Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Finland (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Maki.vc
VC Fund
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6 | Finland, Norway, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $578k–$37M |
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Ali Omar
Angel
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4 | Finland, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $57k–$2.2M |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Australia, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $250k–$20M |
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Visionplus
VC Fund
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4 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $83k–$14M |
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Transdev
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Finland, Australia | Series A, Seed | Apps, Transportation, Information Technology | $5M–$17M |
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Anthemis
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.3M–$60M |
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Inventure
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Sweden, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $549k–$25M |
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LeadBlock Partners
VC Fund
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2 | France, Finland, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $2M–$105M |
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Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)
VC Fund
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2 | Sweden, Denmark, Finland | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Gaming | $3.3M–$12M |
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Veho
VC Fund
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2 | Finland | Seed, Series A | Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation | |
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Icebreaker.vc
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Sweden, Estonia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $110k–$25M |
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Finnvera Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, United States, Chile | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $250k–$23M |
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Tera Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Estonia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $120k–$14M |
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Rasheed Olaoluwa
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed | Mobile, Mobile Payments, Emerging Markets | |
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Timo Soininen
Angel
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1 | Finland, Sweden, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Gaming | $828k–$16M |
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Leena Niemistö
Angel
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1 | Finland, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $306k–$3.5M |
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Tesi
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, United States, Switzerland | Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $2.4M–$46M |
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Ilkka Paananen
Angel
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1 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $1.2M–$65M |
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C2 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $256k–$18M |
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Jabre Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 | $50k–$25M |
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Sapphire Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series D, Series C, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software | $10M–$200M |
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LähiTapiola
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Manufacturing, Software, Apps | $2.2M–$16M |
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Woorton
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Series A | Lending, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Novator
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Iceland | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Online Games | $9M–$450M |
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Forward Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Sweden, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $150k–$14M |
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Toyota Financial Services
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Finland, United States | Series C, Series A, Series B | Payments, Transportation, Financial Services | $59M–$80M |
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Risto Siilasmaa
Angel
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1 | Finland, Sweden, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $256k–$29M |
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Aioi Nissay Dowa
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Series A | Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation | |
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BlackFin Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | France, Germany, Denmark | Series A, Private Equity, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $5.9M–$100M |
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Optiomi Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Finland | Series B | Software, Billing, Infrastructure | |
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Stephane Kurgan
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Turkey | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, SaaS | $4M–$155M |
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Augmentum Fintech
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Israel, Germany | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $5.7M–$302M |
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Coinbase Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$41M |
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DN Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $786k–$82M |
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Vendep Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, Denmark, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $713k–$13M |
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Taaleri
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, Kenya | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Pre-Seed | Construction, Building Material, Financial Services | $241k–$21M |
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Concentric
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Bitcoin | $878k–$225M |
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Courage Ventures Management
VC Fund
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1 | Finland, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Apps, Web3 | $250k–$3.4M |
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Ben Feder
Angel
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1 | Finland, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series C | Gaming, Web3, Shoes | $3M–$16M |
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Fedha Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Finland, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Gift | $300k–$625k |
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Estlander & Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Pre-Seed | Lending, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2.7M–$50M |
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The Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Banking, FinTech | $999k–$11M |
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Orbs
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology | $300k–$3.1M |
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Visa
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series B, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | |
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Vitruvian Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Sweden | Private Equity, Series E, Series C | Information Technology, Financial Services, Software | |
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Aleksander Leonard Larsen
Angel
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1 | Norway, Denmark, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games | $1.6M–$60M |
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Kurt Björklund
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Mobile Payments, Emerging Markets | |
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Karsan Otomotiv
VC Fund
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1 | Finland | Series A | Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation | |
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Wellstreet
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, Norway, Finland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, E-Commerce, Retail | $216k–$5M |
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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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Norway, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $948k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $578k–$2.7M; Series A $3.5M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $106M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Aavuus — Aavuus is building a global network of ground-based laser stations to detect and track space debris with high precision.
- Metaktik — Tactical Metasurface Antenna Solution for Defence. Ultralight Antennas for Satellites.
