Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Finland (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Lifeline Ventures
VC Fund
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26 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $547k–$20M |
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Inventure
VC Fund
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22 | Finland, Sweden, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $549k–$23M |
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Butterfly Ventures
VC Fund
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21 | Finland, Sweden, Norway | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $110k–$4.4M |
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Tesi
VC Fund
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19 | Finland, United States, Switzerland | Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $2.2M–$41M |
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Finnvera Venture Capital
VC Fund
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19 | Finland, United States, Chile | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $250k–$22M |
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Business Finland
VC Fund
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17 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Biotechnology, SaaS | $53k–$11M |
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Superhero Capital
VC Fund
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12 | Finland, Lithuania, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $212k–$3.1M |
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VTT Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | Finland | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Sensor | $460k–$13M |
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Icebreaker.vc
VC Fund
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10 | Finland, Estonia, Sweden | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $106k–$25M |
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Maki.vc
VC Fund
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9 | Finland, Norway, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $900k–$37M |
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Sisu Game Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Finland, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Software | $576k–$38M |
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Innovestor
VC Fund
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8 | Finland, Denmark, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $163k–$4.5M |
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Conor Venture Partners
VC Fund
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7 | Finland, United States, Sweden | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Analytics, Semiconductor | $1.1M–$16M |
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Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Finland, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $137k–$6.6M |
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, Finland, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $505k–$17M |
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First Fellow Partners
VC Fund
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6 | Finland, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $228k–$26M |
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Ali Omar
Angel
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6 | Finland, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $53k–$2.1M |
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Voima Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Finland, Sweden, Norway | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $439k–$18M |
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Jyri Engestrom
Angel
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5 | United States, Finland, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Internet | $600k–$20M |
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Visionplus
VC Fund
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5 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $77k–$14M |
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OP Financial Group
VC Fund
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5 | Finland, France, Sweden | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, FinTech, Renewable Energy | $46k–$3.2B |
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OpenOcean
VC Fund
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4 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $2.3M–$30M |
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Leena Niemistö
Angel
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4 | Finland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $480k–$3.2M |
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Nordic Option
VC Fund
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4 | Finland | Seed, Series C | Hardware, Software, Electronics | |
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VNT Management
VC Fund
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4 | Finland, Germany | Series B, Seed | Manufacturing, Electronics, Information Technology | $3.3M–$4.4M |
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Mikael Hed
Angel
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3 | Finland, Sweden, Lithuania | Seed, Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Electronics | $1.1M–$2.1M |
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Vito Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, Finland, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things | $1.6M–$41M |
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Leaguer Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | China, United States, Finland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Wave Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Finland, Sweden, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $165k–$2.1M |
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Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment
VC Fund
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3 | Finland | Grant | SaaS, FinTech, Lighting | |
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Supercell
VC Fund
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3 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, PC Games | $425k–$22M |
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FOV Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Finland, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Gaming, 3D Technology | $360k–$37M |
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Zach Shelby
Angel
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2 | Finland | Seed | Hardware, Software, Wearables | |
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $750k–$170M |
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Harwick Overseas
VC Fund
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2 | Finland | Seed | Fashion, E-Commerce, Marketplace | |
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True Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | |
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The Venture Reality Fund/VRF
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Finland, Australia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality | $2M–$36M |
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Tiny VC
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | |
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CapMan
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Russian Federation, Sweden | Private Equity, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $2.1M–$100M |
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John Lindfors
Angel
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2 | Finland, South Korea, Sweden | Series A, Seed, Series D | E-Commerce, Eyewear, Internet | $1M–$48M |
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Anssi Vanjoki
Angel
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2 | Finland | Angel, Series A | Medical, Hardware, Health Care | |
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Initial Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Mobile, Software | $796k–$12M |
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Nuard Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Germany, United States | Seed | IaaS, Video, Fashion | $339k–$680k |
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Ventech
VC Fund
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2 | France, Germany, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.2M–$69M |
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Vsquared Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing | $4.2M–$74M |
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Jari Ovaskainen
Angel
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2 | Finland, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile, Gaming, PC Games | $970k–$20M |
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Angular Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $1.2M–$45M |
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Forvia
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, Finland | Series A, Corporate Round | Automotive, Software, Electronics | $4.6M–$25M |
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Summit Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, Canada | Private Equity, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Samsung Venture Investment
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | |
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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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $547k–$5.4M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $171M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
- Thor Dynamics — Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with a European base in Finland, Thor Dynamics specializes in directed energy systems for defense against drones and drone swarms. The company’s innovative solutions are available worldwide to protect critical infrastructure and enhance national security. Laser Armor™ is a complete directed energy counter-dronesolution. Utilizing advanced radar and optical systems it can detect, track, and target hostile targets. High-power directed energy from Thor’s Laser Engines then eliminates the threat in seconds. Multiple safety systems ensure accurate target identification and minimal collateral damage.
