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Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Finland in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Internet startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Internet companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Finland in May 2025

Investor	Internet Finland investments
Ali Omar	6
Andreas Mihalovits	3
Jonas Dromberg	3
Riku Mäkelä	2
Pekka Koskinen	2
Kim Väisänen	2
Zach Shelby	2
Kaj Hed	2
Cecily Drucker	2
Miki Kuusi	2
Marten Mickos	2
Elias Aalto	2
Tero Ojanperä	2
Ilkka Paananen	2
Jari Ovaskainen	2
Vladimir Ashurkov	1
Otto Hilska	1
Markus Maki	1
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo	1
Tomi Hilvo	1
Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani	1
John Lindfors	1
Pekka Koskinen	1
Kristian Ranta	1
Birger Steen	1
Paul Melin	1
Jari Ovaskainen	1
Lasse Järvinen	1
Tharald Nustad	1
Kevin Wall	1
Aviram Jenik	1
Alexis Bonte	1
Bret Terrill	1
Kaj Hagros	1
Fredrik Hjelm	1
Gil Penchina	1
Olli Sirkiä	1
Kristian Segerstrale	1
Markku Mäkeläinen	1
Markko Vaarnas	1
Pekka Vartiainen	1
Kim Groop	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
Sasha Markvo	1
Mikko Kodisoja	1
Reynir Indahl	1
Jacob Dalborg	1
Eléonore Crespo	1
Manny Fernandez	1
Robert Gentz	1

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Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

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.

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.

Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Internet
Funding Round, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
Klevu — Join thousands of other ecommerce teams using Klevu technology to improve conversion and automate workflows. Personalized search, merchandising, and product recommendations that just work.

Riku Mäkelä is a COO at Wolt. He Attended Aalto University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Computer, Software
Angel, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

Founder at Leadfeeder

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.
Cuutio Software —

Kim Väisänen - Growth Partner @ Evli Growth Partners

Investment focus

Video, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.

Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse.

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Wearables
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Augumenta — We develop intuitive and easy-to-use AR apps and tools that help companies improve their operational efficiency, quality, and safety.

Kaj Hed is Chairman at Rovio Entertainment.

Investment focus

Advertising, Internet, Marketing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Kiosked — We provide publishers and advertisers with automated, intelligent data gathering, reporting tools through our network of ad servers, partners, and data sources that help to monetize the website from mobile and desktop traffic.
Velory — With Velory, you can connect your entire IT ecosystem in one place. Finally have a unified view of your assets and streamline your IT lifecycle management, from the moment of purchase, through IT Asset Management, till the end of life of your devices.

Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.

Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
Seed, Angel, Series A
Finland, Kenya, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.

Elias Aalto is Wolt's Advisor and a Co-Founder before that.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Video
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Cluby — Own a restaurant?This is your all-in-one marketing & loyalty tool. Increase returning customers, boost spend, and stay top of mind. Cluby revolutionizes customer engagement and marketing with powerful tools to collect data, communicate effectively, and build loyalty. Everything through one app. Download Cluby App for Consumers Build Your Customer Base Sell Smarter, Market Better Grow ... Read more
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.

Tero Ojanpera co-founded Silo.AI. He is also the executive chairman of the company.

Investment focus

Internet, Media and Entertainment, Music
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kiosked — We provide publishers and advertisers with automated, intelligent data gathering, reporting tools through our network of ad servers, partners, and data sources that help to monetize the website from mobile and desktop traffic.
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.
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.

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.

Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet of Things, PC Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Switzerland, United States

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!

Vladimir Ashurkov

Investment focus

Electronics, Cloud Computing
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.

Otto is a serial entrepreneur who started his first software company at the age of 18. His second company Flowdock raised money from Silicon Valley and got acquired by Rally Software in 2013. After that he spent four years scaling Smartly.io from 30 to 350 people as the Chief Product Officer.After leaving Smartly.io, Otto started working on yetanother startup. Founded in November 2019, Swarmia is building a B2B SaaS product to help self-organizing software teams to continuously improve their ways of working based on data from development tools.Otto has served as the chairman of Startup Foundation, that’s behind the Slush conference, Junction hackathon, Maria 0-1 startup space, and many other ecosystem projects.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Advertising, Electronics
Seed, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
Smartly.io — Smartly.io automates every step of social advertising to unlock greater performance and creativity on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Markus Maki is an Executive Chairman at Remedy Entertainment.

