Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Finland in May 2026
Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Finland in May 2026
| Investor | Marketplace Finland investments |
|---|---|
| Ali Omar | 19 |
| Lifeline Ventures | 13 |
| Reaktor Ventures | 12 |
| Superhero Capital | 11 |
| Tesi | 10 |
| Business Finland | 10 |
| Maki.vc | 9 |
| Visionplus | 7 |
| Inventure | 7 |
| Ilkka Paananen | 6 |
| Gorilla Capital | 6 |
| Finnvera Venture Capital | 5 |
| Innovestor | 5 |
| OpenOcean | 5 |
| First Fellow Partners | 4 |
| Illusian Founder Office | 4 |
| Evli Growth Partners | 3 |
| Vendep Capital | 3 |
| Metsa Spring | 3 |
| Firstminute Capital | 3 |
| Flashpoint | 3 |
| FOV Ventures | 3 |
| Nuard Ventures | 3 |
| Wellington Partners | 3 |
| Jonas Dromberg | 3 |
| Olli Sirkiä | 3 |
| Eurazeo | 3 |
| Wave Ventures | 3 |
| Risto Siilasmaa | 3 |
| Butterfly Ventures | 3 |
| Kim Väisänen | 2 |
| Otto Hilska | 2 |
| Lasse Järvinen | 2 |
| Summit Partners | 2 |
| Mikko Silventola | 2 |
| John Lindfors | 2 |
| Angel Investment Network | 2 |
| Jerry Pruttz Holding Ab | 2 |
| Amazon Alexa Fund | 2 |
| Teemu Jokinen | 2 |
| Marianne Vikkula | 2 |
| Redstone.VC | 2 |
| Tera Ventures | 2 |
| Timo Soininen | 2 |
| Verdane | 2 |
| Baidu | 2 |
| Mandatum | 2 |
| Miki Kuusi | 2 |
| Plural Platform | 2 |
| VTT Ventures | 2 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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- 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
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.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
- Supercell — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
- Nordcraft — Create AAA web apps that delight your users
Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.
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- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
- Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
Some call you founders. We call you Superheroes. Seed stage VC investing in insight-driven startups in Finland and the Baltics. Tickets 100 K€ - 1000 K€.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Lithuania, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Zadaa — We are the world’s first marketplace to make selling and buying secondhand as simple as in an online store. We have revolutionised C2C logistics regarding pricing and marketplace integration between multiple logistic companies operating on different markets. Zadaa is live on German, Danish and Finnish markets.
- ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
- Copla — Simplify cybersecurity compliance with automated workflows, audits, and risk management. Our expert CISO team tailors solutions to your organization's needs.
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
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- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
- Wirepas — Wirepas offers a standards-based, ultra-reliable mesh connectivity for infrastructure-grade IoT. Proven in millions of devices worldwide.
- Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AIATELLA — Automating medical image analysis
- SparkReceipt — Scan, categorize, and stay tax-ready automatically with AI. Built for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to cry less over receipts, and stay organized all year.
- University of Eastern Finland — The University of Eastern Finland is a multidisciplinary university which offers teaching in more than 100 major subjects. The university comprises four faculties: the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Science and Forestry, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies.
We partner with deep tech and brand-driven companies obsessed in challenging category norms. The Nordics are our home, but we take on a global front in spotting the unexpected - from B2B to B2C, with a sweet spot for scientific advances, strong IP, and customer understanding that looks beyond convention.We invest in early stage companies: fromtheir inception to series A and beyond. We share in the vision of founders as champions and challengers, drawing on our experiences from scaling some of the strongest tech companies ourselves.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Norway, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Disior — At Disior, we build software to measure and model tissue structures in CT- and MRI-images for better diagnosis and treatment planning.Our solutions are for clinical use. They enable fast, accurate and reproducible measuring for diagnostics and patient-specific, optimized treatment planning. Based on mathematical modelling, Disior algorithmsextract the correct shape or structure from the medical image. This way, the software is not dependent on finding familiar structures or comparing something to reference data. We combine engineering and R&D talent with medical and biotechnology professionals. Our team brings together decades of experience in creating world’s best simulation and modelling systems from smartphone R&D; clinicians and researchers in maxillofacial and orthopedics; and technology innovation and commercialization.For demo, pilots and research projects, please contact Anna-Maria Henell, CEO: +358 50 483 6433 / anna-maria (at) disior.com
- Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
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- 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.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Abzu — Abzu's AI is built for the modern researcher, where explainability, small data, and new insights are at the core of innovative discoveries.
