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Top 45 Marketplace Angel Investors in Finland in May 2026

A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Marketplace startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Marketplace Angel Investors in Finland in May 2026

Investor Marketplace Finland investments
Ali Omar 19
Ilkka Paananen 6
Jonas Dromberg 3
Olli Sirkiä 3
Risto Siilasmaa 3
Mikko Silventola 2
Kim Väisänen 2
Timo Soininen 2
Lasse Järvinen 2
Otto Hilska 2
David Helgason 2
John Lindfors 2
Marianne Vikkula 2
Miki Kuusi 2
Teemu Jokinen 2
Daniel King 1
Trung Nguyen 1
Robert Gentz 1
Sebastien Borget 1
Aleksander Leonard Larsen 1
Luc De Vos 1
Andy Phillipps 1
Leena Niemistö 1
Jussi Heinilä 1
Ben Feder 1
Leif Linden 1
Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani 1
Mikael Hed 1
Reima Linnanvirta 1
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo 1
Kaj Hagros 1
Raimo Linnanvirta 1
Renaldas Zioma 1
Kari Vatanen 1
Mikko Kodisoja 1
Christopher North 1
Arto Rastas 1
Jeffrey Zirlin 1
Moaffak Ahmed 1
Niklas Lahti 1
Ville Vesterinen 1
Hannu Vaajoensuu 1
Nicolas Brabeck-Letmathe 1
Sami Marttinen 1
Annika Sjoberg 1

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Ali Omar
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.
  • React & Share — High volume, high quality feedback directly from your customers. React & Share helps digital comms teams improve their websites and satisfy their customers.
  • Plain Complex — VUOROX IS AN AI-POWERED ROSTER SCHEDULING APP FOR HEALTHCARE
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Ilkka Paananen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
  • BottleCap AI — BottleCap AI is a company that focuses on architecture-first, efficiency-focused basic LLMs designed to reason better per unit of CPU and enable previously impossible applications.
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Jonas Dromberg
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, SaaS, Internet
  • Funding Round, Angel, Series A
  • Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
  • Klevu — Klevu Oy is a self-learning search engine that helps online retailers turn visitors into customers. Its search for SMEs focuses on fast, relevant search with actionable insights into shoppers’ search and easy self-service integration.Klevu Oy’s enterprise edition provides natural language search with ease of catalog maintenance and insights intoshopping experience. It is based in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
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Olli Sirkiä
Angel

Olli has background in management consultancy (McKinsey & Company 2007-2009) and software business (LeadDesk Oyj (publ) 2010-2018).

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Investment focus

  • Marketplace, Beauty, Internet
  • Angel, Seed, Funding Round
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Freska — Freska, voted one of the hottest tech start-ups in Finland, is an online home services company currently disrupting the traditional home cleaning industry in the Nordics, backed by top-tier VCs (Acton, Spintop and Addventure) post Series A. Freska delivers top quality cleaning services with total flexibility for the customer to select a time,decide on the service and manage the subscription in an easy-to-use online interface or a native app. However, Freska does not only clean homes, it creates real jobs. All Freska cleaners have been subject to a thorough recruitment process followed by a thorough Freska-onboarding. They are all skilled professionals and core members of the Freska family, knowing that they will earn a good living from their job and have a community that supports them.
  • Offerilla — Offerilla is the most popular marketplace for local discounts. Offerilla was founded by entrepreneurs Risto Juntunen, Mikko Ollikkala and Aleksi Paavola.
  • Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
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Risto Siilasmaa
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Mikko is an active investor, with over 50 investments globally. Besides Europe, he is also active in Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Lat Am. He is the first investor of Bolt (Estonia), an investor of Rappi (Colombia), and of Hugo (El Salvador). He has founded 3 international media companies which in total have generated over €35M in sales overjust a few years. He has helped companies with internationalization, fundraising and M&As in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Transportation
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Estonia, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Corner Renovation — Volume Hiring AI Automator
  • Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
  • Montonio — 10x lower fees and the most customer-friendly financing solution.
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Kim Väisänen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Kim Väisänen - Growth Partner @ Evli Growth Partners

