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Top 15 Restaurants Startup Investors in Finland in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Restaurants Startup Investors in Finland in November 2024

Investor	Restaurants Finland investments
Lifeline Ventures	3
Ilkka Paananen	3
Laurel Bowden	3
Lasse Järvinen	2
Genesis Ventures	2
Pitchdrive	1
Illusian Founder Office	1
Christian Jantzen	1
Peter Carlsson	1
General Catalyst	1
Ananda Impact Ventures	1
Loudspring	1
Olli Sirkiä	1
Reaktor Ventures	1
Heikki Nousiainen	1

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Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.
Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridge the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.

Laurel is a General Partner at 83North (formerly Greylock IL), which she joined in 2008. Her areas of focus include: software, internet and fintech. Laurel has led investments in many leading European companies, including Just Eat (LSE: JE), Qliktech (NASDAQ: QLIK) and Hybris (acquired by SAP).Her current company boards and investmentsinclude Workable, Mirakl, NotontheHighStreet, Wonga, Wandera, iZettle, BlueVine, Ebury and Investec PLC & Ltd.Laurel was previously at GE and JVP. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from INSEAD.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series C, Series B, Series D
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Huuva — We believe today’s food delivery market is broken and aim to fix this for all value chain stakeholders by making virtual food courts the new industry standard.Huuva develops a plug-n-play solution for restaurateurs to scale their brands to new markets with healthy unit economics. For consumers, Huuva creates unique virtual food court experiencesdirectly into food delivery applications.
SellerX — We buy and build Amazon businesses, helping entrepreneurs realise the next stage of their businesses, and their lives.
Pandas — We are Green Panda and our mission is to give consumers the most value out of their smartphone with zero hassle, by empowering them to sell/trade it in the fastest, safest, and easiest way possible. 1Bn (with a B!) smartphones stop being used, every year after you upgrade to the latest and greatest. But there is a solution as simple astrading them in and getting paid while participating in the circular economy. So, why aren’t people selling their old phones, we wondered? This is where Green Panda comes in. Inspired by humans and powered by tech, we make sure that the frustrating experience of selling your smartphone is now as quick and easy as using a kiosk near you. Our patented A.I. technology in the Green Panda kiosks allows us to evaluate a smartphone’s condition, from the smallest nick to serious technical issues, with unprecedented accuracy. Oh, and we pay users on the spot, straight to their bank account/credit card.

Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Internet Businesses and Marketplaces | Board Professional | Co-Founder at DealGuru and Bonusway

Investment focus

Marketplace, Restaurants, Software
Angel, Funding Round, Seed
Finland, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
Hostaway — Hostaway Vacation Rental Software and Airbnb Management System Helps You Grow Your Vacation Rental Property Management Business By Automating And Streamlining Every Aspect Of Your Business across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and many more.
Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.

Making early-stage founders successful globally. A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Munchfam — Munchfam develops virtual brands that restaurants can sell online and the supporting supply chain. We use existing restaurants that produce our menus in their kitchens in addition to their own. The supply chain is built the same way as Mcdonald's, Subway, etc. with supplier and wholesaler networks under Munchfam’s control. We make our moneyfrom ingredient sales, online sales commissions & subscription fees.
Silo Team — Silo Team is developing an onboarding platform to help engineering managers onboard developers faster with automation.
illuminem — illuminem is world's leading sustainability information & data platform. It empowers users to monitor & compare the ESG performance of any company, stay updated with unlimited news & discover insights from the world's largest expert network in sustainability.

Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
Munchfam — Munchfam develops virtual brands that restaurants can sell online and the supporting supply chain. We use existing restaurants that produce our menus in their kitchens in addition to their own. The supply chain is built the same way as Mcdonald's, Subway, etc. with supplier and wholesaler networks under Munchfam’s control. We make our moneyfrom ingredient sales, online sales commissions & subscription fees.
Vendorvue — Vendorvue revolutionize vendor management for procurement teams.

Illusian is the Founder Office of people who have founded and scaled companies like Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, and Smartly. While the group is still busy running their businesses, they've aligned their networks, capital, and expertise to simultaneously support the next generation of builders.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.
Limbic — Limbic creates neuroscience of emotion packaged for developers. With just a few lines of code, anyone can make their app emotionally intelligent. Use the SDK to build products that interact with your user as naturally as interactions between two humans.

