Ekaterina Gianelli
Venture Partner @ Calm/Storm VC
Helsinki, Finland
Ekaterina Gianelli is a seed investor at Calm/Storm VC in Helsinki focused on Health Care and Medical. Ekaterina is a Venture Partner at Calm/Storm, the most active early-stage digital health investor in Europe. Ekaterina spent the past decade in venture capital as a former General Partner at Inventure, a leading seed investor in the Nordics, where she led investments across a spectrum of domains, including digital health, enterprise softwareand conscious consumption. She also set up and led Inventure's First Cheque programme, focusing on angel and pre-seed rounds. Prior to her tenure at Inventure, Ekaterina was part of the team that scaled Fjord, a prominent design and innovation firm that was later acquired by Accenture Interactive. An operator turned VC, she wants to be among the first investors to team up with founders, supporting them in shaping their teams and GTM strategies.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Ekaterina Gianelli invests in
Stages Ekaterina Gianelli invests in
Countries Ekaterina Gianelli invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $700k–$5.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $955k–$970k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 8 (42%)
- Medical 5 (26%)
- Medical Device 3 (16%)
- Mobile 2 (11%)
- Fitness 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (53%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (11%)
- Series A 2 (11%)
- Funding Round 2 (11%)
Country
- Finland 6 (32%)
- Sweden 3 (16%)
- Denmark 3 (16%)
- United States 2 (11%)
- France 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Circle Health
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Circle Health is developing an integrated preventive care platform, Circle OS, that combines in-person diagnostics, AI-enabled clinical support, and consumer-facing digital health tools. | $5.1M / Seed / Feb 11, 2026 | |
Komu Homes
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Komu provides AI powered property management for asset management companies. Our property management service covers all operational tasks of real estate portfolios: customer service, leasing, property management, and financial administration. | $1.1M / Jun 01, 2025 | |
Bahn Express
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Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe. | $954.8K / Pre-Seed / Feb 28, 2025 | |
Hybird Energy
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Hybird emerged from frustration with traditional electricity monitoring, which lacked detailed insights. Now, Hybird tracks electricity usage at the source level, making it easier to save energy, cut costs, and reduce your CO2 footprint—all at a comparable cost to traditional panels.Hybird offers source-level transparency in electricalconsumption, driving energy management to new levels of efficiency through enhanced control and knowledge. | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 28, 2025 | |
Steep
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Steep is an analytics platform. | $970.1K / Pre-Seed / Oct 11, 2022 | |
Medoma
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Medoma is a virtual acute ward that offers tech-enabled acute care in the patient's home through its hospital home services. It provides medical equipment, staff, and tools that enable monitoring health care of the patients at home. | $5.9M / Seed / Sep 06, 2022 | |
Yeply
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Yeply Mobile Bike Service is a start-up that specializes in bicycle maintenance. Yeply’s ideology is that bicycle maintenance should be an easy, quick, and effortless experience for the customer. It believes that every bike is worth caring for and they value every cyclist equally - cycling belongs to everyone.It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Helsinki, Finland. | $2.7M / Seed / Mar 15, 2022 | |
Elsa
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Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet. | $4.4M / Seed / Nov 05, 2021 | |
NØIE
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NØIE is a skincare company that offers personalized skincare products and solutions for dry skin, acne, eczema, psoriasis, and more. An algorithm is used in the company's skin test to assign customers to their skin family and recommend customized products to suit their skin. Additionally, CO2-neutral deliveries are provided, compensating forcarbon emissions generated during the shipping process by planting trees in Denmark. The company aims to improve the quality of life for each individual with skin issues. NØIE was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. | $12M / Series A / May 06, 2021 | |
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Elsa
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Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet. | $2.1M / Seed / Jan 19, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About Calm/Storm VC
Calm/Storm Ventures is an industry focused venture capital firm that invests in digital solutions improving our health and wellbeing. Investing in founders who change lives for the better, Calm/Storm Ventures believes in lifelong learning and personal growth, empowering entrepreneurs with unique access to experienced HealthTech founders.
Calm/Storm VC Contacts
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Ekaterina Gianelli
Venture Partner
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Hansi Hansmann
Founder & Managing Partner
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Jan Alexander Jedlinski
Venture Partner
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Jan Weiss
Supporting Partner
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Johannes Blaschke
Partner
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FAQ
What does Ekaterina Gianelli invest in?
Ekaterina Gianelli invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Medical Device startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ekaterina Gianelli's check size?
Ekaterina Gianelli typically joins rounds of $700k–$5.3M at Seed and $955k–$970k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ekaterina Gianelli participates in.
When did Ekaterina Gianelli last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ekaterina Gianelli closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 19 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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