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Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Finland in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Finland in May 2025

Investor	Machine Learning Finland investments
Icebreaker.vc	13
Business Finland	9
Ali Omar	5
First Fellow Partners	5
Lifeline Ventures	5
Voima Ventures	5
Balderton Capital	3
Butterfly Ventures	3
Invus	3
Superhero Capital	3
CapMan	2
Kedar Dani	2
Leena Niemistö	2
Kulpreet Singh	2
Springvest	2
Christian Jantzen	2
Hoxton Ventures	2
Crowberry Capital	2
Reaktor Ventures	2
Tiny VC	2
Tiny VC	2
OpenOcean	2
Nielsen Ventures	2
Innovestor	1
T2AB.VC	1
Ilkka Hiidenheimo	1
Jan Goetz	1
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	1
Failup Ventures	1
Risto Siilasmaa	1
Visionplus	1
The Nordic Web Ventures	1
European Investment Bank	1
EIC Fund	1
Redstone.VC	1
Juha Vartiainen	1
LähiTapiola	1
2xN	1
10x Value Partners	1
Mikko Hypponen	1
Tomi Tuominen	1
Daniel Fried	1
Jonathan Scudder	1
Jan Valkonen	1
J12	1
Serendipity Capital	1
Avant Global	1
Oxford Science Enterprises	1
ADB Ventures	1
AINS Ventures	1

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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, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Grid Raven — Maximize the safety and capacity of your grid with accurate ratings based on our hyper-local weather model that accounts with every tree, building and hill.
Clock & Cloud — AI-driven platform delivering actionable geopolitical intelligence for proactive decision-making and enhanced business security
Fleetbrains — At Fleetbrains, we transform fleet sales and stock management with cutting-edge AI, enabling dealerships and manufacturers to optimize stock, maximize margins, and accelerate vehicle turnover.Our intelligent platform leverages Big Data, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models to predict demand, streamline inventory management, and enhancebusiness decision-making. By redefining traditional sales and forecasting models, we help automotive businesses minimize stock leftovers, improve purchasing strategies, and drive higher profitability.Join us in shaping the future of automotive sales with AI-powered intelligence.

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

Portfolio highlights

TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.
SparkReceipt — AI-powered Receipt Scanner and Expense Tracker for Individuals and Small Businesses. Create your free account now!
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.

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.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

LumiDB — Transform terabytes of accumulated scans into a queryable database that you can actually use.
Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.

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

Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
Soldera — Soldera enables renewable energy producers to earn additional income through an automatic guarantee of the origin trading system.
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.

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, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Skyfora — Skyfora combines scientific understanding of tropical storms with computer vision, machine learning and IoT technologies.
StemSight — StemSight is a Finnish high-tech startup developing cell therapies for corneal blindness using human pluripotent stem cells.
Liquid Sun — Liquid Sun Ltd. We fight against climate change by recoding CO2 emissions to fossil-free fuels and chemicals. Our technology is based low temperature electrolyzers.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

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

Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made

Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved.They know that real transformation takes time and that it is nevera straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way.They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

Aadi Bioscience — Aadi Bioscience was founded by Dr. Neil Desai, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing the potentially best-in-class mTOR inhibitor for targeted patient populations in oncology and cardiovascular diseases.
GenSight Biologics — GenSight Biologics develops gene therapy-based treatments for retinal degenerative diseases. GenSight Biologics is a privately owned biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the development and commercialization of gene therapy-based treatments of retinal degenerative diseases.Based on recent results obtained by the teams of its scientificfounders, the company develops innovative approaches to prevent retinal degeneration in selected pathological conditions and to restore vision in patients suffering from very low vision or blindness.
Edgewise Therapeutics — See how we bring our unique expertise and singular focus on muscle science to develop novel therapeutics for serious skeletal and cardiac muscle diseases.

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Estonia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
Koll — Koll makes it possible for both individuals and businesses to make phone calls with verified identities. Anonymous calls are a thing of the past.
TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.

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

Groweo — Groweo focus on smart, efficient growth through software and services is crucial for businesses looking to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
Tana — Tana provides machines and equipment for the mechanical processing of solid waste. The company manufactures landfill compactors and recycling machinery. Tana uses electrical control systems and artificial intelligence solutions in its equipment. An online inquiry form is available on the company website.
TerraWise — TerraWise is an experienced and trusted partner for various types of infrastructure construction projects. The company focuses on delivering demanding projects related to environmental construction and specialized quarrying, offering a complete set of services in each area. TerraWise’s key value proposition is based on expertise, high-qualityresults and commitment to agreed schedules.

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!

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.

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!
Integration.app — Connect to any app your customers use. Build seamless integration logic and UI. Scale it to every relevant app with AI.

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

Portfolio highlights

Desentum — Allergen immunotherapy that is effective, safe, patient-friendly and approved by the regulatory authorities.
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.

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.

