# Leena Niemistö

> Leena Niemistö is a seed investor in Helsinki backing Health Care and Software. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leena-niemist%C3%B6-01658924/

Leena Niemistö is a seed investor in Helsinki focused on Health Care and Software. Leena Niemistö

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $480k–$3.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 5 | 26% |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 11% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 11% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 37% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 10 | 53% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maire | Maire is an AI-copilot that helps industry leading B2C companies to detect, understand and monetize emerging online trends | $480K | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Finnadvance | Finnadvance specializes in tailored hardware solutions and bio-materials for cell culture, and microfluidic design and fabrication, and our robotics sector provides aerial imaging and analysis services for forest, agriculture and other assets and stockpile management. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| Rens Original | Rens Original is a manufacturing company. It upcycles post-industrial plastic and spent coffee grounds into finished items. The company offers waterproof sneakers made from coffee. It recycles plastic air intake placed at the heel and sole to increase ventilation and breathability while maintaining waterproof protection. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| Vapaus | A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility. | $3.2M | Seed | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Inscripta | PROFESSIONAL DICTATION MADE EASY | $853.5K | Seed | May 28, 2021 |  |
| Surgify | Surgify are currently preparing the commercialization of a novel technology for bone surgery at Aalto University with financial support from Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation). To enable continuous communication with clinicians, they have been working in close cooperation with Neurosurgical Department of Helsinki University CentralHospital, part of HUS (The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa). | $1.7M | Series C | Jan 08, 2021 |  |
| Finnadvance | Finnadvance specializes in tailored hardware solutions and bio-materials for cell culture, and microfluidic design and fabrication, and our robotics sector provides aerial imaging and analysis services for forest, agriculture and other assets and stockpile management. | $598.3K | Seed | Apr 29, 2020 |  |
| ADESANTE | ADESANTE provides IT solutions to the healthcare. Its main product is SurgeryVision, which is a surgery planning tool for surgeons. Surgeons uses SurgeryVision for planning their surgical procedurs. SurgeryVision presents MRI / CT images to the surgeon in Virtual Reality (VR), where surgeons can make their surgical procedure planning. Thisplan is then presented in the OR, while operating. This helps surgeons to reduce OR time, near miss events, surgical failures and even re-operations. SurgeryVision is sold through our distributor network in Europe, Middle-East and South-East Asia and it is in use by University hospitals (in several surgical disciplines, from microsurgery to compalicated trauma surgery).Our vision is "No surgical failures", which we aim to receive by providing the surgery planning tool for all fully autonomous robotic surgery. On our way towards this ambitious goal, we have now selected as an official partner of NVIDIA Clara Inception program (among with 800 other companies globally). This would provide us a solid platform to take a next step in our path towards our goal.We also have another helathcare IT solutions in our portfolio, like therapy videos in VR and Virtual training centre. These (especially that Virtual training centre) seems to raise a lot of customer interest especially now in days of COVID-19 pandemia. By this solution it is possible to execute e.g. basic ICU nursing tasks for getting care personnel better trained for taking care of ICU patients. | $265K |  | Sep 01, 2019 |  |
| Revieve | Revieve is a market-leading beauty-technology company helping brands and retailers provide their customers with a hyper-personalized way to discover, engage and purchase beauty products. Through Revieve's unparalleled skin diagnostics and beauty personalization solution, the Digital Beauty Advisor, brands and retailers are able to provide anengaging customer-experience for consumers that delivers tangible business results across online, in-store, in-app and on platforms such as FB Messenger and WeChat. Currently partnered with more than 70 retailers and brands across four continents, Revieve is the preferred partner for retailers and brands looking to elevate the customer-experience for beauty-customers using state-of-the art AI, AR and Computer-Vision -technologies. | $1.4M | Series A | Jun 17, 2019 |  |
| NurseBuddy | NurseBuddy is a home care management software. They provide care management and communication software for stakeholders in the home care loop, families, clients, care providers, and public nurses. Their home care software includes scheduling, rotas, and care plans to help customers. | $393K | Pre-Seed | May 31, 2019 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Icebreaker.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icebreaker-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lifeline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifeline-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Superhero Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/superhero-cap) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Business Finland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-finland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CapMan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capman-oyj) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Voima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voima-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Leena Niemistö invest in?

Leena Niemistö invests primarily in Health Care, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Leena Niemistö's check size?

Leena Niemistö typically joins rounds of $480k–$3.4M 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 Leena Niemistö participates in.

### When did Leena Niemistö last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Leena Niemistö closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 19 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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