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Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Finland in April 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Software startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Finland in April 2025

Investor Software Finland investments
Business Finland 55
Lifeline Ventures 48
Icebreaker.vc 39
Ali Omar 33
Inventure 32
Visionplus 27
Tesi 27
Finnvera Venture Capital 26
First Fellow Partners 26
Maki.vc 22
Superhero Capital 22
Reaktor Ventures 19
Butterfly Ventures 18
Gorilla Capital 18
OpenOcean 15
Innovestor 15
Vendep Capital 15
Redstone.VC 14
Sisu Game Ventures 10
Conor Venture Partners 9
Spintop Ventures 8
VTT Ventures 8
Wave Ventures 8
CapMan 7
Nidoco 6
Leena Niemistö 6
Initial Capital 6
PROfounders Capital 6
Risto Siilasmaa 6
Illusian Founder Office 5
Play Ventures 5
Voima Ventures 5
Jyri Engestrom 4
Ilkka Paananen 4
Wellington Partners 4
Nauta Capital 4
Nordea 4
Voland Partners 4
Nordic Option 4
DN Capital 4
LVP 4
Invus 4
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) 4
Tiny VC 4
Tiny VC 4
Marten Mickos 4
Teemu Jokinen 4
Brighteye Ventures 3
Hannu Vaajoensuu 3
Leaguer Venture Capital 3
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Business Finland VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Grant, Funding Round
  • Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Grafintec — Grafintec Oy is a Finnish company focused on developing and utilizing carbon technology to produce graphite. Graphite is an essential material in many industries, particularly in energy storage, electronics, and battery technologies, due to its unique properties such as high conductivity, heat resistance, and stability.
  • Liquid Sun — Liquid Sun Ltd. We fight against climate change by recoding CO2 emissions to fossil-free fuels and chemicals. Our technology is based low temperature electrolyzers.
  • PrecisionPhage — PrecisionPhage is a biotech business that specializes on bacteriophage technologies.
Lifeline Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Soldera — Soldera enables renewable energy producers to earn additional income through an automatic guarantee of the origin trading system.
  • In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
  • In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridges the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.
Icebreaker.vc VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.
  • Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
  • 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.
Ali Omar Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
  • GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
  • Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.
Inventure VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
  • Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
  • Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.
Visionplus VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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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 — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.
Tesi VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
Finnvera Venture Capital VC Fund · Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • AISTI — AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile.
  • Nexstim — Nexstim is a medical device company that specializes in image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. The company is committed to improving the quality of life of patients with significant unmet clinical needs. It has developed a SmartFocus TMS technology designed for the treatment of the major depressive disorder.The company was founded in2000 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
  • Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.
First Fellow Partners VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
A private investment firm run by Risto Siilasmaa and Kim Groop. Grounded in a deeply held set of values around entrepreneurship, trust, integrity and helping solve the world’s problems. We partner with strong and ambitious technology entrepreneurs driven by a mission to fix or build something important in the world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • LumiDB — Transform terabytes of accumulated scans into a queryable database that you can actually use.
  • Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
  • Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
Maki.vc VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
  • TrackSights — TrackSights combines top-tier data, automated workflows, and actionable insights for the automotive industry. Streamline decisions, calculate values, and manage fleets effortlessly with a modern, easy-to-use interface. Book a demo today!
  • Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
Superhero Capital VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
  • CyberUpgrade — Easily manage ICT compliance audits by tracking controls, handling ever increasing requirements, and sharing policies. Gain control over cyber security measures.
Reaktor Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Finland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
  • Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
  • Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
Butterfly Ventures VC Fund · Oulu, Oulu, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
  • 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.
  • Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made
Gorilla Capital VC Fund · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Gorilla Capital invests in early stage Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian technology companies
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Orijin — A turnkey solution to solve EUDR for coffee & cocoa importers and producers
  • Planmark Oy — Planmark develops an AI-powered reporting platform that streamlines ESG data collection and report generation, allowing companies to focus on core business.
  • Serviceform — Welcome to future of communication - the truly all-in-one conversion and management software built for established businesses. Start now!
OpenOcean VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 6 investments in the past 12 months
OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Surglogs — Surglogs streamlines and automates the administration of logbooks, medications, supplies, in-services, and drills in healthcare facilities. The outdated pen-and-paper method is replaced with a HIPAA compliant state of the art digital application, complemented with a desktop portal that serves as an administrative dashboard.Surglogs was founded in2015 and headquartered in California, United States.
  • Authologic — Authologic is a system that helps businesses in checking the identity of their clients online.Authologic is a provider of identity verification solutions that includes tools for determining identity through online video, data, and digital IDs.Krzysztof Klimczak, Jarek Sygitowicz, and Marek Rogoziński founded Authologic in 2020 and is based inWarsaw, Poland.
