# Vaens

> Vaens is a VC fund in Helsinki backing Software, Fashion and InsurTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vaens/

Vaens is a family investment office focused on b2b software and software-as-a-service companies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$2.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Fashion | 1 | 20% |
| InsurTech | 1 | 20% |
| Logistics | 1 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 20% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 4 | 80% |
| Sweden | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Synergi | Synergi provides smart electricity management combined with demand response in households. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Ninyes | The secondhand market grows fast. But the fashion brands have not been earning anything from this growth. Until now. Ninyes turns the resale market into profits for fashion brands. Immediately. We are secondhand 3.0 and with our Resale-as-a-Service solution move resale from inconvenient P2P 
into professional B2B business. | $330K | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Nordic Umami Company | The emission-reduction benefits of shifting to plant-based eating are well documented. Yet many people are still deterred by the taste of plant-based food. Or rather, its lack of taste. Plant-based food is often missing exactly what people crave the most: umami.This is where we come in.We have developed a natural way of using food technology tocreate plant-based umami from plant food side products. In this way we also tackle another aspect of the food system that we believe needs to be fixed: wasting edible food. | $1.9M | Seed | Jan 02, 2023 |  |
| Claims Carbon | Claims Carbon is climate and insurtech startup that helps insurance industries in reaching out the net zero emissions targets. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 18, 2022 |  |
| Kamupak | Kamupak digital reuse platform provides frictionless tools and data to optimize circular economy processes for better environmental impact. Our mission is to reduce world’s waste load, co2 emissions and consumption of natural resources by building digital solutions that bring reuse and circularity into consumers and companies daily life. Oursolutions Recycling Reward and Reuse for take-away food drives consumer behaviour for more sustainable consumption, enable circular economy and are applicable fot the upcoming legislation for single use packaging ban in European Union. | $656.8K | Angel | Mar 01, 2022 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [APX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apxberlin) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [astorya.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astorya-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Start Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-start-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Claesson & Anderzén](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claesson-anderz%C3%A9n) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Greencode Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greencode-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Heino Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heino-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Vaens invest in?

Vaens invests primarily in Software, Fashion and InsurTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vaens's check size?

Vaens typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$2.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vaens participates in.

### When did Vaens last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vaens closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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