Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Finland in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Finland in February 2025
Investor | Food and Beverage Finland investments |
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Lifeline Ventures | 8 |
Ilkka Paananen | 5 |
Illusian Founder Office | 4 |
Butterfly Ventures | 4 |
Ali Omar | 4 |
Nordic Foodtech VC | 3 |
First Fellow Partners | 3 |
Innovestor | 3 |
Laurel Bowden | 3 |
Inventure | 3 |
Stefan Lindberg | 2 |
Genesis Ventures | 2 |
Fazer | 2 |
Alfabeat | 2 |
TukkuHeino | 2 |
Verdane | 2 |
Metsa Spring | 2 |
Business Finland | 2 |
Reaktor Ventures | 2 |
Lasse Järvinen | 2 |
Aboa Advest | 1 |
Hercculia | 1 |
Redstone.VC | 1 |
Aristo-Invest | 1 |
Pitchdrive | 1 |
Insta Ventures | 1 |
Risto Siilasmaa | 1 |
VTT Ventures | 1 |
Finnvera Venture Capital | 1 |
Olli Sirkiä | 1 |
Juha-Petteri Kukkonen | 1 |
Courage Ventures Management | 1 |
Mikael Hed | 1 |
Julia Jouhki | 1 |
Niklas Zennström | 1 |
Nicoya | 1 |
Veritas Finland | 1 |
Arto Rastas | 1 |
Timo Soininen | 1 |
CPT Capital | 1 |
Vaens | 1 |
University of Helsinki | 1 |
Heikki Nousiainen | 1 |
Nordic Science Investments | 1 |
FV Group Holding AB | 1 |
EQT Ventures | 1 |
Turret Oy | 1 |
Peter Carlsson | 1 |
Sophia Ehrnrooth | 1 |
Sebastian Östman | 1 |
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.
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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.
Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
- Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Illusian is the Founder Office of people who have founded and scaled companies like Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, and Smartly. While the group is still busy running their businesses, they've aligned their networks, capital, and expertise to simultaneously support the next generation of builders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
- Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
- Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
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.
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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
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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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 investing in #FutureFood. Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Life Science, Water
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- EvodiaBio — Mirroring nature with pioneering bioscience for natural flavors
- Endless Food Co — Endless Food Co is a food innovation firm focusing on the junction of pleasure and sustainability. Endless Food Co was pulled together by a common idea that the transition to a greener and more egalitarian future food system will be driven by flavor, and having spent the last decade pioneering sustainable gastronomy
- Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made
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.
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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.
Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- MailMoo — Record one video. MailMoo personalizes it to thousands of leads.
- Gesynta Pharma — Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se
- Neumirna Therapeutics — Founded in 2020, NEUmiRNA focuses on achieving transformative disease modification for neurological conditions.
Laurel is a General Partner at 83North (formerly Greylock IL), which she joined in 2008. Her areas of focus include: software, internet and fintech. Laurel has led investments in many leading European companies, including Just Eat (LSE: JE), Qliktech (NASDAQ: QLIK) and Hybris (acquired by SAP).Her current company boards and investmentsinclude Workable, Mirakl, NotontheHighStreet, Wonga, Wandera, iZettle, BlueVine, Ebury and Investec PLC & Ltd.Laurel was previously at GE and JVP. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series C, Series B, Series D
- United Kingdom, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Huuva — We believe today’s food delivery market is broken and aim to fix this for all value chain stakeholders by making virtual food courts the new industry standard.Huuva develops a plug-n-play solution for restaurateurs to scale their brands to new markets with healthy unit economics. For consumers, Huuva creates unique virtual food court experiencesdirectly into food delivery applications.
- SellerX — We buy and build Amazon businesses, helping entrepreneurs realise the next stage of their businesses, and their lives.