- Quanscient — Quanscient develops multiphysics simulation software utilizing quantum computing algorithms to improve simulation technology. Its Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) platform integrates a unique combination of cloud-native multiphysics solvers, advanced cloud computing, and future quantum integration. The platform also offers engineers over ahundredfold increase in simulation throughput to enable fully digital R&D processes, addressing complex technology challenges in industries like fusion energy, 6G/7G, advanced semiconductors, biomedical, automotive, and aerospace.
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $227k–$2.2M; Angel $57k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $168k–$734k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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.
- Retailgrid — Agentic AI pricing platform for mid-market retailers. Turn messy retail data into structured, explainable price decisions in days, not months.
Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1303
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Keebler Health — AI-Enabled Coding for Medical Billing Teams
- Neurometric AI — Making Intelligence Free | https://t.co/ZxWxeMBJt2 | https://t.co/W8nlLqYwQi
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $83k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moppi.com — Moppi.com is an online marketplace that connects professional cleaners with customers. The marketplace plays host to cleaners that are certified and insured by the company, and uses only approved cleaning equipment and detergents. Moppi.com was launched by Matti Tiainen in January 2015 and is operated from Helsinki, Finland.
- Hooplo Footy — The company's business area is the development and sale of online games and all other legitimate business.
- Film Finances — Discover Film Finances Inc., the global leader in film completion guarantees, ensuring on-schedule and on-budget delivery for over seven decades. Explore our services and industry expertise.
Present in 19 countries, Transdev carries an average of 12.8 million passengers daily, operating all transportation modes and resolutely committed to the ecological transition. The Group employs over 105,000 women and men serving its passengers, consolidating its position as the world leader in public transportation.
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- Industry: Apps, Transportation, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Finland, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mozio — Mozio is your go-to ground transportation platform. Seamless booking solutions for Travelers, Travel Agents and Businesses. Book with us today!
- Liftango — At Liftango we guide global organisations on how to plan, launch and scale their shared mobility programs. Our mobility suite of services offer simulation, carpooling, on-demand bus and smart shuttle tracking services.
- MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 312
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $56M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Humanos — The Risk Network for AI https://t.co/RzfFeAgNCj
- PayPerks — PayPerks operates education and rewards solutions with our partners to improve the financial capability, financial health, and overall lives of millions of Americans.
- Monax — Monax offers a platform that leverages blockchain technology and offers a contract lifecycle management tool that permits consumers to easily procure lawyer-tested agreements and stay in full control of their business contracts as well as provides permission ledgers and smart contracts, enabling the finance, insurance, and construction sectors todevelop, customize, sell and reproduce legal products.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $549k–$6M; Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $1.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
- UpCloud — World's fastest cloud servers with a 100% uptime SLA! Sign up for a free trial today.
- Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
LeadBlock Partners is a EU venture capital fund.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2M–$18M; Series A $10M–$42M; Series B $12M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.
- Tatum — Tatum is a blockchain development platform designed to assist developers in building applications on the blockchain.The company is a platform for building blockchain infrastructure that offers developers an easy-to-use application programming interface (API), allowing them to incorporate blockchain into their products quickly and effortlessly.Tatum was established on June 4, 2018 by Jiri Kobelka and Samuel Šramko in London, England.
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) is a venture capital firm with a portfolio of investments in the Information and Communications Technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Series A $3.3M–$12M; Series B $4M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $152M in 2005
Portfolio highlights
- Bitbar — Whether web, native, or hybrid, securely test your app across the real environments you need. No lab maintenance required.
- ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
- PEAR Health Labs — Pear Sports is a health and fitness software platform that delivers digital coaching solutions. The platform pushes the consumer experience to the next level with dynamic, interactive audio and video workouts and personalized coaching.
Veho is the Finnish car retailer group, operating also in the Baltics and in Sweden. Veho provides a wide range of services and transportation solutions from passenger cars to commercial vehicles.
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- Industry: Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.
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Browse database — It's Free!Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Seed $409k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $110k–$1.2M; Series A $3.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cytely — Cytely operationalizes biological measurement, turning microscopy into standardized, reproducible data so research teams can accelerate discovery.