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Investment focus

  • Video, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Series A
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
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Timo Soininen
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Timo Soininen is the co-founder at Small Giant Games. Timo Soininen is the CEO and co-founder of Small Giant Games, maker of the hit game Empires & Puzzles. Small Giant joined Zynga, Inc (ZNGA) in December 2018, when Zynga acquired 80% of Small Giant at $700M valuation. Prior to Small Giant he was the longtime CEO of Habbo Hotel and is also anactive angel investor in several technology startups ranging from biomaterials and digital health to games (Spinnova, Aiforia, Critical Force). Timo holds a M.Sc. degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University and just loves tennis.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • MyGamez — With over 600 million mobile gamers, China is the biggest growth opportunity for global game companies.
  • Studio 555 — Redefining digital interior design with unrivaled technology, UX and visual fidelity
  • Minit Games — Minit Games provides bite-sized, instantly playable HTML5 games in a tailored, algorithmically driven feed.
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Lasse Järvinen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Angel, Funding Round, Seed
  • Finland, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
  • Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!
  • Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
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Otto Hilska
Angel

Otto is a serial entrepreneur who started his first software company at the age of 18. His second company Flowdock raised money from Silicon Valley and got acquired by Rally Software in 2013. After that he spent four years scaling Smartly.io from 30 to 350 people as the Chief Product Officer.After leaving Smartly.io, Otto started working on yetanother startup. Founded in November 2019, Swarmia is building a B2B SaaS product to help self-organizing software teams to continuously improve their ways of working based on data from development tools.Otto has served as the chairman of Startup Foundation, that’s behind the Slush conference, Junction hackathon, Maria 0-1 startup space, and many other ecosystem projects.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Advertising, Electronics
  • Seed, Series A
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
  • Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
  • Smartly.io — Smartly.io automates every step of social advertising to unlock greater performance and creativity on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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David Helgason
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

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

<p>Stoic Venture Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in emerging science and deep technology.

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Investment focus

  • Education, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, South Korea, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
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Marianne Vikkula
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Marianne Vikkula

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Investment focus

  • Wholesale, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
  • Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
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Miki Kuusi
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Finland, Kenya, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

  • Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
  • 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.
  • Taito.ai — Taito.ai provides an AI platform that allows users to develop and deploy intelligent applications. It supports various tools and features for building machine learning models. Users can access resources for training and optimizing their AI solutions.
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Teemu Jokinen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Experienced founder, board member, advisor and investor. Currently in 20+ companies (early stage) angel / pre-seed investor. Focus on SaaS, platforms, marketplaces and deep tech.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Marketplace
  • Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Agenton AI — AI-powered phone agents for auto dealership service departments. Answer every call 24/7, book repair orders into your DMS automatically.
  • Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
  • 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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Daniel King
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Daniel King - Advisor @ HotelRunner

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, CRM
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

  • aisle 3® - Every Store. One Checkout. — Welcome to aisle-3. We don't think you should have to check lots of sites and open lots of tabs just to find products you want - we do the hard work so you can buy the best deal with any seller.
  • Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
  • HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
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Trung Nguyen
Angel

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
  • RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM 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.
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Robert Gentz
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Robert Gentz is the Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Zalando SE. He previously worked at Unibicate as a CEO. Robert Gentz attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
  • Taito.ai — Taito.ai provides an AI platform that allows users to develop and deploy intelligent applications. It supports various tools and features for building machine learning models. Users can access resources for training and optimizing their AI solutions.
  • Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
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Sebastien Borget
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
  • Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
  • Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
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Aleksander Leonard Larsen
Angel

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Norway, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
  • Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
  • Sequence — Sequence is the modular crypto infrastructure stack that unifies wallets, 1-click cross-chain payments, and real-time data layers across EVMs.
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Luc De Vos
Angel · Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium

Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven.

