Top 35 Social Network Startup Investors in Finland in October 2024
A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social network startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social network companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Social Network Startup Investors in Finland in October 2024
Investor | Social Network Finland investments |
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5Y Capital | 3 |
Xiaomi | 3 |
Miki Kuusi | 2 |
BAI capital | 2 |
Superhero Capital | 2 |
Riku Mäkelä | 2 |
Ilkka Paananen | 2 |
37 Interactive Entertainment | 1 |
Mikko Kodisoja | 1 |
Jussi Laakkonen | 1 |
Taihecap (Formerly TH Capital) | 1 |
Team Builder Ventures | 1 |
Alexis Bonte | 1 |
Markus Maki | 1 |
Polygon Ventures | 1 |
Bilibili | 1 |
F4 Fund | 1 |
Ceras Ventures | 1 |
dao5 | 1 |
Symbolic Capital | 1 |
Alibaba Group | 1 |
Tesi | 1 |
Sedona Holdings | 1 |
Alphanonce | 1 |
Factor | 1 |
Kristian Segerstrale | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Hillhouse Investment | 1 |
Wave Ventures | 1 |
Temasek Holdings | 1 |
Pekka Aakko | 1 |
Nomad Ventures | 1 |
Bret Terrill | 1 |
Shunrong Gufen | 1 |
ZhenFund | 1 |
5Y Capital is a firm engaged in providing early-stage venture investments. It was formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital.The investment firm manages USD 5bn in dual-currency funds in USD and RMB, backed by world-renowned sovereign wealth funds, family offices, fund of funds, university endowments, pensions, and foundations.It washeadquartered in Xuhui, Shanghai, China in 2008 by Ken Shi and Richard Liu.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Omi AI — Open-source AI wearables
- ReviR Therapeutics — ReviR Therapeutics is a genomics-based platform that develops novel medicines targeting human RNAs.
- Xinchen New Materials — Xinchen New Materials is a manufacturer of electrolyte lithium salts, which are utilized in battery electrolytes.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Hardware
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Infinigence — 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.
- Dezao Technology — Dezao Technology is an e-commerce transaction provider, mostly involved in the sales of electronic products, mobile phones, and mobile phone accessories.
- Mihuo Intelligence — Mihuo Smart is a smart-home and appliance firm.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Finland, Kenya, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
- Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
BAI Capital is a leading venture capital fund in China. Since 2008, the team of BAI Capital has invested in more than 200 portfolios, including 17+ IPOs and 40+ unicorns. BAI Capital has two main focuses: China-based global companies and China’s structural transformation. BAI Capital seeks to partner with and empower outstanding Chinese companiesand entrepreneurs that can leverage the multiplier effect of China’s technology, talent, and supply chain advantages and to expand globally in consumer retail and services, fintech, media and content innovation, Web3 and metaverse. On the other hand, at the turning point of China’s structural transformation, the fund will also seize major cross-cycle disruption opportunities in frontier and infra tech, electric vehicles and autonomous driving, and industrial upgrade driven by enterprise software development.The investor base for BAI Capital includes institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, large insurance companies, internet giants and fund of funds globally, as well as Bertelsmann. BAI Capital has its background from Bertelsmann Asia Investments, part of the Bertelsmann Group.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Fabrie — Fabrie develops collaboration tool for designers that has functions such as multi-person collaboration, table and diagram association, cloud storage and sharing.
- RM Group — RM Group is a creator of derivatives and technologies related to digital humans.
- Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.
Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Estonia, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- eMabler — We accelerate our customers' business growth by convenience in eMobility with our API-first platform
- Fractory — Custom metal fabrication services for project and series manufacturing. 1-1 engineering support and payment terms for companies.
- Flow Computing — Flow's Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) gives 100X CPU performance for demanding applications, such as locally-hosted AI and general-purpose parallel computing.
Riku Mäkelä is a COO at Wolt. He Attended Aalto University.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Computer, Software
- Angel, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
- SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.
- Arcane — Turn insights into valuable content, craft thought leadership posts with your TOV and re-purpose long-form content in one platform.
