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Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Finland in January 2026

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Impact startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Finland in January 2026

Investor Impact Finland investments
Lifeline Ventures 11
Finnvera Venture Capital 9
Business Finland 9
Tesi 7
Butterfly Ventures 6
Superhero Capital 5
Finnish Climate Fund 4
Stephen Industries 4
Wave Ventures 3
Mika Ihamuotila 3
Nidoco 3
Springvest 3
2C Ventures 2
Bragiel Brothers 2
Leena Niemistö 2
PeakBridge 2
Valve Ventures 2
Ali Omar 2
Voima Ventures 2
True Ventures 2
Emerald Technology Ventures 2
David Helgason 2
Heraeus 2
Turret Oy 2
Mikael Hed 2
Innovestor 2
Maki.vc 2
Übermorgen Ventures 2
PC Rettig & CO Impact 2
Holdix Oy Ab 2
Risto Siilasmaa 2
UB FIGG 2
Sitra 2
Halton Ventures 2
Inventure 2
Redstone.VC 2
Invus 1
Nordic Option 1
Volvo Cars 1
Conor Venture Partners 1
Kiilto Ventures 1
VNT Management 1
Nordic Investment Bank 1
KPMG 1
Maija Itkonen 1
Finnfund 1
C2 Ventures 1
KIMPA - Impact Investing 1
Lakan Betoni 1
Climate Investment 1
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Lifeline Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
  • Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.
  • Ovido — Ovido company specialises in supply chain and product data automation, with a focus on providing full product traceability and the establishment of Digital Product Passports (DPPs).
Finnvera Venture Capital VC Fund · Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Business Finland VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • AIATELLA — Automating medical image analysis
  • SparkReceipt — AI-powered Receipt Scanner and Expense Tracker for Freelancers and Small Businesses. Get started for free now!
  • University of Eastern Finland — The University of Eastern Finland is a multidisciplinary university which offers teaching in more than 100 major subjects. The university comprises four faculties: the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Science and Forestry, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies.
Tesi VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Finland, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
  • DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
Butterfly Ventures VC Fund · Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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
  • 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.
Superhero Capital VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Some call you founders. We call you Superheroes. Seed stage VC investing in insight-driven startups in Finland and the Baltics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Finland, Estonia, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
  • Renow — Grow your business with Renow's AI powered recommerce platform for returns, trade-in and resell.
  • ZioSec — ZioSec is at the forefront of innovation in cybersecurity, creating Zio, an ethical AI hacker designed to empower cybersecurity professionals, such as penetration testers. Zio utilizes cutting-edge artificial intelligence to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in web applications and critical infrastructure. By automating and enhancing securityassessments, Zio enables security teams to respond faster and more effectively to potential threats, ultimately contributing to a safer and more secure digital world.
  • Hamina Wireless — Fast and simple wireless network design and site survey tools for network engineers and IT admins - For better Wi-Fi, Private 5G, and wireless IoT. Get started in just 2 minutes!
Finnish Climate Fund VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
The Climate Fund focuses on combating climate change, boosting low-carbon industry and promoting digitalisation.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Sustainability
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland
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.
  • 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.
  • Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
Stephen Industries VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Water, Energy
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • StemSight — StemSight is a Finnish high-tech startup developing cell therapies for corneal blindness using human pluripotent stem cells.
  • HYPERMINE — Hypermine a novel laser-based mineralogy sensing technology to optimize resource recovery and reduce the negative environmental effects of mining.
  • 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.
Wave Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Finland, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Bought — Everything you've bought, automatically ready for resale.
  • Sustashift — Sustashift offers a comprehensive legal CSRD reporting tool, providing tailored audit templates and automated XBRL tagging to streamline compliance and reduce manual reporting efforts.
  • Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
Mika Ihamuotila Angel
Mika Ihamuotila - Board of Directors @ Rovio Entertainment Corporation
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Investment focus
  • Sustainability, FinTech, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • Finland
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.
