Top 40 Marketplace Angel Investors in Finland in November 2024
A list of 40 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 40 Marketplace Angel Investors in Finland in November 2024
Investor | Marketplace Finland investments |
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Ali Omar | 20 |
Ilkka Paananen | 4 |
Olli Sirkiä | 3 |
Risto Siilasmaa | 3 |
Jonas Dromberg | 3 |
Otto Hilska | 2 |
Miki Kuusi | 2 |
Kim Väisänen | 2 |
Teemu Jokinen | 2 |
Lasse Järvinen | 2 |
Timo Soininen | 2 |
Andy Phillipps | 1 |
Ville Vesterinen | 1 |
Leena Niemistö | 1 |
Mikko Kodisoja | 1 |
Moaffak Ahmed | 1 |
Reima Linnanvirta | 1 |
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | 1 |
Jacob Dalborg | 1 |
Aleksander Leonard Larsen | 1 |
Ben Feder | 1 |
Trung Nguyen | 1 |
Leif Linden | 1 |
Hannu Vaajoensuu | 1 |
Luc De Vos | 1 |
Christopher North | 1 |
Kari Vatanen | 1 |
Raimo Linnanvirta | 1 |
Mikael Hed | 1 |
Mikko Silventola | 1 |
John Lindfors | 1 |
Arto Rastas | 1 |
Nicolas Brabeck-Letmathe | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Marianne Vikkula | 1 |
Niklas Lahti | 1 |
Jussi Heinilä | 1 |
Peter Vesterbacka | 1 |
Niko Derome | 1 |
Kaj Hagros | 1 |
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
- 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.
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, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- 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.
- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.
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.
Risto Siilasmaa is the Founder at F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
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.
- Meeshkan — Use Meeshkan to generate and run UI tests from the in-production behavior of your users, providing a flawless product-led growth pipeline for prospects, and reducing churn as you to ship your highest quality releases ever.Regular UI tests take forever to write, guesswork determines the most important tests, and they become out of date in a fewweeks. And manual testing, while more accurate, is the most inefficient use of developer time. Companies who choose not to write UI tests to save time struggle to acquire and retain users. Your UI is the only way users experience your product, so if it fails to delight, they'll fail to convert – or even worse, churn.Meeshkan enhances, and in many cases replaces, the "all hands on deck" pre-release testing with beautifully crafted, uncannily realistic artificial hands.Stop guessing. Test what matters. Release with confidence. Supercharge your growth.
- The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
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 — Join thousands of other ecommerce teams using Klevu technology to improve conversion and automate workflows. Personalized search, merchandising, and product recommendations that just work.
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.
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
- Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
- 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.
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
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.
Experienced founder, board member, advisor and investor. Currently in 15+ companies (early stage) angel / pre-seed investor. Focus on platforms, marketplaces, SaaS and deep tech.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Sensor
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Finland
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.
- Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
- 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.
Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Restaurants, Software
- Angel, Funding Round, Seed
- Finland, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
- Hostaway — Hostaway Vacation Rental Software and Airbnb Management System Helps You Grow Your Vacation Rental Property Management Business By Automating And Streamlining Every Aspect Of Your Business across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and many more.
- 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.
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, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Gilion — Gilion (Formerly known as Ark Kapital) is creating custom growth loans that helps founders protect equity. Because founders who remain in control, are hard to overtake.
- Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
- MyGamez — With over 600 million mobile gamers, China is the biggest growth opportunity for global game companies.
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.
- Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
- Layla — Smartest trip planner AI for ultimate travel. Discover where to go, plan customized itinerary, book hotels & flights. Best road trips with Roam Around.
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.
Leena Niemistö
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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.
- Vapaus — A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility.
- 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.
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.
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
- Music, Cryptocurrency, Video Conferencing
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Finland, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ovoro — Ovoro is an automated crypto trading app that offers users a streamlined, efficient and convenient way to manage their investments. With an intuitive interface, Ovoro allows you to easily set up and monitor your trades, eliminating the hassle of manual trading. Trying out Ovoro is risk free as trading can be done in a simulated environment with noreal money involved.