- Pandas — We are Green Panda and our mission is to give consumers the most value out of their smartphone with zero hassle, by empowering them to sell/trade it in the fastest, safest, and easiest way possible. 1Bn (with a B!) smartphones stop being used, every year after you upgrade to the latest and greatest. But there is a solution as simple astrading them in and getting paid while participating in the circular economy. So, why aren’t people selling their old phones, we wondered? This is where Green Panda comes in. Inspired by humans and powered by tech, we make sure that the frustrating experience of selling your smartphone is now as quick and easy as using a kiosk near you. Our patented A.I. technology in the Green Panda kiosks allows us to evaluate a smartphone’s condition, from the smallest nick to serious technical issues, with unprecedented accuracy. Oh, and we pay users on the spot, straight to their bank account/credit card.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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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.
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
Making early-stage founders successful globally. A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Munchfam — Munchfam is your next restaurant software package that covers everything from POS to Webshop to Ingredients.
- Silo Team — Silo Team is developing an onboarding platform to help engineering managers onboard developers faster with automation.
- illuminem — illuminem is the world's most-read Sustainability information and data platform. It offers unlimited news, insights from the largest expert network in sustainability, sustainability data for thousands of companies, and climate sales leads - all in one place.
Fazer Group mission is to create taste sensations. Customer orientation, quality and operations are based.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Poland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Monetizr — Monetizr connects brands with 300M+ Gen Z and Millennial gamers through rewarded, native experiences in mobile games, driving engagement, brand favorability, and purchase intent in one of the most immersive media channels.
- Fluency — Fluency is a blockchain-empowered CBDC proprietary platform revolutionizing the existing financial system. Their blockchain enterprise smart contract platform was developed for the purpose of building and interconnecting national multi CBDC networks. Fluency Aureum allows issuance, distribution, and exchange of multi-CBDCs between central banks,commercial banks, merchants, and consumers. The company's proprietary technology is specifically tailored with the idea of bringing technological and economical innovations of digital currencies to the existing financial system.It was incorporated in 2019, headquartered in London, UK with subsidiaries in Delaware, US, and Dublin, Ireland.
TukkuHeino
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Investment focus
- Cooking, Children, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Carrot Revolution — Versatile recipes, designed by food education experts, and a game-like cooking experience guarantee a fun and safe cooking hobby in the child's own home.
The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Sweden, Norway, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sitoo — Delight your customers with best-in-class shopping journeys. Every time. Everywhere.
- fiskaly — fiskaly develops smart cloud solutions for complex requirements in fiscalization, electronic receipts, and invoices for our partners in retail technology.Our SIGN fiscalization software and APIs are designed to avoid tax tampering by generating unique digital transaction signatures. We are 100% compliant with country-specific legislations andoffer cloud-based solutions without additional hardware. fiskaly’s certified product for Germany is the market leading and operating in more than 600,000 cash registers. Our solution for digital receipts opens up modern ways to optimize business processes and create new experiences. We enable full-circle benefits for POS providers, retailers, and consumers. With this paperless receipt alternative, fiskaly has won several awards for innovation & sustainability in 2023.
- Ingrid — Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier.
We boldly invest in and support promising startups and potential innovations that explore new uses for sustainably-grown Nordic wood.
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Investment focus
- Sustainability, GreenTech, Chemical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Adsorbi — Adsorbi use cellulose from the Nordic forest to help air purification companies to capture gaseous air pollutants.
- FineCell — FineCell is a sustainable cellulose microfibers provider that enables manufacturers to make new products with reduced carbon footprints and differentiated properties.The company's cellulose microfibers possess physical and chemical properties that differ from competing products and provide differentiated benefits for the users. It has beensupported by Vinnova (Sweden’s innovation agency) and EIT InnoEnergy.The Linköping, Ostergotlands Lan-based company was established in 2015 by Jonatan Henschen, Jonas Engstrand, Monica Ek, and Kloce Dongfang Li.