- Yeply — Yeply Mobile Bike Service is a start-up that specializes in bicycle maintenance. Yeply’s ideology is that bicycle maintenance should be an easy, quick, and effortless experience for the customer. It believes that every bike is worth caring for and they value every cyclist equally - cycling belongs to everyone.It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Helsinki, Finland.
- Hopsworks — Hopsworks is an online platform for the development and operation of Machine Learning (ML) pipelines at scale, based around the industry's first Feature Store for ML.
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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- 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.
Gorilla Capital helps ambitious startups grow with smart funding and support. Discover how our team invests in early-stage companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
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- LOla panda — Learn to read and write with fun Lola educational games! The application develops the reading skills and logical reasoning of 3-8 year olds.
- Xiphera — Xiphera protects your critical systems with fully in-house designed cryptographic IP cores implemented in pure hardware logic design.
- DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
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.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, Switzerland
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- 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.
- ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
- 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.
Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.
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- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, Denmark, Sweden
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- Aplagon — Aplagon is committed to bringing unique, effective antithrombotic medicines with important safety advantages to patients with unmet needs.
- Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
- Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.
OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
- Bitrise — Continuous integration and delivery built for mobile: Automate iOS and Android builds, testing and deployment from your first install to the one millionth.
- Authologic — Automate KYC, KYB & AML to prevent fraud, ensure compliance and onboard customers noticeably faster with Authologic. Scale your business revenue today.
First Fellow Partners is a private investment firm built on a founder-first philosophy. We invest only our own capital, backing bold, mission-driven technology entrepreneurs from idea to lasting impact.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States, Estonia
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- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- Hamina Wireless — Fast and simple wireless network design and site survey tools for network engineers and IT admins - For better Wi-Fi, Private 5G, and wireless IoT. Get started in just 2 minutes!
Illusian is the Founder Office of people who have founded and scaled companies like Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, and Smartly. While the group is still busy running their businesses, they've aligned their networks, capital, and expertise to simultaneously support the next generation of builders.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, Germany
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- Ever — Shop Ever Certified EVs, get instant sell offers, and finance online with delivery or pickup.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
- Ovido — Ovido company specialises in supply chain and product data automation, with a focus on providing full product traceability and the establishment of Digital Product Passports (DPPs).
We partner with the most beautiful European startups.
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- E-Commerce, EdTech, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- Finland, Germany, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Bob W — Book the smartest alternative to hotels and random rentals. Climate-neutral and locally designed apartments in handpicked districts. Stay days, weeks or months.
- Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
We back early-stage B2B SaaS founders in the Nordics & Baltics with capital, expertise, and long-term partnership. See how we invest and support growth.
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- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cluby — Cluby is a technology platform that provides restaurants with the best tools for managing and communicating with loyal consumers.
- Claimlane — Claimlane is an end-to-end returns management solution for brands and retailers to manage any type of return, across all sales channels and markets. Perfectly document claims and returns. Streamline workflows. Get quality insights. Turn unhappy claimers into loyal customers. That's Claimlane.
- Eyeball — Eyeball operates as a digital platform for youth football.
We boldly invest in and support promising startups and potential innovations that explore new uses for sustainably-grown Nordic wood.
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- GreenTech, Sustainability, 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.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Lupa Pets — The all-in-one veterinary operating system
- Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.
