Top 30 Life Science Startup Investors in Finland in May 2026

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, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Norway

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AISTI — AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile.
Farang — Farang is an AI research lab based in Sweden developing the next-generation of foundational Large Language Models. The company was founded in 2025 and consists of a team of highly experienced researchers, developers, entrepreneurs and business professionals, joined by prominent deep-tech VCs and angel investors.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

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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, Life Science, Water
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

EvodiaBio — Mirroring nature with pioneering bioscience for natural flavors
Endless Food — Endless Food Co is a food innovation firm focusing on the junction of pleasure and sustainability. Endless Food Co was pulled together by a common idea that the transition to a greener and more egalitarian future food system will be driven by flavor, and having spent the last decade pioneering sustainable gastronomy
Happy Plant Protein — Revolutionize plant protein production with Happy Plant Protein's innovative technology, transforming local ingredients into high-quality, sustainable solutions for the food industry.

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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

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Lutso — Empowering older adults to live independently, safely, and with dignity. Lutso is the smarter way to support aging at home.
Cytely — Transforms microscopy from image-driven to data-driven through AI-powered autonomous targeting that captures high-resolution data of critical cellular events, enabling researchers to solve complex biological problems in minutes instead of years.
NROC Security — Prevent data leaks, govern shadow AI, prove compliance, and save 50% on GenAI subscriptions

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Leena Niemistö

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.

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Sauli Törmälä is the Board Member, CFO at Promilless Oy. He attended University of Oulu.

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
Finland

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.

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The European Investment Bank (EIB) offers lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily within the European Union. It provides project loans for public and private sectors, loans to banks and intermediaries, structured finance products, guarantees, and securitization instruments for debts. Additionally, EIB offers equity and fund investmentproducts, including infrastructure and environmental funds, as well as venture capital funds. EIB also supports microfinance and risk-sharing finance for research and innovation and provides technical expertise for sustainable energy projects. Its services include infrastructure advisory, urban development support, guarantees for transport infrastructure, and funding for public-private partnerships and small- to medium-sized enterprises. The bank serves various sectors, including transportation, energy, health, education, and agriculture.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Germany, France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Amadix — Amadix develops and commercializes breakthrough discoveries in cancer diagnosis with a clear commercial rationale, addressing unmet medical needs in oncology. After analytical validation and demonstration of clinical validity and utility through international multicentre studies, the products will be commercialized worldwide.The most advancedproduct developed by Amadix is Colofast, an innovative non-invasive screening signature for colorectal cancer (CRC) and advanced adenoma diagnosis in blood designed to solve a significant health priority: the high mortality rate due to colon cancer worldwide (around half of the diagnosed patients).Amadix team consist of industry veterans with robust expertise in the Oncology Diagnostic area. They are a top level management team with international experience in cancer diagnostics, the pharmaceutical industry, the biotechnology sector and intellectual property. Amadix also has independent board members with international profiles and many years of experience in oncology and diagnostics, who advise the management team on strategy, commercialization and business development in Europe and the US.
Greenlight Biosciences — Next Generation Crop Protection
Azienda Comprensoriale Acquedottistica — ACA Spa is an integrated water service company.

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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, Switzerland

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ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
Wirepas — Wirepas offers a standards-based, ultra-reliable mesh connectivity for infrastructure-grade IoT. Proven in millions of devices worldwide.
Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.

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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, SaaS, Biotechnology
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

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AIATELLA — Automating medical image analysis
SparkReceipt — Scan, categorize, and stay tax-ready automatically with AI. Built for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to cry less over receipts, and stay organized all year.
University of Eastern Finland — The University of Eastern Finland is a multidisciplinary university which offers teaching in more than 100 major subjects. The university comprises four faculties: the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Science and Forestry, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies.

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Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
G.O.A.T Brand Labs — Purpose G.O.A.T is mono-maniacally focussed on the audacious goal of Making Indian D2C brands world...

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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, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, Finland

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IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

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Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
Supercell — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
Nordcraft — Create AAA web apps that delight your users

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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

AIATELLA — Automating medical image analysis
Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
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.

