# Patrick Castren

> Patrick Castren is a seed investor at Nidoco backing Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nidoco](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nidoco)
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickcastren

Patrick Castren is a seed investor at Nidoco focused on Software and SaaS. Patrick Castren is CEO and Managing Director at Nidoco.He Previously worked at Virala Oy Ab as the Investment Manager.Patrick Castren attended Hanken School of Economics in 2010.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| SaaS | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| Forestry | 1 | 17% |
| Analytics | 1 | 17% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| eMabler | EMabler is an EV charging infrastructure software company that develops an API-first platform used by businesses to operate, manage, and scale electric vehicle charging networks. It provides a centralized system for charge point management, billing, pricing, roaming, and energy optimization, allowing operators to control large networks of EVchargers from a single platform. The software connects charging hardware with business systems such as CRM, payment, and energy management tools through open APIs and a large library of integrations. The company focuses on enabling enterprises, such as energy utilities, parking operators, and retail businesses, to embed EV charging directly into their existing services and digital platforms rather than building standalone charging systems. This includes white-label solutions where charging is integrated into a company’s own app or customer experience under its brand. |  | Series A | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| eMabler | EMabler is an EV charging infrastructure software company that develops an API-first platform used by businesses to operate, manage, and scale electric vehicle charging networks. It provides a centralized system for charge point management, billing, pricing, roaming, and energy optimization, allowing operators to control large networks of EVchargers from a single platform. The software connects charging hardware with business systems such as CRM, payment, and energy management tools through open APIs and a large library of integrations. The company focuses on enabling enterprises, such as energy utilities, parking operators, and retail businesses, to embed EV charging directly into their existing services and digital platforms rather than building standalone charging systems. This includes white-label solutions where charging is integrated into a company’s own app or customer experience under its brand. |  | Seed | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| CollectiveCrunch | CollectiveCrunch is an AI leader in the forestry industry. We collect and analyze a wide range of information, including climate, geo and process data, to bring best-in-class forest inventories and accurate carbon storage calculations to our customers. The largest forest owners the Nordics and Baltics are already using using our solution, LindaForest.With Linda Forest, our customers gain actionable insights, leading to improved forest management, informed forest investments and up-to-date carbon storage analytics. Overall, Linda Forest can reduce forest planning costs while increasing accuracy. We are currently focused on the Nordic and Baltic countries but are soon adopting the solution to Northern America, Russia and other forestry markets. Moreover, we are working with insurance companies to apply our expert analytics to new opportunities such as prediction of forest risk. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 14, 2023 |  |
| Naava | Naava reconnects humanity with nature. Future technology embracing millions of years of natural innovation and design lies behind the smartest green walls on the planet. At Naava, we want to help people feel better, healthier and more productive. The environment where we live, learn, and work is important for us. After all, we spend well over 90%of our time in indoors, breathing synthetic, man-made air a thousand times every hour.By 2025 a billion people can choose to breathe Nordic forest air. Everywhere. Naava brings nature inside, everywhere. We allow people to experience nature in the midst of the urban environment. Our brand promise can be explained in one word: breathe. | $7.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Naava | Naava reconnects humanity with nature. Future technology embracing millions of years of natural innovation and design lies behind the smartest green walls on the planet. At Naava, we want to help people feel better, healthier and more productive. The environment where we live, learn, and work is important for us. After all, we spend well over 90%of our time in indoors, breathing synthetic, man-made air a thousand times every hour.By 2025 a billion people can choose to breathe Nordic forest air. Everywhere. Naava brings nature inside, everywhere. We allow people to experience nature in the midst of the urban environment. Our brand promise can be explained in one word: breathe. | $7.7M |  | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| CHAOS | At CHAOS, we strive to democratize data and harness the power of AI and cutting-edge technology, delivering transformative location insights that empower decision-makers to design more liveable cities- sustainable, human-centered where the quality-of-life soars. | $1.8M | Seed | Jan 28, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Butterfly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/butterfly-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rethink Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rethink-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Superhero Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/superhero-cap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tesi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tesi) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Oy Hammaren & Co Ab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oy-hammaren-co-ab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Nidoco

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

Nidoco AB is a Swedish investment company whose strategy is to create long-term value through active ownership of public and private companies.

2 contacts available at Nidoco.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Ehrnrooth | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-ehrnrooth |
| Patrick Castren | CEO and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-castren |

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## FAQ

### What does Patrick Castren invest in?

Patrick Castren invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown 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.

### When did Patrick Castren last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Castren closed in Jun 2024. 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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