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- Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- QMENTA — Our industry-leading neuroimaging cloud-based software works with advanced AI-powered tools to empower researchers, radiologists, and clinical trials.
- Crowded — Banking for Greek Life that allows you to seamlessly pay dues, P2P transfers, deposits, and make payments with your virtual debit card. Tailored tools for events, ticketing, chat organizational management and more.
- INXY Payments — EU-licensed crypto platform enabling businesses to securely and legally accept, send, and exchange cryptocurrencies.Accept Crypto using Customizable Payment Gateway API:- Easily receive payments in multiple cryptocurrencies; - Auto-convert crypto to Euro or stablecoins; - Automated Bank settlement with full reporting; - Reach Millions of CryptoUsers for Increased Sales.Automate Crypto Payouts to Affiliates, Publishers, Suppliers & Employees:- Automate thousands of payments using file or API; - Automatically convert your assets to crypto for Mass Payouts; Tailored reports to suit accounting needs.Exchange crypto or fiat at low fees:- Direct transactions, avoiding large public exchange platforms; - Manual and automated exchange; - Easy & fee-free withdrawals to any supported E-wallets or affordable transfers to bank account.Stay Compliant & Informed:- Real-time transactions monitoring (KYT) for safe dealings; - Comprehensive Transaction History & Detailed Reports; - Ensure EU Compliance with Our VASP crypto license; - Audit-Ready for Smooth Accounting. Tailored reports to suit accounting needs.INXY Payments: Simplifying crypto adoption for businesses. Save money, unlock crypto's potential, and seamlessly bridge Web2 to the future. Join us in making cryptocurrency as easy as fiat.
FOV Ventures invests in early-stage European companies across Spatial Computing, AI, 3D, and Robotics.
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- Software, Gaming, 3D Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Roro — Roro is a new mobile gaming studio that creates imaginative play experiences using Unreal Engine. Roro is a small, nimble company with a clear vision wanting to expand with more craftspeople who can help build the future.
- Spogen.ai — Spogen.ai is a speaking AI assistant that improves machinery operation and maintenance efficiency.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Nuard Ventures invests in innovative early stage companies.
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- IaaS, Video, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- WARD — WARD is a fantasy sport game, where fans can watch their favourite eSports matches and predict what will happen in real time.WARD is a startup out of Berlin which has created a “pick and predict” real-time prediction smartphone game, where players can win real prizes. People love to watch e-sports. We believe on these occasions they still want tobe able to participate.However, until now no product has offered anything other than the ability to watch. There’s been no way for fans to spectate, participate, analyse and predict the outcomes of their favourite games.
- MVision AI — AI-powered solutions that automate repetitive tasks, enable efficient radiotherapy workflows, and promote consistency across clinical processes.
- Polka Dot Studio — Kalian Bisa Memasang Taruhan Online Dengan Sangat Mudah Dan Nyaman Di Situs DEWAHOKI Yang Sudah Resmi Di Indonesia
Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
- UiPath — Reinvent your workplace with the leading robotic process automation platform and learn how UiPath can help your company become a fully automated enterprise.
- Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.
Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl
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- 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.
Olli has background in management consultancy (McKinsey & Company 2007-2009) and software business (LeadDesk Oyj (publ) 2010-2018).
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- Marketplace, Beauty, Internet
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Finland
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- 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.
Eurazeo is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in SMEs and manages a diversified portfolio of assets.With its expertise in private equity, real estate, and private debt, the group supports companies of all sizes in their development commitment through the commitment of its 235 professionals. It provides companies with thenecessary investments needed to realize their growth potential.The firm was founded in 1969 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
- Doctolib — Doctolib is an online booking platform and management software provider for doctors in Europe working with 65 000 health practitioners, present in 1 300 health facilities. 25 million patients visit Doctolib website and mobile app every month.For doctors, Doctolib is a full-range service to improve bookings management, reduce no-show and bring newpatients to your office. For patients, Doctolib is a free online service to find a nearby health practitioner and book doctor or dentist appointments 24/24 and 7/7 within a few clicks.Founded in 2013, Doctolib is based out of Paris, France.
