# Oskari Saarenmaa

> Oskari Saarenmaa is a seed investor at Aiven backing Software and Information Technology. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aiven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aiven)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oskarisaarenmaa/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/oskarisaarenmaa
- Website: https://oskari.saarenmaa.fi/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oskaris

Oskari Saarenmaa is a seed investor at Aiven in Helsinki focused on Software and Information Technology. Oskari Saarenmaa - CEO & Co-founder @ Aiven

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $35M–$94M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| DevOps | 1 | 17% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 2 | 33% |
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Germany | 1 | 17% |
| Hungary | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lamin | Lamin Labs provides data infrastructure for biology that enables data scientists and engineers to collaborate on a single data layer for R&D teams of any size. They want to achieve for R&D data what git and GitHub did for code by integrating wet and dry laboratories, people and AI, knowledge and data, and siloed teams and organizations.Lamin Labs is headquartered in Munich, Bayern and was founded in 2022. |  | Seed | May 10, 2025 |  |
| Verda (formerly DataCrunch) | DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models | $7.6M | Seed | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| Realm | Realm is a conversational search engine for the workplace. With Realm, employees accurately find anything their company has ever written down. Realm gives an organization perfect memory. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Linear | Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that. | $35M | Series B | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Better Stack | Better Stack is a cloud-based observability platform that helps developers monitor uptime, logs, and system performance in real time. It combines monitoring, logging, and incident management into a single unified dashboard. The platform is designed to improve reliability and help teams quickly detect and resolve system issues. | $18.6M | Series A | Jul 20, 2022 |  |
| SEON | SEON is the AI command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance. Thousands of companies worldwide trust us to stop fraud without slowing growth.Our platform powers smarter risk decisions by enriching customer profiles, flagging suspicious behavior and managing compliance workflows all in one place. Unlike competitors relying on stale,third-party data, SEON runs on 900+ proprietary, real-time data signals for broader coverage and higher precision.SEON's AI detects hidden fraud networks, builds rules and drafts suspicious activity reports. Teams can also connect their own AI tools, from ChatGPT to Claude to custom agents, directly to SEON's risk data to build their own agentic investigation workflows.We’re trusted by innovators like Revolut, Wise and thousands of others scaling securely into new products and markets. | $94M | Series B | Apr 19, 2022 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [byFounders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byfounders) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lifeline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifeline-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Illusian Founder Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/illusian-family-office) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [01 Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/01-advisors-01) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aiven

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

Aiven is an information technology company that manages open-source data infrastructure in the cloud. Headquartered in Helsinki with offices in Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, and Boston, Aiven provides managed open-source data technologies, like PostgreSQL, Kafka, and M3, on all major clouds. Through Aiven, developers can do what they do best: createapplications. Meanwhile, we do what we do best; manage cloud data infrastructure. We enable our customers to drive business results from open-source that trigger true transformations far beyond their own backyards.

5 contacts available at Aiven.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Oskari Saarenmaa | CEO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oskari-saarenmaa |
| Etienne Stalmans | Senior Security Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/etienne-stalmans |
| Hannu Valtonen | VP Product & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannu-valtonen |
| Heikki Nousiainen | CTO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heikki-nousiainen |
| Josep Prat | Staff Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josep-prat |

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## FAQ

### What does Oskari Saarenmaa invest in?

Oskari Saarenmaa invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Oskari Saarenmaa's check size?

Oskari Saarenmaa typically joins rounds of $35M–$94M 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 Oskari Saarenmaa participates in.

### When did Oskari Saarenmaa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Oskari Saarenmaa closed in May 2025. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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