Top 15 Retail Startup Investors in Finland in December 2024
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Retail Startup Investors in Finland in December 2024
Investor | Retail Finland investments |
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Ali Omar | 3 |
Baidu | 2 |
Summit Partners | 2 |
Mobility Ventures | 2 |
Reaktor Ventures | 1 |
Innovestor | 1 |
Fort Ross Ventures | 1 |
Heino Group | 1 |
Maki.vc | 1 |
Vendep Capital | 1 |
Leif Linden | 1 |
Finnvera Venture Capital | 1 |
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | 1 |
Gorilla Capitalthbb | 1 |
Flashpoint | 1 |
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
- GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
- Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.
Baidu is a search engine that enables individuals to obtain information and finds what they need. Baidu offers functional online search, Tieba community search, industry-based vertical search, mp3 search, portal channels, and instant messaging services. Its products include Baidu Webpage, Baidu Video, Baidu Map, hao123.com, BaiduPedia, Baidu Input,Baidu Toolbar, TTPlayer, Iqiyi, and Sky Software.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Automotive
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- HiBug — HiBug is an AI programming solution provider that focuses on the research and development of important technologies for natural language processing and huge models.
- Shengshu Technology — Shengshu Technology is an artificial intelligence solution provider that focuses on the creation of multi-modal generative big models and application products. It offers broad services to institutional businesses and technical service providers in specific industries.
- Light and Magic Technology — Light & Magic is a team of industry experts dedicated to creating innovative technology solutions that empower artists and creators to unleash their unlimited potential.
Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that invests in growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities in technology, healthcare and other growth sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Onestock — Unlock your full omnichannel potential with the Distributed Order Management System used by market-leading retail & supply chain businesses.
- PostPilot — PostPilot is the leading direct mail platform for ecommerce and DTC.
- Earned Wealth — Forme Financial is a platform that offers estate planning, debt management, insurance planning, and investment management services.
Mobility Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage companies across the wireless ecosystem: mobile Internet, AI data sciences, digital media, m-health, commerce, software, location-based services, applications, and services. The company also provides advisory services in the areas such as corporate strategy and growth strategies,market opportunity and analysis, business development, access to financial communities, and develop and implement marketing and sales strategies.Mobility ventures was founded by Roman Kikta in 2004 and is headquartered in Addison, Texas.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, Retail
- Seed, Angel, Series C
- Spain, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- IndoorAtlas — Discover the power of indoor positioning technology with IndoorAtlas. Build innovative indoor location-based solutions using our cross-platform SDK. Explore case studies and start developing today.
- InnerWireless — InnerWireless, Inc. provides in-building wireless and RFID solutions to healthcare, enterprise, government, and hotel/gaming markets. InnerWireless solutions provide in-building wireless wide area network (WAN) and WLAN solutions for voice, data, multimedia, location, and other wireless services to the mobile workforce. It offers WirelessUtility, a broadband infrastructure that provides wireless signal coverage for mobility, communication, and real-time access to data. This solution also provides access to WAN services, including cellular services, paging capability, two-way radio service, first responder technology, WiFi access, enterprise voice service, and building automation and security. InnerWireless offers Horizon Converged Wireless platform for wide area services, building distribution, local area services, and segment distribution; and PanGo Unified Asset Visibility platform for asset, workflow, and inventory management, as well as to aggregate and synthesize data from various RTLS, RFID, and sensor sources. InnerWireless, Inc. was formerly known as E-tron Technologies, Inc.InnerWireless was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
- Eelp! — Eelp! is an app to delegate all personal daily needs busy people have, 365. Taking your car for a wash, pet-sitting your dog while traveling, doing groceries, sending a physiotherapist home, a manicure to the office, a cab to the airport.. an Eelper will manage that for you, with best providers at best price, happy to Eelp.
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
- 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.
Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- AISPECO — AISPECO systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.
- Clair Scientific — CLAIR Z1 is a versatile microscope based on our patented bio imaging platform that is suitable for life science and nano science research
- Polku Therapeutics — Polku Therapeutics | Disease-Modifying Therapies for Neurodegeneration
FortRoss Ventures, formerly MoneyTime Ventures, invests in early stage startups with the proven product, technology and go-to-market in the beginning of their international expansion and exponential revenue growth. The firm provides not only capital but give an access to the largest financial institution in CEE (infrastructure, customer base,go-to-market) through establishing the long term partnership (commercial contracts, JVs, other instruments) between the startup and anchor LPs.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Israel, Russian Federation
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- Deci AI — Deci enables deep learning to live up to its true potential by using AI to build better AI. With the company’s end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform, AI developers can build, optimize, and deploy faster and more accurate models for any environment, including cloud, edge or mobile. With Deci’s platform, developers can increase deeplearning model inference performance by 3x-15x, on any hardware, while still preserving accuracy. This translates directly into new use cases on limited hardware, substantially shorter development cycles, and reduced compute costs by up to 80%. The platform is powered by Deci’s Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, an algorithmic optimization engine that squeezes maximum utilization out of any hardware. The AutoNAC engine contains a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) component that redesigns a given trained model’s architecture to optimally improve its inference performance (throughput, latency, memory, etc.) for specific target hardware while preserving its baseline accuracy. Deci achieved a record-breaking 11.8x accelerated inference speedup on Intel CPUs at MLPerf Industry Benchmark and has been named to the CBInsights top 100 AI companies. Led by a team of world-class deep learning experts, Deci lets AI developers focus on what they do best - creating innovative AI-based solutions for our world’s most complex problems.
