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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Venture Capital 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 | ||
Icebreaker.vc | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe | ||
Visionplus | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital 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 Venture Capital 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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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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Visionplus
Vision+ is a Finnish company that invests into digital products such as applications, games and services in all digital platforms. The company also invests in Internet and SaaS services, apps and sometimes in special content IP deals. The Fund’s management team has extensive background in technology, as business angels in seed investments, entrepreneurship and the creation of successful new product, content, services and business. Members of the management team have also run development and business organizations of significant scale in global setting.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Signage, Venture Capital
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First Fellow Partners
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Vendep Capital
Vendep Capital is a B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs. Our first ticket is 0.1–3M euros depending on the company’s stage. e support the brilliant startup founders by leveraging our extensive SaaS expertise and global networks to expedite their growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: B2B, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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NordicNinja VC
From self-driving electric trucks to AI-driven identity verification; from brain scan analytics predicting Alzheimer’s to mixed reality headsets training astronauts for their Mars mission; from seamless urban mobility to end-to-end transparency of sensitive supply chains, NordicNinja is searching for #1 teams in the world who are based in the New Nordics.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: 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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Takeoff Partners
Takeoff Partners are experienced growth advisors and private investors that focuses on internationalizing B2B software and services. Takeoff Partners provide advisory and coaching services that leverages their experiences in growing businesses. The portfolio businesses of the company are Meetingpackage.com, LATO Tools, Tellybean, Enbrite.ly, Cuckoo Workout, and Havusport. Takeoff Partners is located in Finland and the company was founded in 2014 by Markko Vaarnas.
Stages: Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, B2B, SaaS, Software, 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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IPR.VC
IPR.VC is a venture capital investment company that specializes in intellectual property in digital media content, communications, and entertainment. They support the creators and storytellers to change from production companies and sub-contractors to IP developers and business owners. Their mission is to enable European content companies to create international success stories with film, TV, animation, games and Internet content and prove for the IPR.VC Funds investors that content investing is a source of outstanding returns. Thus, they envision Europe with flourishing content creation ecosystem, where a growing amount of producers are creating more and more successful content. They are interested in attractive, high-quality and original content, committed team with both creative and business ambitions. The productions should have large potential audience and credible international roll-out plan. IPR.VC team has the best combination of industry and investment experience and special skills and knowledge needed to look beyond traditional financial services to serve the creative industries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Content Creators, Digital Media, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Venture Capital
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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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Vaaka Partners
Vaaka Partners Oy is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, middle market, bridge financing, co-investment, and management buyout investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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KoppiCatch
We cover mobile and web, services and technology, b-to-b and b-to-c. But, we do not invest in games. Our business is our passion: we love creating and building new services and products around BIG opportunities. As a result, KoppiCatch works with large corporations on new businesses but is also a co-founder in 5 startups. And more is coming. Grow with us – we accelerate startups and growth. KoppiCatch acceleration model brings our portfolio companies with hands-on-involvement and execution to the product development, go-to-market phase, fund raising and growth strategy.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Analytics, Consulting, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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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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