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of June 1, 2006.Olli-Pekka joined Nokia in 1980 as Corporate Counsel, and has held roles of increasing responsibility since that time. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Vice President, Legal Department, and in 1988 he was named Assistant Vice President, Finance. In1990 he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance.In 1992, Olli-Pekka was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1997-1998 he served as Corporate Executive Vice President, Nokia Americas, being responsible for all Nokiaâ€™s business operations in the Americas. He returned to the position of Chief Financial Officer at the beginning of 1999, the position he had held prior to moving to the United States. From 2004-2005 Kallasvuo was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Phones. On October 1, 2005 he was named President and COO before his appointment to the current position.Olli-Pekka has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia since 1990. On April 1, 2007, Olli-Pekka was appointed Chairman of the Board of Nokia Siemens Networks. In May 2007, Mr. Kallasvuo was nominated as member of the Board of Directors at Nokia. Starting January 2009, he will also serve as a Member of the Board of the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK.He holds a masterâ€™s degree in law from the University of Helsinki. Prior to joining Nokia, Olli-Pekka held a variety of positions with the Union Bank of Finland.Olli-Pekka was born on July 13, 1953, in Lavia, Finland. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, tennis and reading about political history.

Investment focus

Mobile, Retail, Big Data
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Walkbase — Walkbase offers advanced retail analytics to boost marketing impact and personalize the in-store shopping experience, driving better engagement and sales.

Tomi Hilvo

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Convertible Note
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.

Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani is the Chief Executive Officer at DAAL. He attended Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Social Network
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Finland, Egypt, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.

<p>Stoic Venture Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in emerging science and deep technology.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Education, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Finland, South Korea, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.

Pekka Koskinen is the Co-Founder of Cluby. He previously worked at Snoobi Oy as a Founder and CEO. Pekka Koskinen attended Tampere University of Technology.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Cluby — Own a restaurant?This is your all-in-one marketing & loyalty tool. Increase returning customers, boost spend, and stay top of mind. Cluby revolutionizes customer engagement and marketing with powerful tools to collect data, communicate effectively, and build loyalty. Everything through one app. Download Cluby App for Consumers Build Your Customer Base Sell Smarter, Market Better Grow ... Read more

Kristian Ranta is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Meru Health.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
Veri — Reveal the foods that help you feel and perform at your best. Track your metabolic health to manage weight, reduce stress and improve sleep.
Vital — Vital API allows developers to access health data from wearable devices and at-home test kits. The company was founded in 2021 by Maitham Dib and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Birger Steen is the Thematic Partner, Tech-enabled Transformation at Summa Equity . He attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, mHealth
Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Anicare Oy — Modern farm industry key sustainability and profitability challenge: Individual animal welfare tracking in vast units is impossible with traditional methods and causes significant losses in time, production and moneyAnicare Vision: Millions of different animals are under of real time welfare monitoring and in their farms productivity optimizationincreases hundreds of millions profits and hundreds of work years enabling sustainable meat productionAnicare Missio: Scaling up unique welfare monitoring solution for the global beef and dairy industry as everyday tool for animals welfare monitoring to increasing production efficiency, reducing risk of disease outbursts & reduced labor costsAnicare is a Northern European technology company delivering AI-based services, disrupting animal welfare markets.
Wellpepper — Joining an ACO with us will help your organization implement a proven model of care to achieve quality improvement goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk.

Paul Melin is the Chairman Of The Board at Silcube Software.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Estonia, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Warren.io — Warren platform equips partnering providers with a white labelled self-service portal for easy access to infrastructure and managed services.
PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.

Jari Ovaskainen

Investment focus

Digital Media, Search Engine, Visual Search
Seed, Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Valossa — Use multimodal video AI for audio and video recognition, speech-to-text, computer vision, video emotion analysis and metadata. Accelerate video productivity
VieLoco —

Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway

Investment focus

Marketplace, Restaurants, Software
Angel, Funding Round, Seed
Finland, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!
Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.

Tharald Nustad is the Founder and Owner of Nordic Impact, Founder and Owner of Katapult, and Co-Founder of Katapult Ocean. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Mallin AS. He attended Pacific Lutheran University.