  • Sulapac — Sulapac brings solutions to the global plastic waste problem with biodegradable packaging innovation.Sulapac combines luxury, sustainability, and unlimited design possibilities. Sulapac packages can be manufactured using injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding techniques. Sulapac has comparable properties to plastics and by using Sulapacbarrier coatings water, oil, and oxygen barrier properties can be further improved.
  • NoHo Partners — NoHo Partners Plc is a Finnish restaurant group behind approximately 250 restaurants, bars, pubs, nightclubs and entertainment centres. The name derives from the words ‘Nordic Hospitality Partners’, which communicate the key goals, opportunities and strengths of the Group.
Nidoco VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Nidoco AB is a Swedish investment company whose strategy is to create long-term value through active ownership of public and private companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ponta — Connecting brands with real people paying attention.
  • Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
  • TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
Springvest VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
The Citizenship Fund started out when the founders of the company discovered in their previous positions that a promising Finnish growth company will spend a great deal of time and energy in arranging financing. A good business idea and a team with excellent team could take months in financial negotiations and the outcome could be a return to thestart-up. At the same time, investors often wanted new types of higher potential investments alongside traditional alternatives.These two challenges were possible by removing the promising growth companies as investors, even for non-traditional venture capital investors. Citizenship wanted to create a service in which the company would be able to capitalize on business quickly and flexibly, but the decision-making business would be left to the company itself. From today's point of view, Springvest's goal is that an increasing number of Finnish investors can get involved in the story of Finnish growth companies and potential success.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • 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!
  • Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
  • 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.
2C Ventures VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
2C Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in European cleantech startups driving the energy transition and circular economy. Backing visionary founders tackling climate challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, CleanTech, Clean Energy
  • Pre-Seed
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • GaltTec — GaltTec focuses on developing and marketing microtubular solid oxide fuel cells. GaltTec specializes in drones, off-grid equipment, IoT, portable devices, and space equipment. GaltTec was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Tartu, Estonia.
  • 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.
  • Jälle Technologies — Jälle Technologies create advanced recycling technologies that transform battery waste into high-value resources.
Bragiel Brothers VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Finland, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Gridware — Using remote telemetry and edge AI, Gridware wildfire prevention technology powers a grid that is smarter and more reliable than ever before.
  • Assured Health — Streamline healthcare credentialing, licensing & payor enrollment with Assured's all-in-one platform. Automate admin Ops, boost efficiency & manage providers effortlessly.
  • Inspectify — If you are looking to buy or sell a home, Inspectify helps you find the best home inspectors in your area.
Leena Niemistö Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Leena Niemistö
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rens Original — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
  • 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.
PeakBridge VC Fund · Valletta, NA - Malta, Malta · 4 investments in the past 12 months
PeakBridge is a highly networked, global impact VC that funds and connects the people, technology and processes that will shape the future of food. We invest in visionary pioneers, from early stage to Series A-B, with scalable, protectable climate and health-focused technologies. At their core: a deep commitment to disrupting our food system whiledriving positive impact. Our team is spread across seven countries and includes pioneers of FoodTech investment and decades of deep Agri-Food operational and financial experience. Together, we create exceptional value for bold FoodTech entrepreneurs and investors. A member of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity partnership, PeakBridge is also the only venture capital firm that is an official partner of the world’s largest Agri-Food innovation initiative, EIT Food.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SOUS — One easy-to-use tool to grow traffic, make online sales, seamlessly handle orders and drive retention. Built for food entrepreneurs, built with taste.
  • Tastewise — Tastewise is a consumer intelligence platform transforming food insights with AI. Discover trends, predict preferences, and drive innovation
  • Rival Foods — We craft food we feel good about - Protein foods without compromises! At Rival Foods we create whole-cut specialties with remarkable texture, taste and juiciness, the ideal proposition for food professionals to create new plant-based eating experiences. Ready to use in all your favorite dishes! Interested in our products?
