Top 20 Social Media Startup Investors in Finland
A list of 20 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Social media startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Social Media Startup Investors in Finland
Investor | Social Media Finland investments |
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Finnvera Venture Capital | 4 |
Business Finland | 4 |
Visionplus | 3 |
Superhero Capital | 2 |
Click Ventures | 2 |
Nauta Capital | 1 |
Elias Aalto | 1 |
Polygon Ventures | 1 |
Symbolic Capital | 1 |
Sixgen | 1 |
Gary Vaynerchuk | 1 |
Factor | 1 |
Nomad Ventures | 1 |
Tesi | 1 |
Pitchdrive | 1 |
Inventure | 1 |
SwissBorg | 1 |
Ceras Ventures | 1 |
Wave Ventures | 1 |
dao5 | 1 |
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, Switzerland
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.
- 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.
Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Teamspective — Teamspective's SaaS solution helps companies create culture of performance and wellbeing in their organization through - Actionable and real-time visibility to employee wellbeing and effectiveness of teams' collaboration - Replacing heavy 360 feedbacks with timely collection of high quality feedback that activates personal development -Modernizing performance evaluations with a process that takes only minutes per employee and eliminates rater bias - Understanding organization's dynamics through ONA surveys that are 10x faster and cheaper than consulting-driven versionsTeamspective's customers have 2x higher amount of employees satisfied with the feedback they receive.
- Supersight — 100% privacy preserving mobile app for people counting, revolutionising real world business process automation. A Finnish high-tech product is most efficient method on the market for counting the number of people in a space with our AI technology, ensuring complete privacy and a productive environment for all. Customers in Finland and France.
- Linio Biotech Ltd — Science by nature, Inspired by biology, driven by curiosity. We redefine skin regeneration.
WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER!
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
- Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
- BetterDoctor — BetterDoctor helps validate and deliver accurate provider data to health plans, health systems, and hundreds of other companies via its API — from startups to publicly traded ones. This ultimately helps achieve the mission of helping consumers find the healthcare they need.Today, BetterDoctor's data platform and APIs power 9 health plans,350 companies, 1,500 developers, helping millions of people find the right doctor each month. Health Plans BetterDoctor uses multi-modal outreach to drive providers to attest their information on BetterDoctor's online portal. API PartnersBetterDoctor brings transparency to doctor data. Their real-time platform, master database and API services enable everyone to add doctor data to their systems, websites and applications. Today, BetterDoctor API and data tools power health insurance companies, healthcare startups and doctor search tools. https://betterdoctor.com/developers
Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Estonia, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- MyDello — Get instant quotes for all transportation modes. Enter a new era of freight forwarding with the MyDello logistics platform. Sign up for free
- Fractory — Metal fabrication services for project and series manufacturing. 1-1 engineering support and payment terms for companies.
Click Ventures is a Seed to Series A venture capital firm investing in highly scalable technology startups across promising sectors.
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- Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
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- Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
- Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
- Bite Investments — Access alternative investments in a seamless, end-to-end investment process. Bite's financial technology platform expands access to alternative investments.
We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Last.app — Last is a comprehensive restaurant software solution. Thanks to the use of new technologies, our platform offers unique solutions in the market, always with the aim of simplifying and optimizing the tasks of the team of any type of restaurant.
- Xonai — Big data analytics empowers large growing businesses worldwide by converting insights into actionable decisions and has become ubiquitous across modern data-driven businesses.
- Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.
Elias Aalto is Wolt's Advisor and a Co-Founder before that.
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Investment focus
- Internet, News, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Helppy — Helppy is redefining elderly care. We are the trusted companion of seniors and their families. Helppy is a personalized elderly care platform supported by technology. We provide personal care, family support and a broad range of additional services to elderly at home.
- ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
- Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.
Polygon Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on early-stage Web3 startups.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Illuvium — Illuvium, the world's first IBG (Interoperable Blockchain Game) is an upcoming open-world exploration, NFT creature collector and autobattler game built on the Ethereum blockchain. Join a graphically-rich sci-fi adventure and conquer the wilderness to help your crash-landed crew flourish!
- Inco — Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting.