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Investment focus

  • Analytics, Consulting, B2B
  • Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Belgium, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Apirium — Apirium acts as your ICT architect for the digital economy.
  • Husky Marketing Planner — Marketing planning & marketing calendar tool for marketing teams. Makes the complete marketing planning clear on one central digital platform.
  • DataStories International — DataStories a Partners in Performance Company, is an end-to-end prescriptive analytics provider for your operations. Real-time optimisation for better quality, yield and energy efficiency.
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Andy Phillipps
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
  • Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
  • Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
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Leena Niemistö
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Leena Niemistö

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Jussi has over 25 years of experience in the challenging world of ICT to offer. Before Accelerando Jussi has helped numerous Finnish start-up businesses to globalize in Europe, Asia and USA. Jussi was in charge of Finpro’s office in Silicon Valley, California, from 2001 to 2005. At that time he supported with his team over 50 entries to the USmarkets. Before that Jussi worked as a senior consultant in the UK and the Netherlands. On top of all that Jussi is also a serial entrepreneur and has launched several businesses within the last 12 years. Previously Jussi has worked in the management of e.g. Nokia, TeamWare and ICL-Fujitsu.

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Investment focus

  • B2B, SaaS, Software
  • Pre-Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
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Ben Feder
Angel · New York, New York, United States

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.

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Investment focus

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

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.
  • 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 — We are a Helsinki-based gaming startup that develops PvP mobile games
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Leif Linden
Angel

Leif Linden

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Analytics, Predictive Analytics
  • Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Avansera — Avansera delivers real-time predictive analytics and targeted digital marketing solutions for FMCG companies to improve their marketing and supply chain processes. Consumer actions and purchase data is recorded live from active user interaction with Avansera's Ostosnero (ShopperStar) grocery shopping information and optimization platform.
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Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani
Angel · Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia

Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani is the Chief Executive Officer at DAAL. He attended Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, Egypt, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
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Mikael Hed
Angel · Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States

Mikael Hed currently works as a Chairman for Yazen. He previously worked at Rovio Entertainment as a CEO. Mikael Hed attended Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Electronics
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Finland, Sweden, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

  • Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
  • CGTrader — Join the fastest-growing 3D model marketplace today!
  • Loupedeck — Loupedeck custom consoles offer analog control with digital precision for effortless creative workflow. Shop now with free shipping!
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Reima Linnanvirta
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Angel investor and board professional with a passion on helping startups and growth companies to fulfil their true potential.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Marketplace, Fitness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
  • StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
  • Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
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Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Angel

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of June 1, 2006.Olli-Pekka joined Nokia in 1980 as Corporate Counsel, and has held roles of increasing responsibility since that time. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Vice President, Legal Department, and in 1988 he was named Assistant Vice President, Finance. In1990 he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance.In 1992, Olli-Pekka was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1997-1998 he served as Corporate Executive Vice President, Nokia Americas, being responsible for all Nokia’s business operations in the Americas. He returned to the position of Chief Financial Officer at the beginning of 1999, the position he had held prior to moving to the United States. From 2004-2005 Kallasvuo was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Phones. On October 1, 2005 he was named President and COO before his appointment to the current position.Olli-Pekka has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia since 1990. On April 1, 2007, Olli-Pekka was appointed Chairman of the Board of Nokia Siemens Networks. In May 2007, Mr. Kallasvuo was nominated as member of the Board of Directors at Nokia. Starting January 2009, he will also serve as a Member of the Board of the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK.He holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Helsinki. Prior to joining Nokia, Olli-Pekka held a variety of positions with the Union Bank of Finland.Olli-Pekka was born on July 13, 1953, in Lavia, Finland. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, tennis and reading about political history.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Retail, Big Data
  • Series A
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Walkbase — Walkbase offers advanced retail analytics to boost marketing impact and personalize the in-store shopping experience, driving better engagement and sales.
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Kaj Hagros
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Kaj Hagros is Partner at Redstone based in Helsinki and covers the Nordic and Baltic countries. Kay has a broad history as an entrepreneur, investor, and C-level executive. Prior to Redstone, Kaj was the co-founder and CEO of seed investor and venture accelerator Pivot5, CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki traded Tecnotree Corporation, COO of FOX Mobile, VP ofMarketing of First Hop, and Head of Strategy and Business Development at Nokia Networks. Kaj has executed a broad range of early-stage investments and successful exits and chaired companies such as Booxmedia, Cabforce, Readpeak, Hibox, Heltti, and Inderes.Mr. Hagros attended Aalto University, NYU Stern School of Business, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), HEC Paris, TRIUM Global Executive MBA, Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan, and Merisotakoulu - Sjökrigsskolan - Naval Academy.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Local, Travel
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Cabforce — Cabforce.com is on a mission to make the door-to-door travel experience agony free. They offer fixed price quote, secure online credit card payment and electronic receipts for taxi, private hire car, and minibus bookings in the top 40 European cities.
  • Booxmedia — Your Trusted Partner in IP Video Delivery. We have been delivering IPTV Set-Top Box and media player solutions to Pay TV, Digital Signage and Enterprise TV providers for over 25 years.
  • Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
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Raimo Linnanvirta
Angel