- Oplane — Connect your repo. See and fix your vulnerabilities in minutes. AI-powered threat modeling - no consultants, no weeks of docs.
- ReOrbit — Looking for a way to keep your data flowing in space? ReOrbit has you covered with our line of autonomous and inter-networking satellites!
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, Chile
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.3M; Series A $1.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- eMabler — EMabler is an EV charging infrastructure software company that develops an API-first platform used by businesses to operate, manage, and scale electric vehicle charging networks. It provides a centralized system for charge point management, billing, pricing, roaming, and energy optimization, allowing operators to control large networks of EVchargers from a single platform. The software connects charging hardware with business systems such as CRM, payment, and energy management tools through open APIs and a large library of integrations. The company focuses on enabling enterprises, such as energy utilities, parking operators, and retail businesses, to embed EV charging directly into their existing services and digital platforms rather than building standalone charging systems. This includes white-label solutions where charging is integrated into a company’s own app or customer experience under its brand.
- CHAOS — At CHAOS, we strive to democratize data and harness the power of AI and cutting-edge technology, delivering transformative location insights that empower decision-makers to design more liveable cities- sustainable, human-centered where the quality-of-life soars.
Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $587k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.2M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- BlackWall — Protect your web site from hacking, content theft, crawling, and cloning!
- Cino — Cino automatically deducts everyone's share from their bank accounts. Create groups with whom you want to share bills, set your ratio split & stop fronting costs!
- 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.
Rasheed’s career kicked off in 1988 with Arthur Andersen where he qualified as a chartered accountant. He later moved into the banking sector where his stellar performance saw him pioneering game-changing initiatives across the industry, in an executive capacity, with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), United Bank for Africa (UBA) and later as the ManagingDirector of Bank of Industry (BOI).Rasheed joined Axxela in 2019 as the Chief Operating Officer, bringing with him outstanding commercial experience that cuts cross expansion strategies, infrastructural development and organisational profitability.Rasheed has a First Class Honours degree in Civil Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University and an MBA from IESE Business School.
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- Industry: Mobile, Mobile Payments, Emerging Markets
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$16M; Pre-Seed $828k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Seven Stars — De perfecte match in IT. Die maken wij. Als IT-flex regisseur en specialist in IT-bemiddeling verbinden we professionals met de beste IT-opdrachten. Snel, soepel en zonder gedoe. We make IT spark.
Leena Niemistö
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $306k–$3.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rens Original — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
- Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.
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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$46M; Series B $3.1M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $177M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
- Vexlum — A #laser company providing high-power #VECSELs for #QuantumTechnology
- CurifyLabs — CurifyLabs enables 3D printed personalized medicines in pharmacies and hospitals. Always close to the patient.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.7M; Series A $8M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CodeWords — CodeWords is a technology startup working on AI systems for workflow automation. Their platform CodeWords lets anyone create automations and AI workflows by chatting with AI. Agemo's technology is designed to build code-based workflows and systems that can autonomously reason through software.
- Qutwo — We unite Qutwo OS and world-class AI and quantum scientists with the most forward-looking enterprises to develop competitive edge through classical AI, hybrid, and full quantum systems. We tackle the most challenging problems in AI computing.
- Lovable — Build apps, websites, and digital products faster using Lovable's AI-powered platform, no deep coding skills required.
Bridging the gap between founders and capital through content, connections and experience.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $256k–$2M; Series A $5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cylerity — Transform healthcare receivables into real-time capital. Cylerity unlocks cash flow, clarity, and control from claims data. See how it works.
- Pavewise — Revolutionizing Road Construction Management Optimizing Road Construction Projects with Smart Management Tools Pavewise is a management and solution softwar ...
- Discernis — Home | Discernis AI-Native Discovery
Established in 2006 by Philippe Jabre, we are focussed on private wealth management and private equity investment. Based in Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.4M; Series A $10M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- D2X Group — Trade digital asset options and futures on the EU-regulated market infrastructure for institutions.