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Dawn is Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, with assets under management of $1.5bn. Dawn partners with founders building the next generation of global software leaders, supporting them to harness extraordinary teams.Haakon has served on the boards of Self Trade and Wonga.com amongst others, and currently represents Dawn’sinterest at Conversocial, Crate.io, LeadDesk, Minute Media and Neo Technologies.Prior to formalising early stage investing at Dawn, Haakon worked with early stage companies from their first commercial efforts through to managing accelerated growth, often by serving as an interim manager or board member. They include G-Cluster (sold to Softbank Broadmedia) and Lateral Logic (sold to Electronic Arts).Mr. Overli studied Mathematics at the University of Oslo and holds a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from University of Durham.In his investment-banking career when the world was covered in ice, Haakon was a Director and Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking at ING Barings. Prior even to that, Haakon worked for JP Morgan in the M&A departments of New York and London.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

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Minute Media — We are a digital-first media company with a global footprint, bringing passion to life with proprietary technology that powers best-in-class content and advertising partnerships.
Doubleword — From research to reality
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.

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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

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

Portfolio highlights

AISTI — AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile.
ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
Nexstim — Nexstim is a medical device company that specializes in image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. The company is committed to improving the quality of life of patients with significant unmet clinical needs. It has developed a SmartFocus TMS technology designed for the treatment of the major depressive disorder.The company was founded in2000 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.

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We are Valio Group: the most innovative dairy and food company in the world.

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B
Finland

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Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.

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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.
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.
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.

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We fund futurebreakthroughs

Investment focus

Apps, Water, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

StemSight — StemSight is a Finnish high-tech startup developing cell therapies for corneal blindness using human pluripotent stem cells.
HYPERMINE — Hypermine a novel laser-based mineralogy sensing technology to optimize resource recovery and reduce the negative environmental effects of mining.
TILT Biotherapeutics — TILT Biotherapeutics is the leading company globally working in the area of enabling tumor T-cell therapy with oncolytic viruses. TILT is a preclinical stage company working in the field of cancer immunotherapy and will soon translate its unique approach into clinical trials. The company’s patented technology involves utilization of oncolyticviruses for enhancement of tumor T-cell therapy. Initial embodiments of the technology will be used to enhance tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) and checkpoint inhibiting antibody therapy. The TILT approach has the potential to achieve similar results in CAR-T therapy of solid tumors as currently achieved for CD19+ hematological tumors.

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Athensmed Oy

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, mHealth
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland

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VideoVisit — VideoVisit is a Nordic health technology company, developing digital solutions for home care and healthcare sectors. They make healthcare available to everyone, anywhere and anytime, and strive to provide solutions that help people live independently at home for as long as possible. They collaborate with healthcare specialists to ensure that oursolutions are available to everyone.
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.
Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol

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Advent Life Sciences is a venture team investing in life sciences businesses. The team consists of 11 professionals with extensive scientific, medical and operational experience, and a long-standing track record of entrepreneurial and investment success across the UK, Europe and the US. The Firm invests in a range of sectors within life sciences,principally in new drug discovery, enabling technologies, and med tech. Realizations in the last three years include Algeta, Avila, CN Creative, EUSA, Micromet. Current investments include Acutus, Biocartis, Cellnovo, f2G, NeRRe,

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

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Cyted — Cyted focuses on providing digital diagnostic infrastructure to drive the earlier detection of disease. Our technologies use AI and novel biomarkers to improve patient outcomes.
Glycomine — We are developing a PMM2-CDG substrate replacement therapy. GLM101 is a mannose-1 phosphate treatment.
Relief Cardiovascular — Relief Cardiovascular is an inQB8 medical technologies portfolio company developing a revolutionary smart implant to decongest heart failure patients.

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The Citizenship Fund started out when the founders of the company discovered in their previous positions that a promising Finnish growth company will spend a great deal of time and energy in arranging financing. A good business idea and a team with excellent team could take months in financial negotiations and the outcome could be a return to thestart-up. At the same time, investors often wanted new types of higher potential investments alongside traditional alternatives.These two challenges were possible by removing the promising growth companies as investors, even for non-traditional venture capital investors. Citizenship wanted to create a service in which the company would be able to capitalize on business quickly and flexibly, but the decision-making business would be left to the company itself. From today's point of view, Springvest's goal is that an increasing number of Finnish investors can get involved in the story of Finnish growth companies and potential success.

Investment focus

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

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ReOrbit — Looking for a way to keep your data flowing in space? ReOrbit has you covered with our line of autonomous and inter-networking satellites!
Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.

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Jukka Tapaninen is an experienced IT business executive and a board member at Fimmic. Jukka also holds board positions at weVision, Addoro Ab, Findity and MeshWorks Wireless Oy.Jukka has a strong background in the IT industry on managing companies and business units globally. His leadership experience, from large companies like SAP and HP, aswell as from strong midsize companies has given him industry knowledge and excellent network within the strategic ecosystem and major customers. Jukka has experience in working in the United States, Singapore and multiple locations in Europe that have given him a good understanding on how business is done in different parts of the world.Jukka holds a M.Sc. degree from the Helsinki School of Economics.

