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Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Finland in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Finland in February 2025

Investor	Manufacturing Finland investments
Tesi	18
Finnvera Venture Capital	11
Butterfly Ventures	11
Inventure	10
Lifeline Ventures	8
Business Finland	7
Redstone.VC	7
Innovestor	6
Ali Omar	5
Visionplus	4
VNT Management	4
VTT Ventures	4
Leena Niemistö	3
Voima Ventures	3
Ventech	3
Halton Ventures	2
Stephen Industries	2
Innovations Kapital	2
Aura Group	2
Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara	2
Springvest	2
Glyn Eggar	2
UB FIGG	2
Emerald Technology Ventures	2
Maki.vc	2
Taaleri	2
VIA Equity	2
Nidoco	2
Nordic Option	2
Metsa Spring	2
CapMan	2
LähiTapiola	2
Hannu Turunen	2
Trung Nguyen	1
Nicoya	1
Building Ventures	1
Infosto	1
Green Campus Innovations	1
Etera	1
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund	1
Vesa Puttonen	1
Scale Capital	1
Shenzhen Lietou Fund	1
Ben Feder	1
C2 Ventures	1
Fennia Group	1
Sebastien Borget	1
Mikko Rannila	1
EM Group	1
Leaguer Venture Capital	1

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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, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Seaber — Seaber is a cloud-based real-time planning, optimisation and communication solution for bulk cargo & vessels. Our solution improves the efficiency of bulk & break bulk charterers, shipowners & brokers through schedule planning and stakeholder communications over the lifecycle of a voyage.
Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.

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.
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.
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.

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

Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

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

Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.

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

Portfolio highlights

Grafintec — Grafintec Oy is a Finnish company focused on developing and utilizing carbon technology to produce graphite. Graphite is an essential material in many industries, particularly in energy storage, electronics, and battery technologies, due to its unique properties such as high conductivity, heat resistance, and stability.
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.
PrecisionPhage — PrecisionPhage is a biotech business that specializes on bacteriophage technologies.

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

DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

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

MailMoo — Record one video. MailMoo personalizes it to thousands of leads.
Gesynta Pharma — Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se
Neumirna Therapeutics — Founded in 2020, NEUmiRNA focuses on achieving transformative disease modification for neurological conditions.

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
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.

VNT Management is a venture capital management company that offers its services to investors and entrepreneurs.The company offers investors with 3 venture capital funds, all of which focus on clean technology. Furthermore, it offers an IRR of 25% and a position in the top quartile of European venture capital funds. Entrepreneurs are offered withsupply management, business idea, application, and product concept development, and technology scanning and evaluation services.VNT Management was founded in 2002 and is based in Finland.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Electronics, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Visedo — Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.
WeSustain — WeSustain develops and sells web-based software for enterprise sustainability management. The company’s ESM software is a management support system that helps companies go green and manage products, processes, and technologies in an environment-friendly manner.WeSustain’s ESM software enables the clients to establish a software-supported ESMsolution, as well as manage, improve, and report their ESM performance on a global basis while mitigating sustainability risks. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Buxtehude, Germany.
Cajo Technologies — Cajo Laser Marking - Cajo turnkey solutions for traceability & product markings. Easy to use & optimized for industrial production processes.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

#Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Maire — Maire is an AI-copilot that helps industry leading B2C companies to detect, understand and monetize emerging online trends
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.

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

Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
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.
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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Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xpln.ai — Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless.
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
Omaha Insights — Omaha Insights is a company that provides standardized financial data and analytical tools to help investors do research and analysis.

Halton Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Smart Building, Energy, GreenTech
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Smart Heating — Smart Heating focus on hybrid heating systems for real estates. Smart Heating implements energy-efficient heating solutions for more than 100 buildings.
Soletair Power — Soletair Power is a Finnish startup founded in 2016, operating in the fields of Direct Air Capture and power-to-X technology. The company captures CO2 from the air by retrofitting buildings' ventilation systems with carbon capture technology, resulting in low building emissions. Captured carbon dioxide can be mineralized into concrete, storedas pressurized gas or liquid, transported, and used as raw materials to produce synthetic products. In 2020, Wärtsilä, together with Soletair Power and Q-Power, created their first enclosed Power-to-X unit in the world which can produce synthetic methane from air-captured CO2 straight from the Finland pavilion in Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company has delivered multiple carbon dioxide capturing units since then to Germany, Finland, and Denmark.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
Gesynta Pharma — Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se
Hycamite TCD Technologies — Hycamite is decarbonising industry using its proprietary methane pyrolysis technology. It provides its industrial clients with low-carbon hydrogen and sustainable carbon products for demanding applications.

