Top 25 Sports Angel Investors in Finland in February 2025
A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Sports Angel Investors in Finland in February 2025
Investor | Sports Finland investments |
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Mahesh Kumar | 1 |
Jyri Engestrom | 1 |
Petteri Koponen | 1 |
Fabian Sepulveda | 1 |
Sami Inkinen | 1 |
Stefan Lindberg | 1 |
James Corden | 1 |
Paul Polman | 1 |
Michael Widenius | 1 |
Katja Toropainen | 1 |
Torsti Tenhunen | 1 |
Martti Suomela | 1 |
Álvaro Morata | 1 |
Ilari Kallio | 1 |
Andy Phillipps | 1 |
Ángel Hidalgo | 1 |
Santi Tarrio | 1 |
Shamma Raghib | 1 |
Teemu Takala | 1 |
Charles Plowden | 1 |
Ángel Ayora | 1 |
Keith Bonnici | 1 |
Sebastian Laine | 1 |
Moaffak Ahmed | 1 |
Reima Linnanvirta | 1 |
Mahesh Kumar
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
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, Angel, Series A
- United States, Finland, France
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.
Petteri has founded five companies, including Jaiku (sold to Google) and First Hop (sold to Airwide Solutions). He has been a startup CEO, CTO, VP of Services and Director, in addition to working two years for Google in the US and UK. In his free time, Petteri hangs out with his family, pumps iron, plays games, writes (toy) code, and enjoys booksand movies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Louhe — Enabling Data-Driven Security Culture With Explainable AI. LOUHE recognises anomalies and creates smart situational awareness with explainable artificial intelligence.
- Uplause — Discover Uplause, your ultimate destination for interactive fan engagement solutions. Elevate live events with innovative audience interaction technology.
- Risk Ledger — Risk Ledger ensures your supply chain security by providing tools to run and respond to cyber security-led, third-party risk management programmes at scale.
Fabian Sepulveda
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Sami Inkinen is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Virta Health, a specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Previously, Mr. Inkinen was the co-founder of the leading online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO andpresident and board member until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group. He also worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. A physicist by training, Mr. Inkinen started his career as a radiochemist at a nuclear power plant and holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Helsinki University of Technology. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. He thinks his greatest luxury today is a small vegetable garden at his San Francisco Bay area home.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Fitness, Medical
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Edamam — Edamam provides nutrition solutions to businesses in the food, health and wellness sectors, leveraging its proprietary cloud-based, structured-data semantic technology platform. Unlike traditional competitors, we deliver value-added nutrition data in real time and at fraction of the cost, saving clients both time and money. Clients include Nestle,Samsung, Epicurious, Gannett and The New York Times.
- Augmedix — Augmedix is a tech-enabled service that reclaims the hours physicians spend on the computer entering or retrieving data from electronic health records and refocuses them on what matters most: patient care. It uses wearable technology to connect its clinic with the Augmedix charting service. It is powered by Google Glass and Smartphone devices. Itwas founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Cricket Health — Interwell Health is a kidney care management company that partners with physicians on its mission to reimagine healthcare. Learn more online today.
Stefan Lindberg is co-owner of YSUB.
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Investment focus
- Nutrition, Wellness, Fruit
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- YSUB — YSUB produces a beverage containing hemp - lemonade with a hint of hemp seeds, soothing botanicals, and some vitamins. It also has CBD beverage, but cannot sell due to regulations in Finland and other Nordic countries and is trying to create a campaign to create awareness.
- Vegemi — Vegemi is a free smartphone app that promotes eating fruits and vegetables through gaming. The software was designed with the entire family in mind, but especially to demonstrate youngsters the health advantages of fruits and vegetables in a way that motivates and inspires them.
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
James Corden
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Apps, Mobile
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- Imprint — Imprint partners with today's top brands to offer their customers branded credit cards, debit cards, and rewards programs at a fraction of the cost.
Paul Polman was elected to the Dow Board of Directors in February 2010, and serves on the Environment, Health, Safety and Technology Committee.Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V. – Chief Executive Officer, January 2009 to date. Nestlé S.A. – Executive Vice President of Americas, January 2008-September 2008; Chief Financial Officer 2006-2008. TheProcter & Gamble Company (a provider of consumer, pharmaceutical, cleaning, personal care and pet products) – Group President Europe, 2001-2006; CFO of the Year 2007, Investor Magazine; Carl Lindner Award 2006, University of Cincinnati; WSJ/CNBC European Business Leader of the Year 2003. Member of United Nations high level task force on post 2015 development goals. President of the Kilimanjaro Blindtrust/Chair of Perkins International Advisory Board. Board member of Global Consumer Goods Forum. Member: International Business Council of WEF, Swiss American Chamber of Commerce and vice chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Member of the B-Team (a global initiative to help transform the future of business). Honorary degrees from Universities of Northumbria, UK in 2000 and University of Cincinnati in 2009.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Sustainability, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Toast Ale — Toast ale is an award-winning craft beer brewed with surplus fresh bread that would otherwise be wasted. All profits go to the charity, Feedback, to end food waste.
