Kaj Hagros
Managing Partner Nordics @ Redstone.VC
Helsinki, Finland
Kaj Hagros is a seed investor at Redstone.VC in Helsinki focused on SaaS and Local. Kaj Hagros is Partner at Redstone based in Helsinki and covers the Nordic and Baltic countries. Kay has a broad history as an entrepreneur, investor, and C-level executive. Prior to Redstone, Kaj was the co-founder and CEO of seed investor and venture accelerator Pivot5, CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki traded Tecnotree Corporation, COO of FOX Mobile, VP ofMarketing of First Hop, and Head of Strategy and Business Development at Nokia Networks. Kaj has executed a broad range of early-stage investments and successful exits and chaired companies such as Booxmedia, Cabforce, Readpeak, Hibox, Heltti, and Inderes.Mr. Hagros attended Aalto University, NYU Stern School of Business, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), HEC Paris, TRIUM Global Executive MBA, Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan, and Merisotakoulu - Sjökrigsskolan - Naval Academy.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries Kaj Hagros invests in
Stages Kaj Hagros invests in
Countries Kaj Hagros invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $298k–$938k
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (11%)
- Local 1 (11%)
- Travel 1 (11%)
- Software 1 (11%)
- Insurance 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (22%)
- Angel 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
- Equity Crowdfunding 1 (11%)
Investments
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Chipmetrics
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Test chip, test elements and test wafer business concept builder for advanced materials and microelectronics manufacturing. Expert in thin film conformality characterization. Mission is to accelerate applications of conformal 3D thin films. Main product line: PillarHall test chips. | Pre-Seed / Dec 15, 2021 | |
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Chipmetrics
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Test chip, test elements and test wafer business concept builder for advanced materials and microelectronics manufacturing. Expert in thin film conformality characterization. Mission is to accelerate applications of conformal 3D thin films. Main product line: PillarHall test chips. | Seed / Nov 25, 2021 | |
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Fiuge
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Easy homedelivery | $938K / Seed / Sep 02, 2021 | |
Redkik Inc.
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Redkik is a global software company operating with embedded insurance as a SaaS provider, with the mission to simplify and improve the insurance industry for all parties within logistics and transportation. No need for annual insurance policies tying your business down, Redkik uses the latest technology and insures your shipment when you book it,with premiums and coverage tailored to your specific needs. Redkik's extensive on-demand marine cargo insurance is based on the factual per shipment value today, not within the next 12 months.The team of Redkik has a big passion for innovation and technology, together with great experience and deep knowledge from logistics and transportation, risk management, cargo insurance, machine learning, and software development.Join Redkik's rapidly growing network of global freight forwarders offering on-demand per shipment insurance. Redkik, brings intelligence to insurance and peace of mind for you and your customers. | $265K / Pre-Seed / Jun 23, 2021 | |
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Redkik Inc.
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Redkik is a global software company operating with embedded insurance as a SaaS provider, with the mission to simplify and improve the insurance industry for all parties within logistics and transportation. No need for annual insurance policies tying your business down, Redkik uses the latest technology and insures your shipment when you book it,with premiums and coverage tailored to your specific needs. Redkik's extensive on-demand marine cargo insurance is based on the factual per shipment value today, not within the next 12 months.The team of Redkik has a big passion for innovation and technology, together with great experience and deep knowledge from logistics and transportation, risk management, cargo insurance, machine learning, and software development.Join Redkik's rapidly growing network of global freight forwarders offering on-demand per shipment insurance. Redkik, brings intelligence to insurance and peace of mind for you and your customers. | $298.3K / Seed / Jun 23, 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. | $835.8K / Equity Crowdfunding / Mar 27, 2017 | |
Cabforce
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Cabforce.com is on a mission to make the door-to-door travel experience agony free. They offer fixed price quote, secure online credit card payment and electronic receipts for taxi, private hire car, and minibus bookings in the top 40 European cities. | $1.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 27, 2015 | |
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Cabforce
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Cabforce.com is on a mission to make the door-to-door travel experience agony free. They offer fixed price quote, secure online credit card payment and electronic receipts for taxi, private hire car, and minibus bookings in the top 40 European cities. | Angel / Aug 01, 2014 | |
Booxmedia
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Booxmedia is European innovation leader in developing scalable, high-performance cloudTV solutions to service providers and media companies. We offer end2end, patent pending solution that covers all media types, business models and delivery platforms! | $478K / Mar 20, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About Redstone.VC
Redstone is a European venture capital firm following selected investment strategies. Our focused approach with specialized investment teams for each strategy has enabled us to develop strong sector expertise and networks. This combination supercharges our portfolio companies. We’ve spent a decade building the world’s leading proprietary startupanalytics and data platform, SOFIA, allowing us to make evidence-based and data-driven investment decisions.
Redstone.VC Contacts
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Lucas Paul
Investment Team Member
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Marco Stutz
Partner, Redstone Switzerland
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Michael Brehm
Founding Partner
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Mickael Bellaiche
Partner
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FAQ
What does Kaj Hagros invest in?
Kaj Hagros invests primarily in SaaS, Local and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kaj Hagros's check size?
Kaj Hagros typically joins rounds of $298k–$938k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kaj Hagros participates in.
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When did Kaj Hagros last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kaj Hagros closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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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