Kim Groop
Managing Partner & co-founder @ First Fellow Partners
Helsinki, Finland
Kim Groop is a seed investor at First Fellow Partners in Helsinki focused on Software and SaaS. Kim Groop - Managing Partner & co-founder @ First Fellow Partners
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Kim Groop invests in
Stages Kim Groop invests in
Countries Kim Groop invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $340k–$8.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.1M–$1.6M
- Series A
- $9M–$33M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (38%)
- SaaS 4 (25%)
- Machine Learning 4 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (25%)
- Database 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (19%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- Finland 8 (50%)
- Sweden 1 (6%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
- United States 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| FinanceKey is a software company making APIs that integrate multiple banks and treasury for real-time payments and automate workflows. | $3.1M / Seed / Jan 15, 2025 | ||
| Louhe provides data driven security culture with explainable AI. | $3.3M / Seed / Oct 14, 2024 | ||
| Database systems for storing, processing, and sharing LiDAR data at scale. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| FinanceKey is a software company making APIs that integrate multiple banks and treasury for real-time payments and automate workflows. | Pre-Seed / Mar 12, 2022 | ||
| A unified workflow to search and uncover trends within petabytes of multimodal data, and build spatial intelligence. We build the tools for the pioneers of tomorrow, as spatial intelligence goes from apps to the real world. | $8.3M / Seed / Feb 17, 2022 | ||
| Aiven is an information technology company that manages open-source data infrastructure in the cloud. Headquartered in Helsinki with offices in Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, and Boston, Aiven provides managed open-source data technologies, like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and M3, on all major clouds. Through Aiven, developers can do what they do best: createapplications. Meanwhile, we do what we do best; manage cloud data infrastructure. We enable our customers to drive business results from open-source that trigger true transformations far beyond their own backyards. | $40M / Series B / Feb 05, 2020 | ||
| Aito is a predictive database that uses existing relational datasets for predictions and recommendations. It allows you to validate ideas, build prototypes and use in production before having to invest heavily in AI projects first. It has been used by large corporations (e.g. IKEA) and high-growth startups (e.g. Freska), backed by Risto Siilasmaa(F-Secure Founder, Nokia Chairman) and featured on TechCrunch (May 2019). | $1.8M / Seed / Nov 04, 2019 | ||
| AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that allows professionals to make critical decisions with confidence and speed. The company has nearly 2,000 enterprise clients, including financial institutions that use the platform to inform their business decisions. AlphaSense is trusted by over 1,800 enterprise customers, including a majority of theS&P 500. | $50M / Series B / Jul 17, 2019 | ||
| Aito is a predictive database that uses existing relational datasets for predictions and recommendations. It allows you to validate ideas, build prototypes and use in production before having to invest heavily in AI projects first. It has been used by large corporations (e.g. IKEA) and high-growth startups (e.g. Freska), backed by Risto Siilasmaa(F-Secure Founder, Nokia Chairman) and featured on TechCrunch (May 2019). | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / May 07, 2019 | ||
| Aiven is an information technology company that manages open-source data infrastructure in the cloud. Headquartered in Helsinki with offices in Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, and Boston, Aiven provides managed open-source data technologies, like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and M3, on all major clouds. Through Aiven, developers can do what they do best: createapplications. Meanwhile, we do what we do best; manage cloud data infrastructure. We enable our customers to drive business results from open-source that trigger true transformations far beyond their own backyards. | $9M / Series A / May 03, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About First Fellow Partners
A private investment firm run by Risto Siilasmaa and Kim Groop. Grounded in a deeply held set of values around entrepreneurship, trust, integrity and helping solve the world’s problems. We partner with strong and ambitious technology entrepreneurs driven by a mission to fix or build something important in the world.
First Fellow Partners Contacts
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FAQ
What does Kim Groop invest in?
Kim Groop invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Kim Groop invest in?
Kim Groop typically joins rounds of $340k–$8.3M at Seed, $1.1M–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$33M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Kim Groop's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Kim Groop took part in.
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When did Kim Groop last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kim Groop closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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