# Helena Lähteenmäki

> Helena Lähteenmäki is a debt financing investor at Nefco backing CleanTech and Sustainability. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nefco](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nefco-18ee)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenalahteenmaki

Helena Lähteenmäki is a debt financing investor at Nefco in Helsinki focused on CleanTech and Sustainability. Helena Lähteenmäki currently works as an Investment Director for NEFCO. She previously worked at Finpro as a Commercial Counselor, Head of Trade Center, Moscow. Helena Lähteenmäki attended the University of Tampere 1925-2018.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CleanTech | 1 | 100% |
| Sustainability | 1 | 100% |
| Packaging Services | 1 | 100% |
| Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sulapac | Sulapac brings solutions to the global plastic waste problem with biodegradable packaging innovation.Sulapac combines luxury, sustainability, and unlimited design possibilities. Sulapac packages can be manufactured using injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding techniques. Sulapac has comparable properties to plastics and by using Sulapacbarrier coatings water, oil, and oxygen barrier properties can be further improved. |  | Debt Financing | Apr 27, 2023 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Nefco

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

Nefco is an international financial institution that finances the initial scale-up of Nordic green solutions on international markets. Nefco has financed and implemented over 1,500 projects in energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean water and sanitation, waste management, and cleaner industrial processes, among others. Their task is toaccelerate the shift to green by financing the initial scale-up of Nordic environmentally and climate-friendly solutions in international markets.

2 contacts available at Nefco.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Helena Lähteenmäki | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helena-l%C3%A4hteenm%C3%A4ki |
| Katariina Vartiainen | Senior Manager, Environment and Sustainability | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katariina-vartiainen |

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## FAQ

### What does Helena Lähteenmäki invest in?

Helena Lähteenmäki invests primarily in CleanTech, Sustainability and Packaging Services startups, most often at Debt Financing stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Helena Lähteenmäki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Helena Lähteenmäki closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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