# Helen Ventures

> Helen Ventures is a VC fund in Helsinki backing SaaS and Software. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 35%
- Fund size: $55M
- Last fund: Nov 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/helen-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/helen_ventures
- Website: https://www.helenventures.fi/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/helenventures.fi

Helen Ventures is a VC fund in Helsinki focused on SaaS and Software. Helen Ventures invests in the most innovative and transformative startups in the energy, e-mobility, circular economy, decarbonisation, and digital solutions space. We accelerate the growth of early and growth stage companies by developing world class solutions in collaboration with our customers and industry experts. Helen Ventures is thecorporate venture capital arm of Helen Ltd., an energy company making the possibilities of a new energy era accessible to all.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $918k–$5.5M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$19M |
| Series B | $17M–$31M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 13% |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 13% |
| Energy | 3 | 10% |
| Sports | 2 | 6% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 32% |
| Series A | 7 | 23% |
| Series B | 7 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 5 | 16% |
| Austria | 2 | 6% |
| Finland | 2 | 6% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Annastiina Jurmu | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annastiina-jurmu-e1cc |
| Antto Piirainen | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antto-piirainen |
| Henri Isohanni | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henri-isohanni-5551 |
| Mikael Myllymäki | Vice President and Head | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mikael-myllym%C3%A4ki |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Voltfang | We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network. | $17.4M | Series B | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| node.energy | node.energy builds SaaS solutions for the regulatory and commercial management of decentralized energy supply systems for commercial and industrial real estate. Our software massively reduces administrative workload, helps to save energy costs and ensure that our customers are always up to date and compliant to the current regulation. | $17M | Series B | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Gradyent | Delivering Gradyent° Artificial Intelligence cloud platform, which improves heat efficiency by 3 to 5%. | $30.5M | Series B | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Emulate Energy | Emulate Energy transforms demand response into tailored and easy-to-operate energy storage devices costing a fraction of physical batteries. | $5.5M | Series A | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Nobile Group | Nobile is an energy sharing hub platform, directly connecting the producers and suppliers of renewable energy | $5.5M | Seed | Nov 05, 2024 |  |
| Voltfang | We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network. | $8.8M | Series A | Oct 04, 2024 |  |
| Renewabl | Renewabl is a unique platform that enables the rapid and secure achievement of decarbonisation targets by directly matching clean energy certificates from real wind and solar farms on a 24/7 basis. |  | Seed | Jul 25, 2024 |  |
| LiveEO | LiveEO is a leading provider of insights-as-a-service, revolutionizing large-scale infrastructure monitoring worldwide with AI and satellite data. Services span from railway, power line, and pipeline monitoring, to supply chain risk management, delivering actionable insights on ground movement, vegetation management, and deforestation.LiveEO's innovative approach is redefining industry practices, improving operational efficiency, and safeguarding infrastructure safety and sustainability, setting new standards in asset management. | $26.8M | Series B | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Eologix | Eologix introduces an easily retrofittable sensor system for all types of wind turbines. The system consists of one single receiving unit per turbine plus a number of sensing units which are distributed over the blades’ surface. The sensing units can easily mounted, e.g. during regular inspection of the blades. |  | Series B | May 22, 2024 |  |
| enspired | enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe. | $27.6M | Series B | May 14, 2024 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DvH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dvh-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Helen Ventures invest in?

Helen Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Helen Ventures's check size?

Helen Ventures typically joins rounds of $918k–$5.5M at Seed, $5.5M–$19M at Series A and $17M–$31M 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 Helen Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Helen Ventures?

Public channels for Helen Ventures 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 Helen Ventures?

The team at Helen Ventures includes Annastiina Jurmu (Associate), Antto Piirainen (Associate) and Henri Isohanni (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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