# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Finland in October 2023

## Icebreaker.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Lifeline Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

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.

## Business Finland
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.

## Finnvera Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## First Fellow Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

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.

## Ali Omar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

## Superhero Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

## Butterfly Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.

## Spintop Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Voima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Voima Ventures’ mission is to solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and value adding capital. They shed light on the ideas and technology which require time and courage to build. Industry domains include bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics,software & ICT and AI. In addition, Voima Ventures has invested in more than 30 deep tech startups, including companies like Solar Foods, Infinited Fiber Company, and Dispelix. Cornerstone investors are VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and European Investment Fund (EIF), backed by Finnish private and institutional investors.

## Invus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved.Perhaps most importantly, they know that real transformationtakes time and that it’s never a straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way.They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.

## Maki.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms. 

## Gorilla Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Gorilla Capital is a Finnish venture capital fund investing in early stage companies that apply technology to solve real business problems of today.

## Reaktor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

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.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

## Balderton Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

## Hoxton Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Hoxton Ventures focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. Hoxton typically invests between $500,000 and $5 million into pre-seed, seed, and Series A stage companies, and follows its capital through the life of the company.
The firm is based in London and invests all across Europe.

## Jerry Pruttz Holding Ab
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Database, Automotive

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## Nidoco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Nidoco AB is a Swedish investment company whose strategy is to create long-term value through active ownership of public and private companies.

## OpenOcean
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.

## Nielsen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Learning, Machine Learning

Nielsen invests in innovation through our measurement and methodology, early startups and data partnerships.

## Tiny VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Backing great companies when they're tiny

## Random Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, FinTech

Equity investment company

## Zach Shelby
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Wearables

Zach Shelby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Edge Impulse.

## Superangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

Early-stage investments from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs. Our companies include Bolt, Veriff, Fortumo and many more. 10x@superangel.io

## Leena Niemistö
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

Leena Niemistö

## Christian Jantzen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Danish angel investor, based in London.

## Adevinta Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Rental, FinTech

Adevinta Ventures is the early stage investment arm of Adevinta. We support startups using our knowledge and hands-on marketplace experience.

## FAST — by GETTYLAB
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Backing engineers building awe, wonder, speed.

## Leif Linden
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Analytics, Predictive Analytics

Leif Linden

## Jari Ovaskainen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Digital Media, Search Engine, Visual Search

Jari Ovaskainen

## Round2 Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Consulting

Round2 Capital gives software entrepreneursthe choice to grow their company without dilution.

## Hadean Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

Hadean Ventures is a life science fund manager that invests in life science companies across europe with a particular focus on the nordic region.
The funds are backed by leading private and institutional investors.
Hadean Ventures has offices in oslo and stockholm and collaborates with world-class academic institutions and start-up hubs across theregion

## Hermann Hauser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Hermann Hauser co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin out ARM), Active Book Company,Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited (acquired by Cambridge Display Technology), Electronic Share Information Limited, E*Trade UK and has supported many other start-ups.Hermann’s successes at Amadeus include: CSR plc (LON: CSR); Entropic Research Laboratory (acquired by Microsoft in 1999); Solexa (acquired by Illumina in 2007); and Icera (acquired by Nvidia in 2011). He is currently a non-executive director of XMOS, a company that is revolutionising re-configurable silicon chips; Intune Networks, a pioneer in the field of Optical Packet Switch & Transport; Tobii, the world leader in eye tracking and gaze detection; Plastic Logic, the first company to commercialize flexible plastic transistors (currently used in computer displays); and Cambridge Broadband Networks, a leader in point-to-multipoint wireless backhaul products.Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Hermann holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Ruskin University and was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’ in 2001. In 2004, he was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science & Technology. In 2012 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his contribution to the translation of science into business, and in 2013 a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.Austrian by birth, Hermann speaks German, English and conversational Italian and French.

## MiraclePlus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haidian, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

MiraclePlus invests in and accelerates early-stage startups. MiraclePlus assists startups in developing products that are good enough to succeed in the market. MiraclePlus' acceleration program works with the founders to get each team in top shape so that they can present to thousands of investors on Demo Day.

## ITOCHU Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce

The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter "ITOCHU") dates back to 1858 when the Company's founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles,machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.

## Novator
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies.  While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy.

## CapMan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

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 betterorganised, 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.

## SHS Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

SHS, founded in 1993, is an independent private equity company. Their focus is on investments in the MedTech, Life Sciences, Diagnostics and Digital Health sectors.SHS is one of the leading healthcare growth investors in Germany and has launched five generations of funds since its foundation and invested in over 50 companies. Investments arecurrently being made by the fourth and fifth generations of funds. The latest fund, SHS V, is still open for subscription until end of June 2019.They do invest in young, high-growth companies as well as realize small buyouts and growth financings of established companies.

## TheVentureCity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

TheVentureCity is a global early stage venture fund, investing in product-centric startups across the US, Europe and Latam. We believe in founders who expect more from their VC. Our data-driven nature allows us to see beyond borders, knowing talent has no zip code. Which is why we have international hubs in Miami, Madrid, San Francisco and SaoPaulo. We create a steady current of resources, offering a combination of bespoke data insights and guidance from experienced operators. With product-led growth at our core.With more than $160M under management, we invest from pre-seed/seed with a ticket size from $100-300k to Series A with $1-4M.

## Tue Lumbye
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, FinTech, Software

Tue Lumbye is the Head of Danish Market at Better Collective. He attended Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark.

## ETF Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology

ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.

## Laurent Caraffa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology

Laurent Caraffa Managing Director, EU Senior Relationship Manager

## 01Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Machine Learning, Content Discovery, Artificial Intelligence

01 Ventures supports Europe's top entrepreneurs on their journey from vision to unicorn. We are an early stage investor, and offer significant operational support to our startups.

## Future Energy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital fund that brings together corporate partners and world-class start-ups to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures invests in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape.From its operational hubsin Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investments and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities.Future Energy Ventures is the venture capital investment and collaboration platform of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks and energy-related infrastructure.

## HMG Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Sales

Beteiligungsverwaltung. Tätigkeit laut Firmenbucheintrag: Investitionen (Immobilienkauf, Bauherrenmodelle und Unternehmensbeteiligungen)

## Vasamies Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software

Equity investment company

## Keisuke Honda
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Software

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

## Nordic Angel Program
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Analytics

International training and investment program for business angels

## Nordic Option
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, 3D Technology

Nordic Option is a private equity fund focusing its investments on growth companies. It provides capital investments in small and medium-sized growth companies that have already established themselves in Northern Finland. The fund's investment strategy includes the possibility to make up to 5 early-stage growth investments with one millioneuros.The firm's value of investments in portfolio companies is approximately EUR 10 million and the value of loans granted is approximately EUR 1 million.

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