Valve Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Valve Ventures is a Helsinki-based angel and early-stage venture investor.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, CleanTech, Oil and Gas
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
  • Woodio — Woodio is a digital designing agency.
  • 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.
Ali Omar Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
  • GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
  • Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.
Voima Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Farang — Farang is an AI research lab based in Sweden developing the next-generation of foundational Large Language Models. The company was founded in 2025 and consists of a team of highly experienced researchers, developers, entrepreneurs and business professionals, joined by prominent deep-tech VCs and angel investors.
  • 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.
  • MVision AI — AI-powered solutions that automate repetitive tasks, enable efficient radiotherapy workflows, and promote consistency across clinical processes.
True Ventures VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Gridware — Using remote telemetry and edge AI, Gridware wildfire prevention technology powers a grid that is smarter and more reliable than ever before.
  • PlanYear — Accessible Professional-Grade AI for Benefits Consultants
  • Parry Labs — Parry Labs is a solutions provider to the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial companies. Parry designs and deploys solutions ranging from mission computing, power systems, manned and unmanned system architectures, and RF solutions. Parry’s Stellar Relay products, is a full system suite of high-performance mission computing, ArtificialIntelligence (A.I.) processing, and cross-domain systems.
Emerald Technology Ventures VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Emerald Technology Ventures specializes in clean technology venture capital. Founded in 2000, Emerald focuses on the areas of energy, water, and materials. From offices in Zurich, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada, Emerald manages several venture capital funds and venture capital portfolio mandates.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Energy
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Germany, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
  • Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
  • Keto Software — Strategic portfolio management to steer you through your strategic initiatives in business. Our product Keto AI+ Platform helps you to manage all your OKRs, strategies and Programmes & project portfolios.
David Helgason Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
  • Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
  • Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
Heraeus VC Fund · Hanau, Hessen, Germany
Heraeus, the technology group headquartered in Hanau, Germany, is a leading international family-owned portfolio company.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
  • Seed, Corporate Round, Series A
  • Germany, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • CSMH — Compound Semiconductor (Xiamen) Technology Co., Ltd. is an advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology based joint venture company invested from the Korea, China and Singapore, registered in the city of Xiamen, China. We have equipped with advanced semiconductor manufacturing tools including MPCVD, MOCVD, LPCVD, HVPE and high temperature PVDto produce high quality Diamond wafer and AlN template on various substrate including Si, sapphire, and polished diamond. Our mission is to be the most advanced compound semiconductor company in the global market, contributing to the related technology development. We have strong R&D team and actively collaborate with best research group around the world. Currently, we are providing the thermal grade polycrystalline diamond, which can be used as an effective heat sink aims to solve the heat issue in temperature sensitive device, such as power devices, lasers and avalanche photodiodes etc. We also provides wafer scale polished diamond with sub-nanometer RMS surface roughness, which might be suitable for the integration of GaN, GaO and AlN epilayers and devices on Diamond via direct bonding or heteoepitaxy.
  • Holosolis — Holosolis contributes to the EU’s goal of local PV module production and curbing global warming. We will build the largest photovoltaic panel factory in Europe.
  • Tsubame BHB — Tsubame BHB is a Sales company
Turret Oy VC Fund · Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland
Turret Oy is an investment vehicle controlled by Paul Ehrnrooth
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Oil and Gas, Business Development
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Digitalist — Say hello to Digitalist in Finland, your true partner for digital transformation. From customer experience consulting to cutting-edge technology services, we help businesses to future-proof their operations.
  • TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
  • Hycamite TCD Technologies — Hycamite is decarbonising industry using its proprietary methane pyrolysis technology. It provides its industrial clients with low-carbon hydrogen and sustainable carbon products for demanding applications.
Mikael Hed Angel · Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Electronics
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Finland, Sweden, Lithuania
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!
Innovestor VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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 — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
  • 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. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.
Maki.vc VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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, Norway, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Ever Dye — A new standard for dyes. Naturally made, carbon emissions reducing, water protecting.
  • Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Übermorgen Ventures VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
  • Milvus Advanced — Our Midas-touch alloys replicate the functional properties of platinum-group metals at a fraction of the cost.
  • Zymvol Biomodeling — Physics-AI hyperrealistic enzyme discovery. ZYMVOL helps R&D managers uncover hidden opportunities and screen areas overlooked by traditional methods.
PC Rettig & CO Impact VC Fund
PC Rettig & CO Impact
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Investment focus
  • Mining, Robotics, 3D Printing
  • Seed
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Hyperion Robotics — We are accelerating the transition to sustainable and automated construction with Concrete 3D Printing.
  • Polar Night Energy — Polar Night Energy - Seasonal heat storage in district heating and industrial applications. The energy revolution is here.
Holdix Oy Ab VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Holdix Oy Ab is a Finnish family-owned investment company situated in Helsinki. Our investment policy is based on responsible and active ownership, long-term perspective, sustainable value creation, and environmental considerations.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Polar Night Energy — Polar Night Energy - Seasonal heat storage in district heating and industrial applications. The energy revolution is here.
  • Nordic Umami Company — Developing all-embracing sustainable flavours to accelerate plant-based eating.
  • Hycamite TCD Technologies — Hycamite is decarbonising industry using its proprietary methane pyrolysis technology. It provides its industrial clients with low-carbon hydrogen and sustainable carbon products for demanding applications.
Risto Siilasmaa Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Risto Siilasmaa is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the Board of Direcctor of Donut Lab. He previously worked as Founder of F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.
  • Donut Lab — Redefining Electric Mobility Across All Industries. World's First Complete Electric Vehicle (EV) Hardware Platform With Unified Software.
  • The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
UB FIGG VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
UB Forest Industry Green Growth Fund ("UB FIGG") is a private equity fund investing in companies focused on plastic and other fossil fuel based material replacements, higher value and more efficient use of wood and agricultural raw material side streams and greater use of these raw materials across a wide range of intermediate and enduses.Through its investments, the Fund helps the forest and bio-based industries to create solutions to mitigate climate change. UB FIGG is a signatory of Operating Principles for Impact Management and reports on the environmental and climate impact of its investments.
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Investment focus
  • Chemical, Forestry, Recycling
  • Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Notpla — We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
  • Paptic — Paptic is manufacturing company that revolutionizes environmental new material, wood-based renewable and recyclable products replacing paper and plastic. Paptic Ltd was April 2015. The company is based in Espoo, Finland and employs today 10 persons.
  • Nordtreat — Nordtreat produces widely tested and certified flame retardants for wooden construction products. Learn more about environmentally friendly fire protection!
Sitra VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Sitra is the venture capital investment arm of Sitra specializing in investments in seed, start-ups, early stage opportunities, and other funds. The firm invests through its three programmes namely, Health Care Programme, the Food and Nutrition Programme, and the Environmental Programme. Within the Health Care Programme, investments are focused oncompanies engaged in paper-free health care, seamless services, decentralised specialised health care, and support services. Within the Food and Nutrition Programme, investments are made in enterprises engaged in the food and nutrition sector, including value-adding upgrading of raw materials and new applications and service concepts in food and nutrition technology.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series C
  • Finland, The Netherlands
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.
  • NaturVention — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
  • SET Ventures — SET propels founders from early growth to European scale. We invest in and grow the solutions powering the digital energy economy.
Halton Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Halton Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Smart Building, Energy, GreenTech
  • Funding Round
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Smart Heating — Smart Heating focus on hybrid heating systems for real estates. Smart Heating implements energy-efficient heating solutions for more than 100 buildings.
