Top 20 Social Media VC Funds in Finland

Investor	Social Media Finland investments
Finnvera Venture Capital	4
Business Finland	4
Visionplus	3
Superhero Capital	2
Click Ventures	2
Alphanonce	1
Sixgen	1
Factor	1
Wave Ventures	1
Nomad Ventures	1
Tesi	1
Polygon Ventures	1
Ceras Ventures	1
Symbolic Capital	1
Inventure	1
dao5	1
Icebreaker.vc	1
Pitchdrive	1
SwissBorg	1
Nauta Capital	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.

Investment focus

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.

Investment focus

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!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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 believe crypto assets innovate the process of value creation to value transfer

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Finland, South Korea, United States

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
MetaBeat — Experience new distance with your favorite artists' NFT!
Synesis One — Synesis One is a data crowdsourcing platform where anyone can earn $SNS by completing micro-tasks that train AI.

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.

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

Factor operates as a venture capital firm.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

Early stage venture capital focused on consumer technology, marketplaces and new ways for everyday people to make money over the internet.

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

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 project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.

Polygon Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on early-stage Web3 startups.

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.

We are a global investment firm that focuses on the disruptive start-ups and provides support to Web 3.0 and blockchain companies.

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.

Symbolic Capital is a crypto VC founded by web3 founders. We provide web3 investing with global impact.

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.

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

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.

An experimental cryptocurrency investment fund that will convert into a decentralized autonomous organization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Finland, Portugal

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.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an innovative blockchain platform that aims to decentralize artificial intelligence.

Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Finland, Estonia, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Zymego — Zymego develops solutions that relieve healthcare workers of administrative work while improving patient access to healthcare.
Fixably — Fixably is the repair management solution to seamlessly connect all users, from the end customer to the technician, and all repair systems within your service business.
Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Join thousands of smart users and start investing with the SwissBorg app at the best available price anywhere at any time.

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 support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

airfocus — airfocus is the first modular product management software: Manage and communicate your product strategy, prioritize your roadmap, and solve the right problems.
ESPROFILER — ESProfiler is an enterprise platform that empowers CISOs to prioritise threats, optimise spend & continuously maximise return on investment
NumberEight — Privacy-friendly mobile app monetization and analytics for app publishers, ad suppliers and SSPs. Know your users with intelligent first party data: specialized mobex AI for contextual advertising.