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Top 45 Video Games Startup Investors in Finland in May 2025

A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Video games startups based in Finland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from Finland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Video Games Startup Investors in Finland in May 2025

Investor Video Games Finland investments
LVP 7
Play Ventures 5
Initial Capital 4
Creandum 4
Sisu Game Ventures 4
PROfounders Capital 4
Brighteye Ventures 3
GSV Ventures 3
IPR.VC 3
Maki.vc 2
Lifeline Ventures 2
NetEase Capital 2
Visionplus 2
Makers Fund 2
Henric Suuronen 2
David Helgason 2
First Fellow Partners 2
Supercell 2
Crowberry Capital 2
Kowloon Nights 2
Northzone 2
The Games Fund 2
Spintop Ventures 2
Paul Heydon 2
Klaas Kersting 1
Index Ventures 1
GEM Capital 1
Siamc Kamalie 1
Riot Games 1
Gregory Milken 1
Nordea 1
Inventure 1
Reach Capital 1
Anton Gauffin 1
Reaktor Ventures 1
DN Capital 1
Finnvera Venture Capital 1
Jari Ovaskainen 1
Heartcore Capital 1
Mikko Kodisoja 1
Supernode Global 1
Transcend Fund 1
Ilkka Paananen 1
Juha Paananen 1
Korea Investment Partners 1
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LVP VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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.
Play Ventures VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 17 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.
  • Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
  • PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.
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.
Creandum VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 19 investments in the past 12 months
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Sweden, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Swan — Use Swan's APIs to embed white-labeled banking features like accounts, cards, and IBANs into your workflows and UX.
  • CAST AI — Cast AI cuts AWS, Azure, and GCP costs, secures Kubernetes applications, and boosts DevOps efficiency. Try it now!
  • Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
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!
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, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Qneiform — The best way to understand human capital
  • Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.
  • ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
Brighteye Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 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, E-Learning, Software
  • 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.
  • Installer — All-in-one platform for job and installer management.
  • 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.
GSV Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
GSV Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75 billion learning and talent technology sector. The mission of GSV Ventures is to back innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future.
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Investment focus
  • Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Peru
Portfolio highlights
  • Ropes — Ropes is a software platform that bridges the gap between technical assessment and real-world performance.
  • Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
  • Amigo AI — AI as diverse as you. Amigo’s cloning platform enables any professional to scale their expertise, preserving your uniqueness. Increase your revenue, not your hours.
IPR.VC VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
IPR.VC is a private equity investor focused on media and entertainment content. IPR.VC invests in collaboration with international distribution companies.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
  • Seed
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Lightneer — Mobile game studio based in Helsinki, Finland. We make fun games for the way people play today!
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.
Lifeline Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 10 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
  • Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
  • Soldera — Soldera enables renewable energy producers to earn additional income through an automatic guarantee of the origin trading system.
  • TILT Biotherapeutics — TILT Biotherapeutics is the leading company globally working in the area of enabling tumor T-cell therapy with oncolytic viruses. TILT is a preclinical stage company working in the field of cancer immunotherapy and will soon translate its unique approach into clinical trials. The company’s patented technology involves utilization of oncolyticviruses for enhancement of tumor T-cell therapy. Initial embodiments of the technology will be used to enhance tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) and checkpoint inhibiting antibody therapy. The TILT approach has the potential to achieve similar results in CAR-T therapy of solid tumors as currently achieved for CD19+ hematological tumors.
NetEase Capital VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China
NetEase Capital is the venture arm of NetEase and looks at early-stage VC investments in the technology sector around the world. The group, with a mandate to invest $500 million USD globally, has led venture investments throughout Asia and North America.NetEase is a leading Chinese Internet company listed on the Nasdaq with a marketcapitalization of over $10 billion, and a cash balance over $3 billion. The company has products including a top email service with over 700 million registered users, a top information and entertainment portal, mobile apps with hundreds of millions of downloads, and a top game platform in China.