- Freja — Award-winning bone broths from Freja Foods. Responsibly sourced and conveniently packaged, Freja bone broth is available online and via leading retailers.
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
Michael “Monty” Widenius is the “spiritual father” of MariaDB, a renowned advocate for the open source software movement and one of the original developers of MySQL, the predecessor to MariaDB. In addition to being chief server architect for MariaDB Corporation, he also serves as a board member of the MariaDB Foundation. He was a founder at SkySQL,and the CTO of MySQL AB until its sale to Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Monty was also the founder of TCX DataKonsult AB, a Swedish data warehousing company. He is the co-author of the MySQL Reference Manual and was awarded the Finnish Software Entrepreneur of the Year prize in 2003. In 2015, Monty was selected as one of the 100 most influential persons in the Finnish IT market. Monty studied at the Helsinki University of Technology and lives in Finland.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Mobile
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Beddit — Every morning, the Beddit Sleep Tracker shows how you've slept. Scoring high enough gets you to the green zone and helps you learn what those good nights are made out of! You can easily dig deeper into your sleep details including your resting heart rate, respiration, sleep cycles, snoring and more.Beddit is placed right under the bedsheet, connected to your mobile device and all you need to do is sleep. Sleep tracking made as easy as stepping on weight scale!The company has been working with sleep technology since 2007 specializing in ballistocardiography, a scientific method for measuring the physical micro-movements caused by cardiac activity. Beddit has become a global leader in consumer focused sleep tracking solutions.
- MoSync — Mosync: Your go-to solution for fast, secure & automated cloud data sync, storage & file sharing. Transfer CIFS, NFS & more with ease. Try it today!
- import.io — Unlock a world of data with Import.io. We deliver the web data you need to power your business with intuitive apps, powerful APIs, and expert services.
Katja Toropainen is the founder of Inklusiiv. Prior to that, she served as a chief program curator at Slush. Katja holds a master's degree in information and service management from Aalto University.
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Investment focus
- Software, iOS, Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
See https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttenhunen/
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Martti Suomela - Co-Founder & Partner @ Kodit.io
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Álvaro Morata
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Lingerie, Textiles
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Black Limba — Black Limba is lingerie startup
- Golf GameBook — Connect and track scores with the world's #1 digital golf scorecard. +20 game formats Golf GameBook is the best app for group games.
Ilari Kallio
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Travel, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Finland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Layla — Meet Layla: the world's best travel agent, now in your pocket. Plan tailored itineraries, find epic road trips, book flights & hotels. Previously Roam Around.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
Ángel Hidalgo Portillo is a Spanish professional golfer and European Tour player.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Golf GameBook — Connect and track scores with the world's #1 digital golf scorecard. +20 game formats Golf GameBook is the best app for group games.
Santi Tarrio is a Spanish professional golfer.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Golf GameBook — Connect and track scores with the world's #1 digital golf scorecard. +20 game formats Golf GameBook is the best app for group games.
Shamma Raghib
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Teemu Takala
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Charles Plowden is a Retired considering options at Baillie Gifford.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Content
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.
Ángel Ayora
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Golf GameBook — Connect and track scores with the world's #1 digital golf scorecard. +20 game formats Golf GameBook is the best app for group games.
Keith Bonnici
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Sports, Hardware
- Angel, Series C, Series D
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Varjo — Varjo makes the most advanced augmented, virtual and mixed reality headsets for professionals. Welcome to the immersive workplace.
- Uplause — Discover Uplause, your ultimate destination for interactive fan engagement solutions. Elevate live events with innovative audience interaction technology.
Sebastian Laine
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Serial entrepreneur and hands-on early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia.
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Investment focus
- Music, Cryptocurrency, Video Conferencing
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Finland, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ovoro — Ovoro is an automated crypto trading app that offers users a streamlined, efficient and convenient way to manage their investments. With an intuitive interface, Ovoro allows you to easily set up and monitor your trades, eliminating the hassle of manual trading. Trying out Ovoro is risk free as trading can be done in a simulated environment with noreal money involved.
- Yousician — Yousician is a fun way to learn the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele or singing. Enjoy thousands of songs with Yousician as your personal music teacher!
- Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
Angel investor and board professional with a passion on helping startups and growth companies to fulfil their true potential.
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketplace, Fitness
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Wudpecker — Start the meeting prepared. End the meeting with perfect notes. Share it to every stakeholder. All in a seamless experience with Wudpecker.
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
- Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
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