Nexit Ventures
VC Fund
Helsinki, Finland
Nexit Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on digital disruption. We invest in disruptive and scalable Nordic companies in early growth and more mature stages of their development. Nexit Ventures has its home bases in the Nordic countries and Silicon Valley creating a transatlantic bridge. Our continuous and active presence on both sides ofthe Atlantic connects technologies, markets, partners, resources, and exit opportunities, creating significant value for our portfolio companies.Nexit has offices in Helsinki and Silicon Valley.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
- Fund size:
- $95M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Nexit Ventures invests in
Stages Nexit Ventures invests in
Countries Nexit Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3.3M–$7.4M
- Series B
- $3.1M–$16M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (53%)
- Mobile 4 (27%)
- Advertising 3 (20%)
- Wireless 2 (13%)
- Messaging 2 (13%)
Stage
- Funding Round 5 (33%)
- Series B 4 (27%)
- Series A 3 (20%)
- Series D 2 (13%)
- Post-IPO Secondary 1 (7%)
Country
- Finland 6 (40%)
- United States 6 (40%)
- Sweden 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Artturi Tarjanne
General Partner and Co-founder
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General Partner and Co-founder | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Sami Karppinen
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Michel Wendell
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Pekka Salonoja
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Risto Siilasmaa
Co-Founder & Special Partner
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Co-Founder & Special Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aino Health is the leading solution provider in Corporate Health Management and we are, for private and public organisations, what doctors are for people. | Post-IPO Secondary / Nov 18, 2024 | ||
| Boksi disrupts the way companies buy content. More authentic than stock photos (your own products are present in the photos / videos) and 70%+ savings compared to traditional photo shoots / media agencies. | $7.4M / Series A / Oct 19, 2023 | ||
| We are the backbone for text 2.0. Our free, fully featured API and open source clients provide everything developers need to build killer group messaging apps.We're powering a revolution in text messaging- Group conversations- Photo + media sharing- Location sharing- Facebook, Twitter integration- SMS integration &connectivityWe provide a free API to anyone who wants to add group messaging to their service or application. Mobile device OEMs, network operators and app developers are all using the API today to build white label messaging services. | $3M / Nov 13, 2013 | ||
| Rightware Oy provides graphical user interface solutions for in mobile, automotive, and other embedded industries worldwide. It offers Kanzi to solve the implementation and differentiation problems of 3D user interfaces; and enable UI designers and engineers to focus on the creation, testing, and deployment of 3D user interfaces. The company alsoprovides Kanzi Studio to provide a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for the user interface designers and embedded engineers for creation and customization of embedded user interfaces. In addition, it develops Basemark system performance analysis tools for OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenCL, Android, Linux, and Windows Mobile performance measurement. Rightware Oy was founded in 2009 and is based in Espoo, Finland with additional offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Palo Alto. | $5.2M / Series B / May 14, 2013 | ||
| Blyk is a messaging media that works with mobile operators to link young people with brands and other stuff they like. Blyk launched its innovative mobile service in he UK in 2007, and quickly became known as a leader in mobile advertising, audience engagement and for its ability to drive unprecedented response rates and return on investmentfor advertisers. Blyk pioneered the use of interactive text and multi-media messaging as an advertising format, leveraging the most predominant, everyday behaviour of young people (sending and receiving messages on their phones) and enabling young people to communicate with brands in the same way they do with everyone else.Blyk is a private company, with offices in Helsinki, London, Amsterdam and Delhi. It’s current strategic partners include Orange and Vodafone.www.blyk.com | $18M / Sep 13, 2010 | ||
| Rightware Oy provides graphical user interface solutions for in mobile, automotive, and other embedded industries worldwide. It offers Kanzi to solve the implementation and differentiation problems of 3D user interfaces; and enable UI designers and engineers to focus on the creation, testing, and deployment of 3D user interfaces. The company alsoprovides Kanzi Studio to provide a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for the user interface designers and embedded engineers for creation and customization of embedded user interfaces. In addition, it develops Basemark system performance analysis tools for OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenCL, Android, Linux, and Windows Mobile performance measurement. Rightware Oy was founded in 2009 and is based in Espoo, Finland with additional offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Palo Alto. | $3.3M / Series A / Jan 07, 2010 | ||