- Everywear Games — Metacore is a wearable game studio. The company was founded in 2014 by industry veterans from Remedy, Digital Chocolate and Rovio and it is the pioneer of smartwatch gaming. It’s award-winning Apple Watch launch title, Runeblade, has received worldwide recognition from press, fans and industry heavyweights and it’s games are consistently on top ofglobal charts.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $549k–$6M; Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $1.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $169M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Finch — Optimize building design with AI and graph technology. Get immediate feedback on performance, detect errors and find optimal solutions.
- Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.
- ONEiO — ONEiO is a cloud-native integration service provider connecting people, processes, and tools – enabling seamless collaboration without traditional integration hassle. Provided as a turn-key solution, as self-service, or something in between. You choose.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $219k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $110k–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atium — Clean water is one of the largest future challenges we stand before, and toxic pollutants are a large contributing factor. Heavy metals are some of the most toxic chemicals to human health and it is our goal, through our innovation, to contribute to a world where water treatment is more environmentally friendly and effective. Atium exists to helpensure clean water, for everyone.
- Reactional Music — Reactional Music is creating a new commercial layer for the global games industry that uses premium, licensed music to drive both user acquisition and player engagement. The company’s technology allows developers and publishers to integrate commercial music at two critical points in the player lifecycle:- Music in User Acquisition – improvingconversion, ROI, and campaign lifespan in playable ads and performance marketing.- Music in Games – increasing retention, session length, and monetization through adaptive, personalized music experiences.Reactional’s platform combines a patented rule-based adaptive music engine, a licensed catalog of more than six million tracks, and an automated rights and royalty system. The technology is already integrated with Unity and Unreal and is deployed across live projects with leading publishers and studios.
- Popit — Popit makes medication connected with a unique, medical grade solution. It tracks medication use automatically and reminds ONLY if you miss. Developed together with healthcare professionals.
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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$41M; Series B $3.1M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wirepas — Wirepas offers a standards-based, ultra-reliable mesh connectivity for infrastructure-grade IoT. Proven in millions of devices worldwide.
- Kide Science — Kide Science supports young children's scientific thinking through play-based learning, which predicts better learning outcomes in school.
- MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.3M; Series A $1.7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
- Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
- CHAOS — CHAOS is an urban forecasting company for real estate investors and city developers. Our AI platform processes urban data and crowd insights to forecast investment and development for creating liveable cities.
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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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $297k–$3.5M; Grant $53k–$11M; Debt Financing $241k–$5.8M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
- Marginum — Pioneering the next-generation quantitative surgical techniques.
- Valio — We are Valio Group: the most innovative dairy and food company in the world.
Some call you founders. We call you Superheroes. Seed stage VC investing in insight-driven startups in Finland and the Baltics. Tickets 100 K€ - 1000 K€.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Lithuania, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $212k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $618k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Zadaa — We are the world’s first marketplace to make selling and buying secondhand as simple as in an online store. We have revolutionised C2C logistics regarding pricing and marketplace integration between multiple logistic companies operating on different markets. Zadaa is live on German, Danish and Finnish markets.
- eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
- ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Sensor
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $460k–$6M; Series A $1.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
- 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.
- Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $384k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $106k–$1.3M; Series A $3.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $22M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cytely — Transforms microscopy from image-driven to data-driven through AI-powered autonomous targeting that captures high-resolution data of critical cellular events, enabling researchers to solve complex biological problems in minutes instead of years.
- ReOrbit — Looking for a way to keep your data flowing in space? ReOrbit has you covered with our line of autonomous and inter-networking satellites!
- NROC Security — Prevent data leaks, govern shadow AI, prove compliance, and save 50% on GenAI subscriptions
We partner with deep tech and brand-driven companies obsessed in challenging category norms. The Nordics are our home, but we take on a global front in spotting the unexpected - from B2B to B2C, with a sweet spot for scientific advances, strong IP, and customer understanding that looks beyond convention.We invest in early stage companies: fromtheir inception to series A and beyond. We share in the vision of founders as champions and challengers, drawing on our experiences from scaling some of the strongest tech companies ourselves.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Norway, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $900k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Yaak Technologies ApS — Safety in urban self-driving is currently an afterthought. At Yaak, we distill safety from driving experts for the next generation of human and autonomous driving.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $576k–$4.6M; Series A $6.1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- emptyvessel — Emptyvessel is a gaming community that helps in crafting the new horizons of gaming.
- Torpor Games — Torpor Games is a video game company that offers PC, switch, android, and iOS game development services.
- Antihero Studios — Antihero Studios creates multiplayer mobile games focused on social interaction and community engagement.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $507k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $163k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Innomost — Innomost develops and produces high-value bioactive ingredients from forest industry side streams that enable customers to make innovations in the cosmetic beauty industry. Its current product portfolio consists of birch charcoal powder, birch bark powder, betulin, suberin, and azelaic acid, which can trigger innovation in all cosmetic productcategories including skincare, haircare, body care, decorative cosmetics, and oral care.
- Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
- Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.3M; Series A $3.9M–$8.8M; Series B $2.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- Neo4j — Connect data as it's stored with Neo4j. Perform powerful, complex queries at scale and speed with our graph data platform.
- Blackwood Seven — Blackwood Seven is a media analytics platform which strives to increase the effect of company’s media spend using our predictive analytics framework built on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using real-time modelling and advanced KPI prediction we are able to increase a company’s media ROI by up to 15-25%.
- Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.
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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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $137k–$2M; Pre-Seed $159k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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.
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $505k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- UpHill — Clinical algorithms, medical events, scientific evidence and a simulation software in one place
- ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
- Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
First Fellow Partners is a private investment firm built on a founder-first philosophy. We invest only our own capital, backing bold, mission-driven technology entrepreneurs from idea to lasting impact.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $228k–$1.7M; Series A $2.2M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Louhe — Double the reach of your existing physical security investment with a fraction of the cost. Let LOUHE detect and respond to security anomalies on your site, and use it to audit your physical security posture.
- LumiDB — Turn petabyte-scale point cloud archives into a live, queryable utility. LumiDB streams spatially indexed 3D data into your CAD, GIS, and AI workflows.
- FinanceKey — FinanceKey helps you future-proof connectivity, gain real-time cash visibility across the organisation and manage money movements with ease.
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $263k–$2.1M; Angel $53k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $163k–$724k
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.
- React & Share — High volume, high quality feedback directly from your customers. React & Share helps digital comms teams improve their websites and satisfy their customers.
- Plain Complex — VUOROX IS AN AI-POWERED ROSTER SCHEDULING APP FOR HEALTHCARE
Voima Ventures’ mission is to solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and value adding capital. They shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build. Industry domains include bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics,software & ICT and AI. In addition, Voima Ventures has invested in more than 30 deep tech startups, including companies like Solar Foods, Infinited Fiber Company, and Dispelix. Cornerstone investors are VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and European Investment Fund (EIF), backed by Finnish private and institutional investors.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $439k–$2.1M; Series A $3.8M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cellfion — Cellfion provides sustainable materials for next level clean energy storage and conversion devices.
