# Tero Sarkkinen

> Tero Sarkkinen is a angel investor at Basemark backing FinTech and Blockchain. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Basemark
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Aug 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terosarkkinen
- Website: https://x.com/Sarkkimarkki

Tero Sarkkinen is a angel investor at Basemark in Zürich focused on FinTech and Blockchain. Tero Sarkkinen is based out of Zurich and is the Founder & CEO of Basemark. Tero previously worked at Rightware as a Founder & CEO. Tero Sarkkinen attended the Aalto University School of Business.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 100% |
| Micro Lending | 1 | 100% |
| Social Entrepreneurship | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aion Sigma | Aion creates an equal opportunity to access finance and join the digital 21st century society for 40 million underbanked SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Aion's go-to-market is Phones and Loans program, which bring the financiers SME opportunity. Our focus is on women owned business. Aion's service is based on loan origination, and collectionmanagement. An MVP is live in Rwanda and Nigeria. |  | Angel | Aug 29, 2019 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Falcon Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/falcon-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Basemark

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

Basemark develops licensable OS and E/E architecture for Software Defined Cars called Rocksolid Core. It is a unique end-to-end platform that enables automotive OEMs rapidly develop all car applications, from powertrain, steering and braking to autonomous drive, ADAS, digital instrument clusters, heads up displays and other cockpit electronicsapplications.Keywords #SoftwareDefinedCar #OS #AutonomousDrive #ADAS #MachineVision #HMI #InstrumentCluster #IVI

3 contacts available at Basemark.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tero Sarkkinen | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tero-sarkkinen |
| Paula Wranger | Head of HR | — |
| Soma Muthumanickam | Director and Lead Architect | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Tero Sarkkinen invest in?

Tero Sarkkinen invests primarily in FinTech, Blockchain and Micro Lending startups, most often at Angel stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Tero Sarkkinen?

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### When did Tero Sarkkinen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tero Sarkkinen closed in Aug 2019. Shizune tracks 1 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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