - lemonade with a hint of hemp seeds, soothing botanicals, and some vitamins. It also has CBD beverage, but cannot sell due to regulations in Finland and other Nordic countries and is trying to create a campaign to create awareness.
- Vegemi — Vegemi is a free smartphone app that promotes eating fruits and vegetables through gaming. The software was designed with the entire family in mind, but especially to demonstrate youngsters the health advantages of fruits and vegetables in a way that motivates and inspires them.
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
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