Top 45 Sports Startup Investors in Finland in May 2026

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• Atium — Clean water is one of the largest future challenges we stand before, and toxic pollutants are a large contributing factor. Heavy metals are some of the most toxic chemicals to human health and it is our goal, through our innovation, to contribute to a world where water treatment is more environmentally friendly and effective. Atium exists to helpensure clean water, for everyone.
• Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
• Popit — Popit makes medication connected with a unique, medical grade solution. It tracks medication use automatically and reminds ONLY if you miss. Developed together with healthcare professionals.

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• LOla panda — Learn to read and write with fun Lola educational games! The application develops the reading skills and logical reasoning of 3-8 year olds.
• Xiphera — Xiphera protects your critical systems with fully in-house designed cryptographic IP cores implemented in pure hardware logic design.
• DealGuru — DealGuru is a stealth startup in a ecommerce space.

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• Abzu — Abzu's AI is built for the modern researcher, where explainability, small data, and new insights are at the core of innovative discoveries.
• Yeply — Yeply Mobile Bike Service is a start-up that specializes in bicycle maintenance. Yeply’s ideology is that bicycle maintenance should be an easy, quick, and effortless experience for the customer. It believes that every bike is worth caring for and they value every cyclist equally - cycling belongs to everyone.It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Helsinki, Finland.
• Hopsworks — Hopsworks is an online platform for the development and operation of Machine Learning (ML) pipelines at scale, based around the industry's first Feature Store for ML.

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• Zadaa — We are the world’s first marketplace to make selling and buying secondhand as simple as in an online store. We have revolutionised C2C logistics regarding pricing and marketplace integration between multiple logistic companies operating on different markets. Zadaa is live on German, Danish and Finnish markets.
• ADESANTE — SurgeryVision is a Virtual Reality solution for Surgeons. Product is intended to be used for planning surgical procedures.
• Copla — Simplify cybersecurity compliance with automated workflows, audits, and risk management. Our expert CISO team tailors solutions to your organization's needs.

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• 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.
• ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• Neo4j — Connect data as it's stored with Neo4j. Perform powerful, complex queries at scale and speed with our graph data platform.
• Blackwood Seven — Blackwood Seven is a media analytics platform which strives to increase the effect of company’s media spend using our predictive analytics framework built on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using real-time modelling and advanced KPI prediction we are able to increase a company’s media ROI by up to 15-25%.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• Black Limba — Black Limba is lingerie startup
• Golf GameBook — Track scores for 20+ game formats with Golf GameBook, the #1 golf scorecard. Connect with friends and follow every game with live leaderboards.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
• Hepster — hepster, die Onlineversicherung, flexibel, sicher und immer 100% digital.
• BAOUW / Outdoor Organic Nutrition — A raw, healthy, and natural diet made up of energy gels, energy bars, and energy fruit purees.

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• 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.
• Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
• Taito.ai — Taito.ai provides an AI platform that allows users to develop and deploy intelligent applications. It supports various tools and features for building machine learning models. Users can access resources for training and optimizing their AI solutions.

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• Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.

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• 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
• Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.
• 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.
• Gyroscope Innovations — Gyroscope Innovations is a new OS for the human body. It was started by Anand Sharma in 2014 as a personal project called April Zero.

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• Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
• UiPath — Reinvent your workplace with the leading robotic process automation platform and learn how UiPath can help your company become a fully automated enterprise.
• Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.

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• Golf GameBook — Track scores for 20+ game formats with Golf GameBook, the #1 golf scorecard. Connect with friends and follow every game with live leaderboards.

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• Centra — Centra is part of creating the next generation of brands, with a direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce software for global brands. Brands across Scandinavia and the world trust Centra to seamlessly connect people to products. We're a medium-sized company with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, Wroclaw, Poland and New York City, USA.
• inRiver — Turn product data into a profit maker at every touchpoint with Inriver's market-leading PIM solution that powers the entire product journey.
• Caliroots — Caliroots is a streetwear fashion retail company with both retail stores and an online presence. It provides its users with a mix of streetwear and sneakers from various brands. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Caliroots was founded in 2003.

