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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture 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 Early Stage Venture investors in Helsinki. 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 (Helsinki)
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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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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CapMan
CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international. At CapMan, they build better organised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Crowdfunding, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Real Estate, 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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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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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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Sparkmind.vc
Sparkmind.vc is the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. The company invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. The investment sweet spot of the company is from seed to international growth phase with single investments up to €5m.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, 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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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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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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Nordic XR Startups
Nordic XR Startups offers participating startups equity investment, mentorship opportunities, workspaces, and back-office services.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, Europe
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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