Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Finland in December 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Finland investments
Ali Omar	5
Ali Omar	5
Cecily Drucker	2
Pekka Koskinen	2
Kim Väisänen	2
Pekka Koskinen	2
Cecily Drucker	2
Andreas Mihalovits	2
Andreas Mihalovits	2
Kim Väisänen	2
Elias Aalto	1
Tharald Nustad	1
Teemu Jokinen	1
Jussi Heinilä	1
Fredrik Rönnlund	1
Urban Gillström	1
Paavo Kettunen	1
Pontus Strahlman	1
Nick Bilogorskiy	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
Kaj Hagros	1
Andy Phillipps	1
Mikko Kodisoja	1
Jarkko Nieminen	1
Henric Suuronen	1
Jaakko Ollila	1
Aviram Jenik	1
Pekka Vartiainen	1
Paavo Kettunen	1
Pekka Vartiainen	1
Gary Vaynerchuk	1
Urban Gillström	1
Juha Paananen	1
Paul Melin	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
Atte Jääskeläinen	1
Pontus Strahlman	1
Aviram Jenik	1
Mikko Jalava	1
Kaj Hagros	1
Paul Polman	1
Jari Ovaskainen	1
Urban Gillström	1
Andy Phillipps	1
Jari Litmanen	1
Fredrik Rönnlund	1
Sampo Parkkinen	1
Visa Forsten	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
Mikko Kodisoja	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
Builderhead — Builderhead is a construction management software designed for real estate developers and general contractors. The software combines project development, procurement, and construction management into a streamlined pipeline. We bring an industry spesific Project Development CRM, Bid Management Tools and Project Management Software in one easy-to-useplatform which integrates easily with other most used software in the industry. Even thought the construction industry accounts for 13% of the world’s GDP, there's been a global problem of poor productivity within the industry as productivity growth has increased only 1% over the past 20 years. From the real estate developers and general contractors point of view, the biggest issue is the projects that turn unprofitable unexpectedly. One unprofitable project destroys the whole year profits and another one can bankrupt the entire company. Most of the decisions that affect the success of a project are made before construction begins, but still there are no smart tools available for that stage to help the construction companies avoid unprofitable projects. We solve this global problem by bringing the most critical steps to the success of a construction project on the same platform.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.

Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.

Founder at Leadfeeder

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.
Cuutio Software —

Kim Väisänen - Growth Partner @ Evli Growth Partners

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.

Founder at Leadfeeder

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.
Cuutio Software —

Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.

Kim Väisänen - Growth Partner @ Evli Growth Partners

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.

Elias Aalto is Wolt's Advisor and a Co-Founder before that.

Investment focus

Internet, News, Video
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Cluby — Cluby is a technology platform that provides restaurants with the best tools for managing and communicating with loyal consumers.
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.

Tharald Nustad is the Founder and Owner of Nordic Impact, Founder and Owner of Katapult, and Co-Founder of Katapult Ocean. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Mallin AS. He attended Pacific Lutheran University.

Investment focus

Farming, Information Technology, Communities
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Ghana, Kenya, Norway

Portfolio highlights

TikkTalk - powered by Skiwo — TikkTalk is an online marketplace for connecting businesses and consumers for interpretation services. TikkTalk is an open digital solution for managing interpretation services and holding video or phone meetings in a browser on any device. Anyone with interpretation skills can sign up, validate their skills by uploading certifications, and getaccess to interpretation jobs worldwide. Government organisations and businesses can get direct access to a global pool of interpreters, sorted by language, certification levels and ratings.
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
Differ — Student life can be boring and challenging without friends. Differ help you connect with other students and help start those first awkward conversations

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.

