# Petteri Koponen

> Petteri Koponen is a seed investor at Varjo (Espoo) backing Software and Mobile. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Varjo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/varjo)
- Location: Espoo, Finland
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 52%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/petterikoponen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hoopeekoo

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $637k–$3.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$1.8M |
| Series A | $7.7M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| Mobile | 3 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 13% |
| Gaming | 2 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 9% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 48% |
| Series A | 5 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Series B | 2 | 9% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 8 | 35% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 13% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Swarmia | Data-driven superpowers for software teams | $11.5M | Series A | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Inven | 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 | Louhe provides data driven security culture with explainable AI. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 14, 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 |  |
| Risk Ledger | 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 | 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 |  |
| Vensum Power | Next big leap in power conversion efficiency | $2.3M | Seed | May 26, 2023 |  |
| Inven | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Volvo Cars Tech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volvo-cars-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bragiel Brothers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bragiel-bros) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DIG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dig-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Varjo

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

Varjo develops VR/XR hardware and software for industrial use, merging the real and virtual worlds seamlessly together in human-eye resolution.

5 contacts available at Varjo.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John O'Neill | Sales & Solutions Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-oneill |
| Jussi Mäkinen | Chief Marketing Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jussi-makinen |
| Klaus Melakari | Co Founder/CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klaus-melakari |
| Mika Petteri Lundgren | Hardware Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mika-petteri-lundgren |
| Niko Eiden | CXO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niko-eiden |

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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?

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