Terhi (TJ) Vapola
VP & Head of Helen Ventures @ Helen Ventures
Helsinki, Finland
Terhi (TJ) Vapola is a seed investor at Helen Ventures in Helsinki focused on Software and Biotechnology. Terhi J. Vapola is an experienced venture capitalist, entrepreneur and international business executive, with proven track record in creating new tech businesses and driving growth through board work. Her experience spans from managing high tech start-ups and growth companies to venture capital and corporate venturing. Currently she is the leaderand founder of Helen Ventures, the investment arm of Finnish energy company Helen Ltd. She has also worked as a CEO of leading Finnish early growth phase investment firm and as a managing director of a seed VC firm. A startup that she co-founded won the coveted Red Herring Europe and Red Dot Design awards. Whilst at Nokia she participated in bringing WCDMA to the global markets (the technology that enables us to bring internet into our mobile phones), and orchestrated setting up two mobile startup funds with Silicon Valley and Seattle based partners. Through her Ph.D. dissertation and work experience, she has a profound understanding of how to successfully manage the partnering between startups and multinational corporations in global innovation ecosystems.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 70%
Last updated:
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Industries Terhi (TJ) Vapola invests in
Stages Terhi (TJ) Vapola invests in
Countries Terhi (TJ) Vapola invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $186k–$4M
- Series A
- $6.2M–$19M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $4M–$33M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (20%)
- Biotechnology 5 (17%)
- Energy 4 (13%)
- SaaS 3 (10%)
- Sustainability 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (37%)
- Series A 10 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (13%)
- Series B 3 (10%)
Country
- Finland 13 (43%)
- Germany 4 (13%)
- The Netherlands 2 (7%)
- Norway 1 (3%)
- Austria 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Ora Computing is an AI infrastructure startup focused on compressing and optimizing large AI models, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), to make them cheaper and more efficient to deploy. | $4M / Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| Supercritical is a software platform that helps businesses tackle the climate crisis and reach carbon net zero. Supercritical helps businesses measure, reduce, and offset their climate impact in weeks without the need for a sustainability team. The company sells carbon removal because it’s the only legitimate route to net zero. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 07, 2026 | ||
| LiveEO is a leading provider of insights-as-a-service, revolutionizing large-scale infrastructure monitoring worldwide with AI and satellite data. Services span from railway, power line, and pipeline monitoring, to supply chain risk management, delivering actionable insights on ground movement, vegetation management, and deforestation.LiveEO's innovative approach is redefining industry practices, improving operational efficiency, and safeguarding infrastructure safety and sustainability, setting new standards in asset management. | $32.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Grow and make your business more sustainable with Renow’s AI-optimized recommerce platform for returns, trade-in and resell. | $2.1M / Seed / Jun 17, 2025 | ||
| Sustashift offers software solutions and advisory services for both listed and non-listed companies concerning Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive compliance. They offer pre-made templates and digital markup for sustainability reports that is automatically generated. Additionally, they provide personalized audit templates and automatedXBRL tagging to facilitate compliance. | Seed / Feb 05, 2025 | ||
| ZeroMission is an electromobility and lead innovator in software development, and power-energy infrastructure.ZeroMission offers fleet management software to businesses that own and operate fleets of commercial electric vehicles (EVs). | $3M / Seed / Jul 10, 2024 | ||
| LiveEO is a leading provider of insights-as-a-service, revolutionizing large-scale infrastructure monitoring worldwide with AI and satellite data. Services span from railway, power line, and pipeline monitoring, to supply chain risk management, delivering actionable insights on ground movement, vegetation management, and deforestation.LiveEO's innovative approach is redefining industry practices, improving operational efficiency, and safeguarding infrastructure safety and sustainability, setting new standards in asset management. | $26.8M / Series B / Jun 25, 2024 | ||
| enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe. | $27.6M / Series B / May 14, 2024 | ||
| LiveEO is a leading provider of insights-as-a-service, revolutionizing large-scale infrastructure monitoring worldwide with AI and satellite data. Services span from railway, power line, and pipeline monitoring, to supply chain risk management, delivering actionable insights on ground movement, vegetation management, and deforestation.LiveEO's innovative approach is redefining industry practices, improving operational efficiency, and safeguarding infrastructure safety and sustainability, setting new standards in asset management. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 28, 2023 | ||
| Solar panels are a very attractive investment, but the return varies greatly installation. With advanced measurement methods Solar Monkey determine the expected return on investment. The energy yield is guaranteed, which means that you are insured each year of good yield. | $4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 19, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Helen Ventures
Helen Ventures invests in the most innovative and transformative startups in the energy, e-mobility, circular economy, decarbonisation, and digital solutions space. We accelerate the growth of early and growth stage companies by developing world class solutions in collaboration with our customers and industry experts. Helen Ventures is thecorporate venture capital arm of Helen Ltd., an energy company making the possibilities of a new energy era accessible to all.
Helen Ventures Contacts
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Annastiina Jurmu
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Antto Piirainen
Associate
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Henri Isohanni
Principal
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Mikael Myllymäki
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FAQ
What does Terhi (TJ) Vapola invest in?
Terhi (TJ) Vapola invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 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 Terhi (TJ) Vapola invest in?
Terhi (TJ) Vapola typically joins rounds of $186k–$4M at Seed, $6.2M–$19M at Series A and $4M–$33M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Terhi (TJ) Vapola's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Terhi (TJ) Vapola took part in.
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When did Terhi (TJ) Vapola last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Terhi (TJ) Vapola closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 30 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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