# Conor Venture Partners

> Conor Venture Partners is a VC fund in Espoo backing Software and Analytics. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Espoo, Finland
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $60M
- Last fund: May 2010
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/conor-venture-partners/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ConorVC
- Website: http://www.conor.vc

Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$3.3M |
| Series A | $3.9M–$8.8M |
| Series B | $2.4M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 13% |
| Analytics | 5 | 11% |
| Semiconductor | 4 | 9% |
| Mobile | 3 | 7% |
| Internet | 3 | 7% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 24% |
| Series B | 9 | 20% |
| Seed | 7 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 16% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 10 | 22% |
| United States | 5 | 11% |
| Sweden | 2 | 4% |
| Austria | 1 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jari Mieskonen | Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jari-mieskonen |
| Manu Makela | Co-Founder and Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manu-mkel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TactoTek | TactoTek develops and licenses injection-molded structural electronics (IMSE®) technologies. Automotive, aviation, connected home, industrial control, and medical brands use TactoTek innovations to create next-generation user experiences that are compelling, differentiated, and more sustainable. Designers use TactoTek IP to integrate circuits andcomponents directly into plastic parts, transforming conventional structures into smart interactive surfaces. TactoTek licenses its intellectual property, including over 280 patents and critical know-how developed over a decade of intensive R&D and quality testing, to global manufacturers who use reliable, standardized manufacturing processes to produce curved-shape and conformal electronics | $60M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $16M | Series C | Nov 27, 2019 |  |
| 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. | $13.4M | Series C | Jul 11, 2018 |  |
| Blackwood Seven | Blackwood Seven is a media analytics platform which strives to increase the effect of company’s media spend using our predictive analytics framework built on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using real-time modelling and advanced KPI prediction we are able to increase a company’s media ROI by up to 15-25%. | $18.4M | Private Equity | May 31, 2018 |  |
| TactoTek | TactoTek develops and licenses injection-molded structural electronics (IMSE®) technologies. Automotive, aviation, connected home, industrial control, and medical brands use TactoTek innovations to create next-generation user experiences that are compelling, differentiated, and more sustainable. Designers use TactoTek IP to integrate circuits andcomponents directly into plastic parts, transforming conventional structures into smart interactive surfaces. TactoTek licenses its intellectual property, including over 280 patents and critical know-how developed over a decade of intensive R&D and quality testing, to global manufacturers who use reliable, standardized manufacturing processes to produce curved-shape and conformal electronics | $14.6M | Series B | Feb 15, 2018 |  |
| Zervant | - Zervant offers a market leading online invoicing platform with integrated payment and financial products for micro enterprises across Europe. - Zervant was founded back in 2010 and is based in Espoo (Finland). - Zervant's current core markets are Finland, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and Austria. | $6.6M | Series B | Feb 13, 2018 |  |
| BehavioSec | BehavioSec is the industry’s pioneer and technology leader for behavioral biometrics and continuous authentication, safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions today. Deployed across Global 2000 companies to dramatically reduce fraud, friction, threat and theft, BehavioSec verifies and protects human digital identities byunderstanding how we uniquely type and swipe across our ever-changing devices. Whether used in the Cloud or on-premises, BehavioSec delivers the superior user experience, precision and scale needed by organizations to keep customers engaged while catching evasive, real-time attacks other solutions miss. Founded in the Nordics in 2008 out of groundbreaking research, BehavioSec works with organizations like DARPA, is recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor and RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist, and has earned investment from leading firms like Forgepoint Capital, Cisco, ABN AMRO, Conor Ventures, and Octopus Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices worldwide, BehavioSec is ready to help you reduce risk, improve compliance and digitally transform your distributed workforce and customer experience. | $17.5M | Series B | Jan 29, 2018 |  |
| TactoTek | TactoTek develops and licenses injection-molded structural electronics (IMSE®) technologies. Automotive, aviation, connected home, industrial control, and medical brands use TactoTek innovations to create next-generation user experiences that are compelling, differentiated, and more sustainable. Designers use TactoTek IP to integrate circuits andcomponents directly into plastic parts, transforming conventional structures into smart interactive surfaces. TactoTek licenses its intellectual property, including over 280 patents and critical know-how developed over a decade of intensive R&D and quality testing, to global manufacturers who use reliable, standardized manufacturing processes to produce curved-shape and conformal electronics | $9.2M |  | Feb 21, 2017 |  |
| Blackwood Seven | Blackwood Seven is a media analytics platform which strives to increase the effect of company’s media spend using our predictive analytics framework built on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using real-time modelling and advanced KPI prediction we are able to increase a company’s media ROI by up to 15-25%. | $15.1M |  | Aug 30, 2016 |  |
| Zervant | - Zervant offers a market leading online invoicing platform with integrated payment and financial products for micro enterprises across Europe. - Zervant was founded back in 2010 and is based in Espoo (Finland). - Zervant's current core markets are Finland, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and Austria. | $4.4M | Series A | Aug 16, 2016 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Northzone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northzone-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Tesi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tesi) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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- [OpenOcean](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/open-ocean) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Business Finland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tekes) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/centre-for-economic-development-transport-and-the-environment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Conor Venture Partners invest in?

Conor Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Semiconductor startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Conor Venture Partners's check size?

Conor Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$3.3M at Seed, $3.9M–$8.8M at Series A and $2.4M–$16M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Conor Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Conor Venture Partners?

Public channels for Conor Venture Partners include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Conor Venture Partners?

The team at Conor Venture Partners includes Jari Mieskonen (Managing Partner) and Manu Makela (Co-Founder and Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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