InnovationsKapital was founded in 1994 and is a leading independent venture capital firm for innovative growth companies in the Nordic region. The business, carried out from offices in and Stockholm, Gothenburg and New York, is focused on investments within ICT and Healthcare & Life Sciences, dynamic sectors that are rapidly expanding and whereNordic research plays an important role. The capital is provided by highly reputable Swedish and international institutional investors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

Silecs — PiBond manufactures materials used in electronic devices, including patterning materials for semiconductors and optical materials. We also develop complete solutions that allow our clients to focus on creating innovative products.
SantoSolve — SantoSolve is developing topical analgesic products based on non-radioactive strontium as the active substance. The Development program was initiated based on experimental clinical use of strontium-based products showing evidence of strong local analgesic effects on several localized pain conditions of both nociceptive and neuropatic origin. Nosignificant adverse effects associated with the treatment was reported.The companyâ€™s lead product, 2PX, is topically administered, utilizing dermal penetration enhancers for delivery of the active agent to its subdermal site of action. Phase I safety and pharmacology studies showed the active agent to have low systemic bioavailability, and only few and minor adverse effects were observed at the site of administration. In open label Phase II clinical trials, the product has shown strong analgesic effect in both nociceptive and neuropatic pain conditions. In follow up, placebo controlled trials, the analgesic effect of the product has been further documented. In the companyâ€™s most advanced pain indication under study, osteoarthritis, the company has recently completed the Phase II program.These trials supports the open label results and document statistically that the analgesic effect in patients treated with 2PX is superior to that observed with placebo treatment.
Action Pharma — Action Pharma A/S operates as a research and development focused biotechnology company. It discovers and develops new drugs and treatment concepts to treat cardiovascular disease and inflammatory diseases, as well as metabolic diseases, such as type-II diabetes and obesity. The company's product pipeline includes AP214, a modifiedÃMSH-peptide analogue for the treatment of post-surgical kidney injury associated with cardiac surgery; and AP1030 and AP11 series, oral anti-diabetic (OAD) for the treatment of type-II diabetes associated with overweight/obesity. Its product pipeline also comprise AP1189, an oral anti-inflammatory compound for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis; and AP405, a modified MSH peptide analogue for the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Holte, Denmark.

Aura Group is a financial services company operating out of Australia and Singapore that provides tailored wealth and funds management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Our vision is to build trust that lasts generations.

Investment focus

iOS, Blockchain, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Australia, Finland

Portfolio highlights

InStitchu — InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag.
Lygon — Lygon operates as a blockchain banking start-up. The Lygon platform is an industry solution that streamlines the bank guarantee process for everyone.
Global Reviews — Prioritised, enterprise-wide decision making, based on digital intelligence and customer centric research. Learn how Global Reviews can help your business here.

Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, 3D Printing
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.

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, Analytics
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.

Glyn Eggar

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, 3D Printing
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.

UB Forest Industry Green Growth Fund ("UB FIGG") is a private equity fund investing in companies focused on plastic and other fossil fuel based material replacements, higher value and more efficient use of wood and agricultural raw material side streams and greater use of these raw materials across a wide range of intermediate and enduses.Through its investments, the Fund helps the forest and bio-based industries to create solutions to mitigate climate change. UB FIGG is a signatory of Operating Principles for Impact Management and reports on the environmental and climate impact of its investments.

Investment focus

Chemical, Forestry, Recycling
Funding Round, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Notpla — We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
Paptic — Paptic is manufacturing company that revolutionizes environmental new material, wood-based renewable and recyclable products replacing paper and plastic. Paptic Ltd was April 2015. The company is based in Espoo, Finland and employs today 10 persons.
Nordtreat — Nordtreat produces widely tested and certified flame retardants for wooden construction products. Learn more about environmentally friendly fire protection!

Emerald Technology Ventures specializes in clean technology venture capital. Founded in 2000, Emerald focuses on the areas of energy, water, and materials. From offices in Zurich, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada, Emerald manages several venture capital funds and venture capital portfolio mandates.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Energy
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Germany, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
Keto Software — Strategic portfolio management to steer you through your strategic initiatives in business. Our product Keto AI+ Platform helps you to manage all your OKRs, strategies and Programmes & project portfolios.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
Distance Technologies — Distance Technologies seeks to develop glasses-free XR applications

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

VIA equity is a leading Northern European Multi-stage private equity firm with an excellent track record of building and transforming their investments into national and international industry leaders. Their core investment focus is within a broad definition of the TMT/ICT and Services industries but they consider investments in a wide rangeof sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Private Equity
Finland, Denmark, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Nets — We help financial institutions, businesses and merchants make tomorrow easier for their customers while delivering unrivalled security and stability.
Advania — Advania is a leading company in the field of information technology and provides customers with reliable advice and services. They have solutions in all areas of information technology and customers can apply to their individual solutions or integrate its services. Among their customers are large companies and institutions. They're in closecooperation with many international IT companies, such as Dell EMC, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP Business Objects and VeriSign. Their business is certified under ISO 27001 is an international standard for information security. They are proud of Their professionalism, clear communication and the mutual benefits created in collaboration with their customers and suppliers.
Dolphin Software — Dolphin Software Solutions is a Software development and consulting company that provides innovative software solution services to multinational companies with a commitment to excellence in service and products. We have become a premier provider of leading edge technology by conforming to the customer needs and expectations in a timely and costeffective manner.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.

