Top 40 Social Network Startup Investors in Finland in May 2025

Investor	Social Network Finland investments
5Y Capital	3
Xiaomi	3
Riku Mäkelä	2
BAI capital	2
Ilkka Paananen	2
Superhero Capital	2
Miki Kuusi	2
David Helgason	1
Hillhouse Investment	1
37 Interactive Entertainment	1
Coatue	1
Nomad Ventures	1
Polygon Ventures	1
Symbolic Capital	1
Kristian Segerstrale	1
Tesi	1
Ceras Ventures	1
dao5	1
Bilibili	1
ZhenFund	1
SwissBorg	1
Alphanonce	1
F4 Fund	1
BITKRAFT Ventures	1
Pekka Aakko	1
Wave Ventures	1
Mikko Kodisoja	1
Temasek Holdings	1
Taihecap (Formerly TH Capital)	1
Alibaba Group	1
Shunrong Gufen	1
Sedona Holdings	1
Factor	1
Alexis Bonte	1
Illusian Founder Office	1
Markus Maki	1
FOV Ventures	1
Tuulenkantajat	1
Icebreaker.vc	1
Jussi Laakkonen	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 is aninvestment firm of Morningside Group.It was headquartered in Xuhui, Shanghai, China in 2008 by Ken Shi and Richard Liu.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

BOTINKIT — Taking the most advanced robotics technology and data-based algorithms, we are enabling possible an easier, smarter and healthier cooking.
LTZ Therapeutics — LTZ develops novel immunotherapies to treat patients that suffer from cancer and other diseases with an unmet clinical need.
Differential Robotics — Differential Robotics is a robotics company providing research, design, and development of aerial robots and intelligent autonomous drones.

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Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Electronics
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.

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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KUN — KUN provides all-inclusive digital payment solutions for Web2 and Web3 enterprises.Its services include seamless on/off ramp solutions, developing markets-focused integrated payment systems, and cryptocurrency-enabled virtual and real card solutions.
Usdx money — usdx.money is a secure and decentralized bankless synthetic stablecoin issuer with the mission to better serve people with next gen stablecoin infra connecting DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Estonia, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
Koll — Koll makes it possible for both individuals and businesses to make phone calls with verified identities. Anonymous calls are a thing of the past.
TheStorage — Flexible industrial heat electrification and scalable energy storage. TheStorage offers cost efficient, sustainable grid scale energy storage that can discharge heat, steam or CHP.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
Seed, Angel, Series A
Finland, Kenya, Lithuania

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.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coatue is a lifecycle investment platform focused on turning big ideas in world-shaping technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wisdom AI — WisdomAI is a data analytics platform that enables enterprise users to ask natural-language questions and receive answers from both structured and unstructured data sources—even when the data is messy or incomplete. It allows business leaders to quickly drill into insights, replacing the need for time-consuming analyst reports with real-time,accurate responses. The platform avoids hallucinations by using generative AI only to generate queries, not the answers themselves. Early adopters include companies across sectors like oil and gas, who use WisdomAI to query data from documents, telemetry, and databases.
Miter — Miter's software streamlines HR, finance, and compliance for the construction industry.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
United States, Finland, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Phaver — Phaver is platform to start communities around products, places, web pages and apps while earning affiliate revenue on recommendations. With Phaver, experts can generate recurring revenue from their knowledge and users can discover better products and places.
WilsonAI — WilsonAI makes the world's best AI paralegal for company's legal teams. It acts as an intelligent legal front door and assists with automating workflows while maintaining oversight.
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.

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

Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Miden — Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.
Warlock Labs — Warlock Labs is a provider of an omni-chain liquidation engine that improves the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols by recapturing the maximum extractable value.
Primus Labs — Primus connects Web2 data to Web3, offering verified information to AI models while ensuring user privacy.

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.

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.
Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.

