# Harri Manninen

> Harri Manninen is a seed investor at Play Ventures (Helsinki) backing Gaming and Video Games. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Play Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/play-ventures)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrimanninen/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/karipelaaja

Harri Manninen is a seed investor at Play Ventures in Helsinki focused on Gaming and Video Games. Harri Manninen - Founding Partner @ Play Ventures

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$8.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $345k–$3.2M |
| Series A | $8.1M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 11 | 34% |
| Video Games | 7 | 22% |
| PC Games | 5 | 16% |
| Software | 5 | 16% |
| Online Games | 5 | 16% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 25% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 6 | 19% |
| United States | 5 | 16% |
| Turkey | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 3% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vuelo | Vuelo is redefining how the world plans, books and pays for travel, elevating journeys into richer experiences | $8.7M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Cypher Games | Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company that develops casual games for users and players. The company focuses on the next generation mobile puzzle games. It aims to shape the future of mobile gaming together with its colleagues, investors, and thought partners. | $30M | Series A | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| FERASET | FERASET is a mobile application powered by artificial intelligence that focuses on categories like utility, design, video, music, and photography. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| Deftouch | Deftouch is a game development company that currently focuses on winning the Cricket gaming market, by providing a billion cricket-mad followers with a platform to engage & interact with their daydreams with a social, Realtime multiplayer game. |  |  | Oct 09, 2024 |  |
| Social First | Social First is a fresh studio, highly experienced in cross-platform social sandbox MMO's. With proven product/audience fit and exceptional results in early market testing, our current title is based years of learnings and data, providing significant evolution in UGC, digital asset trading and social gameplay.Combined with a validatedgrowth playbook with IDFA-independent UA across platforms for scaling, we are on a clear path to a $1B+ company.We are a veteran, full stack team with years of experience and numerous titles across the industry under our belts, backed by Play Ventures.As the latest milestone, our pre-alpha testing in June 2023 proved exceptionally strong engagement and retention! | $4.2M | Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Benjamin | Benjamin is the holding company for the Benjamin App, a cash-rewards platform that allows consumers, merchants, and gamers to earn cash by completing daily tasks, playing casual games, viewing content and advertisements, and making card purchases with cash back. The application operates within the cashback, gaming, and digital advertisingindustries. Benjamin focuses on creating user-friendly experiences that facilitate engagement and reward participation. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Order of Meta | Order of Meta is a gaming studio brought to professional game creators, unique specialists who have created more than one project in the mid-core and hardcore genres. | $3.3M | Seed | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Kek Entertainment | Kek Entertainment makes multiplayer mobile games. | $8M | Seed | Nov 28, 2023 |  |
| Scenario | Scenario is a developer of application modeling 3D objects for the metaverse. This technology makes and shares 3D experiences that help in scanning and capturing anything in the world with a smartphone. | $6M | Seed | Jan 19, 2023 |  |
| Jarvi Games | Jarvi Games is a team of young and enthusiastic people who share the goal of making the best MMO action game on mobile devices. We aspire to build the best gaming experience in open world! Jarvi Games was established in 2021 in Lakatamia, Nicosia. | $3M | Seed | Dec 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Games Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-games-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Game Tech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/game-tech-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Crowberry Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowberry-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Makers Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/makers-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [e2vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e2vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flyer One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flyer-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Play Ventures

VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

5 contacts available at Play Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anton Backman | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anton-backman |
| Elad Levy | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elad-levy-fec7 |
| Harri Manninen | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harri-manninen |
| Henric Suuronen | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henric-suuronen |
| Michail Katkoff | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michail-katkoff |

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## FAQ

### What does Harri Manninen invest in?

Harri Manninen invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and PC Games startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Harri Manninen's check size?

Harri Manninen typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$8.7M at Seed, $345k–$3.2M at Pre-Seed and $8.1M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Harri Manninen participates in.

### When did Harri Manninen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Harri Manninen closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 32 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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