# Sami Ahvenniemi

> Sami Ahvenniemi is a Series A investor at Vendep Capital backing Information Technology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vendep Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vendepcapital)
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/samiahvenniemi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sahvenni
- Website: http://www.sami.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samiahvenniemi

Sami Ahvenniemi is a Series A investor at Vendep Capital in Helsinki focused on Information Technology and Software. Sami Ahvenniemi is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the Partner of Vendep Capital. Sami previously worked at Edge Impulse as a Angel Investor. Sami Ahvenniemi attended University of Technology-Technical University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 17% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 33% |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Sweden | 2 | 17% |
| Finland | 2 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Test of Things | Test of Things is to protect customers and society from cyber incidents by making IoT cybersecurity easy and automated. They are building a cloud service that automates security testing so customers can ship secure, compliant products with peace of mind.Their platform integrates security into the development lifecycle, enabling continuous testingthat lowers risks and costs while enhancing reputation. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Agileday | SaaS Operating Platform for Knowledge Work | $7.5M | Series A | Jan 23, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Bookboost | Bookboost Hospitality’s Customer Experience Platform is the hospitality’s leading industry provider for digital communication, creating a cost-efficient and contactless journey that enables guests to enjoy instant service from their phone from time of reservation to check out. | $3.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 03, 2025 |  |
| Hopsworks | Hopsworks specializes in TensorFlow, flink, MySQL, hdfs, machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. | $6.5M | Series B | Jun 29, 2023 |  |
| BehavioSec | BehavioSec is the industry’s pioneer and technology leader for behavioral biometrics and continuous authentication, safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions today. Deployed across Global 2000 companies to dramatically reduce fraud, friction, threat and theft, BehavioSec verifies and protects human digital identities byunderstanding how we uniquely type and swipe across our ever-changing devices. Whether used in the Cloud or on-premises, BehavioSec delivers the superior user experience, precision and scale needed by organizations to keep customers engaged while catching evasive, real-time attacks other solutions miss. Founded in the Nordics in 2008 out of groundbreaking research, BehavioSec works with organizations like DARPA, is recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor and RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist, and has earned investment from leading firms like Forgepoint Capital, Cisco, ABN AMRO, Conor Ventures, and Octopus Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices worldwide, BehavioSec is ready to help you reduce risk, improve compliance and digitally transform your distributed workforce and customer experience. | $17.5M | Series B | Jan 29, 2018 |  |
| Actvcontent | Actvcontent is an innovative technology company that provides a simple solution to manage all factory operations by leveraging mobile and cloud technology. Our clients range from heavy equipment to automotive manufacturers and include some of the most recognizable Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Clients leverage the cutting edge aspects of ourtechnology (e.g. live scheduling, instant access to drawings and real-time communication with the floor) to streamline their production process, improve cycle times, reduce scrap/rework, cut operational costs and boost productivity. |  | Angel | Jul 15, 2016 |  |
| Neo4j | Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledgegraphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage with native vector search capability, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture,e and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s dynamic open-source community brings together over 250,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and NGOs. Visit neo4j.com. | $20M | Series C | Jan 15, 2015 |  |
| BehavioSec | BehavioSec is the industry’s pioneer and technology leader for behavioral biometrics and continuous authentication, safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions today. Deployed across Global 2000 companies to dramatically reduce fraud, friction, threat and theft, BehavioSec verifies and protects human digital identities byunderstanding how we uniquely type and swipe across our ever-changing devices. Whether used in the Cloud or on-premises, BehavioSec delivers the superior user experience, precision and scale needed by organizations to keep customers engaged while catching evasive, real-time attacks other solutions miss. Founded in the Nordics in 2008 out of groundbreaking research, BehavioSec works with organizations like DARPA, is recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor and RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist, and has earned investment from leading firms like Forgepoint Capital, Cisco, ABN AMRO, Conor Ventures, and Octopus Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices worldwide, BehavioSec is ready to help you reduce risk, improve compliance and digitally transform your distributed workforce and customer experience. | $5.3M | Series A | Dec 08, 2014 |  |
| Neo4j | Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledgegraphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage with native vector search capability, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture,e and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s dynamic open-source community brings together over 250,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and NGOs. Visit neo4j.com. | $11M | Series B | Nov 02, 2012 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eight Roads Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-roads-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Partnerinvest Norr](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partnerinvest-norr) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ABN-AMRO-Ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Finland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-finland) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cisco Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cisco-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Vendep Capital

VC Fund · Espoo, Finland

Vendep Capital is a B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs. Our first ticket is 0.1–3M euros depending on the company’s stage. e support the brilliant startup founders by leveraging our extensive SaaS expertise and global networks to expedite their growth.

5 contacts available at Vendep Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jupe Arala | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jupe-arala |
| Sakari Pihlava | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sakari-pihlava |
| Sami Ahvenniemi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sami-ahvenniemi |
| Timo Felin | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/timo-felin |
| Hannu Kytölä | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannu-kyt%C3%B6l%C3%A4 |

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## FAQ

### What does Sami Ahvenniemi invest in?

Sami Ahvenniemi invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sami Ahvenniemi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sami Ahvenniemi closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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