- Savage — SAVAGE is the world's first carbon-neutral marketplace for videos and photos in the Metaverse, Web3, and beyond. Powered by $SAVG.
Symbolic Capital is a crypto VC founded by web3 founders. We provide web3 investing with global impact.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Internet
- Seed
- United States, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Nubit — Nubit is a provider of data availability layer for bitcoin-native data.
- 0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
- Pallet Exchange — Pallet Exchange is developing a new sort of NFT marketplace that focuses on customer retention.
SIXGEN assesses devices, networks, and critical infrastructure for vulnerabilities. Our cybersecurity experts power commercial, Government, and military red teams with the RAVEN portable cyber toolkit / flyaway kit. We support and unify cyber missions from penetration tests to CMMC compliance.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Computer
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Dazzboard — dazzboard is the universal media manager, web application that connects mobile devices, PC and the Web and manages media between those dazzboard is like open iTunes, supporting all portable devices, mobile phones, MP3 and media players. with dazzboard you can download YouTube videos and Flickr pictures to a mobile phone, upload photos andvideos to Facebook - connect your portable device to your favourite services
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations.
In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
- Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
Factor operates as a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Database, Internet, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A
- Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rated — Rated offers data on validators and node operators, which makes it easier for users to compare and contrast their performance.
- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- Kinetex — Cross-chain DeFi aggregator and highly efficient trading protocol. Instant transfer of liquidity between networks based on zero-knowledge proofs.
Early stage venture capital focused on consumer technology, marketplaces and new ways for everyday people to make money over the internet.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- AngelList — Apply privately to 130,000+ remote jobs and startup jobs near you with one application. See salary and equity upfront. Find the latest tech jobs, company overviews, benefits and more at AngelList Talent.
- Bezel — Shop for thousands of the most collectible watches online. Find Rolex, Cartier, Patek Philippe, Panerai, IWC, and more. All of our watches are authenticated in-house by our team of specialists and watchmakers with decades of experience in luxury watches.
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government-owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state-owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses.Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with privateco-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings.The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
- Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
- Carbo Culture — We are a climate technology company building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom
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- WAY.so — WAY is an IT management company enabling HR teams to easily manage everyones' devices, apps and security. It is a platform that automates manual tasks such as onboardings or offboardings so that involuntary IT managers in HR, office management or operations have all capabilities to easily and securely run IT on top of their actual jobs. Injust 60 seconds a company can set up a laptop and all necessary accounts and have it shipped to wherever it is needed. WAY customers can rent and buy hardware directly from WAY at competitive pricing and insurance so that all hardware procurement is centralized. WAY always handles a company's hardware inventory for free.
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
- Version Lens — Meet your new Product Management Co-Pilot. Reduce overhead for your product team so you can focus on what truly matters, building outstanding products.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
- UltiHash — Data powers breakthroughs. UltiHash is the storage foundation to accelerate them: blazing fast, highly efficient, and built for sustainable long-term growth.
- Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.
Join thousands of smart users and start investing with the SwissBorg app at the best available price anywhere at any time.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Internet, Blockchain
- Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- D8X — D8X is an institutional-grade perpetual futures DEX with a financial engineering approach that significantly transforms the way perpetual futures can be traded on-chain.
- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- Lum Network — The first decentralized protocol for businesses to build authentic trust with their customers.
We are a global investment firm that focuses on the disruptive start-ups and provides support to Web 3.0 and blockchain companies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Gameta — Gameta is a web3 company.
- Magic Square — Discover, use, and manage all dApps, DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, and engage with the community in one convenient place. Magic Square - It's all there.
- Pop Social — Pop Social is the ultimate social gateway to Web3. Experience a multi-chain social ecosystem and discover your online social lifestyle. Connect and engage with a decentralized global community to leverage content and ownership economy.
Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Germany
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- Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
- Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
- Taika Tech — Taika Tech builds a novel interface for controlling the surrounding technology by making sense of your hand movement and location with a smart ring
An experimental cryptocurrency investment fund that will convert into a decentralized autonomous organization.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Finland, Portugal
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- Nubit — Nubit is a provider of data availability layer for bitcoin-native data.
- 0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
- Talus Network — Talus Network is an innovative blockchain platform that aims to decentralize artificial intelligence.
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