- Exabits AI — Exabits' network of GPUs ranges from consumer-grade to H100s, offering the most cost-effective compute because we are obsessed with innovating performance.
- MYSO Finance — MYSO is leveraging a unique DeFi lending primitive known as Zero-Liquidation Loans, enabling scalable and cost-efficient credit markets with no liquidation risk
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series D, Series C, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 385
- Round size: Series B $10M–$120M; Series C $13M–$125M; Series D $13M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.5B in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Side — Side's real estate brokerage platform empowers top-producing agents to own their own companies without the burden of operating a brokerage.
- Horizon3.ai — Horizon3.ai's mission is to help you find and fix your attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero, our automated penetration testing solution, enables organizations to continuously assess the security posture of their enterprise, including external, identity, on-prem, IoT, and cloud attack surfaces. Like APTs, ransomware, andother threat actors, our algorithms discover and fingerprint your attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together to facilitate a compromise. NodeZero is a true self-service SaaS offering that is safe to run in production and requires no persistent or credentialed agents. You will see your enterprise through the eyes of the attacker, identify your ineffective security controls, and ensure your limited resources are spent fixing problems that can actually be exploited. Founded in 2019 by industry, US Special Operations, and US National Security veterans, Horizon3.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and made in the USA.
- Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
LähiTapiola is based on mutual company form, a group of companies owned by its customers, serving the personal, farm, entrepreneurial.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Apps
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Debt Financing $5.4M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Verda (formerly DataCrunch) — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
- Steady Energy — Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating.
- Aspocomp Group — Heart of your technology, official Twitter account. #PCB manufacturer and supplier with own factory in Oulu and a partner network in Europe and China.
We provide liquidity globally to the digital asset industry. Woorton is an algorithmic trading desk enabling liquidity for the next wave of digital assets.
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- Industry: Lending, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tesseract — Tesseract offers digital asset yield two ways: Dedicated Client Vaults from Tesseract Investment Oy, a MiCA-authorized CASP, and lending run by Tesseract Earn Oy.
Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies. While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Online Games
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Iceland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Series A $9M–$27M; Series B $16M–$125M; Series C $16M–$450M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Numan — Convenient care, tailored to you. Offering treatments for weight loss, diagnostics, erectile dysfunction, hair loss, and more.
- Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
- Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.
Forward Venture Capital is a Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in the US and Europe. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $850k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Halfdays — Halfdays is a skiwear brand for the modern woman. The company is on a mission to make the outdoors more approachable, inclusive, and fun.
- Quickture — Quickture is an AI editing tool for professional non-scripted editors that integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer to deliver instant rough cuts and revisions.
- Kadence — Easy hybrid workplace management software supporting Desk Booking, Conference Room Booking, Visitor Management, and Workplace Events.
Since opening its doors in 1983, Toyota Financial Services has grown from a small company with eight associates to one that currently employs approximately 3,300 associates nationwide with managed assets in excess of $81 billion.The Toyota Financial Services brand identity was launched in December 1999. TFS is a service mark that acts as anumbrella brand name used to market the products of Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC) and Toyota Motor Insurance Services, Inc. (TMIS). TMCC was incorporated in California on October 4, 1982, and commenced operations in May 1983 by approving a finance contract for a used Toyota Corolla in Denver, Colorado. The company provides retail and wholesale financing, retail leasing, vehicle protection plans and certain other financial services to authorized Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers, Toyota forklift and Hino dealers as well as Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. dealers, affiliates, and their customers in the United States (excluding Hawaii).TFS is part of the worldwide financial services operations for Toyota Financial Services Corporation (TFSC), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) in Japan. TFS has three Regional offices, three Customer Service Centers, 30 Dealer Sales and Service Offices throughout the United States, and an affiliate financial services company in Puerto Rico.
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- Industry: Payments, Transportation, Financial Services
- Stage:Series C, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series C $59M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opn — Opn provides businesses of all sizes the tools and technology to help tailor unique customer experiences and grow revenue online.
- Upshift — The convenience of owning a car without all the headaches.