Nordic Option is a private equity fund focusing its investments on growth companies. It provides capital investments in small and medium-sized growth companies that have already established themselves in Northern Finland. The fund's investment strategy includes the possibility to make up to 5 early-stage growth investments with one millioneuros.The firm's value of investments in portfolio companies is approximately EUR 10 million and the value of loans granted is approximately EUR 1 million.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series C
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Haltian — We solve the challenges of a sustainable future, one IoT innovation at a time
SensorFu — SensorFu detects new network leak paths before they are exploited. If you're required to operate isolated networking environments, SensorFu helps you to anwer question: is my network isolation working as intended? Leaks from isolated network segments can be a result of human error or malice, and they may violate security policies orcontractual obligations. SensorFu automates previously manual audit checks, and it empowers IT- and IT security ops to ensure continuous network, and network segment isolation that meets their mission specific policies and regulatory requirements. SensorFu Beacon is available as virtual appliance, software application and as hardware appliance.
Brightplus — Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level.

We boldly invest in and support promising startups and potential innovations that explore new uses for sustainably-grown Nordic wood.

Investment focus

Sustainability, GreenTech, Chemical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Adsorbi — Adsorbi use cellulose from the Nordic forest to help air purification companies to capture gaseous air pollutants.
FineCell — FineCell is a sustainable cellulose microfibers provider that enables manufacturers to make new products with reduced carbon footprints and differentiated properties.The company's cellulose microfibers possess physical and chemical properties that differ from competing products and provide differentiated benefits for the users. It has beensupported by Vinnova (Sweden’s innovation agency) and EIT InnoEnergy.The Linköping, Ostergotlands Lan-based company was established in 2015 by Jonatan Henschen, Jonas Engstrand, Monica Ek, and Kloce Dongfang Li.
Fiberwood — Fiberwood is a new eco-friendly wood fiber insulation that can be used for a variety of purposes. Fiberwood has excellent insulating properties, is entirely bio-based, and thus contains no plastic or other fossil-based materials.

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.

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.

Hannu Turunen is the Member of the Board of Exalocus. He was a Board Member at Men&Mice.

Investment focus

SaaS, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
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.

Trung Nguyen CEO at Axie Infinity. He attended FPT University during 2010-2017.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Shoes, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.

Nicoya is a business-accelerating investment company focusing on foodtech.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Grocery, Leisure
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Foodiq — Foodiq is a one-of-a-kind food manufacturer that can both develop and manufacture plant-based products.
Kavall — Kavall is a grocery delivery startup.
JULIENNE BRUNO — Julienne Bruno made with naturally plant-based ingredients like fermented legumes & slow roasted vegetables.

Building Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boston, MA. We partner with Built Environment entrepreneurs and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, Construction, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Parspec — Empower your organization with AI-powered solutions from Parspec. Bid more jobs, increase revenue, and improve profitability in today's dynamic market.
Clearstory.build — Construction's leading Change Order Communication Platform. We help Subs, GCs, and Owners communicate T&M Tags and Change Order Requests in real-time.
SmartPM Technologies — SmartPM is an automated project controls platform built for construction. Access the schedule controls you need for smarter project management.

Infosto is a Finland-based venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments.

Investment focus

Sensor, Organic, Automotive
Series A, Series B, Series C
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Canatu — We create the most advanced carbon nanotubes for industry-transforming products. Discover more!

Green Campus Innovations

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle, Public Transportation
Debt Financing
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Visedo — Danfoss Editron specializes in hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets.

Etera is a pension company that takes care of the Finnish pension insurance.

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Internet of Things
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

NewIcon — NewIcon is a health tech company specializing in pharmacy automation systems based on advanced software and robotics.

European Circular Bioeconomy Fund invest and partner with entrepreneurs to accelerate late-stage circular bioeconomy companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, AgTech, Agriculture
Series B, Series A, Series C
The Netherlands, France, Italy

Portfolio highlights

MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
watttron — Watttron invents a revolutionary heating system that can heat up surfaces heterogeneously.Watttron develops an innovative heating technology that can be used in various industrial processes. It is superior to current heating systems in many ways and offers a number of advantages. On the following pages, you will find information about possibleapplications and opportunities.The company is located in the Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Freital – a technology and start-up center on the outskirts of Dresden, the state capital of Saxony.
RED Horticulture — RED Horticulture specializes in horticulture LED lighting systems, photobiology research, and indoor and greenhouse lighting.