Hoxton Ventures focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company. The firm is based in London and invests all across Europe.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
Deblock — Forget your bank account: Get an IBAN, a Debit Card and a Non-custodial Crypto wallet. Deposit any crypto on your current account. Exchange Euro and Crypto without any limit.

Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in emerging technology ventures in the Nordics. Our mission is to back people that are good for companies and build companies that are good for people. We have a strong follow-through philosophy and commit to putting your company first.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Iceland, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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
Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
Outcome — TeamOS makes team dependencies visible, speeds up blocker resolution, and offers actionable insights into bottlenecks

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Maiven — We make climate policy simple, so you can act with confidence.
Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats

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

Surglogs — Surglogs streamlines and automates the administration of logbooks, medications, supplies, in-services, and drills in healthcare facilities. The outdated pen-and-paper method is replaced with a HIPAA compliant state of the art digital application, complemented with a desktop portal that serves as an administrative dashboard.Surglogs was founded in2015 and headquartered in California, United States.
Authologic — Authologic is a system that helps businesses in checking the identity of their clients online.Authologic is a provider of identity verification solutions that includes tools for determining identity through online video, data, and digital IDs.Krzysztof Klimczak, Jarek Sygitowicz, and Marek Rogoziński founded Authologic in 2020 and is based inWarsaw, Poland.
Embeddable — Embedded analytics, done right. Embeddable is a toolkit for crafting remarkable customer-facing analytics experiences into your app, in just 10% of the time.

Nielsen invests in innovation through our measurement and methodology, early startups and data partnerships.

Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, Machine Learning
Seed, Series B
Finland, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

uLesson — uLesson has built the technology to deploy curriculum-relevant content via smartphones, that allows learners to use the product without concern for internet limitations and costs. uLesson’s mobile offering rests on three pillars: academics, media & technology and curriculum content is delivered via streaming and SD cards.
Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.

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

Portfolio highlights

Aplagon — Aplagon is committed to bringing unique, effective antithrombotic medicines with important safety advantages to patients with unmet needs.
Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport
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.

T2AB.VC operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.

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.

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.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.

Failup Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies based in the US and Nordics.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Home Services, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Liquid Sun — Liquid Sun Ltd. We fight against climate change by recoding CO2 emissions to fossil-free fuels and chemicals. Our technology is based low temperature electrolyzers.
OSCAR — On-demand app for home services like repair, cleaning and laundry with fixed prices in less than 30 minutes.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

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.
Meeshkan — Use Meeshkan to generate and run UI tests from the in-production behavior of your users, providing a flawless product-led growth pipeline for prospects, and reducing churn as you to ship your highest quality releases ever.Regular UI tests take forever to write, guesswork determines the most important tests, and they become out of date in a fewweeks. And manual testing, while more accurate, is the most inefficient use of developer time. Companies who choose not to write UI tests to save time struggle to acquire and retain users. Your UI is the only way users experience your product, so if it fails to delight, they'll fail to convert – or even worse, churn.Meeshkan enhances, and in many cases replaces, the "all hands on deck" pre-release testing with beautifully crafted, uncannily realistic artificial hands.Stop guessing. Test what matters. Release with confidence. Supercharge your growth.
The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.

WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER!

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.
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
BetterDoctor — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.

The Nordic Web Ventures is an Angel Fund run by Neil S W Murray, backed by 50+ community builders, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about supporting early-stage Nordic startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
Valuebeat — Grow your culture. Backed by data. Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture.

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
France, Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

UP Catalyst — UP Catalyst produces sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite for the green energy storage industry.
Sidekick Health — Our mission is to develop and deliver effective personalized digital therapeutics that prevent suffering and add millions of quality life years to people around the world. Our multi-chronic digital care platform allows us to scale the production of clinical treatments across major chronic diseases.
Heura Foods — Heura is a plant based startup founded by food activists Marc Coloma and Bernat Añaños in April 2017. Its mission is to create solutions that will leave the current food system obsolete and accelerate the transition to a world where animals are out of the equation. Their Mediterranean culinary heritage is reflected on their products: clean label,high nutritional values and taste.

start-ups, SMEs, technology, co-investment

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, The Netherlands, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Filuta AI — Operationalized Composite Artificial Intelligence
Resistell AG — Resistell is a antibiotic resistance test.
iThera Medical — Explore optoacoustic imaging technology for non-invasive in vivo visualization and quantification of disease-related tissue biomarkers.

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
Ochy — Ochy is an app that uses AI to analyse running form and gait to identify weak points and provide recommendations on what to do to improve.
Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.

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.

