Jari Tuovinen
Partner, Founder @ Nordic Foodtech VC
Helsinki, Finland
Jari Tuovinen is a seed investor at Nordic Foodtech VC in Helsinki focused on Software and Internet. Jari Tuovinen - Partner, Founder @ Nordic Foodtech VC
- Total investments:
- 37
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Jari Tuovinen invests in
Stages Jari Tuovinen invests in
Countries Jari Tuovinen invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (19%)
- Internet 4 (11%)
- Information Technology 4 (11%)
- Video 3 (8%)
- Gaming 3 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 28 (76%)
- Series A 3 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
- Equity Crowdfunding 1 (3%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (3%)
Country
- Finland 28 (76%)
- Ireland 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kuva Space
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Kuva Space improves life on Earth by using the world's most extensive hyperspectral satellite constellation and artificial intelligence. The company's GREEN DATA® platform will address some of the world's most important concerns, including climate change, disaster response, food demand, and safety and security. | $17.6M / Series A / Nov 02, 2023 | |
Ruokaboksi
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Ruokaboksi delivers delicious, healthy, and easy-to-cook weekly meal plans straight to your door. The company's services include allowing clients to select their favorite dishes from the website. It saves consumers the trouble of going to a physical store. | $3.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 17, 2022 | |
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Kuva Space
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Kuva Space improves life on Earth by using the world's most extensive hyperspectral satellite constellation and artificial intelligence. The company's GREEN DATA® platform will address some of the world's most important concerns, including climate change, disaster response, food demand, and safety and security. | $3.1M / Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | |
Transfluent
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Transfluent is the ultimate high-tech solution for language translations in social media, web, and apps. We do what traditional translation companies cannot – fast, dynamic, and yet, high quality. Imagine typing a Tweet in English and having it appear in fluent Chinese a few minutes later in Weibo, the leading Chinese social media site.This isno longer just a dream. Transfluent makes it possible to post in English and have the contents professionally translated into practically any language in nearly realtime.Transfluent is integrated to services such as Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Weibo, Magento, Zendesk and Unity. And if this is not enough, our API makes it possible to embed professional translation to any platform out there. For game developers, we’ve even added native support for translating iOS and Android resource files.Today no machine is really able to understand the content. Hence no machine is able to translate text, apart from single words and the most simple expressions. To translate content, humans are needed. And not just anyone, but professionals who are native speakers of the target language. That’s just what we have. | $817K / Equity Crowdfunding / Mar 27, 2017 | |
Gutsy Animations
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Gutsy Animations creates and develops animations that are clever and gutsy content that is above all meaningful. Gutsy Animations' production are aimed at international audiences and based on a concept of genuine social impact. | $637K / Seed / Dec 15, 2016 | |
TestLab Finland
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TestLab Finland Ltd is an IoT based solutions for the maritime and logistics industries. TestLab Finland Ltd provides innovative solution to its customers to increase their revenue without sacrificing sustainable values. | $318K / Seed / Nov 24, 2016 | |
Evervest
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Evervest is a digital wealth management service that makes it easy for you to start investing. The portfolio is specifically tailored for your investing goals, timeframes and risk level. With everything you need in one place, you have complete clarity and control.They harness cutting-edge research to build a realistic portfolio that diversifyrisk in an optimal way. They focus on long-term growth and continually monitor your investment for you to make sure it’s on target. The service minimises the time you need to spend actively managing your portfolio. | $955K / Seed / Nov 24, 2016 | |
Bonusway
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Bonusway is a Helsinki-based growth company. Bonusway offers cash rewards and online shopping inspiration for consumers. For eCommerce businesses they offer loyal customers and a way to reach their marketing goals. Bonusway operates in Russia, Nordic Countries CEE and Turkey and is the market leader in Northern and Eastern Europe with over 5 000000 users and 8 000 eCommerce partners worldwide.In Russia Bonusway operates under brand Kopikot . Bonusway was formerly known as internationally as Bonusbay and in Finland as Ostohyvitys.fi | $3.9M / Series A / Nov 16, 2016 | |
Olento life
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Olento Life Ltd is a Finnish mHealth developer that creates effective, game like methods to increase health and happiness. Olento Life Ltd offers an app,:We Did It® that is a mobile tool for active couples therapy. It helps couples solve problems in a totally new way, by themselves without books, lectures or therapy sessions. | $106K / Seed / Oct 15, 2016 | |
Hubchat
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Hubchat is an online meeting place that allows people to create, grow, and explore local and global communities around shared interests. The company was founded by Pirkka Pasi Haarlaa on July 2015 and is headquartered in Lohja, Finland. | $1.8M / Seed / Jun 01, 2016 | |
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Co-Investors
About Nordic Foodtech VC
Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food.
Nordic Foodtech VC Contacts
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Jari Tuovinen
Partner, Founder
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Lauri Reuter
Partner, Founder
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Mika Kukkurainen
Partner, Founder
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Pekka Siivonen-Uotila
Partner, Founder
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FAQ
What does Jari Tuovinen invest in?
Jari Tuovinen invests primarily in Software, Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Jari Tuovinen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jari Tuovinen closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 37 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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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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