Vesa Puttonen is a professor of finance from Finland.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Packaging Services
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Woodly Oy — Woodly® is an entirely new type of wood-based packaging material that can be used to substitute traditional fossil-based plastics. Woodly is recyclable can be made into transparent and flexible packaging, and the material mimics the best qualities of traditional plastics.

Scale Capital is an early-stage technology investor, helping Nordic, B2B, and tech founder teams scale and win in the US market.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Denmark, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Collo — Collo Liquid Analyzer - Advanced process control
Meo — The NewBanking Identity platform makes it easy for businesses to handle personal data and perform PEP checks for those subject to AML laws. Learn more here.
Players 1st — Join 3000 golf clubs using Players 1st to boost your business with pre-made surveys, smart analytics, and benchmarks, capturing real-time golfer feedback!

Shenzhen Lietou Fund

Investment focus

Video, Sensor, Robotics
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Asqella — Asqella sells passive submillimetre-wave video cameras for loss prevention and physical security applications. With its innovative sensor technology, Asqella’s products provide customers with a solution capable of far superior performance compared to other technologies at a competitive unit cost.

Ben Feder is an accomplished and creative and entrepreneur and investor, with a long and proven track record in the media and telecommunications sector. He has held pubic company board positions in Japan and the United States. Ben is co-founder of ZelnickMedia, a successful private equity firm in the U.S.that focuses on the media andcommunications industries; and he is formerly the CEO of Take Two Interactive, a $2 billion public video game company that develops and publishes video games such as Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Civilization.

Investment focus

Gaming, Shoes, Mobile
Seed, Series C
Finland, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

#Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.
Armada Interactive — DirectMac is Digital Marketing Agency Toronto where we offer Search Engine Optimization(SEO), Branding, PPC, Web Development Services.

Bridging the gap between founders and capital through content, connections and experience.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Medmo — Medmo is an all-encompassing solution for providers to order, schedule, and track medical imaging appointments for their patients. Improve completion rates with less staff burden and lower costs.
LeaseUp — LeaseUp is a real estate software company.
Condoit — Create digital single-line diagrams with EV charger installations, IR reporting, and arc flash analysis in the field quickly and efficiently.

Fennia Group provides risk management and insurance services for enterprises, entrepreneurs and private households.

Investment focus

Battery, Manufacturing, Product Design
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

European Batteries — Reference Guide For All Your Energy Needs

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
Cookie3 — Cookie3 utilizes off- and on-chain analytics and an AI data layer to determine quality users who bring value on-chain and reward them for their contribution. It's a three-platform hub for businesses, creators, and users with a unique value offering for all.
BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.

Mikko Rannila - Founding Partner @ Magnifier

Investment focus

CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Packaging Services
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Woodly Oy — Woodly® is an entirely new type of wood-based packaging material that can be used to substitute traditional fossil-based plastics. Woodly is recyclable can be made into transparent and flexible packaging, and the material mimics the best qualities of traditional plastics.

EM Group is a Finnish family-owned company that develops and owns electrical. Our most important subsidiary is Ensto. The group companies operate in 20 countries and employ some 1700 people. The group turnover is approximately 250 million euros. www.emgroup.fi

Investment focus

Battery, Manufacturing, Product Design
Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

European Batteries — Reference Guide For All Your Energy Needs

Shenzhen Leaguer Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a high-tech venture capital company founded by Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) in August 1999. Its current registered capital is RMB 333.3333 million, managing assets amounted to RMB 1.5 billion. With solid capital strength, rich experience of investment and flexiblemechanism, Leaguer VC has invested more than 50 portfolio companies, ranging from IT, new material, medicine, electronics to optomechatronics and hi-tech incubators, etc. The average IRR for the current investments exceeds 30%. Leaguer VC has successfully finished its fund-raising of RMB 160 million in 2009 and set up fund management companies and venture capital companies located in Changzhou and Wuxi.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

OSMicro — OSMicro is an automotive millimeter-wave radar SoC and car-grade ultra-wideband (UWB) chip design firm. OsiMicro's other key product line, automotive-grade UWB chip devices, is undergoing rapid mass production development. The intelligence of autos has generated a lot of interest in UWB technology.
Guoke Tanmei — Guoke Tanmei is a visionary enterprise focused on developing materials for carbon-based energy storage. It directs at application scenarios including base stations, two-wheelers, electric cars, industrial cars, and energy storage.
Nostalgia Technology — Nostalgia Technology is a MicroLED chip and device design and development company, particularly engaged in the design, R&D, manufacture and sales of MicroLED chips and devices.

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