- Rookout — Speed up the debugging process and accelerate your team's velocity with Rookout's live, remote debugging platform. Debug anything, anywhere. Effortlessly.
- SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.
Heino Group is a food and drink industry company that has grown into an active entrepreneur, investor, owner, and supporter of foodtech companies.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Fruit, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Vegemi — Vegemi is a free smartphone app that promotes eating fruits and vegetables through gaming. The software was designed with the entire family in mind, but especially to demonstrate youngsters the health advantages of fruits and vegetables in a way that motivates and inspires them.
- Arctic Farming — Disrupting food production by making vertical farming mainstream.
- Nordic Umami Company — Developing all-embracing sustainable flavours to accelerate plant-based eating.
Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
- Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
- Distance Technologies — Distance Technologies seeks to develop glasses-free XR applications
B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cluby — Cluby is a technology platform that provides restaurants with the best tools for managing and communicating with loyal consumers.
- Claimlane — Claimlane is an end-to-end returns management solution for brands and retailers to manage any type of return, across all sales channels and markets. Perfectly document claims and returns. Streamline workflows. Get quality insights. Turn unhappy claimers into loyal customers. That's Claimlane.
- Eyeball — Eyeball operates as a digital platform for youth football.
Leif Linden
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Investment focus
- Retail, Analytics, Predictive Analytics
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Avansera — Avansera delivers real-time predictive analytics and targeted digital marketing solutions for FMCG companies to improve their marketing and supply chain processes. Consumer actions and purchase data is recorded live from active user interaction with Avansera's Ostosnero (ShopperStar) grocery shopping information and optimization platform.
Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Enfuce — Unlock growth with our card issuing solutions. Our expertise in issuer processing can turn your ambitious vision into a reality.
- Nordcloud — Nordcloud is a European leader in public cloud infrastructure solutions and cloud-native application services. Since 2011 we have completed more than 500 deployments to help our enterprise customers gain the maximum benefits of the cloud, including security, agility, scalability and overall cost-savings.
- Aurealis Pharma — Multi-target cell and gene therapies for unmet medical needs. Developing therapies for chronic wounds, cancer and inflammatory diseases.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of June 1, 2006.Olli-Pekka joined Nokia in 1980 as Corporate Counsel, and has held roles of increasing responsibility since that time. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Vice President, Legal Department, and in 1988 he was named Assistant Vice President, Finance. In1990 he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance.In 1992, Olli-Pekka was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1997-1998 he served as Corporate Executive Vice President, Nokia Americas, being responsible for all Nokia’s business operations in the Americas. He returned to the position of Chief Financial Officer at the beginning of 1999, the position he had held prior to moving to the United States. From 2004-2005 Kallasvuo was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Phones. On October 1, 2005 he was named President and COO before his appointment to the current position.Olli-Pekka has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia since 1990. On April 1, 2007, Olli-Pekka was appointed Chairman of the Board of Nokia Siemens Networks. In May 2007, Mr. Kallasvuo was nominated as member of the Board of Directors at Nokia. Starting January 2009, he will also serve as a Member of the Board of the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK.He holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Helsinki. Prior to joining Nokia, Olli-Pekka held a variety of positions with the Union Bank of Finland.Olli-Pekka was born on July 13, 1953, in Lavia, Finland. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, tennis and reading about political history.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Retail, Big Data
- Series A
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Walkbase — Walkbase offers advanced retail analytics to boost marketing impact and personalize the in-store shopping experience, driving better engagement and sales.
Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Estonia, Sweden
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- Xiphera — Xiphera is a Finnish company designing hardware-based security solutions using standardised cryptographic algorithms.
- Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.
- Upsy Company — Discover Upsy, the AI-powered online shopping assistant designed to transform your webshop into a sales powerhouse. Boost your conversion rates, improve customer service, and amplify your online sales with Upsy's innovative features today
Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
- iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
- Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.
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