  • Embeddable — Embedded analytics, done right. Embeddable is a toolkit for crafting remarkable customer-facing analytics experiences into your app, in just 10% of the time.
Innovestor VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Aplagon — Aplagon is committed to bringing unique, effective antithrombotic medicines with important safety advantages to patients with unmet needs.
  • Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport
  • Gesynta Pharma — Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se
Vendep Capital VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Cluby — Own a restaurant?This is your all-in-one marketing & loyalty tool. Increase returning customers, boost spend, and stay top of mind. Cluby revolutionizes customer engagement and marketing with powerful tools to collect data, communicate effectively, and build loyalty. Everything through one app. Download Cluby App for Consumers Build Your Customer Base Sell Smarter, Market Better Grow ... Read more
  • Claimlane — Claimlane is an end-to-end returns management solution for brands and retailers to manage any type of return, across all sales channels and markets. Perfectly document claims and returns. Streamline workflows. Get quality insights. Turn unhappy claimers into loyal customers. That's Claimlane.
  • Eyeball — Eyeball operates as a digital platform for youth football.
Redstone.VC VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 10 investments in the past 12 months
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
  • Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
  • Ochy — Ochy is an app that uses AI to analyse running form and gait to identify weak points and provide recommendations on what to do to improve.
Sisu Game Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland, United States, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
  • Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
  • VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
  • Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Conor Venture Partners VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Semiconductor
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Finland, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
  • Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group — Attribute, predict and optimize the business outcome of marketing and media plans with Blackwood Seven's Unified Marketing Modeling platform.
  • Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.
Spintop Ventures VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 2009, Spintop Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by a network of successful tech entrepreneurs who have invested in Spintop alongside institutional investors, family offices and some of the most experienced private investors in early stage growth companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Sweden, Finland, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • ReCarber — Commercializing carbon removal projects. ReCarber matches emitters with off-takers, orchestrates financing, and commercially develops BECCS / bio-CCS projects.
  • Seven Stars — Seven stars specializes in IT consulting, recruiting, training, staffing, payrolling, and human resource services.
  • Seven Stars — Seven Stars is a startup for creating captivating mobile games with a talented, diverse team.
VTT Ventures VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
VTT is a powerhouse of technology development and scientific research. Many of the most significant Finnish technology start-ups were brought to life at VTT. Do you want to invest in ongoing ventures?
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Dispelix — See-through, full color waveguide combiners for a wide range of XR applications. From near-eye to head-up.
  • Solar Foods — The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent onagriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.
  • Infinited Fiber Company — Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Wave Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Finland, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
  • Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!
CapMan VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international.At CapMan, they build betterorganised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
  • Finland, Russian Federation, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Groweo — Groweo focus on smart, efficient growth through software and services is crucial for businesses looking to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
  • Tana — Tana provides machines and equipment for the mechanical processing of solid waste. The company manufactures landfill compactors and recycling machinery. Tana uses electrical control systems and artificial intelligence solutions in its equipment. An online inquiry form is available on the company website.
  • TerraWise — TerraWise is an experienced and trusted partner for various types of infrastructure construction projects. The company focuses on delivering demanding projects related to environmental construction and specialized quarrying, offering a complete set of services in each area. TerraWise’s key value proposition is based on expertise, high-qualityresults and commitment to agreed schedules.
Nidoco VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Nidoco AB is a Swedish investment company whose strategy is to create long-term value through active ownership of public and private companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ponta — We help startups and big companies connect with their audiences in innovative ways. We build solutions for Web3.
  • Betolar — Betolar is a new materials startup specialized in new geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials for the construction industry and circular economy.
  • TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
Leena Niemistö Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • #Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
  • Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
  • Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.
Initial Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Zebedee — Transform your game into an earning powerhouse with ZBD Rewards.
  • Bipa — Bipa is a company that allows customers to buy and sell Bitcoin starting from R$1 using Pix and Lightning Network.
  • Hot Wave Fitness — Hot Wave Fitness which owns the HOTME brand provides personalized, and private fitness services.