| Conformiq delivers model-based testing (MBT) tools, solutions, and services for the automated design of functional tests, derived from high-level functional models of the software and systems to be tested. Its Conformiq 360○ Test Automation technology enables the next generation of testing transforming, streamlining, and automating even the mostcomplex system-level testing environments. | $4.2M / Feb 13, 2009 | ||
| Fuugo is a global integration and development company in OTT industry. We have over 10 years of unique experience and product portfolio in broadcast and over-the-top technology. We have witnessed the establishment (emergence) and development (evolution) of the OTT industry and we developed a solution that is missing in the market.We provide mediacompanies with an end-to-end OTT solution that controls, configures, manages and analyzes the whole OTT service chain. Our flagship product, Fuugo Symphony, is an integrated dashboard that consists of seven solution modules: Fuugo Ingest (signal acquisition, transcode & transmux, storage), Fuugo Content (media management, advertising), Fuugo Audience (product, subscriber & revenue management), Fuugo Shield (Security, DRM, watermarking/fingerprinting), Fuugo Deliver (Content delivery), Fuugo Xperience (Web & Mobile OTT applications), Fuugo Insights (Data analytics and reporting).Together with Fuugo Director, in-house built API & connector layer, Fuugo is able to integrate any solution offered in the market to just one platform and provide users with a unique marketplace where OTT players can find anything they need from the best vendors. -- We are the pioneers of the industry. We have witnessed the emergence and development of the OTT industry. Thus, with over 10 years unique experience in broadcast and OTT technology we have found a solution that was missing in the market and brought it to life.Fuugo is the most reliable, flexible and competitive partner. We offer a unique end-to-end OTT platform that integrates the high-class vendors from the industry and deliver superior customized solution to each client. Our main competitive advantage is an ability to orchestrate any possible solution available in the market. We will suggest you a pre-integrated vendor according to your needs and requirements or you can bring your own partner to integrate it to the platform! | $3.1M / Series B / Jan 21, 2009 | ||
| Futuremark is a Finnish software development company that creates software for desktop computers, notebooks, tablets, and smartphones. In 2014, it became a part of UL, a global safety science organization involved in the fields of product safety testing, inspection, and verification services.Futuremark works in cooperation with many of thetechnology companies to develop industry standard benchmarks that are relevant, accurate, and impartial. As a result, its benchmarks are widely used by the press publications and enthusiast review websites when testing the latest processors, graphics cards, notebooks, and tablets. The company maintains a hardware performance database, using the results submitted by its users to drive online solutions designed to help consumers make informed purchasing decisions.Founded in 1997, Futuremark is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and has a sales office in Silicon Valley and sales representatives in Taiwan. | Apr 13, 2008 | ||
| Ekahau is the global market leader in enterprise wireless network design and planning. More than 15,000 customers, including over 100 Fortune 500 companies, run their networks with Ekahau’s Wi-Fi planning and measurement solutions. Our proprietary software and hardware solutions design and manage superior wireless networks by minimizing networkdeployment time and ensuring sufficient wireless coverage across all industries, project sizes, building infrastructures and levels of complexity. We are recognized for delivering the easiest-to-use, most reliable solutions for Wi-Fi planning, site surveys, troubleshooting and optimization. Whether a corporate office, hotel, hospital or university – if the Wi-Fi works, it has likely been built using Ekahau’s Wi-Fi Design solutions. | $16M / Series B / Oct 31, 2006 | ||
| See all 15 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Nexit Ventures invest in?
Nexit Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Advertising startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Nexit Ventures's check size?
Nexit Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$7.4M at Series A and $3.1M–$16M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nexit Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Nexit Ventures?
The team at Nexit Ventures includes Artturi Tarjanne (General Partner and Co-founder), Sami Karppinen (Partner) and Michel Wendell (General Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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