- Kuva Space — Kuva Space improves life on Earth through daily, space-borne hyperspectral imaging and AI. We offer Earth observation solutions for more sustainable business.
- Sofi Filtration — Innovation in Industrial Liquid Filtration
Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Finland, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.7M; Series A $2.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
- Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.
- Gyroscope Innovations — Gyroscope Innovations is a new OS for the human body. It was started by Anand Sharma in 2014 as a personal project called April Zero.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $77k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Film Finances — Discover Film Finances Inc., the global leader in film completion guarantees, ensuring on-schedule and on-budget delivery for over seven decades. Explore our services and industry expertise.
- LiveMusicStage — We're a live music venue online. We let you to actually take part in the shows and interact with the bands while they're playing. You're always in the front row
- Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.
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Browse database — It's Free!OP Financial Group is one of the largest financial companies in Finland. It consists of 180 cooperative banks and their central organization. The financial group has over 1.4 million customer-owners
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- Industry: Energy, FinTech, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Finland, France, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $46M–$3.2B; Debt Financing $46k–$558M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fortum — By providing our customers and the Nordic energy system with a supply of reliable energy, we aim to power a world where people, businesses, and nature thrive together. With respect for the environment, decades of expertise and smart solutions, we strive to meet our customers' needs.
- Qivalis — Qivalis is a financial technology company designed for payments, settlements, and financial services.
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OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$11M; Series A $2.3M–$22M; Series B $7.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Bitrise — Continuous integration and delivery built for mobile: Automate iOS and Android builds, testing and deployment from your first install to the one millionth.
- Hygraph — A GraphQL-native headless CMS that marketers and developers love. Structure content, scale with AI, and launch faster across every channel.
- Outlyer — Outlyer is a self-service infrastructure monitoring platform made for DevOps and microservices. We monitor your full stack—from servers and cloud providers to databases, containers and custom metrics. We give you dashboards, analytics and alerts that are easy to set up and customize for both developer and operations teams.Outlyer is monitoring,done differently.
Leena Niemistö
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $480k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
- Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
- Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.
Nordic Option is a private equity fund focusing its investments on growth companies. It provides capital investments in small and medium-sized growth companies that have already established themselves in Northern Finland. The fund's investment strategy includes the possibility to make up to 5 early-stage growth investments with one millioneuros.The firm's value of investments in portfolio companies is approximately EUR 10 million and the value of loans granted is approximately EUR 1 million.
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- Industry: Hardware, Software, Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Haltian — We solve the challenges of a sustainable future, one IoT innovation at a time
- SensorFu — SensorFu brings proactive confidence to mission-critical OT systems across all industries.
- Brightplus Oy — Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level.
VNT Management is a venture capital management company that offers its services to investors and entrepreneurs.The company offers investors with 3 venture capital funds, all of which focus on clean technology. Furthermore, it offers an IRR of 25% and a position in the top quartile of European venture capital funds. Entrepreneurs are offered withsupply management, business idea, application, and product concept development, and technology scanning and evaluation services.VNT Management was founded in 2002 and is based in Finland.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Electronics, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: Finland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series B $3.3M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Visedo — Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.
- WeSustain — WeSustain develops and sells web-based software for enterprise sustainability management. The company’s ESM software is a management support system that helps companies go green and manage products, processes, and technologies in an environment-friendly manner.WeSustain’s ESM software enables the clients to establish a software-supported ESMsolution, as well as manage, improve, and report their ESM performance on a global basis while mitigating sustainability risks. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Buxtehude, Germany.
- Cajo Technologies — Laser Marking - Cajo turnkey solutions for traceability & product markings. Easy to use & optimized for industrial production processes.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Lithuania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.1M; Angel $1.1M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
Die Digitalisierung stellt uns vor neue Herausforderungen, denen wir mutig begegnen. Mit VC/O gestalten wir die Zukunft mit und investieren in sie.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $1.6M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Soley — Strategisches Produktportfolio-Management einfach digitalisieren mit Soley: Produktportfolio-Analyse und Produktportfolio-Optimierung auf Knopfdruck.