Fredrik Rönnlund

Investment focus

Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

Urban combines strong leadership and transformation skills with more than 25 years of experience from global executive roles in ICT, mobile, internet and media. He has been working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 2015 as Vice President, telco vertical leader, strategic customer initiatives leader and client executive with strategic accounts.During the past few years he was an independent advisor and consultant with Accenture, Private Equity Companies and Business Angel with start-ups. Previously he was the President and CEO of Tradedoubler, a publicly listed leading pan-European internet marketing company. Recently he was a senior leader at C-level in the telecom industry with more than 15 years with Ericsson, Sony Ericsson and Comverse, living and working over several continents, driving significant client centric transformations with substantial sales and profitability growth. Urban holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Management and Engineering from the Linkoping Institute of Technology in Sweden and diplomas from Columbia University in the US and Sony University in Japan.

Investment focus

Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

Paavo Kettunen

Investment focus

Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

Pontus Strahlman - Partner @ Voima Ventures

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Music
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
CloudBounce — Sound professional in minutes - master your audio files with CloudBounce.
The Human Touch Robotics — Automating online grocery and food related goods picking with single-item picking robots, through adaptive gripping and AI vision system.

Nick Bilogorskiy is a founding team member at Cyphort, a next-generation anti-malware startup, and is currently leading security research there. He came to Cyphort from Facebook where he was the chief malware expert and a security spokesperson for the company, keeping 1 billion active users safe and secure.His Facebook focus was on annihilatingbotnets that targeted Facebook (e.g., Koobface) by developing countermeasures, remediating victims and working with law enforcement agencies on bad actor attribution and enforcement. Prior to joining Facebook, Nick managed virus research teams at SonicWALL and Fortinet.Nick is skilled in reverse engineering, analysis, writing patterns and tracking malware, frequently quoted in the media. He presented and published research papers at major security conferences. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing science and philosophy from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and a GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) certification. He holds several patents in computer security.Nick has been an angel investor since 2012, investing into 2-3 seed stage companies per year, focusing on cybersecurity, AI and IOT. He invested in Petcube, Cymmetria and Uber, among others.Nick Bilogorskiy is also the founder and a Director of the largest Ukrainian charity in California, Nova Ukraine, helping Ukraine by fighting corruption, providing humanitarian aid, and increasing awareness about Ukrainian culture in the US.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Security
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — AiSDR sales automation acts as your inside sales rep. From outbound to inbound emails, AiSDR runs your outreach and drives leads to customers
Ability.ai — Artificial Marketing Intelligence at Your Fingertips.
Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Layla — Smartest trip planner AI for ultimate travel. Discover where to go, plan customized itinerary, book hotels & flights. Best road trips with Roam Around.
Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.

Mikko Kodisoja

Investment focus

Gaming, Music, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
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.

Jarkko Nieminen - CFO @ Meridea Financial Software

Investment focus

Broadcasting, Video Streaming, Information Technology
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Camment — Camment is disrupting the second screen experience, replacing it with a patent pending first screen technology. Their technology is a simple SDK that allows broadcasters, and anyone with video, whether its streaming or clips, to add a social layer to their streams.

Founding Partner of Play Ventures. He previously co-founded Nonstop Games which was acquired by King for US$32m+ earnout.Henric has over 16 years of experience building mobile games and studios around the world. Before co-founding Nonstop Games in Singapore, Henric was Product Management Director at Digital Chocolate (Helsinki and Barcelona) andHead of Studio at Wooga (Berlin). After King’s acquisition of Nonstop Games, Henric served as Senior Creative Director at King.Henric also has a successful portfolio of angel investments in gaming including Huuuge Games, Futureplay Games, Traplight Games, Matchmade, Omniata (acquired by King), DataTiger (acquired by Apple) and Astralis Group (IPO on Nasdaq). In total, his investments have raised >$125M of venture financing and made 5 exits + 1 IPO. Henric is based in Singapore and frequently travels to the main gaming hubs in Europe and the US. He holds double masters’ degrees in Computer Science and Business.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, India, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
Matchmade — Matchmade is the leading influencer marketing agency for YouTube and Twitch. Connect with top creators and drive impactful campaigns. Elevate your brand today!
Hipfire Games — VIVAMASTER78 adalah situs game online yang sempurna bagi siapa saja yang mencari variasi permainan yang luas, pengalaman bermain yang aman, dan promosi yang menguntungkan

Jaakko Ollila - VP of International Sales @ Booxmedia

Investment focus

SaaS, Hotel, Events
Seed, Funding Round
Finland

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.
MeetingPackage — Intuitive, automated venue sales management for all venues. Use smart automation to boost efficiency, grow revenue, and improve the guest experience.

Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities

Pekka Vartiainen - Board Member @ Inbot

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inbot — We are world-leading experts in algorithmic influence. We help ethical businesses and executives leverage algorithms to grow their audience and influence.
Singa — Singa is the Spotify of karaoke for personal and commercial use. Access a catalog of 20 000+ songs to sing effortlessly anywhere, any time and with any platform.Easy to use is Singa’s main operating principle. You don’t need to buy a console, or a microphone, or even a DVD-player. Singa is platform agnostic. To use Singa, you’ve already goteverything you need either in your pocket (mobile phone), on your table (PC) or in your living room (TV).* One account works on all devices, mobile, browser or Smart TV* Each user gets to test Singa for free before signing up to a Premium account* Singa works fluently with external accessories
Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per

Paavo Kettunen

Investment focus

Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

Pekka Vartiainen - Board Member @ Inbot

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inbot — We are world-leading experts in algorithmic influence. We help ethical businesses and executives leverage algorithms to grow their audience and influence.
Singa — Singa is the Spotify of karaoke for personal and commercial use. Access a catalog of 20 000+ songs to sing effortlessly anywhere, any time and with any platform.Easy to use is Singa’s main operating principle. You don’t need to buy a console, or a microphone, or even a DVD-player. Singa is platform agnostic. To use Singa, you’ve already goteverything you need either in your pocket (mobile phone), on your table (PC) or in your living room (TV).* One account works on all devices, mobile, browser or Smart TV* Each user gets to test Singa for free before signing up to a Premium account* Singa works fluently with external accessories
Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
Unrivaled — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.

Urban combines strong leadership and transformation skills with more than 25 years of experience from global executive roles in ICT, mobile, internet and media. He has been working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 2015 as Vice President, telco vertical leader, strategic customer initiatives leader and client executive with strategic accounts.During the past few years he was an independent advisor and consultant with Accenture, Private Equity Companies and Business Angel with start-ups. Previously he was the President and CEO of Tradedoubler, a publicly listed leading pan-European internet marketing company. Recently he was a senior leader at C-level in the telecom industry with more than 15 years with Ericsson, Sony Ericsson and Comverse, living and working over several continents, driving significant client centric transformations with substantial sales and profitability growth. Urban holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Management and Engineering from the Linkoping Institute of Technology in Sweden and diplomas from Columbia University in the US and Sony University in Japan.

Investment focus

Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Video Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Finland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Talewind — Talewind specialises in creating immersive brand experiences on Roblox, helping businesses engage with audiences through custom-built virtual worlds and interactive games.
Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.

Paul Melin is the Chairman Of The Board at Silcube Software.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Estonia, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Warren.io — Warren platform equips partnering providers with a white labelled self-service portal for easy access to infrastructure and managed services.
PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low-code solutions with ready-to-use templates that streamline the development process and decrease time to market

I´ve been working with management of journalism and media organizations since 1995. I've led the leading Finnish news organization successfully through digital transformation to become an internationally recognized, even admired forerunner. My core task has always been managing change in a complex environment. Being among those who arebuilding the future organisations and individuals have to be able to trial, learn and adapt.Specialties: Change management, Digital services, Multimedia news processes & distribution, Sports rights, Newsroom management.

Investment focus

Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

Pontus Strahlman - Partner @ Voima Ventures

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Music
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
CloudBounce — Sound professional in minutes - master your audio files with CloudBounce.
The Human Touch Robotics — Automating online grocery and food related goods picking with single-item picking robots, through adaptive gripping and AI vision system.

Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities

Head of Branch Line at Danske Bank

Investment focus

Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Paul Polman was elected to the Dow Board of Directors in February 2010, and serves on the Environment, Health, Safety and Technology Committee.Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V. – Chief Executive Officer, January 2009 to date. Nestlé S.A. – Executive Vice President of Americas, January 2008-September 2008; Chief Financial Officer 2006-2008. TheProcter & Gamble Company (a provider of consumer, pharmaceutical, cleaning, personal care and pet products) – Group President Europe, 2001-2006; CFO of the Year 2007, Investor Magazine; Carl Lindner Award 2006, University of Cincinnati; WSJ/CNBC European Business Leader of the Year 2003. Member of United Nations high level task force on post 2015 development goals. President of the Kilimanjaro Blindtrust/Chair of Perkins International Advisory Board. Board member of Global Consumer Goods Forum. Member: International Business Council of WEF, Swiss American Chamber of Commerce and vice chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Member of the B-Team (a global initiative to help transform the future of business). Honorary degrees from Universities of Northumbria, UK in 2000 and University of Cincinnati in 2009.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.
Toast Ale — Toast ale is an award-winning craft beer brewed with surplus fresh bread that would otherwise be wasted. All profits go to the charity, Feedback, to end food waste.
Freja — Award-winning bone broths from Freja Foods. Responsibly sourced and conveniently packaged, Freja bone broth is available online and via leading retailers.

Jari Ovaskainen

Investment focus

Digital Media, Search Engine, Visual Search
Seed, Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Valossa — Leverage multimodal AI for video, image, and audio recognition, speech-to-text, computer vision and video emotion analysis. Obtain content analysis at scale
VieLoco —

Our CEO Urban is a C-level executive with three decades of global experience in communications, media and technology. He is responsible for taking the vision to action with the Greenworlder team. He is also a senior advisor in business and private equity and business angel with scalable media platform and sustainable start-ups. On his free time,Urban can be found running, cycling, and spending time with his family.https://greenworlder.com/urban-gillstrom/

Investment focus

Marketing, Journalism, Social Media
Seed
Finland, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Greenworlder — Greenworlder is a platform for sustainability. You can share and learn tips for sustainable living, reflect on your sustainable experiences, and read or write articles on sustainability.
Videobot — Grow your business with personalised video funnels that engage your audience with human interaction, capture leads, guide your users, enhance customer satisfaction and increase conversion rate.Short videos have already become dominant across social media platforms. Now, this beloved user experience is available on company websites as well. The applications are vast and varied. Discover how it all works by reserving your own presentation slot.
EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

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

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.

Jari Litmanen

Investment focus

Broadcasting, Video Streaming, Information Technology
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Camment — Camment is disrupting the second screen experience, replacing it with a patent pending first screen technology. Their technology is a simple SDK that allows broadcasters, and anyone with video, whether its streaming or clips, to add a social layer to their streams.

Fredrik Rönnlund

Investment focus

Journalism, Digital Media, Information Services
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

EatAndTheCity — EatAndTheCity helps international newspapers, magazines, local media & food guides monetise the influence of their content. We enhance the communication between local communities and local media. Their revenue generating restaurant journalism platform for media companies allows users to not only discover but to reserve gastronomic experiences.EatAndTheCity’s white label platform already collaborates with leading companies in Finland and Estonia and Germany. Media and publishing companies are able to leverage their connection with local communities to generate new revenue streams. Combining these features and the business model in cooperation with local media companies differentiates us from the competitors.

Co-founder @Revieve. General Partner @LandInChicago. Co-founder & COO @ RapidBlue Solutions (acquired in 2013). Member of Board @PromoRepublic. Mentor, advisor and early stage angel investor in startups.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.

Visa Forsten is the Co - Founder & Lead Programmer of Supercell. In search for those perfectly optimized graphics routines since 1996. Seriously, how many people can claim that they have written a 3D engine for 10 different platforms?

Investment focus

Hospitality, Digital Entertainment
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.

Mikko Kodisoja

Investment focus

Gaming, Music, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
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.