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Top 15 Restaurants Startup Investors in Finland in May 2026

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 May 2026

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

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Ilkka Paananen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • 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.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
  • BottleCap AI — BottleCap AI is a company that focuses on architecture-first, efficiency-focused basic LLMs designed to reason better per unit of CPU and enable previously impossible applications.
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Lifeline Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
  • Supercell — Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
  • Nordcraft — Create AAA web apps that delight your users
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Laurel Bowden
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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.

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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.
  • 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.
  • Botanical Ventures Limited — Botanical Ventures Limited is a privately held company based in London, United Kingdom, and has been incorporated since 2017. The company brings together a diverse range of industries — including financial services, asset tokenization, mining operations, real estate, biotechnology, and botanical ventures — with a focus on building real-world valuethrough innovation and cross-sector expertise.Co-founded by Alexander Thomas Dover and Nicolas-André Borel, Botanical Ventures Limited operates with a vision to connect traditional industries with emerging technologies. While Alexander leads the company’s strategic direction, Nicolas-André serves as Chief Operating Officer, playing a key role in driving operational growth and cross-border initiatives.Registered under UK company law, Botanical Ventures is committed to long-term, sustainable development and creating new opportunities across both established and frontier markets.
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Lasse Järvinen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Angel, Funding Round, Seed
  • Finland, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.
  • Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!
  • 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.
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Genesis Ventures
VC Fund · Athens, Attiki, Greece · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Wocap — Wocap is the first Greek fintech company providing a bank-free platform for dynamic invoice discounting. Buyers deploy liquidity, while Suppliers receive early, debt-free payments.
  • Protio — Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate.
  • Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
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Heikki Nousiainen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Heikki Nousiainen

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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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Nordic Makers
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

Nordic Makers invests in early-stage Nordic B2B software startups, offering capital and founder support to help them scale globally.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Denmark, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

  • KIME — KIME enables you to track visibility across various AI platforms, analyze competitor presence, and apply clear steps to improve positioning in high-value searches that increase brand recognition and business impact.
  • DreamJay — We’re a team of scientists, designers and entrepreneurs working on digital solutions to empower people to sleep and dream better. After 3 years of research and experiments in a sleep lab as well as cooperation with sleep medicine experts, neuropsychologists, audiovisual researchers, we've found a way to improve sleep quality with activesleep stimulation. To make it accessible to the wide public we've developed the Nightly app - the world’s first app that actively stimulates you during sleep to make your sleep more efficient resulting in happier and healthier you. Nightly helps you fall asleep easily, reduces bad dreams & the number of awakenings during the night and also helps you get up by waking you up in the lightest sleep stage. Find out more at www.nightlyapp.co
  • Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
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Olli Sirkiä
Angel

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

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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.
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Peter Carlsson
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

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.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Information Technology, 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
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General Catalyst
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Arrcus — Bringing transformative 5G & multi-cloud networking to CSPs to lower 5G infrastructure cost, expedite service delivery and monetize cloud infrastructure faster. Test drive the ACE platform for free.
  • Tidelift — Tidelift is a managed open source subscription, offering commercial support and maintenance for the open source dependencies used to build applications, backed by maintainers.
  • Standard Kernel — Standard Kernel builds AI technology that makes the core software running on GPUs and other accelerators faster and more efficient.
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Loudspring
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Retail
  • 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 — Buy the domain name Oricane.com and launch your business with a premium domain and a high quality logo.
  • 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.
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Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • 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.
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Christian Jantzen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Danish angel investor, based in London.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Medusa — The most flexible commerce platform for developers and agents
  • 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.
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Pitchdrive
VC Fund · Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • introw — We help B2B sales, marketing & partnership teams to unlock warm referral leads in their partner ecosystem through AI. Allowing them to discover & co-sell on these leads from within their sales tools.
  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Stardust — Stardust Analytics (meetstardust.ai) is a Swedish-based AI startup that provides a SaaS platform for advertising performance — using artificial intelligence to analyze what makes certain ads successful and automatically generate new high-performing ad content. Specifically, Stardust’s AI engine “reads” top-performing ads (frames, words, visuals)to identify the patterns behind success, then uses those insights to create new ad briefs and content, shifting advertising from guesswork to data-driven creativity. The goal: help brands and advertisers save time, increase conversions, and consistently scale ad performance without manually testing endless variations.
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Illusian Founder Office
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ever — Shop Ever Certified EVs, get instant sell offers, and finance online with delivery or pickup.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
  • Ovido — Ovido company specialises in supply chain and product data automation, with a focus on providing full product traceability and the establishment of Digital Product Passports (DPPs).
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