37 Interactive Entertainment (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "37 IE") was founded in 2011. In 2015, the listing for the entire company was completed and quickly climbed to the top of China's stock market (Stock code: 002555). In 2017, 37 IE was named by Newzoo as one of the Top 25 Public Companies by GameRevenues. They were also named as one of the "New China Nifty 50" companies by Goldman Sachs. They are now included in the CSI 300 index and MSCI index (China A). They have offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Anhui, Jiangsu, Beijing, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, as well as North America and Europe.They have multiple game publishing platforms such as 37Games(China), 37Mobile and 37Games(Overseas). They also have several elite game studios such as Aurora Studio. 37 IE has four main corporate values:dedication, precision, team work and innovation. They have been able to establish a stronghold within the market due to their ability to recruit an retain staff who specialize within the internet and entertainment industries.As a leading game publisher and developer, they are expanding their business to other areas such as film, music and animation production, the development of VR content and healthy & lifestyle industry. Their goal is to build a global-leading cultural and creative company.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- China, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Homerun Smart — Shenzhen Qianhai Homa Technology Co., Ltd. is an independent research and development enterprise dedicated to artificial intelligence technology products. Headquartered in Guangzhou, the company has gathered high-tech talents from German technology R&D team and domestic well-known technology R&D team to provide independent research anddevelopment for the company. A solid technical guarantee. The development and production of smart pet feeders, smart pet companion robots and a variety of pet smart hardware are on the strategic agenda, and soon our smart hardware products will truly enter the family life and redefine the smart family lifestyle.
- Huayi Quantum — Huayi Quantum is a quantum computer and quantum cloud platform developer specializing in advanced algorithm research and application acceleration.The business creates modular, standardized, and scalable quantum computers based on ion-trap technology.
- Falcon Technology — Falcon Technology builds consumer-grade AR ecosystem and provides users with high-quality AR products and services.
Mikko Kodisoja
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Music, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
- SNAFU Records — SNAFU Records creates algorithms that scan through data from major music platforms like Spotify and Youtube to find artists and songs that stand out.
CEO and founder of Applifier, cross-promotion network for social games and apps reaching tens of millions of MAU. Everyplay, Laakkonen's startup in the social gaming space, turned into Applifier recently.Business development director at Bugbear Entertainment, an independent game developer. Expertise in business development, sales,marketing, PR, production and process developmentCo-founder of ASSEMBLY Organizing, the arranger of the 5000+ participants four day computer festival held in Helsinki, Finland held since year 1992.Over five years of experience in data security software industry in R&D, product marketing and process re-engineering at F-Secure Corporation.Laakkonen is from Helsinki, Finland.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
- Seed, Angel
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
- Savage Game Studios — Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay.
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Investment focus
- Software, EdTech, Retail
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Yahaha — Yahaha develops a platform where developers and game players can use the engine to develop their own games and publish it on the platform.
- MegaRobo — AI & Robotics Company based in Beijing,China.
- Kingwills New Materials — The main business of "Qingyun New Materials" is to develop, produce and sell flash-spun metamaterial Kunlun® Hypak® , which is a high-strength, waterproof and breathable special fiber material that is arranged in the form of non-woven fabrics.
Team Builder Ventures is a venture capital fund that helps founders build teams. It aims to make investments in startups focused on developments in enterprise software and consumer internet. offer team building as a value-add for our investments. The fund invests in the most compelling early-stage enterprise software and consumer Internetstart-ups led by the top venture capital funds. It was founded by Steven Lurie in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- TruckLabs — We create hardware and software products for semi trucks that make a positive impact on carbon reduction and fuel efficiency. Formerly Xstream Trucking.
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
- Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep
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.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Finland, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.
Markus Maki is an Executive Chairman at Remedy Entertainment.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
- Angel
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
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
- RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
- Rome Protocol — Rome modularizes Solana into a set of enshrined services so L2s can be as fast and decentralized as Solana.
- Universal Health Token — Universal Health Token (UHT) is a gamified healthcare platform developed by GOQii's Web3 business unit to promote the gamification of preventive healthcare using blockchain technology.
Bilibili provides high-quality content and an immersive entertainment experience, and have built their platform based on the strong emotional connections of their users to their content and communities. They started as a content community inspired by ACG, and have evolved into a full-spectrum online entertainment world covering a wide array ofgenres and media formats, including videos, live broadcasting, and mobile games. They have a young and culturally aspirational user base willing to invest in a high-quality entertainment experience.Bilibili uses an Adobe Flash or HTML5 player, which can be manually switched, to play user-submitted videos hosted by either itself or third-party sources, while featuring a real-time overlaying subtitle system for interactive playback experience.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Animation, Gaming
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- China, Hong Kong, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Rokid — Redefine reality with Rokid's AR glasses. Experience the future with our best AR glasses and streaming box, seamlessly merging the digital and physical worlds. Buy your own augmented reality glasses and embark on a transformative journey of immersive experiences and endless possibilities!
- Card Club — Card Club is focused on animation derivative cards and IPs including Douluo Dalu, Fight Break the Sky, Ghost Slayer, Disney, Pixar, etc.
- Zhejiang China Entertainment — Zhejiang China Entertainment is a company that provides game creation and operation services.
