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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lifeline Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe | ||
Business Finland | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe | ||
Inventure | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe | ||
Tesi | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe | ||
Icebreaker.vc | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Finance Seed investors in Southern Finland. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Finance Investors & Funds (Southern Finland)
Lifeline Ventures
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 ($0.66 million) 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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Business Finland
Business Finland (formerly Tekes) is a Finnish funding agency specialized in research communities, industry, and service sectors. Business Finland promotes a broad-based view on innovation: besides funding technological breakthroughs, Tekes emphasizes the significance of service-related, design, business, and social innovations. The company does not derive any financial profit from its activities, nor claim any intellectual proprietary rights.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Inventure
Inventure is a venture fund that specializes in helping its portfolio companies with talent and expansion. Since 2005, the team has been in venture with over 70 companies ranging from deep tech to consumer internet brands, including Wolt, Detectify, Blueprint Genetics, Swappie, and Insurello. With its €230 million assets under management, Inventure focuses on Seed and Series A investments across Nordics and Baltics, with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Tesi
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government-owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state-owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses. Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with private co-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings. The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Digital Media, Fashion, Finance, Hardware, Search Engine, Web Development
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Icebreaker.vc
Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start, build or join strong tech companies. With the initial ticket sizes of €150k – 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Gorilla Ventures Oy
Gorilla Ventures Oy is a seed-stage angel fund for Finnish startups. It finances 10 to 15 early-stage Finnish startups every year. Gorilla Ventures Oy also provides advice to startups in various high impact situations, including product or market fit, strategy, funding, go-to-market, customer development, international expansion, and other fundamental issues to make better strategic choices. It was launched in 2012 by Timo Tiihonen, Petri Lehmuskoski, Risto Rautakorpi, and Reijo Syrjäläinen. Gorilla Ventures Oy is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
Stages: Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Eqvitec
Eqvitec Partners is a privately owned and independent Nordic private equity firm, advising six funds with a total capital base of over €500 million. Equity funds invest in technology companies in all phases from early-stage to buyouts. Mezzanine funds focus on buyouts and expansion financing. Eqvitec Partners offers a combination of experience and expertise to companies with an attractive business model and solid growth potential. They spend a lot of time with the portfolio companies working closely with the management on a board level. Their aim is to add significant value, particularly via intellectual capital, with a focus on strategy implementation and business development. In addition, they bring a significant network and financial know-how to their portfolio companies. Eqvitec funds typically exit the investments after 3-6 years through a trade sale or a stock exchange floatation. Eqvitec Partners was established in 1997 and currently has 15 employees in the Helsinki and Stockholm offices. They are a member of the Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA), Swedish Venture Capital Association (SVCA), European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) and Nordic Venture Network (NVN).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Sitra
Sitra is the venture capital investment arm of Sitra specializing in investments in seed, start-ups, early stage opportunities, and other funds. The firm invests through its three programmes namely, Health Care Programme, the Food and Nutrition Programme, and the Environmental Programme. Within the Health Care Programme, investments are focused on companies engaged in paper-free health care, seamless services, decentralised specialised health care, and support services. Within the Food and Nutrition Programme, investments are made in enterprises engaged in the food and nutrition sector, including value-adding upgrading of raw materials and new applications and service concepts in food and nutrition technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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FiBAN – Finnish Business Angels Network
Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN ry) is one of the largest and most active angel investor networks in the world with over 670+ approved angel investor members from over 20+ nationalities. The organization matches unlisted potential growth companies with angel investors in Finland, Baltics, and the Nordics. FiBAN provides syndicate opportunities, training about angel investing, and international networking and deal flow opportunities in collaboration with other international angel networks. www.fiban.org
Stages: Pre-seed, Seed
Location: Finland, New Nordics.
Industries: Non-profit, angel funding, investor matchmaking
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Veturi Venture Accelerator
Veturi Venture Accelerator works with passionate entrepreneurs and researchers to translate innovative ideas to significant growth companies. Founded by international serial entrepreneurs, Veturi provides seed funding, strategic guidance and hands-on participation to accelerate your venture. As part of the Finnish Vigo-programme, Veturi also provides access to government grants for funding R&D and go-to-market activities.
Stages: Seed
Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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AppCampus
AppCampus is a mobile application accelerator program managed by Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. This is an 21 million euro joint investment between Microsoft and Aalto University to foster mobile application development on Windows Phone and Windows platforms. To drive innovation and business opportunities in Finland’s mobile ecosystem and beyond, Microsoft and Nokia invested 9 million euros each into the “AppCampus” program – a newly established mobile application development program at Aalto University during the next three years starting from spring 2012. The AppCampus program has been set up to foster the creation of innovative mobile applications for the Windows Phone ecosystem to create a new generation of self-sustaining mobile startups.
Stages: Seed
Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Apps, Business Development, Finance, Mobile Apps
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Mediterranean Towers Ventures
Mediterranean Towers Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies developing disruptive solutions for aging – the fastest growing population segment around the world. The publicly traded company provides retirement community chain in Israel. It specializes in improving and enriching the lives of older adults.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Tirva, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Lifetime Group
Lifetime Group; Lifetime Studios – delivers Secure Managed Cloud Sourcing for enterprise customers EU, US, Asia. Lifetime Consulting – Advisors and Consultancy You can Trust. Product – Lifetime Digital Workspace for Intelligent Industries
Stages: Seed
Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Mobile Apps, Open Source, Predictive Analytics, Project Management, Software, Sustainability
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DAFH.vc
We are a Nordic VC focusing on early-stage startups. Our portfolio includes SaaS, platform, FinTech, Legal Tech, consulting and logistics companies, as well as some distress assets turned profitable businesses.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Hardware, Health Care, Logistics, Management Consulting, Real Estate, Robotics, Software
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