# Marianne Vikkula

> Marianne Vikkula is a pre-seed investor at Wolt (Helsinki) backing Marketplace and Fashion. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wolt](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wolt)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvikkula/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mvikkula
- Website: https://x.com/mvikkula
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mvikkula

Marianne Vikkula is a pre-seed investor at Wolt in Helsinki focused on Marketplace and Fashion. Marianne Vikkula is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the COO of Wolt. Marianne previously worked at Slush as a Board Member. Marianne Vikkula attended the Aalto University. Marianne Vikkula has been awarded Aalto Athlete 2013.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4.2M–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$2.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace | 2 | 33% |
| Fashion | 1 | 17% |
| Fitness | 1 | 17% |
| Computer | 1 | 17% |
| Shopping | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 4 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Samphire Neuroscience | Samphire Neuroscience builds clinically validated neurotechnology to support women across their lives. Our wearable devices, Nettle™ and Lutea™, are built on the same underlying brain-stimulation technology, targeting neural pathways involved in pain, mood, stress, and sleep regulation. - Lutea™ is available globally as a wellness device. Itstimulates the same regions of the brain to support stress regulation, sleep, and recovery - key drivers of readiness and long-term performance - allowing athletes and teams to move beyond wellbeing education alone to practical, evidence-based intervention. - Nettle™ is a CE-marked (EU and UK regulated), drug- and hormone-free device that has been clinically shown to improve pain, mood, functionality, and the ability to train during the menstrual cycle, with measurable benefits after one month of use - supporting athletes to maintain training intensity and movement quality during their period. - The Samphire App is the platform controlling all Samphire hardware products with the use of CycleSync™ AI technology: the only one of its kind to support personalized neurotechnology use for women. | $5M | Seed | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Way | asset and fleet management without additional hardware installations by unifying real-time, multi-OEM primary data | $2.9M | Pre-Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Bought | A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Droppe | Droppe is a source-to-order platform that transforms the sourcing and ordering of packaging, paper, and operating supplies. With Droppe, companies can spend less, order faster, and sleep better with more control. | $4.2M | Seed | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| Realm | Realm is a conversational search engine for the workplace. With Realm, employees accurately find anything their company has ever written down. Realm gives an organization perfect memory. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Linear | Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that. | $35M | Series B | Sep 14, 2023 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lifeline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifeline-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Illusian Founder Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/illusian-family-office) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seaside Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seaside-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [01 Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/01-advisors-01) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [10x Founders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-founders) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Wolt

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

Wolt is a food delivery company specializing in real-time logistics optimization.The technology company is known for its food delivery platform which enables its users to easily discover and get the food that they want by just selecting a restaurant, placing the order, and hitting send.

5 contacts available at Wolt.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Juhani Mykkänen | co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juhani-mykk%C3%A4nen |
| Nick Evon | HR Operations Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-evon |
| Oskari Petas | Co-Founder - Product, payments, compliance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oskari-petas |
| Jana Trnovská | General Manager Wolt Market, Czech Republic and Slovakia | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jana-trnovsk%C3%A1 |
| Kristian Sjölund | Head of Engineering, B2B | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kristian-sj%C3%B6lund |

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## FAQ

### What does Marianne Vikkula invest in?

Marianne Vikkula invests primarily in Marketplace, Fashion and Fitness startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Marianne Vikkula's check size?

Marianne Vikkula typically joins rounds of $4.2M–$5M at Seed and $1.5M–$2.9M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Marianne Vikkula participates in.

### When did Marianne Vikkula last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marianne Vikkula closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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