- Back Market — Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics. The company brings refurbished electronic devices and appliances to customers in 13 countries (including the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, and more recently, Portugal, Japan, Finland, and Ireland). It employs ateam of 480 employees and counting across its 4 offices located in New York, Berlin, Paris, and Bordeaux.Launched in 2014 by Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute, Back Market is headquartered in Paris, France.
Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Germany
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- Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
- Sustashift — Sustashift offers a comprehensive legal CSRD reporting tool, providing tailored audit templates and automated XBRL tagging to streamline compliance and reduce manual reporting efforts.
- Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
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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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
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- 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.
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.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Atium — Clean water is one of the largest future challenges we stand before, and toxic pollutants are a large contributing factor. Heavy metals are some of the most toxic chemicals to human health and it is our goal, through our innovation, to contribute to a world where water treatment is more environmentally friendly and effective. Atium exists to helpensure clean water, for everyone.
- 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.
- Popit — Popit makes medication connected with a unique, medical grade solution. It tracks medication use automatically and reminds ONLY if you miss. Developed together with healthcare professionals.
Kim Väisänen - Growth Partner @ Evli Growth Partners
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- 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.
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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- E-Commerce, Advertising, Electronics
- Seed, Series A
- Finland
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- 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.
Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway
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- 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.
Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that invests in growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities in technology, healthcare and other growth sectors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Celcoin — Founded in 2016 by Marcelo França and Adriano Meirinho, Celcoin, the company offers a platform that allows companies to connect to the financial system simply and without bureaucracy to offer innovative experiences to their customers, whether in the digital world, with more than 170 clients including banks, fintechs, brokerages and loyaltycompanies, in other words, in the physical world, where it has its own network of more than 38,000 digital correspondents in 3,200 Brazilian municipalities. A pioneer in its segment, Celcoin adopts a unique multi-channel strategy in its segment, and already processes more than 11 million financial transactions and a volume in excess of R$1.8 billion monthly.Celcoin came up with the idea of facilitating new players to the financial system, which until its inception was completely closed, difficult to access and difficult to connect. With its set of Open Finance solutions (APIs for Transactions, APIs for Physical Networks and Open Banking APIs), more than 8 million Brazilians are impacted monthly in the physical and virtual world with their solutions.
- PostPilot — PostPilot is the leading direct mail platform for ecommerce and DTC.
- Earned Wealth — Forme Financial is a platform that offers estate planning, debt management, insurance planning, and investment management services.
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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- Transportation, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Estonia, United States, Sweden
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- Bought — Everything you've bought, automatically ready for resale.
- 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.
- 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.
<p>Stoic Venture Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in emerging science and deep technology.
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- Education, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Finland, South Korea, Sweden
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- 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.
The UK Angel Investment Network connects business entrepreneurs with Angel Investors. Find an Investor for your business, or access a network of investment opportunities.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Denmark, India
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- PF Nexus — Renewable energy and infrastructure marketplace, Reduce origination costs, increase deal flow, International and emerging market specialists, $30bn+ projects.
- Here We Flo — Bringing dash of sunshine to life's messiest moments - think periods, pees and pleasure with funny, feminist and fierce energy. B Corp Certified. Proudly women owned + operated.
- Aura Life — Aura Funerals is a digital end-of-life planning and funeral service.
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- Video, Database, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- Finland
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- Grumblo — Your digital marketing business partner specializing in motorsport, performance, and car-enthusiast markets.
- 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.
The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- HelixAI — HelixAI is an artifically intellegent virtual assistant for scientific laboratories.
- Hearvana — Hearvana is a IT consulting company.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
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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- Software, SaaS, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Finland
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- 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.
Marianne Vikkula
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- Wholesale, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Bought — Everything you've bought, automatically ready for resale.
- 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.
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Finland, France
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- BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
- ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
- Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
- TWICE COMMERCE ® — Turn sustainability into revenue with Twice Commerce, the all-in-one resale and rental platform. Create your store for free!