- Mellow — Mellow is a food and beverage company that offers a food truck platform and event management support services.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$29M; Pre-Seed $256k–$420k; Series A $1.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.
- Donut Lab — Redefining Electric Mobility Across All Industries. World's First Complete Electric Vehicle (EV) Hardware Platform With Unified Software.
- The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
Largest insurer in Asia
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- Industry: Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.
BlackFin Capital Partners is the leading pan-European Financial Services PE Platform. The team consists of +35 experienced professionals from several nationalities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: France, Germany, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Series A $5.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.9B in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- ETFbook — ETFbook provides an information and analytic platform focused on exchange-traded funds (ETFs). It offers data, analytics, and insights to help users make informed decisions about fund selection, trading possibilities, and expense ratios. The platform is designed to broaden the effective use of ETFs by providing comprehensive tools and dashboardsfor analysis.
- Wealthcome — Wealthcome has created a technological ecosystem for all players involved in wealth management, private management, and personal finance management. Our objective is straightforward: to make all phases of asset monitoring, analysis, and optimization accessible, simple, enjoyable, and exact.
Optiomi Invest Oy is a principal investment firm. The firm is based in Helsinki, Finland. Optiomi Invest Oy operates as a subsidiary of Optiomi Oy.
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- Industry: Software, Billing, Infrastructure
- Stage:Series B
- Geography: Sweden, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nervogrid — Nervogrid - Cloud Brokerage Made EasyNervogrid helps partners aggregate, integrate and customize various cloud services, and manage the interactions with multiple service providers in a simple, intuitive package. The Nervogrid Unified Cloud Brokerage solution fully automates the customer lifecycle from presales to provisioning, billing,self-care and support.
- Direct Conversion — Direct conversion photon counting X-ray detectors have many benefits in X-ray imaging. Here's an overview of our photon counting technology.
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Browse database — It's Free!Stephane Kurgan has served on our Board of Directors since April 2012 and as our chief operating officer since April 2011. Stephane has more than 20 years of management experience at high-growth technology businesses. Prior to joining King, Stephane served as the chief financial officer atTideway Systems Ltd., a data centre management software company that was acquired by BMC Software, Inc. He has also served as senior vice president and managing director of enba plc, held various sales and product management roles at Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing BV and was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. Stephane has served as a member of the Board of Directors of HK Ltd. since January 2006 and previously served on the Board of Directors of Lasker Fund LP and Gladstone Capital Management LLP until December 2012. Stephane holds a B.A. in Economics from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, a Diploma in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University SAIS School, Italy and an M.B.A. from INSEAD, France. Papa Pear Saga is the only King game where Stephane is remotely ahead of his wife.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $4M–$9.8M; Series A $6.7M–$25M; Series B $30M–$155M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adfin — Adfin makes getting paid better for everyone. Our single platform gives businesses - and their accountants - the tools to get paid: faster, cheaper, easier.Our platform intelligently manages payment request workflows and payment methods so business don’t have to - giving them the time to build better businesses. Adfin's payment networkpresents payers with best-in-class experiences which reward them for paying faster. AI-driven workflows automate credit control. And everything reconciles seamlessly back to accounting software. Adfin is the best way to get paid: so good, customers love paying.
- fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
- Kohort — How many users will your mobile game acquire, and how much more will they pour into your virtual economy? Try Ramp to find out.
Augmentum Fintech is Europe's leading publicly listed fintech fund. They invest in high-growth, unquoted fintech businesses in verticals including digital banking, asset and wealth management and financial services infrastructure.Europe's leading publicly listed fintech fund, Augmentum launched on the main market of the London StockExchange in early 2018, allowing their businesses to have access to flexible funding and support, unrestricted by conventional fund timelines.An investment in Augmentum enables investors to gain exposure to a focused portfolio of fast-growing and/or high potential private FinTech businesses based predominantly in the UK and wider Europe to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns for shareholders.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Series A $5.9M–$24M; Series B $20M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.7M–$302M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lateral UK — Lateral exists solely to reinvent health and wealth goods for fit, energetic adults over the age of 60, and has no plans to stop.
