# Juha Paananen

> Juha Paananen is a seed investor at Soba backing Gaming, Health Care and Video Games. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Soba](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soba-studios)
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/juha-paananen/0/29/267
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/juhapaananen

Juha Paananen is a seed investor at Soba focused on Gaming and Health Care. Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $424k–$3.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 5 | 33% |
| Health Care | 4 | 27% |
| Video Games | 4 | 27% |
| Wellness | 3 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 20% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 33% |
| Finland | 2 | 13% |
| Singapore | 2 | 13% |
| Spain | 1 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zoe Studios | Zoe Studios is a mobile gaming company specialising in unique puzzle games, with a goal of making chess more accessible and enjoyable for casual players. |  | Angel | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Campfire (YC W22) | Campfire is an operator of an online platform that allows remote teams to socialize virtually. The company's platform, which is used by leading companies, updates team spaces with new activities on a weekly basis, allowing users to connect easily to have a relaxed social space. | $4M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Fondo | Fondo helps with bookkeeping and beyond so founders can grow their businesses with more resources. The company strives to help founders build an enduring business by taking work off of their plate, providing them with the data needed to make key business decisions, and making sure the startup is in compliance at the state and federal level. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2023 |  |
| Talewind | Talewind is a professional UK games studio focused on creating incredible experiences for the metaverse. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Revery | Revery is using game thinking to revolutionize wellness. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| Kasaz | Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Speechly | Speechly create voice interfaces for professional tools and services using deep learning and natural language processing technologies. | $2.1M | Seed | Dec 19, 2019 |  |
| Homage | Homage provides non-medical and medical services to seniors and adults. Their services include disability assessments, activities of daily living assistance, nursing procedures, and rehabilitation services, including physiotherapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. They also provide health screening, mobile medicine, telemedicine,ambulance, and medication delivery services. | $4.2M | Series A | Jul 03, 2018 |  |
| Pelago | Pelago, formerly Quit Genius, is the world’s leading virtual clinic for substance use management. We are transforming substance use support—from prevention to treatment—delivering education, management skills, and opportunities for positive change to members struggling with substance use, most commonly tobacco, alcohol, or opioids. Our solutiongives employers the means to offer on-demand, personalized support to workers seeking to live healthier lives. Pelago’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs deliver convenient, accessible, and effective support that seamlessly integrates with health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and wellness platforms. To date, Pelago has helped more than 750,000 members manage their substance use and improve their lives. | $2.6M | Seed | May 22, 2018 |  |
| Biobot Analytics | Biobot Analytics is a wastewater epidemiology company that is transforming wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories. Its wastewater monitoring technology analyzes urine and stool samples to create a health database that is independent of hospital reporting systems, free from societal biases affecting who can and can’t seek care,and most importantly, rapidly adaptable to new and emerging public health threats. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 30, 2018 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aafmanagement) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arabangel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Golden Gate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-gate-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NewDo Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newdo-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Soba

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

Soba Studios operates a game maker system and portal for gaming users. It develops a space where users make their own games and share it to people. Soba Studios is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

1 contacts available at Soba.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Juha Paananen | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juha-paananen |

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## FAQ

### What does Juha Paananen invest in?

Juha Paananen invests primarily in Gaming, Health Care and Video Games startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Juha Paananen's check size?

Juha Paananen typically joins rounds of $424k–$3.4M at Seed and $1.2M–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Juha Paananen participates in.

### When did Juha Paananen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Juha Paananen closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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