- CARÁ Health — Suun combines a midwife-powered app with studios in Tallinn and Berlin to ease pregnancy and postpartum symptoms, build strength and support you every day.
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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- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, United States
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- 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.
The preferred growth partner to tech-enabled businesses in Northern Europe.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Sweden, Norway, Germany
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- Sitoo — Delight your customers with best-in-class shopping journeys. Every time. Everywhere.
- fiskaly — fiskaly develops smart cloud solutions for complex requirements in fiscalization, electronic receipts, and invoices for our partners in retail technology.Our SIGN fiscalization software and APIs are designed to avoid tax tampering by generating unique digital transaction signatures. We are 100% compliant with country-specific legislations andoffer cloud-based solutions without additional hardware. fiskaly’s certified product for Germany is the market leading and operating in more than 600,000 cash registers. Our solution for digital receipts opens up modern ways to optimize business processes and create new experiences. We enable full-circle benefits for POS providers, retailers, and consumers. With this paperless receipt alternative, fiskaly has won several awards for innovation & sustainability in 2023.
- Ingrid — Ingrid was founded with a mission to create delivery experiences that fit people's lives by letting e-commerce businesses deliver sustainable growth and giving shoppers the power to personalize delivery and returns. The result is a better overall customer experience and greater efficiency for both the retailer and the delivery carrier.
Baidu is a search engine that enables individuals to obtain information and finds what they need. Baidu offers functional online search, Tieba community search, industry-based vertical search, mp3 search, portal channels, and instant messaging services. Its products include Baidu Webpage, Baidu Video, Baidu Map, hao123.com, BaiduPedia, Baidu Input,Baidu Toolbar, TTPlayer, Iqiyi, and Sky Software.
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- Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Israel
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- Infimind — Infinind is a provider of artificial intelligence technology and solutions focused on fashion. With massive fashion data, international leading computer vision algorithms and engineering capabilities, and with the vision of "fashion for good", we are committed to making fashion more cool.The company has top talent reserves. Thefounding team comes from the National Key Laboratory of artificial intelligence, network, etc. of the computing Department of Tsinghua University. It also has a consulting team composed of professors from top universities at home and abroad, such as Tsinghua University, people's Congress, MIT, Stanford, NUS, etc.At the beginning of its establishment, the company obtained close attention from the top capital, and now it has obtained billion class a rounds of financing from famous institutions such as Jinshajiang, magic measure, Sequoia, Turing, etc.
- Noumena — Noumena is an AI-powered growth intelligence firm. It focused on brand growth to develop AI agents for marketing decision-making and execution, allowing marketing to transition from depending on human experience to a learnable and evolving intelligent system.
- Lingao Technology — Lingao Technology dedicates to the development and application of advanced technological solution
Mandatum helps secure essential funding, fostering growth through strategic partnerships and building long-lasting relationships with investors and entrepreneurs alike.
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- Internet, SEO, Big Data
- Funding Round, Private Equity
- Finland
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- Nosto — Nosto brings solutions for online marketing automation for the global e-commerce industry. The company’s platform-independent SaaS solution enhances customers’ online shopping experience by enabling personalized product recommendations in real time. Its plug and play solution makes the technology easily accessible to online stores of allsize, automating marketing activities and increasing conversion, customer retention and store revenues as a result. Nosto’s first customers include leading brands like Angry Birds, Intersport, JOY, Reima, Outnorth and Sanoma’s Huuto.
- Oddlygood Global — Oddlygood is a processor of oat-based milks and yogurts as well as plant-based cheese and other dairy alternatives
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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- 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.
Plural is an early-stage investment fund that backs the most ambitious founders on a mission to change the world through technology.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Arcjet — Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks.
- IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
- Labrys Technologies — Visualise & Coordinate Your People. Securely. Anywhere. In Real-Time.
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?
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- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Sensor
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland
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- 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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