- Wirepas — Wirepas offers a standards-based, ultra-reliable mesh connectivity for infrastructure-grade IoT. Proven in millions of devices worldwide.
- Artisense Corporation — Pocket-sized camera module enables centimeter-precise positioning in any environment. Indoors and outdoors. Critical for autonomous vehicles, robotics, mapping.
Shenzhen Leaguer Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a high-tech venture capital company founded by Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) in August 1999. Its current registered capital is RMB 333.3333 million, managing assets amounted to RMB 1.5 billion. With solid capital strength, rich experience of investment and flexiblemechanism, Leaguer VC has invested more than 50 portfolio companies, ranging from IT, new material, medicine, electronics to optomechatronics and hi-tech incubators, etc. The average IRR for the current investments exceeds 30%. Leaguer VC has successfully finished its fund-raising of RMB 160 million in 2009 and set up fund management companies and venture capital companies located in Changzhou and Wuxi.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: China, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Wuwen Zhike — Wuwen Zhixing is an intelligent driving service provider dedicated to offering professional and cutting-edge integrated solutions for AI data and simulation verification, as well as developing AI data infrastructure and accelerators.
- Lingxin Qiaoshou — Lingxin Qiaoshou focuses on the research and development and production of embodied intelligent platforms with "dexterous hands + cloud-based intelligent brain" as the core.
- Qiu Shui Semiconductor — Qiu Shui Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that specialized on Micro-LED display technology.Qiu Shui Semiconductor's core products are Micro-LED micro display chips and modules, which are widely utilized in digital car lighting, micro projection, and augmented reality displays.
Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $329k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $165k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- CRACI — CRACI is a platform that automates EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance for product and service companies. It also secures software supply chains against attacks and vulnerabilities.
- CYBRET AI — CYBRET AI is an AI security research and development lab that develops autonomous security solutions with humans in and not in the loop.
- Newly — Newly is the easiest way to build and ship cross-platform mobile apps — no senior engineering team required.Our mission is to empower a new generation of builders to launch high-quality native mobile apps without getting blocked by code, complexity, or cost.We’re building the first truly accessible mobile app development tool — combining thespeed of no-code with the power of real code when you need it — and opening the door for the estimated 99.5% of people who currently can’t build mobile apps on their own.Newly is used by early-stage founders, junior developers, designers, and product teams who want to ship faster and smarter.
The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres) are responsible for the regional implementation and development tasks of the central government.Finland has a total of 15 ELY Centres, which are tasked with promoting regional competitiveness, well-being and sustainable development and curbing climate change.ELY Centres have three areas of responsibility:- Business and industry, labour force, competence and cultural activities.- Transport and infrastructure.- Environment and natural resources.
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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Lighting
- Stage:Grant
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
- Palofy Analytics Oy — Palofy Analytics is a customer loyalty partner and Worldline ISO for SME's. We are developing analysis and forecasting tools that help merchants to get more sales and predict staffing needs. This also enables getting accurate analysis and predictions on channel, store, product group, or product level.Our licenced technology leveragesexisting payment cards as customer loyalty cards, reducing customer friction and removing work overhead from staff.Service areas: • Restaurant and hospitality • RetailPalofy Analytics is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) for Europe's largest payment acquirer Worldline and multiple SaaS and Fintech companies. Our Alfa Rating is AA
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Browse database — It's Free!Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $425k–$4.4M; Series A $4.3M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Space Ape — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
- Redemption Games — Our studio is built on the principle of blending great artistry and design with top-notch research and data to produce games that are both beautifully created and have blockbuster market potential.
- End Game Interactive — End Game Interactive is a game development company that built third-party apps for games such as Pokévision. End Game Interactive is a developer of ZombsRoyale.io, a real-time multiplayer shooter that runs in browsers across numerous platforms. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
FOV Ventures invests in early-stage European companies across Spatial Computing, AI, 3D, and Robotics.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, 3D Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $360k–$4.4M; Series A $8.6M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Roro — Roro is a new mobile gaming studio that creates imaginative play experiences using Unreal Engine. Roro is a small, nimble company with a clear vision wanting to expand with more craftspeople who can help build the future.
