# Jukka Sonninen

> Jukka Sonninen is a seed investor at SAP (Helsinki) backing SaaS, Forestry and Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sap)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2017
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jukka-sonninen-5b004610

Jukka Sonninen is a seed investor at SAP in Helsinki focused on SaaS and Forestry. Aito’s Chairman of the Board. Jukka has worked over 20 years in different management positions within the IT- industry. He has been the founding member and CEO of SAP Finland and now sits at the boards of several companies such as Solteq. He has also supported the Finnish software company Basware and Endero in their international growth andlisting on the stock exchange. Now, he primarily works as the CEO and board member of Fifth Element Oy.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Forestry | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Renewable Energy | 1 | 100% |

9 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CollectiveCrunch | CollectiveCrunch is an AI leader in the forestry industry. We collect and analyze a wide range of information, including climate, geo and process data, to bring best-in-class forest inventories and accurate carbon storage calculations to our customers. The largest forest owners the Nordics and Baltics are already using using our solution, LindaForest.With Linda Forest, our customers gain actionable insights, leading to improved forest management, informed forest investments and up-to-date carbon storage analytics. Overall, Linda Forest can reduce forest planning costs while increasing accuracy. We are currently focused on the Nordic and Baltic countries but are soon adopting the solution to Northern America, Russia and other forestry markets. Moreover, we are working with insurance companies to apply our expert analytics to new opportunities such as prediction of forest risk. |  | Seed | Sep 20, 2017 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gorilla Ventures Oy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gorilla-ventures-oy) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Takeoff Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/takeoff-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SAP

VC Fund · Walldorf, Germany

SAP is a technology company that develops enterprise application software for companies and industries across diverse sectors. The company offers solutions covering various lines of businesses, including asset management, commerce, finance, human resources, manufacturing, marketing, sales, services, sourcing and procurement, supply chain, andsustainability as well as research and development, and engineering.

5 contacts available at SAP.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dipti Shankar | Software Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dipti-shankar |
| Erhard Schipporeit | Member of the Supervisory Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erhard-schipporeit |
| Justin Somaini | Chief Security Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-somaini |
| Norbert Neef | Customer Success Partner SAP CX | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norbert-neef |
| Simon Lee | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-lee-4d33 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jukka Sonninen invest in?

Jukka Sonninen invests primarily in SaaS, Forestry and Software startups, most often at Seed 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 Jukka Sonninen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jukka Sonninen closed in Sep 2017. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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