  • Soletair Power — Soletair Power is a Finnish startup founded in 2016, operating in the fields of Direct Air Capture and power-to-X technology. The company captures CO2 from the air by retrofitting buildings' ventilation systems with carbon capture technology, resulting in low building emissions. Captured carbon dioxide can be mineralized into concrete, storedas pressurized gas or liquid, transported, and used as raw materials to produce synthetic products. In 2020, Wärtsilä, together with Soletair Power and Q-Power, created their first enclosed Power-to-X unit in the world which can produce synthetic methane from air-captured CO2 straight from the Finland pavilion in Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company has delivered multiple carbon dioxide capturing units since then to Germany, Finland, and Denmark.
Inventure VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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
  • Klevu — Klevu Oy is a self-learning search engine that helps online retailers turn visitors into customers. Its search for SMEs focuses on fast, relevant search with actionable insights into shoppers’ search and easy self-service integration.Klevu Oy’s enterprise edition provides natural language search with ease of catalog maintenance and insights intoshopping experience. It is based in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
  • Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.
  • Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
Redstone.VC VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
  • 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.
Invus VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved.They know that real transformation takes time and that it is nevera straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way.They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, France, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Triveni Bio — Triveni Bio is pioneering a genetics-informed precision medicine approach to develop functional antibodies to treat immunological and inflammatory disorders.
  • Engine Biosciences — We digitize and decipher complex biology with cutting-edge technologies to discover and develop life-changing medicines.
  • GenSight Biologics — GenSight Biologics develops gene therapy-based treatments for retinal degenerative diseases. GenSight Biologics is a privately owned biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the development and commercialization of gene therapy-based treatments of retinal degenerative diseases.Based on recent results obtained by the teams of its scientificfounders, the company develops innovative approaches to prevent retinal degeneration in selected pathological conditions and to restore vision in patients suffering from very low vision or blindness.
Nordic Option VC Fund · Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series C
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Haltian — End-to-end IoT solutions and world-glass product design services from Haltian
  • SensorFu — SensorFu detects new network leak paths before they are exploited. If you're required to operate isolated networking environments, SensorFu helps you to anwer question: is my network isolation working as intended? Leaks from isolated network segments can be a result of human error or malice, and they may violate security policies orcontractual obligations. SensorFu automates previously manual audit checks, and it empowers IT- and IT security ops to ensure continuous network, and network segment isolation that meets their mission specific policies and regulatory requirements. SensorFu Beacon is available as virtual appliance, software application and as hardware appliance.
  • Brightplus — Brightplus designs and manufactures innovative functional biomaterials from renewable sources.
Volvo Cars VC Fund · Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
The first mass-produced Volvo car rolled off the production line in Gothenburg in 1927. Since then, they have delivered a steady stream of cars equipped with world-leading innovations. Today, they are one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world with sales in about 100 countries.Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) is owned byZhejiang Geely Holding (Geely Holding) of China. Volvo Cars formed part of the Swedish Volvo Group until 1999 when Ford Motor Company bought the company. In 2010, Geely Holding acquired Volvo Cars.They produce premium cars with the following body types: Sedans, Estates/Sportswagons, Cross Country vehicles, SUVs, and Convertibles. Their cars are characterized by intuitive, human-focused, functional Scandinavian design and good craftsmanship.Relative to the strength of the brand, Volvo Cars is a small producer with global sales reaching 421,951 cars in 2012. Their largest markets are the United States, Sweden, China, Germany, and the UK. Their corporate and brand strategy is ”Designed Around You” and puts people at the heart of everything they do.As a responsible company, they want to contribute to a more sustainable society. To ensure that they are in harmony with customers and society, they do their part by spearheading the development of sustainable mobility - from plug-in hybrids and all-electric cars to active cooperation in a partnership project on road trains.They are proud to continuously deliver world-first solutions; innovations that put people first, by saving and simplifying their lives. Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo until 1999 when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company as part of its Premier Automotive Group. Geely Holding Group then acquired Volvo Cars from Ford in 2010.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Electric Vehicle, Automotive
  • Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
  • Sweden, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Syre — Syre is a textile impact company with a mission to decarbonize and dewaste the industry through textile-to-textile recycling at hyperscale.
