Top 15 Retail Startup Investors in Finland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 15 angel investors and VC 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

Investor	Retail Finland investments
Ali Omar	3
Summit Partners	2
Mobility Ventures	2
Baidu	2
Reaktor Ventures	1
Flashpoint	1
Fort Ross Ventures	1
Heino Group	1
Maki.vc	1
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo	1
SCB 10X	1
Vendep Capital	1
Innovestor	1
Gorilla Capitalthbb	1
Leif Linden	1

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Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

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 a construction management software designed for real estate developers and general contractors. The software combines project development, procurement, and construction management into a streamlined pipeline. We bring an industry spesific Project Development CRM, Bid Management Tools and Project Management Software in one easy-to-useplatform which integrates easily with other most used software in the industry. Even thought the construction industry accounts for 13% of the world’s GDP, there's been a global problem of poor productivity within the industry as productivity growth has increased only 1% over the past 20 years. From the real estate developers and general contractors point of view, the biggest issue is the projects that turn unprofitable unexpectedly. One unprofitable project destroys the whole year profits and another one can bankrupt the entire company. Most of the decisions that affect the success of a project are made before construction begins, but still there are no smart tools available for that stage to help the construction companies avoid unprofitable projects. We solve this global problem by bringing the most critical steps to the success of a construction project on the same platform.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Certania — Certania is a provider of testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) services focused on addressing global challenges.
DocuSketch — Discover how DocuSketch revolutionizes restoration businesses, reducing cycle times, boosting profitability, and expediting claims for accelerated growth and comprehensive assistance. Explore cutting-edge solutions designed to elevate efficiency and drive success in the restoration industry.
Hallmark Healthcare Solutions — Hallmark Health Care Solutions is a healthcare consulting and technology firm.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Wuwen Xinqiong — Wuwen Core Dome is dedicated to providing AGI computing power solutions based on its large model energy efficiency optimization tools, with the goal of resolving the challenge of efficient and unified deployment of large model algorithms to large computing power chips.
Baiying Technology — Baiying Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as: Baiying Technology) was established in September 2016. It has established branches in Shanghai and Chengdu and established a research and development center in Seattle. It is a data intelligent technology service company focusing on big data and artificial intelligence technology. And apply it to thecommercial field. The company has mastered core technologies such as artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and industry knowledge maps, and holds a number of technical patents and copyrights. Its self-developed Baiying intelligent voice robot, Baiying electric sales robot, Baiying customer service robot, Baiying customer service assistant/training robot, Baiying intelligent call center, Baiying enterprise data center, dedication to help enterprises upgrade to obtain customers , insight into the market, the way to serve customers. It will promote the transformation and upgrade of the customer acquisition method and customer service mode, and realize the transformation of sales and customer service from labor-intensive to technology-intensive.
StarFive Technology — StarFive Technology offers RISC-V-based CPU IP, SoC, development board, and other series of products.

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.

Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
Hotelmize — Our Big Data Solutions for the booking Industry identify and take advantage of booking price volatility, automatically increasing your profitability.
Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Deci AI — Deci empowers deep learning developers to accelerate inference on edge or cloud, reach production faster, and maximize hardware potential.
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.

Investment focus

B2B, Retail, Farming
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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Enfuce — Enfuce is a cloud-based financial services provider that specializes in card issuing and payment processing services. It helps banks, fintech, and financial institutions become and remain fully PSD2 compliant, and helps them give third-party service providers access to digital accounts.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inEspoo, Finland.
CardioSignal — Access information about your heart health in just one minute using your phone.
Magic Feedback — Magic Feedback is an AI business creating a platform that compiles user reviews into one location and analyzes everything automatically using its own AI.

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 Nokiaâ€™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 masterâ€™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.