Top 50 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Finland in May 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Gaming startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Finland in May 2025
Investor | Gaming Finland investments |
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Play Ventures | 14 |
Lifeline Ventures | 12 |
Supercell | 10 |
Sisu Game Ventures | 10 |
Initial Capital | 8 |
LVP | 7 |
First Fellow Partners | 7 |
Inventure | 6 |
PROfounders Capital | 6 |
Visionplus | 6 |
Illusian Founder Office | 5 |
Butterfly Ventures | 5 |
Makers Fund | 4 |
Reaktor Ventures | 4 |
Index Ventures | 4 |
Business Finland | 4 |
Creandum | 4 |
Galaxy Interactive | 3 |
Xiaomi | 3 |
Nordic Foodtech VC | 3 |
Crowberry Capital | 3 |
FOV Ventures | 3 |
IPR.VC | 3 |
Brighteye Ventures | 3 |
GSV Ventures | 3 |
Spintop Ventures | 3 |
Maki.vc | 3 |
5Y Capital | 3 |
Fazer | 2 |
Innovestor | 2 |
Korpun Siemen | 2 |
Finnvera Venture Capital | 2 |
EOS VC Fund | 2 |
BITKRAFT Ventures | 2 |
BACKED VC | 2 |
Northzone | 2 |
Tesi | 2 |
The Games Fund | 2 |
Metsa Spring | 2 |
Kowloon Nights | 2 |
Alfabeat | 2 |
Heartcore Capital | 2 |
General Catalyst | 2 |
NetEase Capital | 2 |
Korea Investment Partners | 2 |
TukkuHeino | 2 |
Genesis Ventures | 2 |
Verdane | 2 |
BAI capital | 2 |
EQT Ventures | 2 |
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
- Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
- PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.
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
- Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
- Soldera — Soldera enables renewable energy producers to earn additional income through an automatic guarantee of the origin trading system.
- TILT Biotherapeutics — TILT Biotherapeutics is the leading company globally working in the area of enabling tumor T-cell therapy with oncolytic viruses. TILT is a preclinical stage company working in the field of cancer immunotherapy and will soon translate its unique approach into clinical trials. The company’s patented technology involves utilization of oncolyticviruses for enhancement of tumor T-cell therapy. Initial embodiments of the technology will be used to enhance tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) and checkpoint inhibiting antibody therapy. The TILT approach has the potential to achieve similar results in CAR-T therapy of solid tumors as currently achieved for CD19+ hematological tumors.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Appcharge — Appcharge specializes in offering a comprehensive payment solution that supports direct-to-consumer sales through a mobile-first web store. The platform features over 500 payment methods and 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless checkout experience for users worldwide.
- Future Run — Future Run embarks on an ambitious mission to redefine competitive gaming.
- Penguin Armada — Penguin Armada produces and develops video games.
Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
- VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Zebedee — Transform your game into an earning powerhouse with ZBD Rewards.
- Bipa — Bipa is a company that allows customers to buy and sell Bitcoin starting from R$1 using Pix and Lightning Network.
- Hot Wave Fitness — Hot Wave Fitness which owns the HOTME brand provides personalized, and private fitness services.
LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Bitpart AI — BITPART.AI - The AI NPC engine built by game developers for game developers. Populate virtual worlds with characters that mimic real behavior.
- Look North World — Publisher and Developer of interactive entertainment for Creator platforms like Fortnite (UEFN) and Curseforge. Enclave: Survival Skyward available now in ARK: Survival Ascended.
- Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.
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.
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.
We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
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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.
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
- Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
- Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
- Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Voldex — Voldex is an innovative video games studio focused on UGC (user-generated-content). It owns and operate several top Minecraft+Roblox games.
- BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
- Human Computer — Human Computer is an independent video game studio. Building games that matter. High-quality experiences that respect your time and push creative boundaries. Stories pull you in, computers provide the magic.
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.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
- Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
- Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.
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, SaaS, Biotechnology
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.
- SparkReceipt — AI-powered Receipt Scanner and Expense Tracker for Individuals and Small Businesses. Create your free account now!
- 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.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Swan — Use Swan's APIs to embed white-labeled banking features like accounts, cards, and IBANs into your workflows and UX.
- CAST AI — Cast AI cuts AWS, Azure, and GCP costs, secures Kubernetes applications, and boosts DevOps efficiency. Try it now!
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
- DeltaStream — Deltastreasm is a secure and scalable unified streaming data platform driven by SQL - built for teams to process and share easily.
- OpenOrigins — OpenOrigins ensures pixel-perfect authentication at the source, restoring believability in visual media.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Electronics
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Infinigence — Wuwen Core Dome is dedicated to providing AGI computing power solutions based on its large model energy efficiency optimization tools, with the goal of resolving the challenge of efficient and unified deployment of large model algorithms to large computing power chips.