- Spogen.ai — Spogen.ai is a speaking AI assistant that improves machinery operation and maintenance efficiency.
- Psytec Games — Psytec Games is a London-based independent video game development studio creating innovative virtual reality games with a focus on social connection and co-operative gameplay.Our most recent title, Windlands 2 was highly praised upon launch thanks to its innovative locomotion mechanics and action-packed multiplayer gameplay. VROasis calledWindlands 2 “One of the best VR titles of the year”, and UploadVR called it “an unrivalled joy in VR”. Today, it’s user reviews continue to average 9/10 (Steam) and 4.4/5 (Meta Quest), with new players discovering the worlds we’ve created every day.Comprised of a small team of talented designers, programmers and artists, Psytec Games is working to redefine what VR action-adventure games can be, channelling over 10+ years of VR game development expertise.
Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse.
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- Industry: Hardware, Software, Wearables
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Augumenta — We develop intuitive and easy-to-use AR apps and tools that help companies improve their operational efficiency, quality, and safety.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.2M; Series A $7M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Along AI — Join our waitlist and try it first!
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- YuLife — Meet YuLife - the all-in-one platform for group insurance, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and global rewards your people love and actually use.
Harwick Overseas is an investment company managed by Jari Ovaskainen.
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- Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stylewhile — Stylewhile creates next generation fashion shopping experience on mobile. With Stylewhile, users can try and buy outfits instead of just clothes. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Stylewhile targets the US apparel e-commerce with a strong team with backgrounds in games, e-commerce and apps.Stylewhile was launched on iOS in September 2013 togetherwith Saks Fifth Avenue. The company is backed by Lifeline Ventures, Harwick Overseas and Reaktor Polte.
A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 538
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Team-GPT — Team-GPT helps companies use any AI model, find the right use cases for it, keep data safe, organize workflows, and track results. It speed up work with pre-made prompts, use cases, and editable AI Pages. Team-GPT is built with enterprise security, privacy, and compliance in mind from day one.
- Chain Cat — Chain Cat is a discount marketplace for local life services. The company has developed a "digital + local life" life empowerment system that covers housing, food, transportation, and apparel, relying on key technologies including big data summary analysis, intelligent screening, and AI clever algorithms.
- Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.
The Venture Reality Fund drives innovation and investment at the intersection of immersive, spatial, and intelligent computing for consumer and enterprise sectors.
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- Industry: Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Finland, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$36M; Series B $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Remio — Welcome to Remio. We have a unique combination of collaboration tools and games that allows teams and schools to do work and socially connect as they would in-person. Users can create their own private servers and link any other VR apps as portals to their server.
- Astrocade — The ultimate Social Gaming Universe where anyone can create, share, and play casual games. No coding or downloads required.
- Windup Minds — Stay: Forever Home is a heartwarming virtual pet game where you meet Ember, a magical companion bringing joy, adventure, and connection. Discover her emerging world, uncover hidden treats, and build your forever home together!
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
- Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
- Outcome — TeamOS makes team dependencies visible, speeds up blocker resolution, and offers actionable insights into bottlenecks
CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international.At CapMan, they build betterorganised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: Finland, Russian Federation, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series B $2.1M–$14M; Private Equity $16M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $179M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Nonna Group Oy — Nonna Group develops new types of housing for the elderly.
- Kuntokeskus Liikku — Kuntokeskus Liikku is a fitness club that provides multidisciplinary services like gym, aquatics, and sports training.
- Suomen Avustajapalvelut —
John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Eyewear, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series D
- Geography: Finland, South Korea, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $8.2M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Varjo — Varjo provides military-grade XR headsets, software, and professional services for mission-critical training and simulation across air, land, and sea.
- Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
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Browse database — It's Free!As Executive Vice President and General Manager of Multimedia, Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki heads a business group that is responsible for developing Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and associated experiences and services. This fast growing segment of consumer electronics will shape our lives in a fundamental way. A highly respected brand authoritywith over 25 years of marketing experience, Anssi has been a driving force in Nokia's efforts to address the mobile markets. His work has focused on developing Nokia's brand durability, loyalty and continuity, while, at the same time, advancing Nokia's vision of a mobile world. Anssi joined Nokia in 1991 and was named Vice President, Sales, Nokia Mobile Phones, before his promotion in 1994 to Senior Vice President, Nokia Mobile Phones Europe and Africa. In 1998 he was made Executive Vice President, Nokia Mobile Phones Europe and Africa and became a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia. In addition, in 1999, Anssi took responsibility for Nokia's Digital Convergence Unit and, in 2002, also headed up the Business Unit Management. He was appointed to his present position on January 1st 2004. Prior to joining Nokia, Anssi held a variety of management positions at 3M Corporation. Anssi is the Chairman of the Board of Amer Group, and was a member of the Governing Committee of the European Foundation for Quality Management 2001 - 2003. He is a Knight, 1st Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. Anssi holds a master's degree in economics from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.
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- Industry: Medical, Hardware, Health Care
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $796k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Supercell — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
- Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
- BetterDoctor — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.
Nuard Ventures invests in innovative early stage companies.
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- Industry: IaaS, Video, Fashion
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $339k–$680k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WARD — WARD is a fantasy sport game, where fans can watch their favourite eSports matches and predict what will happen in real time.WARD is a startup out of Berlin which has created a “pick and predict” real-time prediction smartphone game, where players can win real prizes. People love to watch e-sports. We believe on these occasions they still want tobe able to participate.However, until now no product has offered anything other than the ability to watch. There’s been no way for fans to spectate, participate, analyse and predict the outcomes of their favourite games.
- MVision AI — AI-powered solutions that automate repetitive tasks, enable efficient radiotherapy workflows, and promote consistency across clinical processes.
- Polka Dot Studio — Kalian Bisa Memasang Taruhan Online Dengan Sangat Mudah Dan Nyaman Di Situs DEWAHOKI Yang Sudah Resmi Di Indonesia
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: France, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.8M; Series A $3.8M–$18M; Series B $5.6M–$69M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Crobox — Crobox's next generation guided selling solution humanizes your product data and discovery experience with product finders and product data enrichment.
- Antidot — Antidot is a software vendor that leverages 20 years of advanced research in semantic search and content enrichment to develop its content delivery platform (CDP). The company’s products multiply the value of content by delivering dynamic information in a personalized and contextualized form. Antidot helps more than 150 customers around the worldimprove their operational efficiency.
- Custom Surgical — Custom Surgical is democratizing hardware and software to record microscope procedures easily and quickly without any professional engineer to attach or cables to share live.
Vsquared Ventures invests in early-stage deep-tech companies that are tackling society's most pressing challenges, with a focus on quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, AI/ML, new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. It is committed to a partnership and will go to any length to help accelerate and scale vision,unlocking all seemingly impossible possibilities.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $4.2M–$13M; Series A $15M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
- Synthara — Synthara is a Swiss semiconductor startup revolutionizing the compute performance of embedded chips by orders of magnitude. We are working on a new breed of energy-efficient computational AI chips that are hand-crafted for smart sensor applications such as hearing aids, wearables, biomedical monitoring, and AR/VR. Our flagship product,ComputeRAM, is a drop-in replacement for conventional SRAM that performs complex calculations directly in memory. This drastically reduces CPU workload, boosting system performance and delivering exceptional efficiency, especially for AI workloads. With ComputeRAM, we help chipmakers and device manufacturers lower costs, shorten time to market, and unlock new opportunities for innovation.