- Baobab — Protect your business against cyber attacks
- Artificial Labs — Build your future placement and underwriting strategy with Artificial's pioneering technology.
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 638
- Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $6M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2018
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- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Subzero Labs — Subzero Labs is developing Rialo, a developer-first Layer 1 blockchain built for internet-scale decentralized applications.
- Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 424
- Round size: Seed $786k–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$82M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
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- Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
- unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
- sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Finland, Denmark, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $713k–$5.4M; Series A $3.9M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $93M in 2025
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- GitHits — Code context layer for coding agents. Version-aware index for agents to search, navigate, and inspect open-source code.
- Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
- Test of Things — Automate IoT security testing and compliance with major standards and accelerate product development with Test of Things.
Taaleritehdas Wealth Management is helping all Finns see the advantages of ownership and find their own way to own.
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- Industry: Construction, Building Material, Financial Services
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $241k–$6.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.4M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $735M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Rester — Rester is a Finnish company enabling the recovery of business textiles into a new textile fibre and quality raw material.
- Woodly Oy — Woodly® is an entirely new type of wood-based packaging material that can be used to substitute traditional fossil-based plastics. Woodly is recyclable can be made into transparent and flexible packaging, and the material mimics the best qualities of traditional plastics.
- Nordtreat — Nordtreat is a producer of bio-based flame retardants for the global construction products industry. Nordtreat's NORFLAM® flame retardants for wood protect over 2000 buildings around the world.
We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Bitcoin
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $878k–$5.8M; Series A $1.7M–$25M; Series B $1.7M–$225M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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- Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
- Visium — We help companies unlock transformative and sustainable impact through artificial intelligence; delivering enterprise AI strategy, platforms & MLOps that scale securely and drive measurable ROI.
- Paypercut — Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration.
Courage Ventures is a seed investment fund with global networks. The fund focuses on health, education and environment verticals where its partners and advisors can add significant value to the companies’ growth.
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
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- Rens Original — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Equally — Build engaging games for kids that encourage physical activity, personal development and exploration. Provide parents the data and oversight they need to reward positive behavior.
- Meru Health — Meru Health is an online mental health provider that helps people improve their mental health long-term by treating depression, anxiety, and burnout.
Ben Feder is an accomplished and creative and entrepreneur and investor, with a long and proven track record in the media and telecommunications sector. He has held pubic company board positions in Japan and the United States. Ben is co-founder of ZelnickMedia, a successful private equity firm in the U.S.that focuses on the media andcommunications industries; and he is formerly the CEO of Take Two Interactive, a $2 billion public video game company that develops and publishes video games such as Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Civilization.
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- Industry: Gaming, Web3, Shoes
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Finland, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $3M–$6M; Series C $13M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rens Original — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.
- Armada Interactive — We are a Helsinki-based gaming startup that develops PvP mobile games
Fedha Capital is a venture capital firm for early-stage start-ups (Seed and Series A).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Gift
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $300k–$625k
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
- Pharmarun — Supporting your health goals | Largest medication inventory in Africa | Nationwide Delivery | Chat with a Pharmacist free https://t.co/8zYyaSpIY6
- Spleet — Fintech Spleet Provides Tenant verification, Rent collection solutions for landlords and rent financing (Rent now, pay later) for Tenants
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- Industry: Lending, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Tesseract — Tesseract offers digital asset yield two ways: Dedicated Client Vaults from Tesseract Investment Oy, a MiCA-authorized CASP, and lending run by Tesseract Earn Oy.
Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets. Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projectswith hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$20M; Series A $7.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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- Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
- Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.