  • Forciot — Forciot is a Finnish technology company that was born in December 2015 out of love for engineering challenges and sports. Group of leading wearable researchers from Tampere University of Technology and consumer electronics experts agreed to put their heart and passion into developing together unique innovation that would start a new era in wearablebusiness.They realized that world is lacking wearable technologies that could be part of products that people use every day, everywhere.Today there starts to be an overload of separate measurement gadgets offered for people to be carried around them to measure performance.Their vision is that in the future they do not need to carry separate performance wearable gadgets with us anymore while for example exercising. Instead, the measurement technology will be integrated directly into those sporting products, such as shoes or gloves, that they all are using when training anyway.They decided to start building this new era of wearables. On their view, most product manufacturer companies will also evidently become IOT-product manufacturers in the future. FORCIOT® with innovative solutions that are connected to internet, is the engineering partner for these companies to build the future IOT-products.For their business to business customers, they offer advanced and accurate REAL-TIME force, power, pressure, balance and weight measurement system that will take wearable world to the next level. They provide their customers the capability to utilize force related data that has not been available before.
  • Polestar — Wir stellen Performance-Elektroautos her. Unser Ziel: eine bessere Zukunft durch Innovationen.
Conor Venture Partners VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Finland, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
  • Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group — Attribute, predict and optimize the business outcome of marketing and media plans with Blackwood Seven's Unified Marketing Modeling platform.
  • 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.
Kiilto Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Kiilto Ventures is a family-owned company. Kiilto invests strongly in growth and renewal, determined to keep on reinventing and challenging themselves beyond their present core business.
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Investment focus
  • Construction, CRM, Hospital
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Finland, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Delox — Delox is a spin-off of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), whose goals consist in the design, development, and production of a vast portfolio of automatic biodecontamination robots. Target applications include the sterilization of medical devices in hospitals, health centers and field hospitals (for humanitarian missions,catastrophe situations, and war zones); room biodecontamination in hospitals, pharma, food industry and space; and laboratory equipment biodecontamination.
  • Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
  • Asumma Homes — Asumma Homes is a construction technology company that focuses on building a global brand in housing. It provides architectural design, configuration, customization, and construction engineering. Asumma Homes was founded in the year 2021.
VNT Management VC Fund · Vaasa, Western Finland, Finland
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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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Electronics, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Finland, Germany
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 — Our turnkey laser marking solutions for traceability and product markings are easy to use and optimized for industrial production processes.
Nordic Investment Bank VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
NIB finances projects that improve competitiveness and the environment of the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Bank offers long-term loans and guarantees on competitive market terms to its clients in the private and public sectors. NIB is an international financial institution owned by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania,Norway and Sweden. The Bank has lending operations both in and outside its member countries. NIB acquires the funds for its lending by borrowing on the international capital markets. NIB's bonds enjoy the highest possible credit rating. NIB's vision is a prosperous and sustainable Nordic-Baltic region. NIB works towards that goal by financing projects that improve competitiveness and the environment of their member countries. Through this, NIB is living up to their promise of financing the future. NIB's core values are competence, commitment and cooperation. By providing long-term loans to its customers, NIB makes a lasting impact on the competitiveness and environment of the region. NIB is a reliable source of long-term funding for its customers. All projects are reviewed from the sustainability perspective. Therefore a NIB loan may be regarded as a quality stamp. NIB only finances specific investment projects that fulfil the Bank’s mission.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Clean Energy, Electrical Distribution
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Sweden, Finland, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Arva — Arva is an electrical distribution company that aims at ensuring 24*7 electricity supply and offers power grid maintenance services.
  • Northvolt — Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan.
  • Vilnius Public Transport — Vilnius Public Transport is the transportation of passengers by buses and trolleybuses along specified routes throughout Vilnius and its suburbs.
KPMG VC Fund · Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax & Advisory services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Auditoria.AI — Auditoria's agentic AI-based finance automation increases the speed, accuracy, and productivity of teams to automate accounts payable and receivable.
