Petteri Koponen
Founding Partner @ Lifeline Ventures
Espoo, Finland
Petteri Koponen is a seed investor at Lifeline Ventures 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
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $625k–$3.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.2M–$1.8M
- Series A
- $2.8M–$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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| Data-driven superpowers for software teams | $11.5M / Series A / Jun 18, 2025 | ||
| 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 provides data driven security culture with explainable AI. | $3.3M / Seed / Oct 14, 2024 | ||
| 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 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 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 | ||
| Next big leap in power conversion efficiency | $2.3M / Seed / May 26, 2023 | ||
| 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 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 | ||
| 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 Lifeline Ventures
Lifeline Ventures is one of the world's highest performing venture funds. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, Lifeline partners closely with resilient founders from day one — supporting them with funding, talent, and everything it takes to build category-leading companies. The fund is sector-agnostic and seeks to make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.
Lifeline Ventures Contacts
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Kai Backman
Partner
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Ilkka Paananen
EIR & Partner
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Juha Lindfors
Partner
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Petteri Koponen
Founding Partner
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Samuli Leppänen
Partner - Finance & Legal
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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 round sizes does Petteri Koponen invest in?
Petteri Koponen typically joins rounds of $625k–$3.3M at Seed, $1.2M–$1.8M at Pre-Seed and $2.8M–$13M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Petteri Koponen's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Petteri Koponen took part in.
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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.
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