The Fund is a community of founders and operators who care about the next generation of local entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $999k–$11M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- MokSa.AI — mokSa.ai is an innovative technology firm specializing in AI-driven solutions, particularly in areas like retail security, culinary standards, and process optimization. They excel in creating cutting-edge tools that enhance operational efficiency, safety, and data-driven decision-making.Key offerings of mokSa.ai include sophisticated theftdetection models tailored for retail environments. These models utilize advanced AI algorithms to identify potential theft activities by analyzing behavioral patterns and movements within a store setting. The system is adept at recognizing specific actions that may indicate theft, such as unauthorized handling or movement of merchandise.In the culinary sector, mokSa.ai provides AI solutions for food safety audits in commercial kitchens. These tools monitor compliance with hygiene protocols, identifying any lapses in safety practices, such as not wearing gloves or hairnets during food preparation. The system offers real-time alerts and comprehensive data analytics to help kitchens maintain high standards of hygiene and safety.A standout feature of mokSa.ai's technology is its ethical approach to AI. While delivering high-performance solutions, they ensure the privacy and integrity of data are upheld. Their commitment to ethical AI practices positions them as a responsible and forward-thinking player in the technology sector, dedicated to leveraging AI for practical, safe, and sustainable industry solutions.
- Kidsy — Save up to 50% on open-box baby gear at Kidsy. Shop strollers, car seats & more from top brands like Graco, Doona, Owlet & Evenflo. New deals daily.
- Switchboard — Switchboard mission is to simplifies supply chain operations with fast, easy, affordable integrations, and to support modern supply chains.
Orbs is a public blockchain infrastructure that enhances the capabilities of existing EVM and non-EVM smart contracts.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $300k–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
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- Symmio — Symmio is a platform that facilitates the clearing of derivatives transactions by focusing on the specific intentions of users. It provides easy, permissionless access to both traditional and emerging assets.
- Fenix Finance — Fenix functions as a centralized trading and liquidity platform for Blast.
- TON Strategy Company — VERB Technology Company is a software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, applications platform developer. Its platform is comprised of sales enablement business software products marketed on a subscription basis. The applications are available in both mobile and desktop versions. It includes verbCRM, Customer Relationship Management application, verbLEARN,Learning Management System application, and verbLIVE, its Live Broadcast Video Webinar application.
Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 121
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Vitruvian Partners is an equity firm that specializes in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts, and growth capital investments. Independent private equity firm that specialises in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts and growth capital investments in the UK and elsewhere. The company backs exceptional management teams in businesses where thereis a major opportunity to create strategic value. They seek out companies where this opportunity exists through change or “Dynamic Situations”.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Private Equity, Series E, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Civitatis — Worldwide activities, transfers, tickets, guided tours and excursions in English. Book online with the lowest price guaranteed.
- ObjectiveHealth — ObjectiveGI is a operator of an integrated research and technology services platform intended to improve patient outcomes through partnerships with leading physicians.The company's model seamlessly integrates gastroenterology (GI) research services into local community-based GI practices in support of patient care and practice enhancement,offering research infrastructure, optimal trial selection, study implementation and key research personnel management, thereby providing patients affected by NonAlcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH) with improved and better outcomes.
- Aduro Advisors — We support the success of the leading venture firms Over 600 firms & counting. We are committed to empowering our partners
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Norway, Denmark, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.2M; Series A $20M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Makina — The DeFi Execution Engine. Community Chat: https://t.co/ngGchIz7Cm Support: https://t.co/LSN1rdjT94
- Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
Kurt Björklund
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- Industry: Mobile, Mobile Payments, Emerging Markets
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zevoy — Simplify your corporate finance with AI receipt scanning, virtual cards, and easy approvals. Zevoy provides full oversight and control over all expenses and subscriptions.
- ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
Car and bus contract manufacturer, bus OEM
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- Industry: Apps, Ride Sharing, Transportation
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MaaS Global — Whim combines all the transportation you need: Public transport, shared cars, bikes, e-scooters, taxis, and more! One app to plan, book, and pay.
Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Sweden, Norway, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $216k–$1.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $319k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $40M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Deedster — Accelerate your business by connecting and engaging your audience and employees with sustainability data, insights, and actions.
- Key Ward — Accelerate your engineering projects with data intelligence. Mitigate the risk of late stage failures in your AI adoption journey with our no-code platform.
- Berget AI — We champion AI sovereignty in Europe to unlock innovation and growth
Payments Investor funding in Finland at a glance
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