Investment focus

Farming, Information Technology, Communities
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Ghana, Kenya, Norway

Portfolio highlights

TikkTalk - powered by Skiwo — TikkTalk is an online marketplace for connecting businesses and consumers for interpretation services. TikkTalk is an open digital solution for managing interpretation services and holding video or phone meetings in a browser on any device. Anyone with interpretation skills can sign up, validate their skills by uploading certifications, and getaccess to interpretation jobs worldwide. Government organisations and businesses can get direct access to a global pool of interpreters, sorted by language, certification levels and ratings.
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
Differ — Student life can be boring and challenging without friends. Differ help you connect with other students and help start those first awkward conversations

Kevin Wall is an American media entrepreneur, global event producer, investor and activist. He is the CEO and founder of the investment fund PTK Capital, the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality start up, and the founder and CEO of Control Room, a Los Angeles-based production company. The first personto receive an Emmy Award for interactive content, Wall is noted for his role in the development and adoption of media technologies including online and multi-platform distribution and media practices such as international rights acquisition and licensing.

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

8i — 8i is changing how humans interact by providing the services for communicating dynamic volumetric content between people anywhere in the world. This includes interactive telepresence, live broadcast, and recorded entertainment and experiences. Founded in May 2014, 8i has offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and New Zealand. In October of 2018, HayesMackaman became CEO and relaunched the company in 2019. Since then he’s focused on productizing core volumetric video technology closing deals with Softbank, LGU+, China Telecom, US Army, AIS, and CSIRO.
Kiosked — We provide publishers and advertisers with automated, intelligent data gathering, reporting tools through our network of ad servers, partners, and data sources that help to monetize the website from mobile and desktop traffic.
Amplify.LA — Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit. The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed dozens of companies, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, FanDuel and others.

Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
Apolyta — Threat simulators use playbooks and checklists. Adversaries don't. Prepare for the real threats of tomorrow with adaptive attack emulation.
Vicarius — Consolidate vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation in a single automated solution.

Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
Finland, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.

Bret Terrill: CEO of Sedona Holdings, and the founder of Super Free Games(retired), at large.

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

Kaj Hagros is Partner at Redstone based in Helsinki and covers the Nordic and Baltic countries. Kay has a broad history as an entrepreneur, investor, and C-level executive. Prior to Redstone, Kaj was the co-founder and CEO of seed investor and venture accelerator Pivot5, CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki traded Tecnotree Corporation, COO of FOX Mobile, VP ofMarketing of First Hop, and Head of Strategy and Business Development at Nokia Networks. Kaj has executed a broad range of early-stage investments and successful exits and chaired companies such as Booxmedia, Cabforce, Readpeak, Hibox, Heltti, and Inderes.Mr. Hagros attended Aalto University, NYU Stern School of Business, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), HEC Paris, TRIUM Global Executive MBA, Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan, and Merisotakoulu - Sjökrigsskolan - Naval Academy.

Investment focus

SaaS, Local, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Cabforce — Cabforce.com is on a mission to make the door-to-door travel experience agony free. They offer fixed price quote, secure online credit card payment and electronic receipts for taxi, private hire car, and minibus bookings in the top 40 European cities.
Booxmedia — Your Trusted Partner in IP Video Delivery. We have been delivering IPTV Set-Top Box and media player solutions to Pay TV, Digital Signage and Enterprise TV providers for over 25 years.
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.

Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in businessdevelopment for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales.After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He served a total of four years in Moscow in the Defence Attache Office, where he worked as an interpreter and analyst, covering Russia as well as Kazakhstan and Belarus. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
Sweden, France, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
Kiku — Kiku using AI for scheduling, screening, and assessing applicants can help organizations manage large volumes of candidates efficiently.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

Gil Penchina is retired

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Fairy — Fairy offers 30 minute daily “hotel like” cleanings and is a great service for busy professionals and families -- their mission is to deliver happiness to every home in the world. Their team has started and sold venture-backed startups and have helped scale companies like Instacart, NextDoor, Box, and LinkedIn through their IPOs.
Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Origin Protocol — Origin Protocol is bringing NFTs and DeFi to the masses

Olli has background in management consultancy (McKinsey & Company 2007-2009) and software business (LeadDesk Oyj (publ) 2010-2018).

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Real Estate
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Freska — Freska, voted one of the hottest tech start-ups in Finland, is an online home services company currently disrupting the traditional home cleaning industry in the Nordics, backed by top-tier VCs (Acton, Spintop and Addventure) post Series A. Freska delivers top quality cleaning services with total flexibility for the customer to select a time,decide on the service and manage the subscription in an easy-to-use online interface or a native app. However, Freska does not only clean homes, it creates real jobs. All Freska cleaners have been subject to a thorough recruitment process followed by a thorough Freska-onboarding. They are all skilled professionals and core members of the Freska family, knowing that they will earn a good living from their job and have a community that supports them.
Offerilla — Offerilla is the most popular marketplace for local discounts. Offerilla was founded by entrepreneurs Risto Juntunen, Mikko Ollikkala and Aleksi Paavola.
Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.