- Fiberwood — Fiberwood is a new eco-friendly wood fiber insulation that can be used for a variety of purposes. Fiberwood has excellent insulating properties, is entirely bio-based, and thus contains no plastic or other fossil-based materials.
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.
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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.
Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
- Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Restaurants, Software
- Angel, Funding Round, Seed
- Finland, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
- Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!
- 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.
Aboa Advest is an investment company focusing on startups and other growth companies. We specialise in Business Model development and service concepts for startups. We assist in financing growth through our know-how and extensive network of partners. We are particularly interested in impact investing: Impact investing generates a beneficial socialor environmental impact, as well as a financial return.
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Investment focus
- Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Entis — Entis is an insect food brand that makes food products that offer an alternative source of protein. Entis' snacks are insect and vegetable protein-based and can be eaten directly from a pack or incorporated into dishes, allowing consumers to get access to tasty snacks that help them achieve daily nutritional goals.
Hercculia
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Investment focus
- Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Entis — Entis is an insect food brand that makes food products that offer an alternative source of protein. Entis' snacks are insect and vegetable protein-based and can be eaten directly from a pack or incorporated into dishes, allowing consumers to get access to tasty snacks that help them achieve daily nutritional goals.
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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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
Aristo-Invest is a family office of CapMan founder Ari Tolppanen.
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Investment focus
- Cooking, Children, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Carrot Revolution — Versatile recipes, designed by food education experts, and a game-like cooking experience guarantee a fun and safe cooking hobby in the child's own home.
Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Powernaut — We build the software to run the energy system of tomorrow. Our virtual power plants create unseen before, but a necessity in our clean energy transition.
- Vendorvue — Vendorvue revolutionize vendor management for procurement teams.
- DataPad — Say hello to the World's easiest metric tracking tool. Track everything in one place. Enable your entire team. Build data culture. All with no code, no development.
Insta Ventures is a venture capital firm that has been investing in different IT technology sectors since 2019. Currently, we are looking for tech startups that are in the early stages of development of their products. Our investment team consists of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds in the IT sphere. Our goal is to help ambitiousteams create innovative products, spread them globally, and maintain fast-growing companies.Typically, we invest $100K-500K during a growing stage of a company's lifecycle (seed / late seed / pre-round A), and then help to develop its marketing and sales, as well as prepare the company for the next investment phase.We appreciate co-investments. Let's invest together!
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Grocery
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Estonia, France
Portfolio highlights
- Bairro — Produtos em minutos
- Conduit.app — No-code data analytics for Digital Marketeers in DTC/ E-commerce/ SaaS businesses
- Pop Market — Pop Market delivers thousands of grocery and convenience products in less than 15 minutes.The company operates a vertically-integrated model, sourcing products directly from suppliers and distributing them from its own network of delivery-only "dark stores”. By having more control of its supply chain, it has the ability to limit food wasteand offer ultra-fast delivery times. Pop Market is backed by leading global investors and its team brings together deep industry experience.
Risto Siilasmaa is the Founder at F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- #Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Meeshkan — Use Meeshkan to generate and run UI tests from the in-production behavior of your users, providing a flawless product-led growth pipeline for prospects, and reducing churn as you to ship your highest quality releases ever.Regular UI tests take forever to write, guesswork determines the most important tests, and they become out of date in a fewweeks. And manual testing, while more accurate, is the most inefficient use of developer time. Companies who choose not to write UI tests to save time struggle to acquire and retain users. Your UI is the only way users experience your product, so if it fails to delight, they'll fail to convert – or even worse, churn.Meeshkan enhances, and in many cases replaces, the "all hands on deck" pre-release testing with beautifully crafted, uncannily realistic artificial hands.Stop guessing. Test what matters. Release with confidence. Supercharge your growth.
- The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
VTT is a powerhouse of technology development and scientific research. Many of the most significant Finnish technology start-ups were brought to life at VTT. Do you want to invest in ongoing ventures?