PROfounders Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Travel
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
  • Qneiform — The best way to understand human capital
  • ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
Risto Siilasmaa Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Risto Siilasmaa is the Founder at F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Finland, Sweden, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • #Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
  • Meeshkan — Use Meeshkan to generate and run UI tests from the in-production behavior of your users, providing a flawless product-led growth pipeline for prospects, and reducing churn as you to ship your highest quality releases ever.Regular UI tests take forever to write, guesswork determines the most important tests, and they become out of date in a fewweeks. And manual testing, while more accurate, is the most inefficient use of developer time. Companies who choose not to write UI tests to save time struggle to acquire and retain users. Your UI is the only way users experience your product, so if it fails to delight, they'll fail to convert – or even worse, churn.Meeshkan enhances, and in many cases replaces, the "all hands on deck" pre-release testing with beautifully crafted, uncannily realistic artificial hands.Stop guessing. Test what matters. Release with confidence. Supercharge your growth.
  • The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
Illusian Founder Office VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Play Ventures VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
  • Bible Chat — Chat with the AI-powered Bible assistant to get answers to your faith-related questions and any life challenges you face. Explore now the Word of God!
  • Ray Browser — Ray is setting a new standard for gaming by creating the ultimate browser designed specifically for gamers. With cutting-edge features and seamless performance, it is transforming the way players experience games and empowering developers to push the boundaries of innovation. By optimizing speed, reliability, and user experience, Ray is not justenhancing gameplay but also shaping the future of the gaming industry for both players and developers alike.
Voima Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Voima Ventures’ mission is to solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and value adding capital. They shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build. Industry domains include bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics,software & ICT and AI. In addition, Voima Ventures has invested in more than 30 deep tech startups, including companies like Solar Foods, Infinited Fiber Company, and Dispelix. Cornerstone investors are VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and European Investment Fund (EIF), backed by Finnish private and institutional investors.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Skyfora — Skyfora combines scientific understanding of tropical storms with computer vision, machine learning and IoT technologies.
  • Liquid Sun — Liquid Sun Ltd. We fight against climate change by recoding CO2 emissions to fossil-free fuels and chemicals. Our technology is based low temperature electrolyzers.
  • Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.
Jyri Engestrom Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Finland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
  • Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
  • Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.
Ilkka Paananen Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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, 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.
Wellington Partners VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time
  • CorFlow Therapeutics — CorFlow Therapeutics is a medtech startup that develops proprietary technologies for diagnosis and treatment of microvascular obstructions in heart attack patients. The CorFlow technologies enable interventional cardiologists to diagnose and treat MVO in severe heart attack patients thereby potentially reducing the short- and long-term complicationrates in these patients.
Nauta Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
  • Danelfin — Pick the best stocks to buy and optimize your portfolio with the power of our AI. Get unbiased and unique insights, and make smart data-driven investment decisions.
  • Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
Nordea VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
  • Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Voland Partners VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Voland is a hands-on technology growth investor. A trusted partner for entrepreneurs, applying our expertise to enhance our portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
  • Cloud Management, UX Design, Legal
  • Series A
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Biila — Biila primarily offers car transfer services.
  • Luxid — Luxid helps clients break open silos to create customer experiences and end-to-end journeys that drive sales and support buyers.
  • Consultor Finland — Kokonaisvaltaisena IT-kumppaninasi takaamme projektisi onnistumisen suunnitteluvaiheesta toteutukseen.
Nordic Option VC Fund · Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Nordic Option is a private equity fund focusing its investments on growth companies. It provides capital investments in small and medium-sized growth companies that have already established themselves in Northern Finland. The fund's investment strategy includes the possibility to make up to 5 early-stage growth investments with one millioneuros.The firm's value of investments in portfolio companies is approximately EUR 10 million and the value of loans granted is approximately EUR 1 million.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series C
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Haltian — We solve the challenges of a sustainable future, one IoT innovation at a time
  • SensorFu — SensorFu detects new network leak paths before they are exploited. If you're required to operate isolated networking environments, SensorFu helps you to anwer question: is my network isolation working as intended? Leaks from isolated network segments can be a result of human error or malice, and they may violate security policies orcontractual obligations. SensorFu automates previously manual audit checks, and it empowers IT- and IT security ops to ensure continuous network, and network segment isolation that meets their mission specific policies and regulatory requirements. SensorFu Beacon is available as virtual appliance, software application and as hardware appliance.
  • Brightplus — Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level.
DN Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Napo — Comprehensive pet insurance by Napo. Full dental cover included. Free unlimited video vet and behaviourist consultations. 5% multi-pet discount.
  • Sanas — Sanas is the world's first solution for Real-Time Accent Translation.
  • Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.
LVP VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Bitpart AI — BITPART.AI - The AI NPC engine built by game developers for game developers. Populate virtual worlds with characters that mimic real behavior.
  • Look North World — Publisher and Developer of interactive entertainment for Creator platforms like Fortnite (UEFN) and Curseforge. Enclave: Survival Skyward available now in ARK: Survival Ascended.
  • Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.