- 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!
- Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
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
- Wudpecker — Start the meeting prepared. End the meeting with perfect notes. Share it to every stakeholder. All in a seamless experience with Wudpecker.
- 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.
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 provides a retail analytics solution for improving the impact of marketing on physical stores and personalizing in-store shopping experience.
Jacob Dalborg
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Klevu — Join thousands of other ecommerce teams using Klevu technology to improve conversion and automate workflows. Personalized search, merchandising, and product recommendations that just work.
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
- 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.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
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, 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.
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 — 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.
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.
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 — Experience Management Platform for IT - Lead IT and Service Management with Employee Experience and use to manage your Experience Level Agreements (XLAs).
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
- Finactum — Finactum delivers company data for Belgium in a freemium business model. The offering is to provide 'rich' factual data and as such be a tool for company competitive intelligence, m&a market research or lead generation. The company aims to be(come) a data Intelligence Service Provider (web 3.0).
- 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.
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
- E-Commerce, Software, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
- Fabrikatör - Virtual Head of Operations — Forecast, plan and execute your inventory operations with Fabrikator. Free up capital, buy less, sell more and grow faster. Start your 14 days free trial now!
- Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.
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
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.
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, Consumer Electronics, Hardware
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- Finland, 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!
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
- Transportation, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Estonia, United States, Sweden
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.
- 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!
- Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.
John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Communities, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Series D
- Finland, South Korea, Sweden
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.
- Pixieray — Pixieray modernizes traditional eyeglass optics by introducing a pioneering adaptive solution giving anyone perfect vision.
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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- SaaS, Marketplace, Food Processing
- Seed
- Finland
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- 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.
Nicolas Brabeck-Letmathe
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- Fashion, Computer, Lifestyle
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland
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- Heyhoods —
- Polka Dot Studio — Kalian Bisa Memasang Taruhan Online Dengan Sangat Mudah Dan Nyaman Di Situs DEWAHOKI Yang Sudah Resmi Di Indonesia
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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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
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- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Marianne Vikkula
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- Wholesale, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed
- Finland
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- 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.
Niklas Lahti - COO @ Tesseract
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- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
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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- B2B, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
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- Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
Peter Vesterbacka served as the Chief Marketing Officer and Mighty Eagle of Rovio Entertainment Oy. Vesterbacka manages the Rovio Entertainment’s business strategy, including expanding Angry Birds into broader entertainment franchise. He serves as Senior Advisor of Transfluent Oy. Previously, he has founded Some Bazaar, he has held severalcommunications industry related positions at Hewlett Packard and founded the Hewlett Packard Mobile E Services Bazaar and he is the co-founder and original initiator of MobileMonday. He serves as a Director of Star Wreck Studios, Start Up Sauna, BlueGiga Technologies Oy, Oy Filmkompaniet Alpha Ab and American Chamber of Commerce in Finland. He served as a Director of F-Secure Oyj since 2014 until April 7, 2015. Vesterbacka has studied marketing at Åbo Akademi.
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- Fashion, Computer, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, Finland
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- Edumus — We empower students with the skills they need to succeed in today's world and future careers #edumusschool
- Polka Dot Studio — Kalian Bisa Memasang Taruhan Online Dengan Sangat Mudah Dan Nyaman Di Situs DEWAHOKI Yang Sudah Resmi Di Indonesia
Niko Derome is the Co - Founder & Server Architect at Supercell.
A veteran on designing large-scale game servers, Niko has spent the last 15 years in developing real time and asynchronous systems that serve tens of millions of users at companies like,
Codeonline,
Sulake,
Digital Chocolate .
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- E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Online Portals
- Seed
- Finland
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- 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.
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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- SaaS, Local, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Finland
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- 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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