Raimo Linnanvirta

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Analytics
  • Seed, Angel
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Screenful — Screenful is the easiest way to visualise your project progress using data from Jira, Trello, Asana, Github & Gitlab. Save time and get all the metrics you need at a glance with automated dashboards, custom charts and predictive reporting all in one place.
  • Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
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Renaldas Zioma
Angel · Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania

Renaldas Zioma

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software
  • Convertible Note, Seed, Angel
  • Lithuania, Finland, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

  • Ver.iD — Streamline your user onboarding, verify user credentials, and enjoy seamless Single Sign-On with all identity apps.
  • PIXEVIA — PIXEVIA - AI for retail. Our flagship product - fully autonomous stores, powered by AI, cameras, and sensors. You simply walk in, take what you want, and go.
  • Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
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Kari Vatanen
Angel

Kari Vatanen

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, Computer, Lifestyle
  • Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Polka Dot Studio — Kalian Bisa Memasang Taruhan Online Dengan Sangat Mudah Dan Nyaman Di Situs DEWAHOKI Yang Sudah Resmi Di Indonesia
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Mikko Kodisoja
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Mikko Kodisoja

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Investment focus

  • Music, Gaming, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • Plantui — Plantui is a Finnish smart flowerpot maker with a light system and automatic watering pump. Their mission is to bring everyone their own piece of happiness through gardening.In March 2015, the highly regarded international Red Dot Design Award was granted to Janne Loiske for the design of Plantui Smart Garden. The award has boosted the marketingof Plantui Smart Gardens to retailers in Europe and Asia. In 2016 Plantui's hydroponic indoor gardening method received a global patent.Founded in 2012, Plantui is a Food Tech company that believes gardening can make the world a happier and greener place.
  • SNAFU Records — SNAFU Records creates algorithms that scan through data from major music platforms like Spotify and Youtube to find artists and songs that stand out.
  • Digital Nature — Digital Nature creates digital attractions and interactive experiences for the hospitality industry. Digital Nature designs and develops content that transforms spaces via a digital art and entertainment delivery platform.
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Christopher North
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Chris is a Managing Partner at L Catterton, the world's leading consumer growth investor with US$20B assets under management, where he co-leads the Growth Fund. He focuses on growth-stage consumer technology businesses in the US, Europe, and the UK. The L Catterton team previously scaled today's consumer tech leaders (Amazon, Shopify,Lazada, Shutterfly, Peloton, Vroom, Better Mortgage, ClassPass, and more) and brings their experience to support entrepreneurs building tomorrow's leading companies. He is also an active angel investor and serves on the boards of several non-profits in arts and education. Previously, Chris led Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors from May 2016 through the sale to Apollo Global Management in 2019. Under his leadership, over the three years from 2015 to 2018, Shutterfly doubled revenues to $2 billion, doubled free cash flow, and increased operating income ten-fold.Prior to joining Shutterfly, Chris served as Managing Director of Amazon UK and co-led Amazon across Europe for six years, after leading Amazon’s UK Media businesses for four years. Amazon UK grew to almost $10 billion in GAAP revenue over this 10-year period, a 14-fold increase. Before joining Amazon, he worked in publishing as Global Managing Director of Phaidon Press, as Chief Operating Officer of HarperCollins Canada, and as Vice President & General Manager of Electronic Publishing for HarperCollins Publishers. He began his career as a management consultant with the media & entertainment practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton.In addition to his operating roles, Chris serves in leadership roles in several not-for-profit organizations. He is a director of Character Lab, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development in order to help children thrive; a member of the Board of Visitors of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; a member of the Collections Committee and Director's Circle of the Harvard University Art Museums; and President of the American Friends of the Royal Collection. He and his wife also actively support the Domaine de Chantilly, the Wallace Collection, and the Attingham Trust. Chris is an active angel investor, having made more than 40 investments in early-stage companies. He enjoys mentoring, working with a number of technology entrepreneurs and serving as a Strategic Advisor to Forto.Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in Philosophy from New York University. Chris and his wife have three young children and divide their time between London and France. Born and raised in New York, Chris is a dual US/British national.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
  • Graswald AI — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
  • Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.
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Arto Rastas
Angel · Tampere, Western Finland, Finland