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides a digital commerce platform with a built-in framework for customization.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Peter joined Tesla from NXP Semiconductors where he was responsible for purchasing and outsourcing. As CPO, he took the purchase organization from a tactical decentralized structure to a strategic global commodity organization. Before starting at NXP, Peter was CPO at Sony Ericsson. Peter had a total of 13 years experience from different roles withEricsson and Sony Ericsson in Sweden and the US. He led the team that built and implemented Ericsson's framework for Supplier Quality Assurance. Peter has a Master's degree with specialization in Production and Quality Control from Luleå Technical University in Sweden. In his spare time he enjoys running, mountain biking, golf, cooking and travel.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Food and Beverage, AgTech
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

X Shore — In the evolution of an industry that has remained steadfast in its traditions, for better or for worse. With new technology and innovative research, smart design and sustainable materials, X Shore embraces the long tradition of maritime craftsmanship while discarding the dirty institution of fossil fuels. They don’t see theirselves as disrupters.They’re not here to reinvent the wheel, but rather to right the ship. To set a course for long-term sustainability that they can all be proud of.
Turnpike — Turnpike provides a complete platform for wearable communication and workflow management. It empowers front-of-house employees in retail stores and hotels by delivering prioritized communication directly to their wrists via smartwatches. Its manager's portal is accessible from any browser-capable device, employee smartwatches, and optionalinput devices that enable employees and customers to request immediate assistance.
Orbital Systems — Save up to 90% water and up to 80% energy with our smart recirculating shower - a much better shower experience for both you and our planet

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Tabs — Tabs provides AI-powered accounts receivable software to save time analyzing contracts, improve cash flow, and avoid billing errors.
Melio — Pay and get paid for invoices quickly, simply, and without any of the usual costs. Increase cash-flow and reduce hassles with Melio Payments.
Sapien — Sapien is a platform for creating autonomous coworkers for finance professionals. It promotes its service as an AI-native system created from the ground up that connects with Excel, ERP systems, and customer relationship management platforms.

Loudspring is a cleantech accelerator in the Nordic region, boasting several fast growing and high impact companies that solve global challenges. The portfolio companies are active in energy- and resource efficiency as well as decentralized renewable energy and are based in Finland, Sweden and Germany. The company management consists of companybuilders and investors who have been active within the cleantech space for over a decade.The company is listed on First North Finland under the ticker LOUD and on First North Stockholm under the ticker LOUDS.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Finland, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuuka — Nuuka is a building SW scaleup from Finland. Nuuka specialises in diagnosing and optimising HVAC, energy systems, and indoor climate. The SaaS is optimal for large building portfolios, of new and old public and commercial buidlings, as it can be used with any BMS and HVAC system, IAQ sensor or energy meter. Nuuka improves indoor climate, energyefficiency, reduces operational cost and improves sustainability for real estate owners, developers, retail chains and whole cities. We use SW, AI and ML to transform and industry, and save the world one building at the time.
Oricane — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
ResQ Club — ResQ Club is a Finnish company connecting sustainable restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores with consumers that appreciate eating affordable quality food. ResQ partners can drastically reduce their food waste with their proprietary location-based mobile and web service, as it enables consumers to find and rescue surplus food in their proximity.Every meal purchased via ResQ is one less meal thrown away, helping their urban communities to waste less and be more sustainable.They are on a mission to reduce food waste to zero at restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores. It's estimated that 10% of the already produced food in restaurants ends up in the trash instead of hungry mouths. On a global scale, this equals 11 million tons of food wasted every year.

Olli has background in management consultancy (McKinsey & Company 2007-2009) and software business (LeadDesk Oyj (publ) 2010-2018).

Investment focus

Marketplace, Beauty, Internet
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Freska — Freska, voted one of the hottest tech start-ups in Finland, is an online home services company currently disrupting the traditional home cleaning industry in the Nordics, backed by top-tier VCs (Acton, Spintop and Addventure) post Series A. Freska delivers top quality cleaning services with total flexibility for the customer to select a time,decide on the service and manage the subscription in an easy-to-use online interface or a native app. However, Freska does not only clean homes, it creates real jobs. All Freska cleaners have been subject to a thorough recruitment process followed by a thorough Freska-onboarding. They are all skilled professionals and core members of the Freska family, knowing that they will earn a good living from their job and have a community that supports them.
Offerilla — Offerilla is the most popular marketplace for local discounts. Offerilla was founded by entrepreneurs Risto Juntunen, Mikko Ollikkala and Aleksi Paavola.
Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.

Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.

Heikki Nousiainen

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Kamupak — Kamupak is a circular economy technology company solving the global waste problem with reuse
GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.

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