Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Finland in November 2024

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

Risto Siilasmaa is the Founder at F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

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.

Leena Niemistö

Experienced founder, board member, advisor and investor. Currently in 15+ companies (early stage) angel / pre-seed investor. Focus on platforms, marketplaces, SaaS and deep tech.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight

Mikko Kodisoja

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Pekka Vartiainen - Board Member @ Inbot

Founding Partner of Play Ventures. He previously co-founded Nonstop Games which was acquired by King for US$32m+ earnout.Henric has over 16 years of experience building mobile games and studios around the world. Before co-founding Nonstop Games in Singapore, Henric was Product Management Director at Digital Chocolate (Helsinki and Barcelona) andHead of Studio at Wooga (Berlin). After King’s acquisition of Nonstop Games, Henric served as Senior Creative Director at King.Henric also has a successful portfolio of angel investments in gaming including Huuuge Games, Futureplay Games, Traplight Games, Matchmade, Omniata (acquired by King), DataTiger (acquired by Apple) and Astralis Group (IPO on Nasdaq). In total, his investments have raised >$125M of venture financing and made 5 exits + 1 IPO. Henric is based in Singapore and frequently travels to the main gaming hubs in Europe and the US. He holds double masters’ degrees in Computer Science and Business.

Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.

Jonas Dromberg - Investor & Advisor @ Apprl

Hannu Vaajoensuu - Chairman of the Board of Directors @ Nervogrid

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

John Lindfors is a Co-Founder of DST Global. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as the head of tech and media investment banking in the EMEA region before transitioning to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010.

Elias Aalto is Wolt's Advisor and a Co-Founder before that.

Kedar Dani, UiPath.

Kulpreet Singh is Managing Partner at Overture Capital. He attended IMD.

Tero Ojanpera co-founded Silo.AI. He is also the executive chairman of the company.

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

Ari Korhonen - Angel investor and entrepreneur @ Lagoon Capital

Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara

Steve is a British data nerd living in Finland, a serial entrepreneur whom was once slightly famous in analytics industry circles. He's written 2 books, spoken at over 100 conferences, sold 2 companies, helped acquire 2 companies and improved over 100 websites sales or conversions in the last 2 decades. He invests only in the companies he candirectly impact as founder, director, board member or influencer. Currently working for and partner in the Travel Technology start up SaaS Toristy.com.

Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.

Founder and managing partner of River Venture Partners angel syndicate. Venture partner at VC firm Newio. Tech investor focused on early-stage investments in B2B software companies in Northern Europe. Supporting investors and entrepreneurs in building digital businesses that change people's lives. Former chemical engineer, strategist, digitalproduct development executive, founder of SanomaVentures and Managing Director of KPN Ventures.

Kristian Ranta is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Meru Health.

Riku Mäkelä is a COO at Wolt. He Attended Aalto University.

Kim Väisänen - Growth Partner @ Evli Growth Partners

Anton Gauffin is the Founder of Sumoing.

Our CEO Urban is a C-level executive with three decades of global experience in communications, media and technology. He is responsible for taking the vision to action with the Greenworlder team. He is also a senior advisor in business and private equity and business angel with scalable media platform and sustainable start-ups. On his free time,Urban can be found running, cycling, and spending time with his family.https://greenworlder.com/urban-gillstrom/

Henry Nilert

Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.

Angel investor and board professional with a passion on helping startups and growth companies to fulfil their true potential.

Founder at Leadfeeder

Glyn Eggar

Built two unicorns: Dendy and Akado. Startup advisor and mentor. I invest in companies I work with.

Asko Schrey

Kim Groop - Managing Partner & co-founder @ First Fellow Partners

Johannes Schildt, a true serial entrepreneur who founded or co-founded more than 3 companies, started his first company while still in school. Schildt later made a meteoric career at Stardoll working alongside people like Henrik Torstensson & Marcus Gners. Johannes successfully launched Stardoll's first official Facebook game, reaching1,000,000 monthly unique users within 3 months after launch. Today, Johannes is the CEO & Co-founder of Kry. By combining new technology with leading medical expertise KRY has built a platform to make healthcare digital.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Kaj Hed is Chairman at Rovio Entertainment.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Pekka Aakko is an Advisor/organizer of Assembly Organizing. Pekka Aakko attended University of Helsinki.

Lance Armstrong is a father, cancer survivor, advocate and philanthropist. In 1996, at age 25, Lance found himself struggling for his life against testicular cancer that had spread to his brain, lungs and abdomen. Lance aggressively educated himself about his diagnosis and treatment. Even as he battled against overwhelming odds, he made thedecision to declare himself a cancer survivor rather than a victim. During his personal battle with cancer, Lance recognized the lack of resources available to those facing this disease. In an effort to help fellow survivors and their families, Lance created a foundation with the express purpose of helping others manage life through and beyond a cancer diagnosis.In the years since, the organization Lance founded – now the LIVESTRONG Foundation – has served millions of people affected by cancer through direct support services that fill critical financial, emotional, physical and practical gaps in care for them and their loved ones. The Foundation has raised more than $500 million to serve cancer survivors, advocated on behalf of cancer patients in major policy debates and fought the stigma many cancer survivors throughout the world face.Lance has personally devoted himself to becoming a leading advocate for cancer survivors. He has lobbied Capitol Hill, testified before Congress, served two terms on the President’s Cancer Panel, advocated for smoke-free measures across the U.S. and addressed the United Nations.In 2004, the now-iconic yellow LIVESTRONG wristbands associated with the Foundation became an international phenomenon and a grassroots symbol of support for survivors. Thanks to its partnership with Nike, the Foundation has sold and distributed more than 87 million wristbands to advance the Foundation’s work improving the lives of people affected by cancer.In 2007, Lance helped unite support for the largest state-level initiative for cancer prevention in history, one that was overwhelmingly approved by voters and provided $3 billion for cancer research and prevention in Texas. The Constitutional amendment created the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, which has awarded nearly $840 million in cancer prevention, research and commercialization grants since 2009.In 2009, after more than a decade of advocacy work in the U.S., Lance led the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign, an initiative to address the cancer burden worldwide. The landmark event of the Campaign was the first-of-its-kind LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit, held in Dublin, Ireland. The unprecedented gathering of more than 500 world leaders, corporations, non-governmental organizations and advocates from more than 65 countries blazed a new trail for reducing the global burden of cancer. The Summit produced 300 new commitments to cancer control representing an investment of more than $200 million and established a unified global cancer movement for the first time in history.The same year, Lance’s vision for a permanent home for the Foundation was realized when the organization moved into a renovated warehouse in East Austin, an underserved part of the city. This home paved the way for the 2011 opening of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Navigation Center, marking a critical milestone in the continuing expansion of cancer support services the Foundation specializes in to patients, survivors and their families. One of just two facilities of its kind in the U.S., this community-based facility provides free, confidential, one-on-one support to anyone affected by cancer. In addition to the Center, the support services are also available online and by phone nationwide. To date, the LIVESTRONG Foundation has served more than 2.5 million people through its cancer support services.In 2012, Lance resigned his leadership role with the Foundation. He remains the Foundation’s single biggest donor and the progress he has helped generate within the field of cancer survivorship stands as a lasting legacy.