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Top 50 Startup Investors in Finland

Last updated: Sep 2023 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in Finland

Investor	Finland investments
Business Finland	92
Lifeline Ventures	88
Tesi	78
Finnvera Venture Capital	68
Icebreaker.vc	63
Inventure	55
Butterfly Ventures	53
Visionplus	51
Ali Omar	51
Reaktor Ventures	42
Superhero Capital	38
Innovestor	35
First Fellow Partners	35
Maki.vc	34
Voima Ventures	25
Gorilla Capital	24
VTT Ventures	20
Vendep Capital	20
Sisu Game Ventures	18
OpenOcean	17
Initial Capital	16
Conor Venture Partners	13
Play Ventures	13
LVP	11
Ilkka Paananen	11
Leena Niemistö	11
Wave Ventures	10
Spintop Ventures	10
Risto Siilasmaa	9
Nidoco	9
PROfounders Capital	9
David Helgason	9
Jyri Engestrom	8
Nordea	8
Nordic Foodtech VC	8
Springvest	7
Heartcore Capital	7
Bragiel Brothers	6
CapMan	6
Supercell	6
VNT Management	6
Trind Ventures	6
DN Capital	6
Nordic Option	6
Mikael Hed	6
Valve Ventures	6
Northzone	5
Taaleri	5
European Investment Bank	5
Makers Fund	5

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Valosan — Scale your international PR into any local market. With Valosan, you connect with PR specialists in local markets and pitch your story to real journalists
Fixably — Fixably is the repair management solution to seamlessly connect all users, from the end customer to the technician, and all repair systems within your service business.
Vensum Power — Revolutionizing power conversion. More power in same package, less energy waste and low maintenance.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Measurlabs — We provide testing services and certifications for any material, product or chemical. We help product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
Metroc — Creating sales and marketing solutions for the construction & real-estate industry.
Steady Energy — Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating.

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

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Measurlabs — We provide testing services and certifications for any material, product or chemical. We help product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
Virta — The Virta platform for electric vehicle charging gives you an accelerated and cost-effective channel to launch, operate, and grow an EV charging business.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Nordcloud — Nordcloud is a European leader in public cloud infrastructure solutions and cloud-native application services. Since 2011 we have completed more than 500 deployments to help our enterprise customers gain the maximum benefits of the cloud, including security, agility, scalability and overall cost-savings.
Enfuce — Enfuce is a cloud-based financial services provider that specializes in card issuing and payment processing services. It helps banks, fintech, and financial institutions become and remain fully PSD2 compliant, and helps them give third-party service providers access to digital accounts.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inEspoo, Finland.
Aurealis Pharma — A game changer for chronic wounds, cancer, inflammatory diseases and beyond. Multi-target cell and gene therapies for unmet medical needs.

Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Fixably — Fixably is the repair management solution to seamlessly connect all users, from the end customer to the technician, and all repair systems within your service business.
Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
IPRally — Improve your invalidity, patentability and FTO searches. Easy-to-use patent search web application, powered by unique AI knowledge graph technology.

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Value.Space — Space based risk assessments & monitoring
Haltian — End-to-end IoT solutions and world-glass product design services from Haltian

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
Retein — Aquammodate is a greentech company that produces highly pure water at minimum energy cost.
Reactional Music — GESTRUMENT is the revolutionary gesture based instrument.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
BetterDoctor — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.

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

GoalProfit — Optimize operations, drive revenue, and delight consumers with native AI and automation. Harness the power of Digital Wave Technology!
Builderhead — Builderhead is a construction management software designed for real estate developers and general contractors. The software combines project development, procurement, and construction management into a streamlined pipeline. We bring an industry spesific Project Development CRM, Bid Management Tools and Project Management Software in one easy-to-useplatform which integrates easily with other most used software in the industry. Even thought the construction industry accounts for 13% of the world’s GDP, there's been a global problem of poor productivity within the industry as productivity growth has increased only 1% over the past 20 years. From the real estate developers and general contractors point of view, the biggest issue is the projects that turn unprofitable unexpectedly. One unprofitable project destroys the whole year profits and another one can bankrupt the entire company. Most of the decisions that affect the success of a project are made before construction begins, but still there are no smart tools available for that stage to help the construction companies avoid unprofitable projects. We solve this global problem by bringing the most critical steps to the success of a construction project on the same platform.
MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.

Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Videobot — Grow your business with personalised video funnels that engage your audience with human interaction, capture leads, guide your users, enhance customer satisfaction and increase conversion rate.Short videos have already become dominant across social media platforms. Now, this beloved user experience is available on company websites as well. The applications are vast and varied. Discover how it all works by reserving your own presentation slot.
Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
Epicbrief — Epicbrief joins hundreds of sales representatives on a quest to improve the significance and value of human work in sales.

Welcome to Innovestor! We are a Finnish investment company focusing on venture capital, corporate venturing services, and real estate.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Finland, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
HVR Cardio — HVR Cardio Transformative Mitral Valve Repair Solutions The Future of Mitral Valve Repair Our mission is to develop solutions for mitral valve interventions that are faster, easier to use, and less invasive without compromising clinical efficacy. About HVR Cardio Utilization of new technologies and less...
SynergyXR — SynergyXR is a no-code, cloud platform that lets companies design, onboard, sell, and support across all XR devices without writing a single line of code

A private investment firm run by Risto Siilasmaa and Kim Groop. Grounded in a deeply held set of values around entrepreneurship, trust, integrity and helping solve the world’s problems. We partner with strong and ambitious technology entrepreneurs driven by a mission to fix or build something important in the world.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
NFTPort — Simple & powerful NFT infrastructure and APIs. Mint NFTs, deploy contracts, get multi-chain NFT data and enhanced APIs. Grab your free API Key now: nftport.xyz

Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
CarbonCloud — CarbonCloud, the Climate Intelligence Platform, enables the food industry to calculate & manage carbon footprints throughout the supply chain

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Norway, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Quantagonia — Advanced quantum algorithms, for your most important business problems, delivering breakthrough performance on today's high-performance computers, with seamless migration for later use on quantum computers.
Alba Health — Discover your baby's gut health & microbiome for the best start in life.
Origin by Ocean — We rid the oceans of harmful algae and turn it into everyday goods.

Gorilla Capital is a Finnish venture capital fund investing in early stage companies that apply technology to solve real business problems of today.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.
Xiphera — Xiphera is a Finnish company designing hardware-based security solutions using standardised cryptographic algorithms.
Upsy Company — Discover Upsy, the AI-powered online shopping assistant designed to transform your webshop into a sales powerhouse. Boost your conversion rates, improve customer service, and amplify your online sales with Upsy's innovative features today

VTT is a powerhouse of technology development and scientific research. Many of the most significant Finnish technology start-ups were brought to life at VTT. Do you want to invest in ongoing ventures?

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, 3D Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
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.
Quanturi Oy — Quanturi's robust wireless temperature monitoring systems are specifically designed for monitoring hay, compost, grain and many other fermentable materials during storage. Our systems decrease fire risks and ensure quality certification.

B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
Happeo — This intranet keeps your teams informed, aligned, and productive with a template-based page builder, integrations, and universal search across all company tools.
My Telescope — My Telescope is the Share of Search analytics tool marketers use to track campaigns and build data-driven branding strategies.

Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Unagi — Collect your favorite football players and pick your best 11 every week!
Multiscription — Multiscription is a cross-product subscription service. Introducing Unleashd, the first in-game and cross-publisher subscription service for free-to-play games.
Esports Coaching Academy — ECA's software solution consists of an educational hub and a SaaS solution that provides exercises and complete programming for esports clubs and coaches.

OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Federated Content Platform. Integrate all your services with our unique content federation approach and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs
Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
Sunlight.Io — Sunlight makes performance possible anywhere - from the cloud to the edge. Demanding applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster on Sunlight compared to legacy virtualisation, and because Sunlight has a tiny footprint - it’s perfect for the edge. Enterprises and MSPs use Sunlight to cut the costs of delivering highperformance IT by 70%.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.

Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zebedee — Make financial transactions a native part of your apps and games. Easy to implement, infinitely flexible and inherently global.
Yoko Robotics — Yoko is the affordable personal robot chef that enables you to eat healthier, save money, and spend your valuable time on the more important things in life.
Pok Pok — Pok Pok is a studio centred around creative, play-based learning experiences for kids. Explore, create, tinker, learn and grow with open-ended toys in the Pok Pok Playroom.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Raleon — Create engaging experiences that convert more users and increase loyalty, powered by Raleon's web3 engagement platform.
Redemption Games — Our studio is built on the principle of blending great artistry and design with top-notch research and data to produce games that are both beautifully created and have blockbuster market potential.
Nefta — One platform to build, launch and operate web3 games

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.
Bigblue — Bigblue's technology allows brands to sell more with effortless e-commerce logistics, prime-like deliveries, branded tracking e-mails and a returns portal.
Dorian — Turn your story into a game and earn money with no coding!

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, E-Commerce, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
Riot — Meet Riot, the all-in-one platform that drives better protection for your team.
SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.

Leena Niemistö

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
#Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Vapaus — A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
Taika Tech — Taika Tech builds a novel interface for controlling the surrounding technology by making sense of your hand movement and location with a smart ring

Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, Finland, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
IPRally — Improve your invalidity, patentability and FTO searches. Easy-to-use patent search web application, powered by unique AI knowledge graph technology.
Scrintal — As if Miro and Obsidian had a baby. Organize and connect your atomic notes by using the Zettelkasten method. See all your thoughts in one place and share easily.

Risto Siilasmaa is the Founder at F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
#Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Meeshkan — Always release confidently. Meeshkan uses real user flows from Production to automate testing for PMs and engineers, finding bugs before your users do.

Nidoco AB is a Swedish investment company whose strategy is to create long-term value through active ownership of public and private companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Spiral — Easily make a difference every day
Voltan Energy — Voltan Energy is a sustainable and affordable local heating and cooling solutions.
Skeleton Technologies — Skeleton Technologies is the global leader in ultracapacitor & supercapacitor energy storage and helps companies in automotive, transportation, grid, and industry to save energy.

We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Smiler — Memorable experiences deserve to be captured in high quality. We make it happen. Valuable memories in high quality, for everyone, everywhere.
Bloobirds — We transform Salesforce into an amazing software for sales teams, automating activity recording and tracking, for effortless reporting.
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

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.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Finland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
Orchid Labs — The Orchid community believes in Open Source software and that Orchid can enable a brighter, freer and empowered future.
Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.

We are investing in #FutureFood. Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Seafood, Life Science
Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

eniferBio — 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.
ÄIO — Innovative food technologies to replace palm oil, coconut oil and animal fats with sustainable and healthier alternatives.
Nordic Umami Company — Developing all-embracing sustainable flavours to accelerate plant-based eating.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
Series A, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Convion — Convion is a fuel cell system developer committed to commercializing solid oxide fuel cell systems in range of 50–300kW for distributed power generation. The company's products are designed for premium energy efficiency, reliability, and operational flexibility. Convion will provide its customers with sustainable power generation solutions forpower security, energy independence, and premium efficiency.Convion was founded 2012 and is based in Finland.
Mobidiag — Mobidiag is a commercial stage, fast-growing Finnish-French biotechnology company that develops and markets innovative molecular diagnostic solutions for gastrointestinal infections, antimicrobial resistance management, healthcare associated infections (HAIs), respiratory infections and sepsis. Based on well-established qPCR and microarraytechnologies, Mobidiag offers a broad range of tests and automated platforms. These include a comprehensive range of fast, reliable and cost-effective molecular diagnostic solutions for the detection of infectious diseases adapted to laboratories of all sizes. They allow detection of most clinically relevant bacteria, parasites, viruses and markers for antibiotic resistance.
Finbiosoft — Finbiosoft is a company focused in developing Validation Manager™ software service. Validation Manager is the perfect tool for clinical laboratories and diagnostic companies to digitalize, automate and standardize the time-consuming and error sensitive data handling of validations and verifications.

Heartcore Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm devoted to backing founders building category-defining consumer internet brands.Founded as Sunstone Capital in 2007, Heartcore has raised over $500 million in committed capital across four fund generations. The firm has offices in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Paris but invests across Europe andoccasionally in the United States. Heartcore has backed more than 70 exceptional founding teams.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Denmark, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
Quell — An immersive first-person fitness game you can play anywhere - Quell is the future of fitness gaming.
Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.

Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds. Dan Bragiel launched the firm in San Francisco, California in 2016.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Finland, Japan

Portfolio highlights

UpCodes — Explore a searchable database of US construction and building code. Code regulations are consolidated by state and city for easier navigation.
Wunderite — Wunderite is the only digital forms solution built for insurance agents by agents. Wunderite makes PDFs, Supplementals, and ACORDs easy for producers, Account managers, and customers, by putting them online, and making any question assignable with the click of a button, on any device. Additionally, we save time by enriching (auto-filling) customer data.
Dawn Health — Dawn is building the new standard of care for insomnia treatment.

CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international.At CapMan, they build betterorganised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
Finland, Russian Federation, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Napier AS — Napier in the terms of the fish offers sustainable transportation for the entire globe. Napier provides for farmers that require lucrative, environmentally friendly transportation of farmed fish from the cage to the slaughterhouse.
Fennoa Oy — Fennoa Oy specializes in catering financial management solution for accounting firms equipped with cloud services.
Niemi Palvelut Oy — Niemi Palvelut Oy is Finland's leading moving and logistics service provider. specialize in a wide range of other logistics services, such as event management, delivery and assembly logistics, and expertise expo services, in addition to corporate, private, and international removals. Every year conduct over 29 000 removals and 53 000 otherservice projects. We employ approximately 1300 highly trained service specialists.

Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
United States, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Phantom Gamelabs — Phantom Gamelabs is a mobile game studio that specializes in multiplayer Action RPGs and Looter Shooter games.
Space Ape — Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players worldwide. Its diverse and talented team of 100 is dedicated to creating the highest quality and most successful mobile games in the world. It’s the company's passion, imagination, and inventiveness that drives them in their pursuit to creategenre-defining game experiences.The company was founded in 2012 and is based out of London, England.
Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!

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.

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.

Trind Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in Tallinn, Estonia. Investing in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. Trind Ventures partners are Joel Aasmäe, Ivar Siimar, Kimmo Irpola and Taavi Lepmets.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Estonia, Finland, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
My Telescope — My Telescope is the Share of Search analytics tool marketers use to track campaigns and build data-driven branding strategies.
eAgronom — eAgronom helps farmers generate additional revenue streams, improve soil quality, and access better financing.

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
Cubyn — Cubyn picks your stuff up at your place, packages it and ships it for you to any destination worldwide. Cubyn allows any e-retailer to benefit from the power supply of an Amazon from her living room, without obligation.

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.

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
Brightplus — Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level.
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.

Investor, Executive Chairman at Kaiken Entertainment Ltd.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Electronics, Hardware
Seed, Angel, Series B
Finland, 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!

Valve Ventures is a Helsinki-based angel and early-stage venture investor.

Investment focus

Energy, CleanTech, Oil and Gas
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
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.

Northzone is a venture capital fund with a perspective shaped by lives as entrepreneurs. Since 1996, they've made over 175 investments and invest from Seed to Growth. They've partnered with the founders of Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, Hopin, and hundreds of others to build category-defining businesses. They've raised €1bn inSeptember 2022.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.

Taaleritehdas Wealth Management is helping all Finns see the advantages of ownership and find their own way to own.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Lending
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Rester — Rester is a Finnish company enabling the recovery of business textiles into a new textile fibre and quality raw material.
Woodly Oy — Woodly® is an entirely new type of wood-based packaging material that can be used to substitute traditional fossil-based plastics. Woodly is recyclable can be made into transparent and flexible packaging, and the material mimics the best qualities of traditional plastics.
Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
France, Germany, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Trucksters — We are a transportation company that focuses on providing long distance FTL trucking service through an innovative relay system based on artificial intelligence. We achieve transit times similar to air transport while reducing the costs of traditional road transportation.
ROCSYS — Meet the world's first autonomous charging solution for electrical vehicles in public transportation, logistics, material handling, and passenger cars.
Masdar Capital — Masdar Capital is developing & deploying commercial-scale renewable energy projects.

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Hyper — Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse.
Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
Genpop Interactive — Genpop Interactive is a global consortium of top-tier software engineers, game designers, artists, and competitive gamers working together to create an original next-generation team shooter.

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