# Top 25 Sports Angel Investors in Finland in June 2026 ## Torsti Tenhunen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness See https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttenhunen/ ## Mahesh Kumar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Mahesh Kumar ## Moaffak Ahmed - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B - Focus: Audio, Music, Video Serial entrepreneur and hands-on early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia. ## Keith Bonnici - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Series C, Series D - Focus: Mobile, Sports, Hardware Keith Bonnici ## Reima Linnanvirta - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketplace Angel investor and board professional with a passion on helping startups and growth companies to fulfil their true potential. ## Ángel Hidalgo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Sports, Software, Mobile Apps Ángel Hidalgo Portillo is a Spanish professional golfer and European Tour player. ## Andy Phillipps - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Travel, E-Commerce Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital. ## Santi Tarrio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Sports, Software, Mobile Apps Santi Tarrio is a Spanish professional golfer. ## Sami Inkinen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Medical 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. ## Paul Polman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Sustainability, Apps 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. ## James Corden - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Apps, Mobile James Corden ## Charles Plowden - Type: Angel - Location: New Edinburg, Arkansas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Apps, Mobile, Content Charles Plowden is a Retired considering options at Baillie Gifford. ## Ángel Ayora - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Sports, Software, Mobile Apps Ángel Ayora ## Fabian Sepulveda - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Fabian Sepulveda ## Teemu Takala - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Teemu Takala ## Katja Toropainen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, iOS, Apps 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. ## Álvaro Morata - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fashion, Lingerie, Textiles Álvaro Morata ## Ilari Kallio - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Ilari Kallio ## Martti Suomela - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Martti Suomela - Co-Founder & Partner @ Kodit.io ## Petteri Koponen - Type: Angel - Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Stefan Lindberg - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Fruit Stefan Lindberg is co-owner of YSUB. ## Shamma Raghib - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Shamma Raghib ## Sebastian Laine - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Sebastian Laine ## Jyri Engestrom - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University ## Michael Widenius - Type: Angel - Location: Tuusula, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Big Data, Software, Mobile 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.