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• Skylo — Never lose coverage again - connect your existing NB-IoT devices directly over both cellular and satellite networks seamlessly
• Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
• SpaceFill — SpaceFill is a B2B on-demand warehousing marketplace. They help companies looking for short term warehousing needs to find the perfect match. On the other hand, warehouse owners can rent unused space in their warehouse to other companies for short term needs.They want to offer warehousing as a service and make logistics fully flexible. Theirclients are retailers, e-commerce startups, logistics services providers (3PLs) and many companies in need of flexible warehousing space (for instance, seasonal businesses in need of a flexible lease). Their partners range from 3PLs to industry leaders owning partially unused warehouses or independent businesses owning small warehouses.

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• Venuu — Venuu is an event services company that provides solutions for parties, weddings, seminars, meetings and other events. To venue owners, it provides a cost-effective sales and marketing channel to find customers. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Southern Finland, Finland.
• Peerby Classic — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.
• Yogaia — Yogaia is the first live, interactive online yoga studio in the world. With Yogaia, the studio is where you are, allowing you to attend classes in the convenience of your home with professional teacher instructing you personally via webcam. Yogaia is available on desktop, iOS, Android and Apple TV in English, German and Finnish.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• Ready — Join over 2 million Argent users and get the best of Ethereum at a fraction of the cost. Easily buy, earn, stake and invest in crypto on Starknet.
• Elo Health — Elo develops a precision nutrition service that uses biomarkers to deliver nutrition for optimal health and aging with confidence.
• Five Lives — Five Lives, your brain health coach. Take the risk assessment and start improving your brain health today!

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• AIATELLA — Automating medical image analysis
• SparkReceipt — Scan, categorize, and stay tax-ready automatically with AI. Built for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to cry less over receipts, and stay organized all year.
• University of Eastern Finland — The University of Eastern Finland is a multidisciplinary university which offers teaching in more than 100 major subjects. The university comprises four faculties: the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Science and Forestry, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies.

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• Flow AI — The new way to write on the web. Supercharge your everyday writing tasks by turning words into ready-to-send emails, posts, and more.
• 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!
• Network Next — We enable game developers to create a better internet connection for their players - one that provides reduced latency, packet loss, and jitter in multiplayer online games.

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• Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
• Uplause — Discover Uplause, your ultimate destination for interactive fan engagement solutions. Elevate live events with innovative audience interaction technology.
• Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.

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• Aplagon — Aplagon is committed to bringing unique, effective antithrombotic medicines with important safety advantages to patients with unmet needs.
• Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
• Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.

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• cargo.one — The cargo.one booking platform gives you access to real-time prices and available capacities of multiple airlines. Directly book online within seconds, 24/7.
• Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
• Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.

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• CommerceClarity — CommerceClarity offers AI-powered catalogue optimization solutions that turn catalogue operations into a competitive advantage.
• Connectome Health — Connectome is a cognitive intelligence platform that measures and understands how the brain changes over time using transparent, science-backed data people and organisations can trust.
• Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• Varjo — Varjo provides military-grade XR headsets, software, and professional services for mission-critical training and simulation across air, land, and sea.
• Uplause — Discover Uplause, your ultimate destination for interactive fan engagement solutions. Elevate live events with innovative audience interaction technology.

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• 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.

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• Golf GameBook — Track scores for 20+ game formats with Golf GameBook, the #1 golf scorecard. Connect with friends and follow every game with live leaderboards.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• 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.

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• Sotira — Make your excess inventory do more for you.
• Acki Nacki — Acki Nacki is an asynchronous blockchain technology that achieves probabilistic consensus via two communication phases. Acki Nacki is ready to support use cases such as payments, gaming economies, IoT networks, and AI applications.
• Carbon Arc — Carbon Arc helps decision-makers access high-value data insights through our two-sided exchange. Empower your strategy with decision intelligence.

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• 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.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• 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

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• 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.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• Golf GameBook — Track scores for 20+ game formats with Golf GameBook, the #1 golf scorecard. Connect with friends and follow every game with live leaderboards.