# Matti Hautsalo

> Matti Hautsalo is a seed investor at Nordic Science Investments backing Apps and Food Processing. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nordic Science Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nordic-science-investments)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matti-hautsalo-4853642/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2F&originalSubdomain=fi
- Website: https://x.com/mattihautsalo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matti.hautsalo

Matti Hautsalo is a seed investor at Nordic Science Investments in Helsinki focused on Apps and Food Processing. Matti Hautsalo is the Founding Partner of Nordic Science Investments. He previously worked at Algorithmiq as a Non-Executive Director. Matti Hautsalo attended the University of Helsinki.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 33% |
| Food Processing | 1 | 33% |
| Food and Beverage | 1 | 33% |
| Quality Assurance | 1 | 33% |
| Health Diagnostics | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Perfat Technologies | Perfat Technologies is a health-based technology company that develops fat-management applications based on healthy vegetable oils. | $2.9M | Series A | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| Perfat Technologies | Perfat Technologies is a health-based technology company that develops fat-management applications based on healthy vegetable oils. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 21, 2024 |  |
| mu-ray.tech | Mu-ray.tech is focused on advancing the field of medical diagnostics and industrial quality control. mu-ray.tech is developing a groundbreaking technology for the rapid, safe and accurate 3D-imaging of the chemical composition of scanned objects, serving critical needs in industrial quality control and medical diagnostics. The technology is basedon Muon Beam Imaging (MBI), an innovative technology leveraging Laser Plasma Accelerator-based artificial muon sources, new generation particle detector systems and AI. In industry, we are working with the partners in the heavy, aerospace, and defence domains.mu-ray.tech operates at the three sites: DESY in Hamburg (hardware), Tehnopol in Tallinn (algorithms and software), and Bradfield Centre in Cambridge (algorithms, business development). Our main collaboration on the MBI technology partners are GScan in Estonia and UK, DESY in Hamburg, the University of Cambridge, and KBFI in Tallinn. | $373.3K | Seed |  |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Big Idea Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-idea-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [University of Helsinki](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/university-of-helsinki) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Beyond Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beyond-impact-advisors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Estonian Business and Innovation Agency](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/estonian-business-and-innovation-agency) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Newtree Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newtree-impact) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Peaksjah](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peaksjah) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Nordic Science Investments

VC Fund

Nordic Science Investments is a capital investment fund.

3 contacts available at Nordic Science Investments.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexandra Gylfe | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandra-gylfe |
| Matti Hautsalo | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matti-hautsalo |
| Mart Maasik | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mart-maasik |

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## FAQ

### What does Matti Hautsalo invest in?

Matti Hautsalo invests primarily in Apps, Food Processing and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Matti Hautsalo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matti Hautsalo closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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