Investment focus

Medical, Software, Education
Seed
Finland

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Aiforia — Aiforia provides software and services for pathologists, scientists and healthcare professionals to use artificial intelligence for image analysis.

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Aqua-Spark is an investment fund with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) they invest in are working toward the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in ways that do not harm their oceans. Their investors value the fact that each investmentaims to create triple impact—specifically, each investment is chosen for its potential to generate significant financial returns while also activating positive environmental and social outcomes.Aqua-Spark believes that committing to a long-term vision is the way to realize effective and lasting impact results. When it comes to investments, they do not seek quick exits; instead, they look for entrepreneurs who strive to build and scale toward the future, who see their business as major economic opportunities that can also help solve looming environmental and food security challenges over the long-term. As an essential of each investee, Aqua-Spark seeks sustainability.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Seafood, Aquaculture
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Norway, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Protix — Discover how Protix is revolutionizing the food system by converting organic waste into nutritious insect-based ingredients for a sustainable future.
XpertSea — XpertSea is a Canadian technology company that's transforming how the global aquaculture industry farms seafood to help feed the world. Combining smart aquaculture equipment with a farm management platform, our collaborative solution uncovers actionable insights driven by artificial intelligence. These insights enable farmers and industryexperts to optimize feed efficiency, reduce environmental waste, take preventive actions against diseases and use data to bring transparency and knowledge to the entire supply chain. With customers in over 50 countries, we’re using Canadian ingenuity to make aquaculture profitable and sustainable.
Proteon Pharmaceuticals — Proteon Pharmaceuticals serves livestock and aquaculture farms that aim for high-quality and sustainable protein production.

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Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.

Investment focus

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

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Aplagon — Aplagon is committed to bringing unique, effective antithrombotic medicines with important safety advantages to patients with unmet needs.
Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.

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

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Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
Sustashift — Sustashift offers a comprehensive legal CSRD reporting tool, providing tailored audit templates and automated XBRL tagging to streamline compliance and reduce manual reporting efforts.
Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.

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Backing category-defining companies from inception to IPO.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

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Knapsack — Fast, on-device AI. Carve your own path with a secure, on-premise, open-source GPT. Semantic search and chat with ultimate privacy and security.
Kled AI — Meet Nitrility, The World's First Intellectual Property Marketplace.
Simsalasim — Provider of an eSIM service intended to offer flexible monthly plans without hidden costs and long-term contracts. The company offers easy-to-understand packages that ensure users can stay connected globally, enabling users to access data and stay connected effortlessly wherever they are.

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Takoa Invest is a Finnish family-owned investment company that owns and develops companies and properties with growth potential in Finland and abroad. Takoa Invest is a Finnish family-owned investment company. It owns and develops companies and properties with growth potential in Finland and abroad.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Mobile, Retail
Seed, Series B, Series C
Finland, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Theranica — Theranica is a medical device company that has combined neuromodulation therapy with modern wireless technology to develop proprietary wearable solutions that address various medical conditions and disease states. The noninvasive and therapeutic 'smart' patches are controlled by a smartphone app to allow for personalized, portable, andaffordable care. The patch consists of a proprietary 'smart' chip that delivers electrical pulses to neuro-modulate the sensory nerves under the skin. The first application of the technology is for treatment of migraine headaches.
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.
IndoorAtlas — Discover the power of indoor positioning technology with IndoorAtlas. Build innovative indoor location-based solutions using our cross-platform SDK. Explore case studies and start developing today.

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Feroz Dewan is the chief executive officer at Arena Holdings.

Investment focus

Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

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.

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Keenan Rice is the General Manager of Firebolt. He is a former vice president of marketing and alliances at Looker, a software company that employs business intelligence to make data accessible to organizations and data analysts. Prior to joining Looker, Rice led advertising, interactive marketing, and marketing operations at Turn.Rice obtainedher bachelor’s degree in marketing from San Diego State University-California State University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Finland, United Kingdom

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Waldo — The codeless way to quickly build a comprehensive test suite for teams who don't compromise on speed and quality.
Matik — Remove the data bottleneck & pull numbers, tables, and charts directly into decks and PDFs
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.

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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
Finland, United States, 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.

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