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Top 25 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Finland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Machine learning startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Finland in January 2026

Investor	Machine Learning Finland investments
Ali Omar	5
Kulpreet Singh	2
Leena Niemistö	2
Kedar Dani	2
Christian Jantzen	2
Daniel Fried	1
Jaan Tallinn	1
Asko Schrey	1
Jan Valkonen	1
Marten Mickos	1
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	1
Jonathan Scudder	1
Ilkka Hiidenheimo	1
Jari Ovaskainen	1
Laurent Caraffa	1
Jukka Tapaninen	1
Jan Goetz	1
Juha Vartiainen	1
May Nasrallah	1
Risto Siilasmaa	1
Hermann Hauser	1
Tomi Tuominen	1
Henry Nilert	1
Jeremy Yap	1
Nicolas Dessaigne	1

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.

Kulpreet Singh is Managing Partner at Overture Capital. He attended IMD.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Germany, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
Workfellow — Find what breaks the flow of work and processes - automatically. Then just fix it!
Membrane — Describe what you need. Watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves. Try Membrane today.

Leena Niemistö

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rens Original — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.

Kedar Dani, UiPath.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Workfellow — Find what breaks the flow of work and processes - automatically. Then just fix it!

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Daniel Fried

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LawZero — LawZero is committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems.
TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.

Asko Schrey

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Machine Learning
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zefort — Zefort is a powerful contract management software. Sign, store, share contracts and easily with your team. Set reminders and use a powerful search.
MVision AI — AI-powered solutions that automate repetitive tasks, enable efficient radiotherapy workflows, and promote consistency across clinical processes.
ReceiptHero — Say goodbye to paper receipts. Cut operational costs, reduce waste and deliver a better in-store experience for customers.

A strong desire to build something new or improve an existing one, love to dare dead practices to maintain competitiveness in an ever-changing environment.

Investment focus

Software, Career Planning, Human Resources
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

ForteAI — ForteAI is only a fully automated resume and AI-hive-driven platform to change Talent Management

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
StudySmarter — StudySmarter is an EdTech company that develops an intelligent and content-agnostic platform for lifelong learning. It was first published in 2018 and is used by millions of learners worldwide. StudySmarter has been voted the best EdTech start-up in Germany and Europe by university representatives and education experts.
Empirical — Culinary & scientific innovations applied in flavor to spirits and cans. From premium spirits to ready to drink cans, Empirical has an exciting selection. Order today!

Jonathan held key roles in a variety of large identity projects before co-founding ForgeRock in Norway, running finance and operations and then relocating to build the ForgeRock engineering lab in Bristol. He believes that awesome humans are the basis of great companies, and has spent the ForgeRock years proving this. He has sat on severalvoluntary, political and private boards and founded a handful of small companies in the past, but thinks ForgeRock is the best thing since sliced bread. Jonathan is a qualified youth and community worker, and has a degree in Informatics from the University of Oslo, Norway.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Cyber Security
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.

Ilkka Hiidenheimo is the CEO of Sharper Shape.

Investment focus

Industrial, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Picosun — Picosun is the leading manufacturer of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) reactors for micro- and nanotechnology applications. Picosun provides the customers with versatile, reliable, and user-friendly ALD process tools, which offer world leading process quality and unique scalability from basic research to fully automated high throughput industrialproduction. Picosun is based in Espoo, Finland, its production facilities are located in Masala (Kirkkonummi), Finland, its US headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, and its Asian headquarters in Singapore. PICOSUN™ ALD process tools have been installed in various prominent industries and high-level reasearch organizations across Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. Picosun has world-wide sales and support network with distributors and representatives in over 30 countries.
Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.

Jari Ovaskainen

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Valossa — Valossa turns video to text and conversational AI chat worklows. Transcribe, generate captions and metadata, find scenes, and clip highlights with AI.
VieLoco —

Laurent Caraffa Managing Director, EU Senior Relationship Manager

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Jan Goetz is a quantum physicist and CEO of IQM. His strong experience in superconducting circuits is partly based on his past research in QCD Labs at Aalto University and in Walther-Meissner-Institute at Technical University of Munich campus. Jan is globally connected and has a strong drive to develop the future of quantum technologies.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.

Juha Vartiainen is the co-founder and chief operations officer of IQM. He has more than ten years of R&D expertise from industry, especially in software development. He holds a PhD in quantum computing.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Confidentialmind — The ConfidentialMind software stack enables you to integrate AI-solutions such as language models into your workflows and processes without data leaks to third parties. We will find a way to protect your data.

May Nasrallah

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

GetJenny — A customer service chatbot platform for professionals who want to reduce first response and resolution times, and deliver better customer experiences.

Risto Siilasmaa is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the Board of Direcctor of Donut Lab. He previously worked as Founder of F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.
Donut Lab — Redefining Electric Mobility Across All Industries. World's First Complete Electric Vehicle (EV) Hardware Platform With Unified Software.
The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.

Hermann Hauser is the Co-founder, Director, and Venture Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners. He previously worked at IXI as a Founder. Hermann Hauser attended the University of Vienna.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Austria, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
Fractile — Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.

Tomi Tuominen

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Louhe — LOUHE is yourtireless physicalsecurity companion. Double the reach of your existing physical security investment with a fraction of the cost. Let LOUHE detect and respond to security anomalies on your site, and use it to audit your physical security posture.

Henry Nilert

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Latvia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nordigen — Nordigen is a free open banking API that provides PSD2 data connections to all major European banks.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
Inscripta — PROFESSIONAL DICTATION MADE EASY

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Snaplet — Snaplet gives developers production-accurate data and preview databases they can code against, so they can focus on shipping. Ditch the seed script forever!
Dust — Break down knowledge silos and amplify team performance with data-augmented, customizable and secure AI agents. Deploy in minutes, no coding required.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable digital future

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.
Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API

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