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • China, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Seehi — Seehi provides 3D vision technology and solutions for customers in financial payment, consumer electronics, new retail, and other fields.
  • HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
  • PixelPunk — PixelPunk is an anti-social face-blocking selfie app.
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.
Makers Fund VC Fund · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Voldex — Voldex is an innovative video games studio focused on UGC (user-generated-content). It owns and operate several top Minecraft+Roblox games.
  • BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
  • Human Computer — Human Computer is an independent video game studio. Building games that matter. High-quality experiences that respect your time and push creative boundaries. Stories pull you in, computers provide the magic.
Henric Suuronen Angel
Founding Partner of Play Ventures. He previously co-founded Nonstop Games which was acquired by King for US$32m+ earnout.Henric has over 16 years of experience building mobile games and studios around the world. Before co-founding Nonstop Games in Singapore, Henric was Product Management Director at Digital Chocolate (Helsinki and Barcelona) andHead of Studio at Wooga (Berlin). After King’s acquisition of Nonstop Games, Henric served as Senior Creative Director at King.Henric also has a successful portfolio of angel investments in gaming including Huuuge Games, Futureplay Games, Traplight Games, Matchmade, Omniata (acquired by King), DataTiger (acquired by Apple) and Astralis Group (IPO on Nasdaq). In total, his investments have raised >$125M of venture financing and made 5 exits + 1 IPO. Henric is based in Singapore and frequently travels to the main gaming hubs in Europe and the US. He holds double masters’ degrees in Computer Science and Business.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Finland, India, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
  • Matchmade — Matchmade is the leading influencer marketing agency for YouTube and Twitch. Connect with top creators and drive impactful campaigns. Elevate your brand today!
  • Hipfire Games — VIVAMASTER78 adalah situs game online yang sempurna bagi siapa saja yang mencari variasi permainan yang luas, pengalaman bermain yang aman, dan promosi yang menguntungkan
David Helgason Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
  • Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
  • Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
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.
Supercell VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Appcharge — Appcharge specializes in offering a comprehensive payment solution that supports direct-to-consumer sales through a mobile-first web store. The platform features over 500 payment methods and 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless checkout experience for users worldwide.
  • Future Run — Future Run embarks on an ambitious mission to redefine competitive gaming.
  • Penguin Armada — Penguin Armada produces and develops video games.
Crowberry Capital VC Fund · Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Crowberry Capital invests at seed and early stage in emerging technology ventures in the Nordics. Our mission is to back people that are good for companies and build companies that are good for people. We have a strong follow-through philosophy and commit to putting your company first.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Gaming, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
  • Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
  • Porcelain Fortress — Porcelain Fortress was founded by a small band of romantics in the summer of 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Kowloon Nights VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Kowloon Nights is a video game fund dedicated to independent developers globally.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games
  • Funding Round
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Redhill Games — We are a game development studio with locations in Helsinki, Finland, and Nicosia, Cyprus. We are here to help create AAA games.
Northzone VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dalma — Dalma offers transparent, subscription-based health insurance that covers pets, reimbursing costs related to illnesses, injuries, and preventive care.
  • Clarium — Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with an AI-powered platform with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
The Games Fund VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
TGF is an early-stage VC fund founded by video games industry veterans. We invest in future leaders: game developers, gaming technologies, and services. We share best practices and offer our experience and personal touch.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Cyprus, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
  • Drama Studios — Studios DRAMA has created UNRECORD which is a single-player FPS that tells the story of a tactical police officer from the perspective of his body camera.
  • Dark Passenger — Dark Passenger is a firm that develops video games. The team consists of both new blood specialists and seasoned gamedev professionals. The objective is to develop incredibly thrilling online experiences that emphasize both collaboration and competition and are captivated by human connections, alliances, fearless conflicts, and surprising turns ofevents.
Spintop Ventures VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 4 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 — De perfecte match in IT. Die maken wij. Als IT-flex regisseur en specialist in IT-bemiddeling verbinden we professionals met de beste IT-opdrachten. Snel, soepel en zonder gedoe. We make IT spark.