LähiTapiola is based on mutual company form, a group of companies owned by its customers, serving the personal, farm, entrepreneurial.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Apps, Health Care
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Enfuce — Unlock growth with our card issuing solutions. Our expertise in issuer processing can turn your ambitious vision into a reality.
OVObots — AI Robots Oy designs, manufactures and sells social assistant robots, software, services and related intangible rights.Business Sectors EduTech (2018) OVObots - Assistant Robots for teachersHealth tech (2019) OVObots - Assistant robots for elderly people.ServTech (2020) OVObots - Assistant robots for customer service.----Our firstproduct on sale is OVObots - robot assistant for teachers.It ask math related questions from kids.Teaching and observing utilizing speech recognition, NLP and intelligent question processing.We have developed and manufactured robot and software. Our own teaching program is developed in co-operation with Finnish teachers and it follow the Finnish curriculum that is best in the world.The product is intended for preschools and elementary schools.It can adapt to the child's skill level and the teacher can track progress on their computer.
Altum Technologies — Minimize production stops and expenses due to fouling and scaling. Discover Altum's ZPD ultrasound fouling mitigation solutions for zero process downtime.

2xN operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Denmark, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
QSimulate — QSimulate is a simulation platform that solves pressing problems for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. It aims to deliver best-time-to-solution algorithms to chemical and pharmaceutical industries to accelerate their computational R&D. It is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sparrow Quantum — Sparrow Quantum, a global leader in quantum photonic chip technology. Explore innovative solutions driving advancements in quantum computing, communication, and beyond. Stay ahead with cutting-edge technologies shaping the future.

10x Value Partners is one of the world‘s best early stage investment firms based on blended IRR. We make selected investments in companies where we can move the needle and provide an unfair advantage to the business.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Debtist — Inkasso & Forderungsmanagement mit Debtist. Von der 1. Zahlungserinnerung bis zur gerichtlichen Inkassoabwicklung bieten wir alle Leistungen digital an.
Gravitiq — Looking to sell your Amazon business or brand? Gravitiq acquires and scales e-commerce brands, maximizing your exit value and preserving your brand legacy.
Educate Online — Educate Online is an all-in-one platform that connects international students to UK, US and Canadian schools that teach online. Worldwide schooling platform for children from 4 to 18 years old, which is helping children study in the UK, Canadian and British schools remotely and at the same time receive diplomas equivalent to full-time diplomas andthen enter the world's top universities. The cost of obtaining such a high school diploma in Educate Online is $ 5-10K, which is 20-30 times lower than the cost of full-time education in a US / UK / Canadian school. Our mission is to provide quality school education to children in any part of the world and make it accessible to every child, regardless of social status and location. Educate Online has a partner network of more than 90 universities worldwide, where students can enroll with a guarantee.

Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of WithSecure. Mikko Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific America and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge and he has delivered the most watched computer security talk on theinternet.Mikko Hypponen has been the subject of hundreds of interviews in global media, including a 9-page profile in Vanity Fair.Mikko Hypponen, born in 1969, was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.Mikko Hypponen is a member of the board of the Nordic Business Forum and a member of the advisory board of T2.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.

Tomi Tuominen

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.

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.

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.

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

J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
Spaak Technologies — Spaak Technologies is the complete operative system for Public Affairs professionals.

We invest in Financial Services companies that are either focused on disruption or are significantly undervalued due to macroeconomic or company-specific factors. In FinTech our investments will be from seed through to growth stages.

Investment focus

Banking, Payments, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Finland, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Pollination — Pollination is a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm.
Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.
Cambridge Quantum Computing — Quantinuum, created to transform quantum computing from theoretical to commercial, is accelerating quantum computing to help solve the world's most pressing challenges.

A Global Facilitaror of World-Class Relationships

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Finland

Portfolio highlights

BlueLayer — BlueLayer focuses on building software stacks for project developers producing carbon credits. BlueLayer was founded in 2022.
SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
TRVLR — Our platform is a fintech-enabled hotel booking platform for travel agencies, designed to address the industry's #1 problem: commission payments. In a market worth $100 billion, we've achieved an astonishing 45x improvement in payment speed, simplicity, and precision, revolutionizing the way travel agencies operate.

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

FluoRok — By employing our patented technology, we can produce fluorochemicals without the production of toxic and highly dangerous hydrofluoric acid
Neu Health — Neu Health enables clinicians, care givers and patients to tackle this growing challenge with cutting-edge digital technologies designed to make the latest care accessible for all, improving outcomes today and accelerating future breakthroughs.
Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.

We invest to scale up climate solutions in emerging Asia. We back bold technology startups with solutions that transform lives and impact society. And we remain their long-term partners.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Series C
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alternō — Alternō was founded with a vision to create Asia's first low-cost thermal energy storage solution for renewable energy, to be deployed widely across the region by 2050. Alternō received early stage funding from Antler VC in Jan 2023 to kick off the research & development.
Nibertex — Discover the world's most breathable and waterproof PFAS-free membrane by Nibertex. Eco-friendly innovation with top performance. Start your journey today!
Tiger New Energy — Tiger New Energy is a clean energy firm that provides cutting-edge battery switching technology to encourage environmentally friendly mobility options.

AINS Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Construction
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Caidio — Caidio is here to maximize the quality and productivity of global concrete construction by top notch AI technologies We help our customers increase quality, decrease construction time, and cut cost.

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