# Lasse Järvinen

> Lasse Järvinen is a angel investor at Bonusway (Helsinki) backing Software and SaaS. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bonusway](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonusway)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lassej
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lassej
- Website: https://x.com/lassej
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lasse.jarvinen

Lasse Järvinen is a angel investor at Bonusway in Helsinki focused on Software and SaaS. Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Angel | $53k–$159k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| SaaS | 2 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 25% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 25% |
| Restaurants | 2 | 25% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angel | 3 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 5 | 63% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| Sweden | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Serviceform | As digitalization forges ahead, it is very important that underserved businesses have the same knowledge and access to digital tools that large companies do. Our mission is to make complex technologies accessible and simplify them under one service. Serviceform helps businesses solve their most common problems with lead generation, customermanagement, and customer support. Our product portfolio includes chatbots, live chat, pop-ups, lead bars, social inbox, CRM, web analytics, and dynamic forms. Serviceform does this by taking the best parts of software used by the top companies of the world and simplifying it for the SME market. | $2.6M | Series A | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| DealGuru | DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space. |  | Angel | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| Fiksuvuokraus.fi | Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools. | $53K | Angel | Feb 20, 2019 |  |
| Hostaway | Hostaway is known as the market leader in marketing, sales, management, reporting, and communication for vacation rental property managers. One of the largest marketplaces in the industry and deep integrations with Airbnb, VRBO, Expedia, HomeAway, and more, property managers can increase exposure while saving time and money. Thousands of propertymanagers around the world trust Hostaway, the fastest-growing vacation rental software in the world. The combination of offering the best support and onboarding in the industry with a highly scalable and customizable platform is the key to success for any property manager! | $743K |  | Feb 20, 2018 |  |
| Hostaway | Hostaway is known as the market leader in marketing, sales, management, reporting, and communication for vacation rental property managers. One of the largest marketplaces in the industry and deep integrations with Airbnb, VRBO, Expedia, HomeAway, and more, property managers can increase exposure while saving time and money. Thousands of propertymanagers around the world trust Hostaway, the fastest-growing vacation rental software in the world. The combination of offering the best support and onboarding in the industry with a highly scalable and customizable platform is the key to success for any property manager! | $768K | Seed | Feb 20, 2018 |  |
| ResQ Club | ResQ Club is a Finnish company connecting sustainable restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores with consumers that appreciate eating affordable quality food. ResQ partners can drastically reduce their food waste with their proprietary location-based mobile and web service, as it enables consumers to find and rescue surplus food in their proximity.Every meal purchased via ResQ is one less meal thrown away, helping their urban communities to waste less and be more sustainable.They are on a mission to reduce food waste to zero at restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores. It's estimated that 10% of the already produced food in restaurants ends up in the trash instead of hungry mouths. On a global scale, this equals 11 million tons of food wasted every year. | $525K |  | May 16, 2017 |  |
| Transfluent | 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. | $817K | Equity Crowdfunding | Mar 27, 2017 |  |
| Offerilla | Offerilla is the most popular marketplace for local discounts. Offerilla was founded by entrepreneurs Risto Juntunen, Mikko Ollikkala and Aleksi Paavola. | $159K | Angel | Mar 03, 2016 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ananda Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ananda-ventures-gmbh-social-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FoodLabs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-food-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BackingMinds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backingminds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gorilla Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gorilla-capital-2017-fund-ky) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Innovestor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovestor) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Virta Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/virta-equity) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Bonusway

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

Bonusway is a Helsinki-based growth company. Bonusway offers cash rewards and online shopping inspiration for consumers. For eCommerce businesses they offer loyal customers and a way to reach their marketing goals. Bonusway operates in Russia, Nordic Countries CEE and Turkey and is the market leader in Northern and Eastern Europe with over 5 000000 users and 8 000 eCommerce partners worldwide.In Russia Bonusway operates under brand Kopikot . Bonusway was formerly known as internationally as Bonusbay and in Finland as Ostohyvitys.fi

2 contacts available at Bonusway.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lasse Järvinen | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lasse-j%C3%A4rvinen |
| Tatu Koistinen | Co-Founder, CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tatu-koistinen |

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## FAQ

### What does Lasse Järvinen invest in?

Lasse Järvinen invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Angel and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lasse Järvinen's check size?

Lasse Järvinen typically joins rounds of $53k–$159k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lasse Järvinen participates in.

### When did Lasse Järvinen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lasse Järvinen closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 8 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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