# Aapo Bovellan

> Aapo Bovellan is a seed investor at Proxy Ventures (London) backing Mobile and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Proxy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/proxy-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aapobovellan/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aapo.bovellan

Aapo Bovellan is a seed investor at Proxy Ventures in London focused on Mobile and Software. Entrepreneur responsible for creating Uplause and Supercell brands. Aapo was in charge of the critically acclaimed global redesign of Nokia's brand identity, including the creation of Nokia Pure typeface which won Design Museum's Graphic Design of the Year 2012.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Wellness | 2 | 33% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 33% |
| iOS | 1 | 17% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 3 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Festicket | Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation andtravel packages. | $6.3M | Series B | Jun 30, 2016 |  |
| Oura | Oura develops a smart ring that collects data on various biometrics to support health and wellness. The device tracks sleep, readiness, and activity levels, which users can monitor through the Oura app. It employs sensors to measure heart rate, sleep cycles, and overall activity. The company operates in the health and wellness industry. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 11, 2015 |  |
| Another Place | Another Place is a London based, free-to-play mobile game studio founded by some of the guys that brought you the award winning ‘Fable’ franchise.They see it as their mission to deliver fun and engaging games of the highest possible quality to your mobile phone and tablet. They believe the best games come from small teams who are willing totake risks and innovate and, after the success of their debut project ‘Dragon Finga’ which has achieved over 3 million downloads, they are returning to their roots with a genre defining fantasy game.They are not on this journey alone. They have some fantastic Advisors and Investors who support their business. Their VC investors are Initial Capital and Connect Ventures. Both bring huge experience in social, mobile and free-to-play having guided similar studios, such as Space Ape Games, Supercell, Hutch Games and Supersolid to success. |  | Seed | Jun 23, 2015 |  |
| Ministry of Games - MOG | Ministry of Games is a mobile game development studio that designs and develops games focused on experience. It aims to bring RPGs to mobile platforms.The company is backed by Initial Capital, Index Ventures, Sunstone Capital, Proxy Ventures, Henric Suuronen, Markus Pasula, and Tekes.Ministry of Games was founded in 2014 and is based inHelsinki, Finland. |  | Seed | Jun 11, 2015 |  |
| Zen-Me | Zen-Me is a new hi-tech brand shrouded in secrecy. |  | Seed | May 23, 2014 |  |
| Peak | Brainbow (now Peak) was founded in 2012 by a Physics PhD and Amazon, EA/Playfish and Google alumni.The company's mission is to reinvent how they consume and ‘play’ with knowledge - making it a more enjoyable experience and building healthy habits. Peak is brain training redesigned for the mobile you. Improve your cognitive skills andbuild healthy training habits with fun but challenging games, goals and workouts |  | Seed | Mar 20, 2014 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Initial Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initial-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Heartcore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heartcore-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lepe Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lepe-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Proxy Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Proxy Ventures is the world's first venture capital company rebranding all the companies it invests in, via its London-based in-house design studio. Brands developed by Proxy include Supercell, Peak and Currency Fair. They are not a traditional VC fund, they are a private company built by entrepreneurs investing their own funds.

3 contacts available at Proxy Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aapo Bovellan | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aapo-bovellan |
| Gernot Preslmayer | Founding Partner & Creative Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gernot-preslmayer |
| Miia Bovellan | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miia-bovellan |

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## FAQ

### What does Aapo Bovellan invest in?

Aapo Bovellan invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Aapo Bovellan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aapo Bovellan closed in Jun 2016. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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