- Dezao Technology — Dezao Technology is an e-commerce transaction provider, mostly involved in the sales of electronic products, mobile phones, and mobile phone accessories.
- Mihuo Intelligence — Mihuo Smart is a smart-home and appliance firm.
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
Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in emerging technology ventures in the Nordics. Our mission is to back people that are good for companies and build companies that are good for people. We have a strong follow-through philosophy and commit to putting your company first.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
FOV Ventures invests in early-stage European companies across Spatial Computing, AI, 3D, and Robotics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, 3D Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- nunu.ai — nunu.ai is the frontier of artificial intelligence in gaming by creating the first multi-modal AI agents designed to test and play any game.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
- ai|coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.
IPR.VC is a private equity investor focused on media and entertainment content. IPR.VC invests in collaboration with international distribution companies.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Lightneer — Mobile game studio based in Helsinki, Finland. We make fun games for the way people play today!
Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Learning, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
- Installer — All-in-one platform for job and installer management.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
GSV Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75 billion learning and talent technology sector. The mission of GSV Ventures is to back innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Peru
Portfolio highlights
- Ropes — Ropes is a software platform that bridges the gap between technical assessment and real-world performance.
- Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
- Amigo AI — AI as diverse as you. Amigo’s cloning platform enables any professional to scale their expertise, preserving your uniqueness. Increase your revenue, not your hours.
Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Sweden, Finland, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- ReCarber — Commercializing carbon removal projects. ReCarber matches emitters with off-takers, orchestrates financing, and commercially develops BECCS / bio-CCS projects.
- Seven Stars — De perfecte match in IT. Die maken wij. Als IT-flex regisseur en specialist in IT-bemiddeling verbinden we professionals met de beste IT-opdrachten. Snel, soepel en zonder gedoe. We make IT spark.
- Seven Stars — Seven Stars is a startup for creating captivating mobile games with a talented, diverse team.
Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- TrackSights — TrackSights combines top-tier data, automated workflows, and actionable insights for the automotive industry. Streamline decisions, calculate values, and manage fleets effortlessly with a modern, easy-to-use interface. Book a demo today!
- Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
5Y Capital is a firm engaged in providing early-stage venture investments. It was formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital.
The investment firm manages USD 5bn in dual-currency funds in USD and RMB, backed by world-renowned sovereign wealth funds, family offices, fund of funds, university endowments, pensions, and foundations. It is aninvestment firm of Morningside Group.It was headquartered in Xuhui, Shanghai, China in 2008 by Ken Shi and Richard Liu.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
- LTZ Therapeutics — LTZ develops novel immunotherapies to treat patients that suffer from cancer and other diseases with an unmet clinical need.
- Differential Robotics — Differential Robotics is a robotics company providing research, design, and development of aerial robots and intelligent autonomous drones.
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.
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
- Aplagon — Aplagon is committed to bringing unique, effective antithrombotic medicines with important safety advantages to patients with unmet needs.
- Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport
- Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases.
Korpun Siemen is backed by 33 investors who have combined their initial investment activities and have extensive experience in start-up, growth and family businesses in various industries. The company includes active angel investors, entrepreneurs in growth companies and investors who have already exited their companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Pet
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
- Remod — Remod provides holistic IT surveys, backup services, cyber control, functional programming, data processing, incident response, secure systems, network design, and proof of concept development.
- 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.
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.
Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Gaming
- Grant, Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
- SparkChange — SparkChange provides specialist carbon data that empowers better ESG investment, risk management & reporting across financial institutions.
- Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
- Appcharge — Appcharge specializes in offering a comprehensive payment solution that supports direct-to-consumer sales through a mobile-first web store. The platform features over 500 payment methods and 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless checkout experience for users worldwide.
- Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.
BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders at Seed in Europe. Welcome to Different.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
- Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
- Cloud Capital — CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML.
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dalma — Dalma offers transparent, subscription-based health insurance that covers pets, reimbursing costs related to illnesses, injuries, and preventive care.
- Clarium — Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with an AI-powered platform with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government-owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state-owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses.Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with privateco-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings.The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570
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- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, Argentina
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- Seaber — Seaber is a cloud-based real-time planning, optimisation and communication solution for bulk cargo & vessels. Our solution improves the efficiency of bulk & break bulk charterers, shipowners & brokers through schedule planning and stakeholder communications over the lifecycle of a voyage.
- TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
- TILT Biotherapeutics — TILT Biotherapeutics is the leading company globally working in the area of enabling tumor T-cell therapy with oncolytic viruses. TILT is a preclinical stage company working in the field of cancer immunotherapy and will soon translate its unique approach into clinical trials. The company’s patented technology involves utilization of oncolyticviruses for enhancement of tumor T-cell therapy. Initial embodiments of the technology will be used to enhance tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) and checkpoint inhibiting antibody therapy. The TILT approach has the potential to achieve similar results in CAR-T therapy of solid tumors as currently achieved for CD19+ hematological tumors.
TGF is an early-stage VC fund founded by video games industry veterans.
We invest in future leaders: game developers, gaming technologies, and services.
We share best practices and offer our experience and personal touch.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Cyprus, United States, Poland
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- Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
- Drama Studios — Studios DRAMA has created UNRECORD which is a single-player FPS that tells the story of a tactical police officer from the perspective of his body camera.
- Dark Passenger — Dark Passenger is a firm that develops video games. The team consists of both new blood specialists and seasoned gamedev professionals. The objective is to develop incredibly thrilling online experiences that emphasize both collaboration and competition and are captivated by human connections, alliances, fearless conflicts, and surprising turns ofevents.
We boldly invest in and support promising startups and potential innovations that explore new uses for sustainably-grown Nordic wood.
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- Sustainability, GreenTech, Chemical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, Sweden
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- 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.
Kowloon Nights is a video game fund dedicated to independent developers globally.
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- Gaming, Video Games
- Funding Round
- Finland
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- Redhill Games — We are a game development studio with locations in Helsinki, Finland, and Nicosia, Cyprus. We are here to help create AAA games.
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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- Software, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Poland, United Kingdom, United States
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- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Monetizr — Monetizr connects brands with 340M+ 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.
Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.
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- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Denmark, United States, Germany
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- PhaseTree — Materials design simulation company - PhaseTree ApS
- Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Kouper Health — The transitions-of-care platform ensuring patients receive timely access to follow-up care.
- Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.
- TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.
NetEase Capital is the venture arm of NetEase and looks at early-stage VC investments in the technology sector around the world. The group, with a mandate to invest $500 million USD globally, has led venture investments throughout Asia and North America.NetEase is a leading Chinese Internet company listed on the Nasdaq with a marketcapitalization of over $10 billion, and a cash balance over $3 billion. The company has products including a top email service with over 700 million registered users, a top information and entertainment portal, mobile apps with hundreds of millions of downloads, and a top game platform in China.
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- Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Finland
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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- Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, China
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- Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
- At Home — AtHome is a home lifestyle solution company which solves the hidden problems for the customers.
- Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.
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- Cooking, Children, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- 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.
Making early-stage founders successful globally. A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
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- PlugSecure — Protecting electric vehicle charging networks from cyber threats with advanced security monitoring and threat detection.
- Wealthyhood — Stocks, ETFs and high interest with zero commissions and powerful automation. Start building wealth today!
- Progressive Robotics — Making Robots Smarter
The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Sweden, Norway, Germany
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- 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.
BAI Capital is a leading venture capital fund in China. Since 2008, the team of BAI Capital has invested in more than 200 portfolios, including 17+ IPOs and 40+ unicorns. BAI Capital has two main focuses: China-based global companies and China’s structural transformation. BAI Capital seeks to partner with and empower outstanding Chinese companiesand entrepreneurs that can leverage the multiplier effect of China’s technology, talent, and supply chain advantages and to expand globally in consumer retail and services, fintech, media and content innovation, Web3 and metaverse. On the other hand, at the turning point of China’s structural transformation, the fund will also seize major cross-cycle disruption opportunities in frontier and infra tech, electric vehicles and autonomous driving, and industrial upgrade driven by enterprise software development.The investor base for BAI Capital includes institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, large insurance companies, internet giants and fund of funds globally, as well as Bertelsmann. BAI Capital has its background from Bertelsmann Asia Investments, part of the Bertelsmann Group.
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- Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Hong Kong
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- VITURE — Making the parallel possible...
- KUN — KUN provides all-inclusive digital payment solutions for Web2 and Web3 enterprises.Its services include seamless on/off ramp solutions, developing markets-focused integrated payment systems, and cryptocurrency-enabled virtual and real card solutions.
- Usdx money — usdx.money is a secure and decentralized bankless synthetic stablecoin issuer with the mission to better serve people with next gen stablecoin infra connecting DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi.
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 totaling €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 on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €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 a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Sweden, United States
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- MarvelX — Transform Your Operations With Trusted AI Agents. MarvelX AI Agents take care of repetitive, high-stakes workflows so your team can focus on the exceptions, not the routine. Built for insurance and beyond.
- Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
- Marvel Fusion — Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by building a laser-driven fusion power plant.
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