  • Wokelo AI — Wokelo AI transforms research for PE, VC, Consulting, and Corporates. Save time, uncover insights, and make data-driven decisions. Book your demo now.
  • Plexus — Boost your productivity, automate your work, centralise your contracts or find a secondee lawyer and completely transform your legal operations with Plexus.
Maija Itkonen Angel
Maija Itkonen studied strategic and industrial design in the Aalto University School of Art and Design and specialized in International Design Business Management at the Helsinki School of Economics. To keep herself busy, Maijaalso graduated in classical music after studying in Sibelius-Academy and Gotherburg University.After her studies, Maijaparticipated founding the Aalto University’s famous Design Factory and carried design management jobs in Finland and Holland. The entrepreneurial burning and her desire for better user experiences led her to found her own wireless charging company PowerKiss in late 2008. Maijacarried duties of CEO and CMO in the company. After 4 years, PowerKiss joined forces with its biggest competitor, and got acquired by the Israel-American Powermat Inc.Maija is currently busy taking care of VP of Design and Brand role and activities at Powermat – and continues dreaming about the wireless world.She is married to writer Juha Itkonen. The couple lives in Arabianranta with their two beautiful, curious and apparently very entrepreneurial sons.
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Investment focus
  • News, Internet, Consulting
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
  • Carbo Culture — We are a climate technology company building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
Finnfund VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, India, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
  • Ipak Yuli Bank — Kredir, Karta, Visa virtual, Omonat, Valyuta kurslari, Avtokredir, Pul o`tkazmalari
  • Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
C2 Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Bridging the gap between founders and capital through content, connections and experience.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Eze — Wholesale Electronics: Shop Wholesale iPhones, MacBook, iPad, Samsung Watch, Apple accessories & other electronics in bulk at wholesale prices
  • ePallet — ePallet is a technology and logistics startup that makes it easy and efficient to buy and sell wholesale food by the pallet.ePallet makes it easy for Vendors to sell more and customers to save more. ePallet provides an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform that allows customers to directly access to manufacturers’ products in full-palletincrements.
  • Driver Technologies — Turn your phone into a dash cam.
KIMPA - Impact Investing VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
KIMPA - Impact Family Office aims to deploy the capital of its clients towards investment that offers a positive environmental and social impact on our planet.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Food and Beverage, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • France, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!
  • WeDressFair — WeDressFair is a select-store of beautiful brands that place the respect of workers and the environment at the center.
  • Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
Lakan Betoni VC Fund · Joensuu, Eastern Finland, Finland
Lakan Betoni is a building material company that produces concrete blocks, environmental concrete, ready-mix concrete, and dry mix products.
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Investment focus
  • Industrial Manufacturing, Environmental Engineering
  • Seed
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Carbonaide — Carbonaide offers the most effective and robust carbonization technology for pre-cast concrete manufacturers.
Climate Investment VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
OGCI Climate Investments focuses on delivering the transition to lower carbon emission energy sources. The leaders of the ten major oil and gas companies are committed to the direction set out by the Paris Agreement on climate change. They support its agenda for global action and the need for urgency. Through their collaboration in Oil and GasClimate Initiative (OGCI), they can be a catalyst for change in their industry and more widely.OGCI aims to increase the ambition, speed and scale of the initiatives they undertake as individual companies to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of their core oil and gas business – and to explore new businesses and technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, CleanTech, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • XOCEAN — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
  • Metron — Actively Reduce Your Energy Consumptions and Costs with the METRON EMOS Solution and Lower the Carbon Impact of Your Organisation.
  • METRON — METRON has built a unique positioning at the convergence of the digital revolution and the energy transition. The combination of Big Data, artificial intelligence and human expertise is a key asset to accelerate their development, in France and abroad.Their teams work daily in collaboration with METRON-EVA®, their virtual assistant, to deploytheir solution on industrial sites around the world and help you manage and optimize your energy flows.
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