  • Seven Stars — Seven Stars is a startup for creating captivating mobile games with a talented, diverse team.
Paul Heydon Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
I have 30+ years as a founder, operator, investor, board member and advisor. I have founded/co-founded multiple companies and have dealt with cofounder issues directly. I have invested in individual companies that have achieved $2b in revenue, $1b in profit, $30b in valuation. Plus on the other side of the spectrum, I have seen lots ofdifferent poor behaviour by some investors, founders and lawyers. My value add is: - the ability to quickly filter out the wrong people. - fundraising - strategy - focus - making tough decisions - cashflow planningCurrently investing directly in startups (mainly tech) at all stages and in funds (most asset classes) as an LP globally. I invested early in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity Software (NYSE:U), Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), Gameclub (acquired by Take-Two Interactive), Doppio Games (acquired by Fortis). Previously, I cofounded a seed VC firm & was an investment banker at various firms. I have both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.If you message me with a pitch deck link for your company or fund then do not send me a docsend link or anything requesting an email and or password as I will ignore it. And make sure you detail the team background, why it’s the best team and why you will win.I’m also open to board positions for companies in Europe and North America. Owner of https://www.heathfieldestatenewforest.co.uk/
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Investment focus
  • Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
  • Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
  • Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.
Klaas Kersting Angel · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Germany, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Fein — Fein is a female-led studio developing casual games for women.
  • Aggero — With our video listening tool we convert video content into actionable insights, boosting your marketing strategies & ROI. Discover audience preferences, analyse competitor tactics, and more.
  • Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.
Index Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 59 investments in the past 12 months
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
  • Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
  • Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.
GEM Capital VC Fund · Paphos, Paphos, Cyprus · 6 investments in the past 12 months
GEM Capital is an international investment company that operates in private equity and venture capital markets. Leading venture capital investor in the games industry
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Cyprus, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • AppMagic — Mobile market intelligence tool
  • OpenStreet — Invest in SpaceX and OpenAI with just $100. We purchase shares in premier private companies like SpaceX and OpenAI, then divide them into fractional pieces, making these investments accessible to everyone.
  • Eschatology Entertainment — Game developers on a quest to create a new generation of immersive hardcore shooters set in a unique apocalyptic world.
Siamc Kamalie Angel
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Robotics, Video Games
  • Pre-Seed
  • Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Surrogate.tv — Hardware product development normally requires a full team of experts in multiple fields. Programming, engineering, design, and more. We see a future where anyone can develop a physical product in the same way anyone can make their own website today.There are no-code approaches to software and app dev that have brought those technologiesmainstream and created $Bn markets (Shopify, WIX, Squarespace, etc.). The next step is no-code, plug & play, hardware development - that is what we are creating at Surrogate.
Riot Games VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Germany, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
  • Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
  • The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.
Gregory Milken Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Gregory Milken is Managing Director at March Capital Partners, where he focuses on investments in digital media, gaming and esports. Gregory has led March Capital’s investments in broadcasting solution Genvid Technologies, game mastery platform Dojo Madness, and game developers nWay and Wavedash. Gregory has over 15 years of entrepreneuriall and operational experience. He was the co-founder and COO of AltEgo, a cloud-based technology and gaming company. Prior to his work in technology, he worked in strategy and operations for Knowledge Universe Education, new business development at Warner Bros. in Hong Kong and London, and at Twentieth Century Fox.Gregory received his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a M.A. in international policy studies from Stanford University. He also received a B.A. in international relations and Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, eSports, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
  • MovieLaLa — MovieLaLa is a social network for movie fans: discovering upcoming movies through friends and favorite stars. For marketers, MovieLaLa is a marketing platform to help movie marketers increase the buzz, awareness and engagement of upcoming movies to ensure strong first week sales.Marc Benioff's investment brings the startup to $750,000 infunding across its seed funding and angel rounds, and its other invetors include Machininma co-founder and CEO Allen DeBevoise, past HBO president of digital initiatives and Warner Bros Online co-founder Jim Moloshok, founding Flixster investor Larry Braitman and more investors from the entertainment industry. If the company succeeds, it could stengthen ties between Hollywood and Silicon Valley after an era of digital piracy tore them apart.
