# Nordic Option

> Nordic Option is a VC fund in Oulu backing Software and Hardware. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oulu, Finland
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.nordicoption.fi/

Nordic Option is a private equity fund focusing its investments on growth companies. It provides capital investments in small and medium-sized growth companies that have already established themselves in Northern Finland. The fund's investment strategy includes the possibility to make up to 5 early-stage growth investments with one millioneuros.The firm's value of investments in portfolio companies is approximately EUR 10 million and the value of loans granted is approximately EUR 1 million.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $4.4M–$7.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Hardware | 3 | 23% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 23% |
| Electronics | 2 | 15% |
| 3D Technology | 2 | 15% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 31% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 23% |
| Private Equity | 2 | 15% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jaakko Lampela | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaakko-lampela |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brightplus Oy | Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level. | $2.3M |  | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Profilence | Profilence provides software test automation tool.Reliability Analysis process records every bit of data. Fixing a bug from a failing test can be a pain. But if a end user finds a bug, it may end up as a returned device.Profilence Reliability Analysis records every bit of data it can get. Not just results, but logs, crash dumps and memoryusage data and so on. They believe that your engineers should not use valuable working time to read test reports and device logs but instead to solve the problems. After all, it’s not only about finding bugs – you need to fix them in a timely manner as well. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 14, 2024 |  |
| Haltian | Haltian designs and develops new products SW, and Web services to global consumer electronics and telecoms companies. Haltian was founded in September 2012 by former Nokia employees and is growing fast, currently employing 70+ experienced mobile devices and SW engineers. | $7.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Brightplus Oy | Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level. | $4.3M |  | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Brightplus Oy | Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level. | $4.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| SensorFu | SensorFu detects new network leak paths before they are exploited. If you're required to operate isolated networking environments, SensorFu helps you to anwer question: is my network isolation working as intended? Leaks from isolated network segments can be a result of human error or malice, and they may violate security policies orcontractual obligations. SensorFu automates previously manual audit checks, and it empowers IT- and IT security ops to ensure continuous network, and network segment isolation that meets their mission specific policies and regulatory requirements. SensorFu Beacon is available as virtual appliance, software application and as hardware appliance. | $698.3K | Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Rajobit | Rajobit provides robotic process automation solutions for companies. Its software robots are designed to automate processes, enabling companies to focus on more productive and meaningful work. The company produces the technical, functional, and service capabilities for the internationalization of software robotics services. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Sensmet | Sensmet was launched in 2017 spinning off from several years' research on the micro-discharge analyser technology and related application development.The Sensmet team has extensive experience in industrial R&D as well as measurement science and technology.They are currently building strategic partnerships in selected industrial sectorsto develop the first real-time multi-element water measurement applications. If you got interested and want to realise the benefits offered by the unique μDOES™ water analyser technology please contact us. Let us optimise your water process. Together. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Owatec | Owatec Group is an environmental company for the treatment of industrial wastewater and recovery of side streams. Owatec Group Oy is a privately owned company from Oulu. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Haltian | Haltian designs and develops new products SW, and Web services to global consumer electronics and telecoms companies. Haltian was founded in September 2012 by former Nokia employees and is growing fast, currently employing 70+ experienced mobile devices and SW engineers. | $10.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 10, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inventure](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inventure-oy) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Butterfly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/butterfly-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Collateral Good](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collateral-good-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [E.A.T. Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-a-t-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Finnfoam](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finnfoam) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FutureLab X](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futurelab-x) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Nordic Option invest in?

Nordic Option invests primarily in Software, Hardware and Manufacturing startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Funding Round stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Nordic Option's check size?

Nordic Option typically joins rounds of $4.4M–$7.4M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nordic Option participates in.

### How do I contact Nordic Option?

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### Who are the partners at Nordic Option?

The team at Nordic Option includes Jaakko Lampela (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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