Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture 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 |
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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 Early Stage Venture 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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OpenOcean
OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing across Europe with offices in London, Helsinki, and Amsterdam. With an entrepreneurial background from building several category-defining software businesses, the firm engages with founders to build and scale global companies delivering data-intensive and delicious software solutions. OpenOcean typically leads or co-leads €5M Series A funding rounds in Europe.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: B2B, Big Data, Enterprise Software, Finance, FinTech, Software
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3TS Capital Partners
3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS funds totaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others. Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Innovestor
Innovestor is a nordic venture capital investor and financial services company. For investors, Innovestor offers attractive opportunities to invest in carefully selected growth companies. For growth companies, Innovestor offers funding at competitive terms and valuable insight from a team of experienced professionals and industry experts. Innovestor offices are located in Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Stockholm and Moscow. Innovestor Ltd. is supervised by Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Conor Venture Partners
Conor Venture Partners is a new breed technology venture capital fund and management company. Conor invests in early-stage companies originating from Nordic and Baltic countries. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Venture Capital
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Nexit Ventures
Nexit Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on digital disruption. We invest in disruptive and scalable Nordic companies in early growth and more mature stages of their development. Nexit Ventures has its home bases in the Nordic countries and Silicon Valley creating a transatlantic bridge. Our continuous and active presence on both sides of the Atlantic connects technologies, markets, partners, resources, and exit opportunities, creating significant value for our portfolio companies. Nexit has offices in Helsinki and Silicon Valley.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Mobile, 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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BioFund Management
BioFund was founded in Finland in 1997 by Seppo Mäkinen and Kalevi Kurkijärvi. In 2001, BioFund established an office in Copenhagen and they have since then grown into a pan-Nordic life sciences management company. Today the firm has 8 professionals in Denmark and Finland, and has invested in almost 50 companies in 9 different countries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Evli Growth Partners
Evli Growth Partners is a European later-stage VC that invests in companies across sectors. The fund is truly entrepreneurial, backed by 5 serial entrepreneurs with hands-on experience in building and scaling several market leaders in their respective fields. With experience from +150 companies as founders, executives, or investors and the aggregate exit value in several billions of euros, EGP’s team is equipped with unique expertise in building long-term sustainable businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Metsa Spring
Metsä Spring is the venture capital arm of Metsä Group. We invest globally in promising startups that have a link to wood or forestry. In addition to financing, we also provide access to Metsä Group’s global network and expertise.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Advanced Materials, Biomass Energy, Biotechnology, Building Material, Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Forestry
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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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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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