# Top 30 Fitness Startup Investors in Finland in June 2026 ## Gorilla Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Gorilla Capital helps ambitious startups grow with smart funding and support. Discover how our team invests in early-stage companies. ## Inventure - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more. ## Wellington Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich. ## Verdane - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe. ## Sebastian Laine - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Sebastian Laine ## Paul Polman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Sustainability, Apps 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. ## Reima Linnanvirta - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketplace Angel investor and board professional with a passion on helping startups and growth companies to fulfil their true potential. ## NGP Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet We help exceptional founders turn their big ideas into companies that shape a better future. ## Shamma Raghib - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Shamma Raghib ## Ilari Kallio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Ilari Kallio ## Teemu Takala - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Teemu Takala ## Visionplus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER! ## Stefan Lindberg - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Fruit Stefan Lindberg is co-owner of YSUB. ## Katja Toropainen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, iOS, Apps 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. ## Point Nine - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages. ## Business Finland - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding. ## Innovestor - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services. ## Torsti Tenhunen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness See https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttenhunen/ ## James Corden - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Apps, Mobile James Corden ## Michael Widenius - Type: Angel - Location: Tuusula, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Big Data, Software, Mobile 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. ## Sami Inkinen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Medical 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. ## Conor Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics, Semiconductor Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics. ## Finnvera Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees. ## Butterfly Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm. ## Charles Plowden - Type: Angel - Location: New Edinburg, Arkansas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Apps, Mobile, Content Charles Plowden is a Retired considering options at Baillie Gifford. ## Mahesh Kumar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Mahesh Kumar ## Martti Suomela - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Martti Suomela - Co-Founder & Partner @ Kodit.io ## Fabian Sepulveda - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Fabian Sepulveda ## SanomaVentures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, SEO, Finance SanomaVentures is the venturing arm of European media company Sanoma Corporation (SAA1V), aiming to support innovative start-ups in digital information, entertainment and education by providing them with capital, media exposure, expertise and access to Sanoma’s business network.SanomaVentures focuses on early stage investments in start-ups activein online consumer services, e-commerce, mobile, video, online advertising and education. SanomaVentures has offices in Amsterdam and Helsinki. ## K5 Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Backing category-defining companies from inception to IPO.