# Parsi Palomaki

> Parsi Palomaki is a seed investor at Maki.vc (Helsinki) backing Software and E-Commerce. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Maki.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maki-vc)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pirkkap/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/pppalomaki
- Website: http://maki.vc

Parsi Palomaki is a seed investor at Maki.vc in Helsinki focused on Software and E-Commerce. Parsi Pirkka Palomaki is based out of Helsinki, Uusimaa, and is the founding partner of Maki.vc. Parsi previously worked at Neuro Event Labs as the chairman of the board. Parsi Pirkka Palomaki attended the Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan. Parsi Pirkka Palomaki has been recognized as the Ideas from Europe Winner 2016.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Banking | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 4 | 57% |
| Norway | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AISTI | AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile. | $30.4M | Series A | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| QMill | QMill, with its innovative quantum algorithms for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, will usher in the era of practical quantum advantage. | $4.4M | Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Enfuce | Enfuce is a cloud-based financial services provider that specializes in card issuing and payment processing services. It helps banks, fintech, and financial institutions become and remain fully PSD2 compliant, and helps them give third-party service providers access to digital accounts.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inEspoo, Finland. | $9.3M |  | Nov 30, 2023 |  |
| Outshifter | Outshifter is a Developer of embedded e-commerce software designed to scale online distribution by selling products or services directly in content without the upfront cost. Outshifter software allows users to sell a large assortment of goods without physically holding inventory by connecting customers across the web with access to the productlistings, enabling suppliers to grow exponentially by managing sales outsourcing through thousands of third parties. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| AISTI | AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile. | $1.7M | Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| Revela Health | 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 |  |
| Calqulate | Cash Runway and Growth Metrics for SaaS | $1.8M | Seed | Jan 26, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Valve Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valve-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [70Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/70ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bantam Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bantam-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Good Friends](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodfriends) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hyphen Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyphen-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Maki.vc

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

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.

5 contacts available at Maki.vc.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Parsi Palomaki | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pirkka-palomki |
| Pauliina Martikainen-Rahnu | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pauliina-martikainen |
| Ilkka Kivimaki | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilkka-kivimaki |
| Paavo Räisänen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paavo-r%C3%A4is%C3%A4nen |
| Reetta Heiskanen | Head of Platform & Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reetta-heiskanen |

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## FAQ

### What does Parsi Palomaki invest in?

Parsi Palomaki invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Parsi Palomaki last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Parsi Palomaki closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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