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight
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- Industry: Mobile, Gaming, PC Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $970k–$10M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Invstr — Invstr is an award-winning investment app that helps you invest smarter. Invstr gives you the confidence, knowledge and expertise to start investing to build your wealth. Unlike other investing apps, Invstr is committed to educating you before you even make your first trade. Because we believe that investing isn’t just about buying and sellingstocks. It’s about understanding the markets and making more informed investing decisions before risking real money. Invstr lets aspiring investors learn and practice with Fantasy Finance, a virtual portfolio management game. Get smart with our huge wealth of educational resources, including an in-app investing course, daily podcasts, and live news and updates. When you’re ready, invest from just $5 with our commission-free brokerage and banking platform. Track and improve your performance with Stats, and get personalized investment picks with Portfolio Builder. It’s everything you need to invest confidently and take charge of your financial future today. Invstr also boasts a huge community of over 800,000 members. The social aspect of the app makes it unique in that our members can share updates and post to their feeds, send group or private messages, create private leagues to compete against friends and socialize all within the app, forming the first active investing community of its kind. Invstr was founded in 2013 by Kerim Derhalli, who created Invstr after seeing first-hand how a lack of knowledge and confidence bars individuals from starting to invest.
- CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
- Kizy Tracking — Kizy Tracking provides global supply chain visibility with real-time IoT data. Benefit from small size, long autonomy, low cost. Start tracking now!
Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm committed to founders redefining global markets.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.1M; Series A $7M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FalkorDB — An ultra-low latency Graph Database that perfects the Knowledge Graph for GraphRAG. Effectively overcoming the existing limitations of RAG for Large Language Models (LLM).
- Superstream — Keeping your Kafka healthy, reliable, and cost-efficient even while you sleep.
- Motorica — Craft AAA animation in minutes with our Generative AI mocap actor. No capture. No cleanup. Just animate.
FORVIA is a leading technology supplier in the automotive industry. We are a global tech company, placing Sustainability at the heart of our activities and relying on our people to address the challenges of our industry.
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- Industry: Automotive, Software, Electronics
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: France, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $4.6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Canatu Plc — We create the most advanced carbon nanotubes for industry-transforming products. Discover more!
- Outsight — Defeat the complexity of working with 3D Data thanks to the first LiDAR pre-processor.
- Moovency — Moovency is a startup specialized in quantifying the risks of musculoskeletal disorders in an industrial environment. The company's software connects to camera feeds in work environments such as manufacturing and construction to gauge the potential physical strain on workforces, enabling employers to analyse and measure human movemen
Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that invests in growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities in technology, healthcare and other growth sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Celcoin — Founded in 2016 by Marcelo França and Adriano Meirinho, Celcoin, the company offers a platform that allows companies to connect to the financial system simply and without bureaucracy to offer innovative experiences to their customers, whether in the digital world, with more than 170 clients including banks, fintechs, brokerages and loyaltycompanies, in other words, in the physical world, where it has its own network of more than 38,000 digital correspondents in 3,200 Brazilian municipalities. A pioneer in its segment, Celcoin adopts a unique multi-channel strategy in its segment, and already processes more than 11 million financial transactions and a volume in excess of R$1.8 billion monthly.Celcoin came up with the idea of facilitating new players to the financial system, which until its inception was completely closed, difficult to access and difficult to connect. With its set of Open Finance solutions (APIs for Transactions, APIs for Physical Networks and Open Banking APIs), more than 8 million Brazilians are impacted monthly in the physical and virtual world with their solutions.
- PostPilot — PostPilot is the leading direct mail platform for ecommerce and DTC.
- Earned Wealth — Forme Financial is a platform that offers estate planning, debt management, insurance planning, and investment management services.
Samsung Venture Investment is plays the role of driving the discovery and development of new businesses and technologies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- wooptix — Wooptix is a developer of light field and wavefront phase imaging platform designed to acquire all information about the light using...
- Medisolar — Medisol is a food technology firm that also provides personalized food care solutions.
- C2N Diagnostics — C2N Diagnostics, LLC is a privately held protein diagnostic and therapeutic discovery company targeting progressive neurodegeneration. They formed in late 2007 by scientific co-founders Drs. David Holtzman and Randall Bateman of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and LifeTech Research, a Maryland-based technology research andcommercialization firm (www.lifetechresearch.com). They reside at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis.
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