  • Knock Knock — WEB3.0 is not just the next generation of the Internet. It is an evolution that combines decentralization, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts, bringing them into the world of game development.
  • Gunslinger Studios — Gunslinger Studios is a game studio bent on bringing the thrill of multiplayer gaming to mobile players in a minute or less-- something that fits a schedule but scratches the itch for competing and moving forward in a game world. The studio is creating quick, one-hand-controlled experiences for a ge
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.
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.
Reach Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.
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Investment focus
  • Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
  • Tenor — Tenor is an AI designed to assist leaders in practicing important dialogues.
  • Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Anton Gauffin Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Anton Gauffin is the Founder of Sumoing.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Finland, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Gotiva — Darvin lets you design and build real mobile apps using just your ideas. No coding skills needed. Fast, easy, and ready for Google Play and App Store.
  • Odeeo — People play casual games to relax and have fun. So it’s no wonder the world’s 2.7bn free2play mobile gamers find aggressive full-screen ads annoying. Odeeo’s audio ad platform gets gamers. It’s built to amplify the in-game experience by overlaying contextual audio ads that players actually want to hear. For game developers, that meansmonetizing untapped in-game real estate and boosting incremental ad revenue—without hurting retention.For leading brands, it means cutting through the noise to target an attentive audience at ultra scale in an immersive brand-safe environment. And gamers? They can just play on!
  • Benjamin — Start saving more money with our cash back app that automates the cash back earnings for people and businesses.
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.
DN Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 10 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.
  • Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
  • 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.
Finnvera Venture Capital VC Fund · Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland · 2 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.
Jari Ovaskainen Angel · Tampere, Western Finland, Finland
Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Internet of Things, PC Games
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Finland, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Invstr — No matter where you are in your investing journey, Invstr is here to help you reach your goals. Learn to invest with Fantasy Finance, get expert tools & resources, and build your financial future. Invest commission-free from $5, buy crypto, and bank all on Invstr+.
  • CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
  • Kizy Tracking — Kizy Tracking provides global supply chain visibility with real-time IoT data. Benefit from small size, long autonomy, low cost. Start tracking now!
Heartcore Capital VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Denmark, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • PhaseTree — Materials design simulation company - PhaseTree ApS
  • Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
  • Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Mikko Kodisoja Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Mikko Kodisoja
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Music, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Vuo AI — Building blocks for advanced AI-based applications
  • Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
  • SNAFU Records — SNAFU Records creates algorithms that scan through data from major music platforms like Spotify and Youtube to find artists and songs that stand out.
Supernode Global VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
An early stage venture capital fund investing in transformative companies that empower humans to reach their full potential in how we live, learn, create, and connect.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Media and Entertainment, Virtual Reality
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
  • Magma — Magma is an art management platform and collaborative painting solution for game and animation creative studios. Magma is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
  • Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
Transcend Fund VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Transcend Fund is a early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of games and digital entertainment
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Ruckus Games — Ruckus Games is to create unparalleled player experiences through style interactivity and emergence.
  • Adaptive Reader — Adaptive Reader is a company that expands educational opportunities by translating books into many languages and reading levels. The company use artificial intelligence and smart design to give web and hardcopy solutions that ensure no student falls behind owing to language hurdles or learning disabilities.
  • Live Aware Labs — Live Aware helps game developers effortlessly capture, analyze and act on player experiences at every stage of development.
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.
Juha Paananen Angel
Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Wellness, Video Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Finland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Talewind — Talewind specialises in creating immersive brand experiences on Roblox, helping businesses engage with audiences through custom-built virtual worlds and interactive games.
  • Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
  • Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Korea Investment Partners VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 30 investments in the past 12 months
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
  • At Home — AtHome is a home lifestyle solution company which solves the hidden problems for the customers.
  • Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.
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