Kristian Segerstrale is the Co-founder of Initial Capital and Board member of Supercell, as well as the Co-founder and CEO of Playfish. Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001.He was a co-founder of mobile gaming pioneer Macrospace – today Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU) in 2001 through the successfulIPO in 2007. He left to co-found Playfish, the social gaming pioneer, where he served as CEO through the company’s rapid growth to 60 Million players and the subsequent acquisition by Electronic Arts for $400M in 2009. After a period as EVP Digital at Electronic Arts driving the aggressive transformation of the company from packaged goods to digital, Kristian left in March 2013 to focus on startups. Today Kristian leads seed stage investments with Initial Capital and serves on the board of Supercell, the #1 iOS game company.Kristian has previously served on the board of LOVEFiLM, the European streaming video pioneer until its acquisition by Amazon.com.

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, PC Games
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Finland, India

Portfolio highlights

Battlebound — Battlebound is on a mission to build memorable lifelong gaming communities that invite players into Heroic Stories, creating deep connections and positive life changes. Heroic stories are thrilling gameplay moments that bring players together and enrich players lives inside and outside the game. We believe blockchain technology will deepen these moments and enrich the player experience when paired with world-class gameplay.
Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
Lightforge Games — Lightforge Games is a new, all-remote video game studio on a quest to change how the world plays RPGs.

Markku Mäkeläinen

Investment focus

Internet, Video Streaming, Video on Demand
Convertible Note
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Neverthink — Where video memes are born. Check daily to see the new srtuff drop from the likes of Grandayy, Dolan Dark, and hundreds more top creators.

Markko Vaarnas is specialized in internationalizing B2B software and service companies. His experience accumulates from Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA), a company he co-founded in 1995 and successfully exited in late 2014. At the time that the company was sold, GIA had 10 offices across 4 continents, and a vast majority of the 15 mEURrevenue came from outside its home market, Finland. In January 2015, Markko co-founded Takeoff Partners with the mission to create positive impact to people and the society by helping business owners to grow their businesses internationally. He executes this mission through serving as a part-time advisor, coach and angel investor for growth companies, as well as a consultant and interim leader for targeted internationalization projects and programs.In his various roles, he wants to share his experiences on how to internationalize B2B software and service business, and more specifically help companies to build strategic business plans, conceptualize offerings, improve customer experiences, raise finance and facilitate the implementation of new market entries.During his time at GIA, Markko became one of the global thought leaders in Market Intelligence. He is the author of the book “The Handbook of Market Intelligence” published by Wiley in September 2011, and has presented and facilitated workshops in numerous international conferences. http://bit.ly/HandbookMIMarkko graduated from the Helsinki School of Economics with a Master's degree (International Business). He is married with three children, and speaks fluent English and Finnish, and is also able to converse in German and Swedish. In his free time he enjoys playing soccer and coaches a junior soccer team.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Convertible Note
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Howspace — Howspace is an AI-powered online platform that brings digital collaboration and social learning to the forefront of your process & development initiatives.

Pekka Vartiainen - Board Member @ Inbot

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inbot — We are world-leading experts in algorithmic influence. We help ethical businesses and executives leverage algorithms to grow their audience and influence.
Singa — Singa is the Spotify of karaoke for personal and commercial use. Access a catalog of 20 000+ songs to sing effortlessly anywhere, any time and with any platform.Easy to use is Singa’s main operating principle. You don’t need to buy a console, or a microphone, or even a DVD-player. Singa is platform agnostic. To use Singa, you’ve already goteverything you need either in your pocket (mobile phone), on your table (PC) or in your living room (TV).* One account works on all devices, mobile, browser or Smart TV* Each user gets to test Singa for free before signing up to a Premium account* Singa works fluently with external accessories
Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per

Kim Groop - Managing Partner & co-founder @ First Fellow Partners

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mendor — Mendor is a Finnish company, committed to the design, development and marketing of advanced diabetes management products. Mendor has launched a revolutionary, discreet, easy to use, portable all-in-one blood glucose meter and web-based software application for the daily management of diabetes. Mendor has designed its products together with usersand diabetes experts to address the needs of people with diabetes requiring regular blood glucose monitoring.
Youredi — Youredi is the leading integration solution provider for the Supply Chain and Logistics industries.
Detectify — Detectify's external attack surface management tool - assess, prioritize, remediate continuously growing external attack surfaces.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, Mobile
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.