I am a cook who never found it just as the journey on the trail. Thus, I decided to walk through several trails. What I mean is that, one day I can do a very modern and innovative cuisine, and again on the second day I can and I want to do something else. However, both of these must be in its own address.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Marketplace, Food Processing
  • Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Foodiac — Foodiac is an online marketplace for private chefs and high-end catering. It offers a SaaS-based business model for chefs and small catering companies to build their business and brand. The company was founded by Miikka Mäkiö in 2014 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
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Jeffrey Zirlin
Angel

Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Brazil, Canada, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Play AI — The Orchestration Layer for Crypto x AI
  • Metagood — Tokenization as a Service for Modern Capital Markets
  • Storygrounds — Strider is a Web 3 platform based on the transparent and secure digital ledger of blockchain that lets creators use DAOs, the DAO spreads membership and ownership of the project across both creators and the users.
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Moaffak Ahmed
Angel

Serial entrepreneur and hands-on early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia.

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Investment focus

  • Audio, Music, Video
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Finland, Denmark, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

  • Flow AI — The new way to write on the web. Supercharge your everyday writing tasks by turning words into ready-to-send emails, posts, and more.
  • Yousician — Yousician is a fun way to learn the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele or singing. Enjoy thousands of songs with Yousician as your personal music teacher!
  • Network Next — We enable game developers to create a better internet connection for their players - one that provides reduced latency, packet loss, and jitter in multiplayer online games.
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Niklas Lahti
Angel

Niklas Lahti - COO @ Tesseract

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Investment focus

  • B2B, SaaS, Software
  • Pre-Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
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Ville Vesterinen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Co-founder and CEO at Grey Area.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Starcart — Starcart is an online store that offers a wide range of products and allows the customers to compare its prices. The company was founded in 2021.
  • Kleoverse — Work with the leading Web3 projects to build your skill-based portfolio and earn objective Proof-of-Talent.
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
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Hannu Vaajoensuu
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Hannu Vaajoensuu - Chairman of the Board of Directors @ Nervogrid

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel
  • Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • 3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.
  • Frosmo — Our AI-driven personalization strategies optimize each step of the customer journey across all channels.
  • HappySignals — HappySignals is the IT Experience Intelligence platform that turns employee experience into intelligence, and intelligence into real impact.
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Nicolas Brabeck-Letmathe
Angel

Nicolas Brabeck-Letmathe

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, Computer, Lifestyle
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Heyhoods
  • Polka Dot Studio — Kalian Bisa Memasang Taruhan Online Dengan Sangat Mudah Dan Nyaman Di Situs DEWAHOKI Yang Sudah Resmi Di Indonesia
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Sami Marttinen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Sami Marttinen is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Swappie.

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, Shopping, Marketplace
  • Pre-Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Bought — Everything you've bought, automatically ready for resale.
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Annika Sjoberg
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Annika Sjöberg is a Principal Consultant at Anthesis Group.

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, Shopping, Marketplace
  • Pre-Seed
  • Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Bought — Everything you've bought, automatically ready for resale.
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