# Jari Ovaskainen

> Jari Ovaskainen is a seed investor backing Digital Media and Search Engine. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Sep 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Jari Ovaskainen is a seed investor in London focused on Digital Media and Search Engine. Jari Ovaskainen

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Media | 1 | 50% |
| Search Engine | 1 | 50% |
| Visual Search | 1 | 50% |
| Computer Vision | 1 | 50% |
| Semantic Search | 1 | 50% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Valossa | Valossa providers video recognition and content intelligence software platform for businesses working with video. Video recognition software is available as a SaaS service and on-premise software solutions. Valossa AI technology combines multimodal video analysis and recognition with high level semantic inferencing to make sense of video contentdata. Valossa builds computer software that sees, hears and profiles video content based on its semantic information. Valossa is a Finnish company founded in 2015 as a university spin-off. It uses latest machine learning technologies to interpret video content like human does.Sign up to Valossa Portal at www.valossa.com to start recognizing people, objects, sounds, video structure, styles, colors, logos and inappropriate content and use Video Insight tools for content recognition and profiling and explore comprehensive video recognition API to use powerful recognition capabilities in applications and tools.The platform lets you access online utilities that help in video content profiling, scene-level searching, training face recognition, content inspection, highlights extraction, brand monitoring and inappropriate content reporting. Valossa AI technology feeds off the "deep content" of videos. Deep content is the essence of the video itself: visual objects and activities, sequences, audio sounds and spoken language. | $2M | Seed | Sep 06, 2017 | https://www.valossa.com |
| VieLoco | VieLoco is the new, fun and unique way to make meaningful relationships with people near and afar based on shared passions in life! VieLoco lets you explore someone's profile, photos, personal video, fun bio facts, and interests in life, while also chatting, live streaming, and sending unique gifts and experiences. Discover your mutualpassions and make it happen! |  | Angel | Feb 01, 2016 | https://x.com/getvieloco |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [01Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/01-ventures-3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Reaktor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reaktor-polte) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Jari Ovaskainen invest in?

Jari Ovaskainen invests primarily in Digital Media, Search Engine and Visual Search startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Jari Ovaskainen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jari Ovaskainen closed in Sep 2017. Shizune tracks 2 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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