Sasha Markvo

Investment focus

Electronics, Cloud Computing
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.

Mikko Kodisoja

Investment focus

Gaming, Music, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
SNAFU Records — SNAFU Records creates algorithms that scan through data from major music platforms like Spotify and Youtube to find artists and songs that stand out.

Reynir is the Managing Partner of Summa Equity.Previously, he was Partner of Altor Equity Partners where he joined at inception in 2003. Prior to this, he was CEO of Ignis Photonyx, Investment Director with Kistefos Venture Capital, and Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company. Reynir holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. inEconomics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Reynir is a board member of eGain and Sortera.Reynir is the Managing Partner of Summa Equity.Previously, he was Partner of Altor Equity Partners where he joined at inception in 2003. Prior to this, he was CEO of Ignis Photonyx, Investment Director with Kistefos Venture Capital, and Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company. Reynir holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Reynir is a board member of eGain and Sortera.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Anicare Oy — Modern farm industry key sustainability and profitability challenge: Individual animal welfare tracking in vast units is impossible with traditional methods and causes significant losses in time, production and moneyAnicare Vision: Millions of different animals are under of real time welfare monitoring and in their farms productivity optimizationincreases hundreds of millions profits and hundreds of work years enabling sustainable meat productionAnicare Missio: Scaling up unique welfare monitoring solution for the global beef and dairy industry as everyday tool for animals welfare monitoring to increasing production efficiency, reducing risk of disease outbursts & reduced labor costsAnicare is a Northern European technology company delivering AI-based services, disrupting animal welfare markets.

Jacob Dalborg

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce
Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Klevu — Join thousands of other ecommerce teams using Klevu technology to improve conversion and automate workflows. Personalized search, merchandising, and product recommendations that just work.

Eleonore Crespo is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Pigment.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Generative AI
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.

Manny Fernandez is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author featured on CNBC's Make Me A Millionaire Inventor's premiere episode on Thursday, Oct 6th. He has been successful investing in his own ideas as well as taking companies from startup to exit. Fernandez was named by Inc. Magazine as one of 33 entrepreneursto watch in 2016. —In 2013, Fernandez founded SF Angels Group and has been an angel investor with TiE Angels since 2012. In 2014, he was named SF Angel Investor of the Year and received the Equity Crowdfunding Leadership Award. In 2016, Menlo College Named Fernandez Silicon Valley Equity CrowdFunding Pioneer. Fernandez recently became a #1 bestselling author with his new book, How to Make Money Investing in Pre-IPO Stocks, which is available on Amazon. He is also the #14 Angel Investor to Follow on Twitter and has the #1 most viewed equity crowdfunding video on YouTube. He has been featured on mainstream media including CNBC Squawk Box, NBC, CNN Latino, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Fox News and more. Fernandez’s energetic and inspiring presence has lead to him being a frequent judge, speaker, and panelist for Silicon Valley corporations, startup demo days and universities. He has been a featured guest speaker for events at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Harvard University, Angel Capital Association Summit (ACA), University of San Francisco (USF), Pepperdine University, Draper University, Plug and Play, Yahoo!, USAWeek in Europe, Qianhai Equity Exchange in China, Intel, California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s (CHCC), SharkTank, Startup Grind, AngelHack Global Demo, Shanghai Slush, Finland Slush, Startup Weekend, SXSW and many more. All of Fernandez’s experience in the investment landscape has culminated, under his leadership with the launch of RealtyReturns.com

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Internet
Angel, Funding Round
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Invesdor — We are Europe's crowdinvesting platform: Invest directly and become part of corporate success stories. Get to know us today
Revel Systems — Revel Systems is a cloud-based point of sale and business management platform that helps restaurants and retailers with their businesses.Revel Essentials™ and Revel Enterprise®, are the iOS-based POS platform that combines cloud-based technology and the mobility of the iPad which enables enterprises to provide a better customer experience,diversify revenue streams, and scale their business with ease. Revel Essentials™ is developed and deployed in the customer's location for the needs of small chains and merchants while Revel Enterprise® is tailored for large chains and global enterprises. The platform combines point of sale software with management tools, integrating inventory management, employee management, and sales reporting into a single platform, enabling merchants to build better businesses and achieve their goals.In 2010, Christopher Ciabarra and Lisa Falzone headquartered Revel Systems in Atlanta, Georgia.

Robert Gentz is the Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Zalando SE. He previously worked at Unibicate as a CEO. Robert Gentz attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series B, Seed, Series A
Germany, Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.

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