# Mika Kukkurainen

> Mika Kukkurainen is a seed investor at Nordic Foodtech VC backing Life Science and Biotechnology. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nordic Foodtech VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nordic-foodtech-vc)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikakukkurainen/?originalSubdomain=fi

Mika Kukkurainen is a Managing Partner, Founder at Nordic FoodTech VC. Attended Managing Partner, Founder.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Life Science | 2 | 25% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 25% |
| Water | 1 | 13% |
| Seafood | 1 | 13% |
| Consumer Goods | 1 | 13% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 6 | 75% |
| Estonia | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Happy Plant Protein | Happy Plant Protein develops a plant protein technology. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Enifer | Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America. | $16.2M | Series B | May 23, 2024 |  |
| NPHarvest | NPHarvest is a company with expertise in organic waste management, wastewater treatment, and nutrient recovery. NPHarvest is a research project aiming to enable efficient and profitable nitrogen recycling from waste flows to the fertilizer market, utilizing energy-efficient hydrophobic membrane stripping and ballasted sedimentation of phosphoruswith lime. | $1.4M | Seed | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| ÄIO | ÄIO develops sustainable alternatives to animal fats, palm and coconut oil. ÄIO introduce environmentally friendly microbial lipid products to the market. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| Tracegrow | Tracegrow is a Finnish cleantech company operating in the circular economy. They are the only company in the world that has developed an innovative technology to extract, purify and reuse the vital trace elements Zinc and Manganese from alkaline batteries and circulate them safely back to the nature as the world’s most ecological Zinc andManganese-based micronutrient products for farming.They strive to minimize the exploitation of their planet’s limited resources by reusing them wisely. Their clean technology innovation provides a solution to two global challenges: the ecological reuse of the trace elements in alkaline batteries and nourishing farmland suffering from micronutrient deficiency. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 26, 2022 |  |
| Hailia Oy | Produces tasty and smart fish food using small fish from Baltic Sea. | $609.6K | Seed | May 27, 2021 |  |
| Enifer | Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America. | $1.1M | Seed |  |  |
| MÖ Foods | MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja. | $2.8M |  |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Voima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voima-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Butterfly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/butterfly-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enterprise Estonia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-estonia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MVTT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mvtt) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Stephen Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-industries) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Taaleri Bioindustry](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taaleri-bioindustry) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Nordic Foodtech VC

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

Nordic FoodTech VC is the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in the future of food.

4 contacts available at Nordic Foodtech VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jari Tuovinen | Partner, Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jari-tuovinen-2 |
| Lauri Reuter | Partner, Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauri-reuter |
| Mika Kukkurainen | Partner, Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mika-kukkurainen |
| Pekka Siivonen-Uotila | Partner, Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pekka-siivonen-uotila-3a27 |

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## FAQ

### What does Mika Kukkurainen invest in?

Mika Kukkurainen invests primarily in Life Science, Biotechnology and Water startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.

### When did Mika Kukkurainen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mika Kukkurainen 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?

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