Petteri Koponen
Chairman @ Varjo
Espoo, Finland
Petteri Koponen is a seed investor at Varjo in Espoo focused on Software and Mobile. Petteri has founded five companies, including Jaiku (sold to Google) and First Hop (sold to Airwide Solutions). He has been a startup CEO, CTO, VP of Services and Director, in addition to working two years for Google in the US and UK. In his free time, Petteri hangs out with his family, pumps iron, plays games, writes (toy) code, and enjoys booksand movies.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
Last updated:
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Industries Petteri Koponen invests in
Stages Petteri Koponen invests in
Countries Petteri Koponen invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $637k–$3.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.2M–$1.8M
- Series A
- $7.7M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (17%)
- Mobile 3 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (13%)
- Gaming 2 (9%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (48%)
- Series A 5 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (9%)
- Series B 2 (9%)
- Angel 1 (4%)
Country
- Finland 8 (35%)
- United Kingdom 3 (13%)
- Singapore 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Swarmia
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Data-driven superpowers for software teams | $11.5M / Series A / Jun 18, 2025 | |
Inven
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Inven is an AI company that develops B2B SaaS solutions for M&A, private equity, and management consulting professionals. Its key source of value creation is based on our state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning models that enable us to leverage vast amounts of unstructured data sources at scale. | $12.6M / Series A / May 28, 2025 | |
Louhe
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Louhe provides data driven security culture with explainable AI. | $3.3M / Seed / Oct 14, 2024 | |
Realm
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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 | |
Risk Ledger
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Risk Ledger is a vendor risk management platform that helps improve the security of the global supply chain ecosystem.The company's platform combines a secure social network with a risk management platform to enable organizations to run a gold-standard risk assurance program against their vendors while making it painless for vendors of allsizes to respond to risk assurance assessments through a 'use many' assessment model. | $7.7M / Series A / Nov 07, 2023 | |
Metroc
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Metroc is helping construction companies to find new customers and gain a better market understanding. To achieve this goal we develop a market data platform consisting of everything that happens in the market including construction projects, property acquisitions, and different stakeholders. | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 25, 2023 | |
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Vensum Power
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Next big leap in power conversion efficiency | $2.3M / Seed / May 26, 2023 | |
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Inven
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Inven is an AI company that develops B2B SaaS solutions for M&A, private equity, and management consulting professionals. Its key source of value creation is based on our state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning models that enable us to leverage vast amounts of unstructured data sources at scale. | $1.6M / Seed / Mar 31, 2023 | |
Varjo
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Varjo develops VR/XR hardware and software for industrial use, merging the real and virtual worlds seamlessly together in human-eye resolution. | $40M / Series D / Sep 06, 2022 | |
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Risk Ledger
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Risk Ledger is a vendor risk management platform that helps improve the security of the global supply chain ecosystem.The company's platform combines a secure social network with a risk management platform to enable organizations to run a gold-standard risk assurance program against their vendors while making it painless for vendors of allsizes to respond to risk assurance assessments through a 'use many' assessment model. | $2.9M / Seed / Oct 28, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Varjo
Varjo develops VR/XR hardware and software for industrial use, merging the real and virtual worlds seamlessly together in human-eye resolution.
Varjo Contacts
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John O'Neill
Sales & Solutions Engineer
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Jussi Mäkinen
Chief Marketing Officer
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Klaus Melakari
Co Founder/CTO
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Mika Petteri Lundgren
Hardware Architect
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Niko Eiden
CXO & Co-Founder
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FAQ
What does Petteri Koponen invest in?
Petteri Koponen invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Petteri Koponen's check size?
Petteri Koponen typically joins rounds of $637k–$3.3M at Seed, $1.2M–$1.8M at Pre-Seed and $7.7M–$13M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Petteri Koponen participates in.
When did Petteri Koponen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Petteri Koponen closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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?
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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