F4 is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in magical products.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, FinTech, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
- Benjamin — Start saving more money with our cash back app that automates the cash back earnings for people and businesses.
- Midsummer Studios — Midsummer Studios is a independent, well-funded and committed to building a new kind of studio.
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.
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, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nubit — Nubit is a provider of data availability layer for bitcoin-native data.
- Lombard — Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi.
- Sentient — Community-built open AGI
Symbolic Capital is a crypto VC founded by web3 founders. We provide web3 investing with global impact.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web Development
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- PIN AI — PIN AI democratizes personal on-device intelligence for everyone; transform your digital footprints into your Personal Executive Assistant.
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- Pentagon Games — Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies.
Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. They enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate, and improve their efficiencies. They provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with theirusers and customers and operate in a more efficient way.Their businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, and innovation initiatives. In addition, Ant Financial, a company in which they have agreed to acquire a 33% equity stake, provides payment and financial services to consumers and merchants on their platforms. An ecosystem has developed around their platforms and businesses that consists of consumers, merchants, brands, retailers, other businesses, third-party service providers, and strategic alliance partners.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Zhipu AI — Zhipu AI combines large-scale knowledge map built by itself to form a two-wheel-driven artificial intelligence framework through R&D.
- Baichuan Intelligence — Baichuan Intelligence objective is to make it simple and universal for people to access professional services and knowledge. It is also dedicated to developing China's finest large model base through advancements in language AI.
- Moonshot AI — Dark Side of the Moon is an AI large-scale model company.
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
- Seaber — Seaber is a cloud-based real-time planning, optimisation and communication solution for bulk cargo & vessels. Our solution improves the efficiency of bulk & break bulk charterers, shipowners & brokers through schedule planning and stakeholder communications over the lifecycle of a voyage.
- Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
- Basemark — Basemark: The automotive AR company - provider of software solutions and toolchains for automotive AR application development.
Sedona Holdings is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
- Series A
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
We believe crypto assets innovate the process of value creation to value transfer
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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.
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.
Kristian Segerstrale is the Co-founder of Initial Capital and Board member of Supercell, as well as the Co-founder and CEO of Playfish. Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001.He was a co-founder of mobile gaming pioneer Macrospace – today Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU) in 2001 through the successfulIPO in 2007. He left to co-found Playfish, the social gaming pioneer, where he served as CEO through the company’s rapid growth to 60 Million players and the subsequent acquisition by Electronic Arts for $400M in 2009. After a period as EVP Digital at Electronic Arts driving the aggressive transformation of the company from packaged goods to digital, Kristian left in March 2013 to focus on startups. Today Kristian leads seed stage investments with Initial Capital and serves on the board of Supercell, the #1 iOS game company.Kristian has previously served on the board of LOVEFiLM, the European streaming video pioneer until its acquisition by Amazon.com.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Online Games, PC Games
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Finland, India
Portfolio highlights
- Battlebound — Battlebound is on a mission to build memorable lifelong gaming communities that invite players into Heroic Stories, creating deep connections and positive life changes. Heroic stories are thrilling gameplay moments that bring players together and enrich players lives inside and outside the game. We believe blockchain technology will deepen these moments and enrich the player experience when paired with world-class gameplay.
- Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
- Lightforge Games — Lightforge Games is a new, all-remote video game studio on a quest to change how the world plays RPGs.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Founded in 2005, Hillhouse is a leading global investment management firm, active across public equity, private equity, real estate and private credit. The firm invests over a long-term horizon and partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to deliver sustainable value creation for quality companies.Hillhouse is a full life-cycle private equityfirm, investing for the long term across opportunities in the healthcare, business services, consumer, and industrials sectors. The firm manages capital on behalf of global institutions such as non-profit foundations, endowments, and pensions.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- dinii — Dinii is a mobile order platform for take-out shops.
- Ascentium — At Ascentium, we believe in the power of partnership to realise unlimited growth potential.
- Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.
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, Internet, Mobile Apps
- 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.
- Daze — Daze provides a first-mile pickup service for e-commerce and recommerce.
- Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore with a multinational staff of over 900 people. Our portfolio is valued at S$389 billion.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series C, Series D
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Samsara Eco — Samsara Eco is an enviro-tech company creating infinite recycling to end plastic pollution.
- Nearfield Instruments — Automated High-Throughput 3D Scanning Probe Metrology
Pekka Aakko
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Investment focus
- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Finland
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
- 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.
- Sentient Labs — Creatify is a minimalist, dark-themed Webflow template designed specifically for design agencies and creative studios. It features a timeless design, subtle animations, a fully functioning CMS, and everything you need to elevate your online presence to the next level.
