# Kim Groop

> Kim Groop is a seed investor at First Fellow Partners (Helsinki) backing Software and SaaS. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [First Fellow Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-fellow-partners)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimgroop

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $340k–$8.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$1.6M |
| Series A | $9M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 31% |
| SaaS | 4 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 19% |
| Database | 2 | 13% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 8 | 50% |
| Sweden | 1 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FinanceKey | 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 | Louhe provides data driven security culture with explainable AI. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 14, 2024 |  |
| LumiDB | Database systems for storing, processing, and sharing LiDAR data at scale. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| FinanceKey | 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 |  |
| Yaak Technologies ApS | 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 | 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 |  |
| AlphaSense | 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.ai | 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 | 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 |  |
| AlphaSense | 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. | $33M | Series A | Mar 06, 2016 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Fellow Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-fellow-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lifeline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifeline-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vendep Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vendepcapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Business Finland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-finland) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About First Fellow Partners

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

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.

2 contacts available at First Fellow Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kim Groop | Managing Partner & co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-groop |
| Risto Siilasmaa | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/risto-siilasmaa |

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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 is Kim Groop's check size?

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 ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kim Groop participates in.

### 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.

### 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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