Invus VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 27 investments in the past 12 months
Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved.They know that real transformation takes time and that it is nevera straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way.They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, France, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Aadi Bioscience — Aadi Bioscience was founded by Dr. Neil Desai, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing the potentially best-in-class mTOR inhibitor for targeted patient populations in oncology and cardiovascular diseases.
  • Solid Biosciences — Life science company focused on solving Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • GenSight Biologics — GenSight Biologics develops gene therapy-based treatments for retinal degenerative diseases. GenSight Biologics is a privately owned biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the development and commercialization of gene therapy-based treatments of retinal degenerative diseases.Based on recent results obtained by the teams of its scientificfounders, the company develops innovative approaches to prevent retinal degeneration in selected pathological conditions and to restore vision in patients suffering from very low vision or blindness.
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) is a venture capital firm with a portfolio of investments in the Information and Communications Technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Bitbar — Bitbar is a technology and service company that offers mobile app and game developers with automated software build and test environments. Its portfolio of products includes Testdroid Cloud: an online service for testing applications on real Android and iOS devices; Testdroid Enterprise: an in-house software solution for managing all aspects ofautomated testing on multiple real Android and iOS devices simultaneously; Testdroid PrivateCloud: a cloud-based Devices-as-a-Service that enables companies to access pre-selected real Android and iOS devices for app development and testing; and Testdroid Recorder: a tool for recording user actions, generating reusable Android JUnit test cases, and running them in Testdroid Cloud. Its portfolio of resources includes research papers, eBooks, webinars, slides, and videos.Bitbar has customers from various industries such as gaming, utilities, technology, e-commerce, mobile and communications, social media, and lifestyle. Facebook, Rovio, Avast, Google, Mozilla, eBay, PayPal, Deutsche Telekom, Skype, Flipboard, and Pinterest are some of its customers.Bitbar is operated from Helsinki, Finland.
  • ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
  • Pear Sports — We build hyper-personalized adaptive digital coaching software products and solutions to help people move smarter, get healthier, and live happier.
Tiny VC VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
  • Maiven — We make climate policy simple, so you can act with confidence.
Tiny VC VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Paper — Paper is an digital canvas designed to help designers create and organize their work.
  • Outcome — TeamOS makes team dependencies visible, speeds up blocker resolution, and offers actionable insights into bottlenecks
Marten Mickos Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
  • ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
  • Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
Teemu Jokinen Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Experienced founder, board member, advisor and investor. Currently in 20+ companies (early stage) angel / pre-seed investor. Focus on SaaS, platforms, marketplaces and deep tech.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Marketplace
  • Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
  • Shook — Shook Digital helps performance advertisers drive incremental results with TikTok ads by optimizing creative operations.
  • Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.
Brighteye Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!
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Investment focus
  • Education, Software, E-Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
  • Adam — Adam connects you with verified painters and decorators across whole Europe. Get an instant price estimate and book a painter for the next day already!
  • La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Hannu Vaajoensuu Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Hannu Vaajoensuu - Chairman of the Board of Directors @ Nervogrid
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel
  • Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • 3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.
  • Frosmo — Our AI-driven personalization strategies optimize each step of the customer journey across all channels.
  • HappySignals — Experience Management Platform for IT - Lead IT and Service Management with Employee Experience and use to manage your Experience Level Agreements (XLAs).
Leaguer Venture Capital VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Shenzhen Leaguer Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a high-tech venture capital company founded by Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) in August 1999. Its current registered capital is RMB 333.3333 million, managing assets amounted to RMB 1.5 billion. With solid capital strength, rich experience of investment and flexiblemechanism, Leaguer VC has invested more than 50 portfolio companies, ranging from IT, new material, medicine, electronics to optomechatronics and hi-tech incubators, etc. The average IRR for the current investments exceeds 30%. Leaguer VC has successfully finished its fund-raising of RMB 160 million in 2009 and set up fund management companies and venture capital companies located in Changzhou and Wuxi.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • China, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Wuwen Zhike — Wuwen Zhixing is an intelligent driving service provider dedicated to offering professional and cutting-edge integrated solutions for AI data and simulation verification, as well as developing AI data infrastructure and accelerators.
  • Guoke Tanmei — Guoke Tanmei is a visionary enterprise focused on developing materials for carbon-based energy storage. It directs at application scenarios including base stations, two-wheelers, electric cars, industrial cars, and energy storage.
  • Qiu Shui Semiconductor — Qiu Shui Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that specialized on Micro-LED display technology.Qiu Shui Semiconductor's core products are Micro-LED micro display chips and modules, which are widely utilized in digital car lighting, micro projection, and augmented reality displays.
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