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, 3D Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
- Quanturi Oy — Quanturi's robust wireless temperature monitoring systems are specifically designed for monitoring hay, compost, grain and many other fermentable materials during storage. Our systems decrease fire risks and ensure quality certification.
- Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
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.
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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.
Olli has background in management consultancy (McKinsey & Company 2007-2009) and software business (LeadDesk Oyj (publ) 2010-2018).
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketplace, Real Estate
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Freska — Freska, voted one of the hottest tech start-ups in Finland, is an online home services company currently disrupting the traditional home cleaning industry in the Nordics, backed by top-tier VCs (Acton, Spintop and Addventure) post Series A. Freska delivers top quality cleaning services with total flexibility for the customer to select a time,decide on the service and manage the subscription in an easy-to-use online interface or a native app. However, Freska does not only clean homes, it creates real jobs. All Freska cleaners have been subject to a thorough recruitment process followed by a thorough Freska-onboarding. They are all skilled professionals and core members of the Freska family, knowing that they will earn a good living from their job and have a community that supports them.
- Offerilla — Offerilla is the most popular marketplace for local discounts. Offerilla was founded by entrepreneurs Risto Juntunen, Mikko Ollikkala and Aleksi Paavola.
- 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.
Juha-Petteri Kukkonen runs family office KVKI Capital, which helps food & beverage startups and growth companies with their world-shaping ideas. He has founded the digital agency Piraija Interactive and a mobile app company, CreateTrips. He also have a strong background in advertising and PR and have worked for agencies like SEK & Grey,Satama Interactive, Mindshare Worldwide, and Valve.
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Investment focus
- Wellness, Nutrition, Personal Health
- 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.
- Taimi.love — Taimi manufactures optimized nutrients for a balanced life.
Courage Ventures is a seed investment fund with global networks.
The fund focuses on health, education and environment verticals where its partners and advisors can add significant value to the companies’ growth.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Apps, Online Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- #Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Equally — Build engaging games for kids that encourage physical activity, personal development and exploration. Provide parents the data and oversight they need to reward positive behavior.
- Meru Health — Meru Health is an online mental health provider that helps people improve their mental health long-term by treating depression, anxiety, and burnout.
Mikael Hed currently works as a Chairman for Yazen. He previously worked at Rovio Entertainment as a CEO. Mikael Hed attended Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Electronics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Lithuania
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- Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
- CGTrader — Join the fastest-growing 3D model marketplace today!
- Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
Julia Jouhki is an Angel Investor.
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- Wellness, Nutrition, Personal Health
- Seed
- Finland
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- Taimi.love — Taimi manufactures optimized nutrients for a balanced life.
Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.
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- Software, Internet, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland
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- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
- Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
Nicoya is a business-accelerating investment company focusing on foodtech.
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- Food and Beverage, Grocery, Leisure
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, United States, Finland
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- Foodiq — Foodiq is a one-of-a-kind food manufacturer that can both develop and manufacture plant-based products.
- Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
- JULIENNE BRUNO — Julienne Bruno made with naturally plant-based ingredients like fermented legumes & slow roasted vegetables.
Veritas is an entrepreneur’s pension insurer, with a human touch.
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- Farming, Seafood, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- FIFAX — Fifax Ab's business idea is to cultivate a first-class rainbow trout with a modern, innovative and environmentally friendly method. To this end, Fifax has built a fish farm for a dry land using the Circulating Technique (RAS). The plant is located in Eckerö, Storby, on the western Åland.Fifax Ab's goal is to produce the best, domestic,good quality and fresh rainbow trout.
I am a cook who never found it just as the journey on the trail. Thus, I decided to walk through several trails. What I mean is that, one day I can do a very modern and innovative cuisine, and again on the second day I can and I want to do something else. However, both of these must be in its own address.
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- SaaS, Marketplace, Food Processing
- Seed
- Finland
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- Foodiac — Foodiac is an online marketplace for private chefs and high-end catering. It offers a SaaS-based business model for chefs and small catering companies to build their business and brand. The company was founded by Miikka Mäkiö in 2014 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
Timo Soininen is the co-founder at Small Giant Games.
Timo Soininen is the CEO and co-founder of Small Giant Games, maker of the hit game Empires & Puzzles.
Small Giant joined Zynga, Inc (ZNGA) in December 2018, when Zynga acquired 80% of Small Giant at $700M valuation.
Prior to Small Giant he was the longtime CEO of Habbo Hotel and is also anactive angel investor in several technology startups ranging from biomaterials and digital health to games (Spinnova, Aiforia, Critical Force).
Timo holds a M.Sc. degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University and just loves tennis.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, United States
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- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
- MyGamez — With over 600 million mobile gamers, China is the biggest growth opportunity for global game companies.
Investing in the Future of Protein.We invest in visionary founders creating the future of food and materials.
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- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- ENOUGH — ENOUGH makes protein sustainable by producing ABUNDA mycoprotein, made by fermenting fungi with the natural sugars from grains. It is a whole protein with all 9 essential amino acids & rich in fibre. It is a B2B ingredient, neutral in taste and fibrous in texture, like meat. The most sustainable
- Shiru — Discover Shiru. We are an Ingredient Company that Identifies and Creates Functional Ingredients for the Plant-Based Industry.
- Wanda Fish Technologies — Wanda Fish is an innovative FoodTech company with a platform that produces a wide variety of delicious fish fillets using sustainable cell-cultivation practices.
Vaens is a family investment office focused on b2b software and software-as-a-service companies.
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- InsurTech, Environmental Consulting
- Seed
- Sweden, Finland
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- Claims Carbon — Claims Carbon software helps insurance companies decarbonize their value chain by providing carbon conscious underwriting and claims handling solutions. We use data and analytics to identify and reduce carbon hotspots and costs in the insurance exposure, simulate and monitor the impact of climate ac
- Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!
- Nordic Umami Company — Developing all-embracing sustainable flavours to accelerate plant-based eating.
The University of Helsinki has the widest range of disciplines in Finland. It was established in Turku in 1640, but was transferred to Helsinki in 1828. The number of faculties is eleven. There are 35,000 degree students and 7,900 staff. The number of degrees taken each year is an average 5,000, of which about 470 are doctorates. The Universityconcentrates on high-level scientific research and researcher education. Scientific research is also the basis of the teaching provided by the University. The University operations support the development of society, as well as business and industry. University representatives offer their competencies for the benefit of society through a number of positions of trust and expertise. The results produced by the research and teaching carried out at the University have been widely acclaimed. The University participates in more than half of the national Centres of Excellence in Research, elected by international scientific panels. The University of Helsinki has been invited to be a member of the League of European Research Universities, a co-operation body for the leading European research universities. According to international expert panels, also the teaching provided by the University of Helsinki is of a high European level. The University has strong international connections. It has some 80 co-operation agreements with universities on different continents. The University researchers are in great demand as experts in international scientific communities, meetings and publications. The University is bilingual, but in addition to Finnish and Swedish teaching is also provided in English. Besides Helsinki, the University has operations at 20 localities throughout Finland.
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- Apps, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Finland, Luxembourg
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- NADMED — The standard of NAD measuring
- Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
- Perfat Technologies — Perfat Technologies is a health-based technology company that develops fat-management applications based on healthy vegetable oils.
Heikki Nousiainen
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- SaaS, Big Data, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Germany
We partner with founders to transform unseen scientific discoveries into future breakthroughs, jointly moving businesses, people, and the world forward.
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- Apps, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Finland
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- Acouspin — Acouspin provides ultrasonic-enhanced, AI-driven seamless technology for efficient and flexible nanofiber production, allowing producers to attain precision without specific expertise.
- PrecisionPhage — PrecisionPhage is a biotech business that specializes on bacteriophage technologies.
- Phenaros Pharmaceuticals — Data-centric drug discovery with AI, Phenomics and Automation.
FV Group Holding AB is owned by Swedish Rolf Karlsson, the man behind the national taxi organization Fågelviks Group.
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- Farming, Seafood, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- FIFAX — Fifax Ab's business idea is to cultivate a first-class rainbow trout with a modern, innovative and environmentally friendly method. To this end, Fifax has built a fish farm for a dry land using the Circulating Technique (RAS). The plant is located in Eckerö, Storby, on the western Åland.Fifax Ab's goal is to produce the best, domestic,good quality and fresh rainbow trout.
EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totalling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totalling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totalling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris and San Francisco, taking a locals with locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Sweden, Germany, United States
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- Fly.io — Fly.io offers an Application Delivery Network (ADN) intended to help website owners get connected with their customers easily. The company's application delivery network uses a global network of servers to accept visitor traffic, run middleware on requests, then route them to backend applications, enabling website owners to direct theirvisitors to their respective sites securely and in a few clicks.
- Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
- Volt.io — Increase retention and digital sales by allowing your customers to initiate direct payments, from their bank accounts to yours in real-time. Your checkout in super-drive, powered by Volt.
Turret Oy is an investment vehicle controlled by Paul Ehrnrooth
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- Farming, Seafood, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Seed
- Finland
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- FIFAX — Fifax Ab's business idea is to cultivate a first-class rainbow trout with a modern, innovative and environmentally friendly method. To this end, Fifax has built a fish farm for a dry land using the Circulating Technique (RAS). The plant is located in Eckerö, Storby, on the western Åland.Fifax Ab's goal is to produce the best, domestic,good quality and fresh rainbow trout.
- Voltan Energy — Voltan Energy is a sustainable and affordable local heating and cooling solutions.
- Hycamite TCD Technologies — Hycamite is decarbonising industry using its proprietary methane pyrolysis technology. It provides its industrial clients with low-carbon hydrogen and sustainable carbon products for demanding applications.
Peter joined Tesla from NXP Semiconductors where he was responsible for purchasing and outsourcing. As CPO, he took the purchase organization from a tactical decentralized structure to a strategic global commodity organization.
Before starting at NXP, Peter was CPO at Sony Ericsson. Peter had a total of 13 years experience from different roles withEricsson and Sony Ericsson in Sweden and the US. He led the team that built and implemented Ericsson's framework for Supplier Quality Assurance.
Peter has a Master's degree with specialization in Production and Quality Control from Luleå Technical University in Sweden. In his spare time he enjoys running, mountain biking, golf, cooking and travel.
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- Information Technology, Food and Beverage, AgTech
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Sweden, Finland, Germany
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- X Shore — In the evolution of an industry that has remained steadfast in its traditions, for better or for worse. With new technology and innovative research, smart design and sustainable materials, X Shore embraces the long tradition of maritime craftsmanship while discarding the dirty institution of fossil fuels. They don’t see theirselves as disrupters.They’re not here to reinvent the wheel, but rather to right the ship. To set a course for long-term sustainability that they can all be proud of.
- Turnpike — Turnpike provides a complete platform for wearable communication and workflow management. It empowers front-of-house employees in retail stores and hotels by delivering prioritized communication directly to their wrists via smartwatches. Its manager's portal is accessible from any browser-capable device, employee smartwatches, and optionalinput devices that enable employees and customers to request immediate assistance.
- Orbital Systems — Save up to 90% water and up to 80% energy with our smart recirculating shower - a much better shower experience for both you and our planet
Sophia Ehrnrooth is an Individual Investor.
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- Fruit, Gaming, Nutrition
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- 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.
Sebastian Östman is an Angel Investor.
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- Wellness, Nutrition, Personal Health
- Seed
- Finland
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- Taimi.love — Taimi manufactures optimized nutrients for a balanced life.
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