Bret Terrill: CEO of Sedona Holdings, and the founder of Super Free Games(retired), at large.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
- Angel
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
Shunrong Gufen is a manufacturer of automotive plastic fuel tanks and testing equipment.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Online Games, Manufacturing
- Series A
- China, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Yahaha — Yahaha develops a platform where developers and game players can use the engine to develop their own games and publish it on the platform.
- Ximmerse — Ximmerse offers a range of mobile visual computing and inertial tracking research solutions for AR/VR devices. The company’s solutions include a cross-platform optical tracking system based around a high FOV stereo camera; and a suite of controller peripherals.Ximmerse was launched by Mike Bailey in December 2014 and is based in Guangdong,China.
- Shenliu Microintelligence — Shenliu Microintelligence focuses on the design of domestic independent controllable GPU chips.
ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- UXLINK — UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups.
- MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.
- Yi'an Holdings — Yi'an Holdings is a financial services company that provides one-stop investment banking services to small and medium-sized companies.
Investors by industry
Energy
Climate
Health Care
Gaming
Hardware
Artificial intelligence
Impact
Media (entertainment)
Proptech
Marketplace
Community
FinTech
Google
Consumer
Biotech
EdTech
Agriculture (agtech)
Sustainability
Venture Capital
Beauty
B2B
Photography
Finance
Real Estate
Social Media
Medical
Big Data
Email
Web3
Art
Wellness
Music
Clean Energy
Mobile
Oil and Gas
Franchise
Social Network
Video Games
Local
Internet
Digital Media
Food and Beverage
Construction
Manufacturing
Publishing
eSports
Sports
Education
Enterprise Software
Legal
Payments
Android
Platforms
Fashion
Mobile Advertising
Biotechnology
Hospitality
Fitness
Travel
Recruiting
Cannabis
Organic Food
Wine And Spirits
Retail
Medical Device
Crowdfunding
Social
Financial Services
Automotive
CleanTech
Infrastructure
Transportation
Mobile Apps
Enterprise
InsurTech
Life Science
LGBT
Theatre
Film
Non Profit
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Sporting Goods
Software
Restaurants
Social Impact
Celebrity
Cryptocurrency
Facebook
Blockchain
Investors by country
India
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Australia
Ireland
New Zealand
Canada
United States
Spain
Indonesia
Singapore
South Africa
Africa
Qatar
Europe
LATAM
Middle East
Sri Lanka
Asia
Armenia
Vietnam
China
Japan
Saudi Arabia
Brazil
Oceania
Czech Republic
Ecuador
Barbados
Costa Rica
Finland
Belarus
France
Estonia
Morocco
Malta
Hong Kong
Mali
Malaysia
Denmark
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Peru
Gibraltar
Lithuania
Chile
Myanmar
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Cayman Islands
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Belize
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Greece
Israel
Panama
Egypt
Mexico
Kazakhstan
Hungary
Liberia
Jersey
Philippines
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands
Norway
Algeria
Ghana
Mauritius
Kenya
Liechtenstein
Belgium
Nicaragua
Turkey
Croatia
Serbia
Rwanda
El Salvador
Venezuela
Ukraine
Portugal
Sierra Leone
Zimbabwe
Bulgaria
Sweden
Taiwan
Senegal
Bahrain
Uruguay
Uganda
Dominican Republic
Tunisia
San Marino
Slovenia
Zambia
Nigeria
Uzbekistan
Russian Federation
Seychelles
Thailand
Puerto Rico
Tajikistan
Togo
Azerbaijan
Poland
Namibia
Tanzania
Iceland
United Arab Emirates
Honduras
Bolivia
Isle of Man
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Iraq
Bahamas
Albania
Pakistan
Grenada
Jordan
Romania
Argentina
Bangladesh
Marshall Islands
Latvia
Cyprus
Oman
Austria
Cameroon
Switzerland
Colombia
Guatemala
Investors in Finland by industry
Restaurants
Transportation
Financial Services
Big Data
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Food and Beverage
Media (entertainment)
Payments
Video Games
Medical
Medical Device
Sports
Fitness
Agriculture (agtech)
Social Media
Internet
Music
Digital Media
Mobile
Android
Blockchain
Clean Energy
Enterprise Software
Construction
Travel
Hospitality
Platforms
Biotechnology
Consumer
Enterprise
Health Care
Biotech
Climate
EdTech
Energy
Sustainability
SaaS
Impact
Proptech
Community
Artificial intelligence
Gaming
Hardware
Fashion
Mobile Apps
Web3
B2B
Manufacturing
Life Science
Oil and Gas
Automotive
Real Estate
Software
Social Network
Franchise
CleanTech
FinTech
Wellness
Renewable Energy
Education
Marketplace
Retail
Infrastructure