Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu
Managing Partner @ Maki.vc
Helsinki, Finland
Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu is a seed investor at Maki.vc in Helsinki focused on Apps and SaaS. Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu is based out of Helsinki, Uusimaa, and is the managing partner of Maki.vc. Pauliina previously worked at the University of Helsinki as a Commercial Advisory Board Member. Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu attended Aalto University School of Business. Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 2023,Finance.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu invests in
Stages Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu invests in
Countries Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 1 (20%)
- SaaS 1 (20%)
- Women's 1 (20%)
- mHealth 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (20%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
Country
- Sweden 1 (20%)
- Germany 1 (20%)
- United States 1 (20%)
- United Kingdom 1 (20%)
Investments
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Yaak Technologies ApS
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A unified workflow to search and uncover trends within petabytes of multimodal data, and build spatial intelligence. We build the tools for the pioneers of tomorrow, as spatial intelligence goes from apps to the real world. | $8M / Series A / Feb 17, 2022 | |
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Yaak Technologies ApS
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A unified workflow to search and uncover trends within petabytes of multimodal data, and build spatial intelligence. We build the tools for the pioneers of tomorrow, as spatial intelligence goes from apps to the real world. | $8.3M / Seed / Feb 17, 2022 | |
Revela Health
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Revela is a direct-to-consumer company that discovers novel molecules for consumer health applications and creates better products using these new ingredients. | $6.5M / Seed / Feb 17, 2022 | |
Jennis
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Jennis develops an application that offers information and services on women's menstrual cycle. It provides fitness training ideas, cycle mapping data, and food nutrition related to the hormonal cycle. Jennis is based in Wimbledon, London. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Oct 04, 2021 | |
CarbonCloud
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CarbonCloud is a SaaS company building digital infrastructure for calculating and communicating climate footprints for food and other consumables. The platform enables non-experts to perform detailed climate footprint assessments (life-cycle assessments) of their products at a fraction of the time and cost required for alternative solutions, whilemaintaning state of the art precison. This opens up for full-portfolio footprint assessments on a global scale. Network archetechture in the platform ensures improved assessments over time and an unpresidented tool for collaboration with suppliers, all the way down to agriculture. Data propagates op the value chain and incentives for climate improvements propagate the other downwards. All climate footprints on the platform are comparable with each other in a unique way that unlocks marketing potential in the shape of quanitative on-pack labels that conveys the climate performance of specific products, that can be used to differentiate products between competitors. CarbonCloud has, together with prominent customers such as Oatly, changed the landscape for climate labels towards something more and more expected to be found on pack for consumables. The platform and its labels make climate footprint transparence and performance become a driver for business.The company is a research spinn-off from Chalmers University of Technology, where prominient climate researchers teamed up with experts on SaaS and UX development. The company vision is to help the world take informed action to mitigate climate change, and this will be done by providing state-of-the art science and data in the hands of every decision maker along the complex value chains for food and other consumables, all the way from the farm to the end consumer. | $1.4M / Seed / Sep 02, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About Maki.vc
We partner with deep tech and brand-driven companies obsessed in challenging category norms. The Nordics are our home, but we take on a global front in spotting the unexpected - from B2B to B2C, with a sweet spot for scientific advances, strong IP, and customer understanding that looks beyond convention.We invest in early stage companies: fromtheir inception to series A and beyond. We share in the vision of founders as champions and challengers, drawing on our experiences from scaling some of the strongest tech companies ourselves.
Maki.vc Contacts
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Parsi Palomaki
Founding Partner
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Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu
Managing Partner
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Ilkka Kivimaki
Partner
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Paavo Räisänen
Partner
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Reetta Heiskanen
Head of Platform & Marketing
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FAQ
What does Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu invest in?
Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu invests primarily in Apps, SaaS and Women's startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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