Miia Bovellan
Founding Partner @ Proxy Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Miia Bovellan is a Founding Partner Experience as an early stage investor in 16 companies via Proxy, and several others privately. Miia is responsible for analysing deal flow, issuing term sheets and managing the process of closing investments. She is a researcher with a PhD in life sciences from London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL, and hasbeen published in several peer reviewed journals.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Miia Bovellan invests in
Stages Miia Bovellan invests in
Countries Miia Bovellan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Marketplace 3 (50%)
- Shopping 2 (33%)
- Lifestyle 2 (33%)
- E-Commerce 2 (33%)
- Gift 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (83%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
Country
- United Kingdom 3 (50%)
- Estonia 1 (17%)
- Finland 1 (17%)
- Ireland 1 (17%)
Investments
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| Fy is an e-commerce company that builds a mobile marketplace to shop online. It uses a combination of social content, machine learning, and a deep understanding of its products and suppliers to create a personalized experience for each shopper using the site and app. Fy was launched in 2017 driven by a mission to make the world of designdiscoverable, affordable, and instantly accessible through social commerce. | Seed / Oct 06, 2016 | ||
| CurrencyFair allows individuals and businesses to exchange currencies and send funds to bank accounts worldwide. It uses a unique person-to-person online marketplace to facilitate currency exchange between users, in a simple and anonymous fashion.CurrencyFair's customers can exchange currency using a three step process. 1) Funds in thecurrency to be sold are sent by the customer to the corresponding CurrencyFair bank account. When received by CurrencyFair, they are credited to the users individual CurrencyFair account and made available for exchanging.2) Available funds in a users account can at any time be exchanged by the user into another currency using the corresponding marketplace (for example GBP to EUR).3) Funds received from marketplace exchanges are available to be sent out to a bank account as instructed online by the customer.Each currency exchange marketplace (for example GBP to EUR) gives the customer a choice: exchange immediately at the best rate available (usually no worse than 0.5% from the interbank rate, and sometimes better than the interbank rate), or place an order at a better exchange rate and wait to be matched off by another customer exchanging on the opposite market (for example EUR to GBP). Funds that are placed unmatched on the marketplace are aggregated by rate, and may be matched in part or in full at any time. Unmatched orders can be cancelled or amended at any time. All exchanges are anonymous - the customer only deals with CurrencyFair.CurrencyFair is regulated by the Irish Financial Regulator as an Authorised Payments Institution under the European Payment Services Regulations 2009. Authorised Payment Institutions (as opposed to Small Payments Institutions) are required to provide safeguards around client funds during the exchange and transfer process. CurrencyFair maintains segregated client accounts, and client funds are never commingled with CurrencyFair's own money. This means that in the unlikely event of CurrencyFair encountering difficulties in operation, all client funds remain ring-fenced and would be returned to customers, not used to settle CurrencyFair's obligations. | $8.8M / Mar 23, 2016 | ||
| Truly is a gift marketplace offering countless gift experiences. Truly is a provider of luxury experiences from across the globe designed for every event and occasion. This service is also combined with a bespoke concierge service designed to take the stress out of organizing an event.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered inLondon, England. | Seed / Feb 24, 2016 | ||
| Paptic is manufacturing company that revolutionizes environmental new material, wood-based renewable and recyclable products replacing paper and plastic. Paptic Ltd was April 2015. The company is based in Espoo, Finland and employs today 10 persons. | Seed / Aug 14, 2015 | ||
| Faralong.com provides the best digital market place for well-tested and praised products from the travel industry. We've picked high-quality, full-service tour packages from trusted local operators with great user experience and supportive tools and pricing. Faralong.com’s partner programme offers local travel businesses around the world awell optimized and scalable digital platform to reach global clients in the most effective and modern manners possible. | Seed / Jul 29, 2015 | ||
| Take control + help othersmyHealthPal is a powerful digital companion that enables people with long-term health conditions to take control and manage their condition. It captures and visualises data, transforming information into knowledge for patients, family, doctors, and research.A reliable support structure for managing your healthcondition is crucial to making you feel in control. myHealthPal is based on five important building blocks that enable patients to take control and help others: ○ Taking control of your health ○ Tracking your symptoms and conditions ○ Keeping your loved ones in the know ○ Connecting with experts ○ Helping others going through the same | Seed / Mar 01, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Proxy Ventures
Proxy Ventures is the world's first venture capital company rebranding all the companies it invests in, via its London-based in-house design studio. Brands developed by Proxy include Supercell, Peak and Currency Fair. They are not a traditional VC fund, they are a private company built by entrepreneurs investing their own funds.
Proxy Ventures Contacts
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Aapo Bovellan
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Gernot Preslmayer
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Miia Bovellan
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What does Miia Bovellan invest in?
Miia Bovellan invests primarily in Marketplace, Shopping and Lifestyle startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Miia Bovellan closed in Oct 2016. 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.
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