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

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.
TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
TILT Biotherapeutics — TILT Biotherapeutics is the leading company globally working in the area of enabling tumor T-cell therapy with oncolytic viruses. TILT is a preclinical stage company working in the field of cancer immunotherapy and will soon translate its unique approach into clinical trials. The company’s patented technology involves utilization of oncolyticviruses for enhancement of tumor T-cell therapy. Initial embodiments of the technology will be used to enhance tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) and checkpoint inhibiting antibody therapy. The TILT approach has the potential to achieve similar results in CAR-T therapy of solid tumors as currently achieved for CD19+ hematological tumors.

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

Wincast — Wincast is the first live NFT bidding platform for live sports. Our platform allows users to bid on incredible sports moments while they're happening, and at the end of each quarter/round/play/down/at-bat, the highest bid is awarded an NFT collectible of that play. Users will then be able to buy, sell, and trade other keymoments with users on the platform through our secondary market and integrated wallet solutions.Own your favorite sports moments before they become THE moment.
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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Fluent Labs — Fluent Labs is a blockchain development company. It aims to simplify blockchain development and enhance compatibility across different virtual machines.
Seismic — Seismicy enables developers to establish innovative financial partnerships and investment instruments.
Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Manus AI — Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.
Nailo Technology — Nailuo Technology is a company which focuses on technical services, technology development and software development.

SwissBorg is revolutionizing wealth management services with a community-centric approach powered by blockchain technology. We are a wealthtech DAO offering Swiss-made crypto investment solutions to the world.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Internet, Blockchain
Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Phaver — Phaver is platform to start communities around products, places, web pages and apps while earning affiliate revenue on recommendations. With Phaver, experts can generate recurring revenue from their knowledge and users can discover better products and places.
Bluwhale — Unlock Web3 Wallet Potential with AI Insights. Supercharge Your Business Growth
BluWhale — BluWhale's mission is to leverage AI and ML to allow game developers to focus on ways to improve the game rather than wrangling and making sense of astronomical amounts of data. BluWhale's smart automation will do the heavy lifting usually reserved for data analysts and data scientists all in the background, and surface actionable insight

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 — Phaver is platform to start communities around products, places, web pages and apps while earning affiliate revenue on recommendations. With Phaver, experts can generate recurring revenue from their knowledge and users can discover better products and places.
MetaBeat — Experience new distance with your favorite artists' NFT!
Synesis One — Synesis One provides a play-to-earn model on the Solana blockchain that develops games on the frontend to incentivize users and on the backend creates datasets that train AI. This fully functional system has already been integrated with its beneficiary, Mind AI, which relies on natural language reasoning to produce conversational AI systems. Withcustomers already lined up, Synesis One's key appeal is its ability to attract other projects that will pay to use their AI solutions within the blockchain space and across different industries.

F4 is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in magical products.

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.
Further — Further is on a mission to empower first-time home buyers to achieve their dream of homeownership with confidence and ease. We simplify the complex home buying process through innovative tools and personalized guidance, ensuring that buyers are well-prepared every step of the way. Our platform offers financial planning, tailored insights, andresources designed to make homeownership more accessible. At Further, we believe that with the right support, anyone can realize their goal of owning a home. Join us as we help make the path to homeownership clear and attainable for all.
Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
Appcharge — Appcharge specializes in offering a comprehensive payment solution that supports direct-to-consumer sales through a mobile-first web store. The platform features over 500 payment methods and 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless checkout experience for users worldwide.
Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Angel
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Lygg — LYGG is the first business travel platform that brings direct and customized flight connections anywhere as a service. Because time is flying.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
Sustashift — Sustashift offers a comprehensive legal CSRD reporting tool, providing tailored audit templates and automated XBRL tagging to streamline compliance and reduce manual reporting efforts.
Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport

Mikko Kodisoja

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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series B, Series C, Series D
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Whale — Whale provides an omnichannel marketing platform that transforms marketing operations, digitalizes store operations and unifies offline & online brand experiences leveraging AI + IoT + Big Data to “Connect Brands with Customer”.Founded in 2017, Whale has since empowered 400+ global FMCG, F&B, Fashion and Automotive brands includingP&G, Unilever, Starbucks, UNIQLO, ARMANI, Watsons, Xiaomi, Midea, Lotus, POP MART etc. with over 150,000 stores across APAC, enabling brands to embrace the full potential of digital transformation.Equipped with AI capabilities, patented ReID technology and enterprise-grade security, Whale platforms comprising of Space Data Platform (SDP), Whale Marketing Cloud (WMC), Whale Open Platform (WOP) and Whale Analytics, serve as the end-to-end digitalization engine that enables brands to seamlessly engage with each customer.Whale is backed by Temasek Holding, NIO Capital, Source Code Capital, Linear Capital, Alpha Commune, BAI Capital and The Jiangmen, with 6 offices across Singapore, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.
Cohere Health — Cohere Health can help your organization improve its utilization management process. We are transforming the way patients, physicians and health plans work together.
HUB International — HUB International is a leading North American insurance brokerage that provides employee benefits, business, and personal insurance products and services.

Investment Bank, Financial Services

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.

Alibaba Group operates as an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers. It provides various e-commerce activities, including retail and wholesale transactions. It also offers cloud computing and digital media services. Alibaba Group serves industries such as retail, logistics, and technology.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

RushOwl — RushOwl is a dynamic ride-sharing company that offers timely and affordable shuttle rides.
Zhuji Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
Yuanluo Technology — Yuanluo Technology is committed to providing innovative robotic solutions across multiple industries, including health, logistics, and service sectors.

Shunrong Gufen is a manufacturer of automotive plastic fuel tanks and testing equipment.

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.

Sedona Holdings is an investment firm.

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.

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 — Phaver is platform to start communities around products, places, web pages and apps while earning affiliate revenue on recommendations. With Phaver, experts can generate recurring revenue from their knowledge and users can discover better products and places.
Kinetex — Cross-chain DeFi aggregator and highly efficient trading protocol. Instant transfer of liquidity between networks based on zero-knowledge proofs.

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.

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.

Illusian is the Founder Office of people who have founded and scaled companies like Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, and Smartly. While the group is still busy running their businesses, they've aligned their networks, capital, and expertise to simultaneously support the next generation of builders.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Germany

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.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Realm — Realm is a search engine for the workplace reimagined with AI. Designed to help fast-moving teams better leverage their collective knowledge.

Markus Maki is an Executive Chairman at Remedy Entertainment.

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.

FOV Ventures invests in early-stage European companies across Spatial Computing, AI, 3D, and Robotics.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, 3D Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

nunu.ai — nunu.ai is the frontier of artificial intelligence in gaming by creating the first multi-modal AI agents designed to test and play any game.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
ai|coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.

Tuulenkantajat is a non-profit organization that provides project management, event hosting, and business consulting services.

Investment focus

Software, Video Chat, Communities
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

Starstuff — Play with friends. Craft avatars and games with AI.

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, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Grid Raven — Maximize the safety and capacity of your grid with accurate ratings based on our hyper-local weather model that accounts with every tree, building and hill.
Clock & Cloud — AI-driven platform delivering actionable geopolitical intelligence for proactive decision-making and enhanced business security
Fleetbrains — At Fleetbrains, we transform fleet sales and stock management with cutting-edge AI, enabling dealerships and manufacturers to optimize stock, maximize margins, and accelerate vehicle turnover.Our intelligent platform leverages Big Data, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models to predict demand, streamline inventory management, and enhancebusiness decision-making. By redefining traditional sales and forecasting models, we help automotive businesses minimize stock leftovers, improve purchasing strategies, and drive higher profitability.Join us in shaping the future of automotive sales with AI-powered intelligence.

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.

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.
Neon Koi — Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay.