# Top 30 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Finland in May 2026

## Business Finland
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## VTT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, 3D Technology

VTT is a powerhouse of technology development and scientific research. Many of the most significant Finnish technology start-ups were brought to life at VTT. Do you want to invest in ongoing ventures?

## Conor Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Semiconductor

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.

## Finnvera Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Lighting

The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres) are responsible for the regional implementation and development tasks of the central government.Finland has a total of 15 ELY Centres, which are tasked with promoting regional competitiveness, well-being and sustainable development and curbing climate change.ELY Centres have three areas of responsibility:- Business and industry, labour force, competence and cultural activities.- Transport and infrastructure.- Environment and natural resources.

## Tesi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care

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 privateco-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

## Inventure
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

## Innovestor
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing

Welcome to Innovestor! We are a Finnish investment company focusing on venture capital, corporate venturing services, and real estate.

## Leaguer Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Robotics

Shenzhen Leaguer Venture Capital Co., Ltd. is a high-tech venture capital company founded by Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) in August 1999. Its current registered capital is RMB 333.3333 million, managing assets amounted to RMB 1.5 billion. With solid capital strength, rich experience of investment and flexiblemechanism, Leaguer VC has invested more than 50 portfolio companies, ranging from IT, new material, medicine, electronics to optomechatronics and hi-tech incubators, etc. The average IRR for the current investments exceeds 30%. Leaguer VC has successfully finished its fund-raising of RMB 160 million in 2009 and set up fund management companies and venture capital companies located in Changzhou and Wuxi.

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

Investor

## Maki.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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. 

## Butterfly Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Nordea
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

## NordicNinja VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Transportation

NordicNinja VC invests in startups in the Nordic-Baltic region.

## Icebreaker.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## CIP Consulting Oy
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Database, Automotive

Seed phase startup investments

## Ascend Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Automotive

Founded by two Wall Street professionals in 2002 with the goal of making companies successful by helping them raise capital and improve their management standards. This was done by taking an active role in running these companies (at the Board level and operationally) and helping to secure strategic partnerships.Over USD 100 million in assetsgenerated from successful investments in China, and more recently in Europe. All invested funds come from our partners; no 3rd party money is managed. Since the partners are investing their own capital, they are dedicated to making their investments successful.Led by Monita Mo, one of the founders and a serial entrepreneur. Our partners have decades of experience across a wide range of industries and geographical regions. All investment partners have done business in Asia and bring an extensive network of contacts for our investments. Additionally, they have started, managed, and sold businesses and understand the challenges involved.See the need to share more developed technology to other markets, especially in China, where growth opportunities may be greater. That is why we are currently focusing on companies in Europe and other developed markets that have unique technologies that can be commercialized in their home markets, Asia, and the US.

## Sidekick Simo Oy
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Database, Automotive

Simo Hämäläinen

## S & S Sivonen Oy - Sami Sivonen
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Database, Automotive

Supercar racingteam owner

## Pontos Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Genetics, Hospital, Automotive

Pontos is a family owned Finnish private equity and real estate investment company operating in Finland, the Baltic States, and Portugal.

## Horizon 2020
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

The EU framework programme for research and innovation

## Pluupi Ventures Oy - Seppo Kolari
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Database, Automotive

Automotive industry software development

## Flashpoint
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture capital, secondary buy-out and venture debt funds.

## DENSO Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D
- Focus: Electric Vehicle, Sensor, Manufacturing

DENSO Corp., headquartered in Kariya, Aichi prefecture, Japan, is a leading global automotive supplier of advanced technology, systems and components in the areas of thermal, powertrain control, electronics and information and safety. Its customers include all the world's major carmakers. Worldwide, the company has more than 200 subsidiariesand affiliates in 38 countries and regions (including Japan) and employs more than 150,000 people. Consolidated global sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017, totaled US$40.4 billion. Last fiscal year, DENSO spent 9.0 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and development. DENSO common stock is traded on the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges.

## Nexit Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1

Venture Capital focused on digital disruption. Home bases in the Nordic countries and Silicon Valley. Investing in disruptive and scalable Nordic companies.

## ELY Center
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Lighting, Automotive, Electronics

Speech and Language therapy center with a special concentration and expertise in social cognitive development. 

## 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.

## Faurecia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nanterre, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Automotive, Software, Electronics

As a global leader in automotive technology, Faurecia provides innovative solutions to automotive challenges.

## Dawn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

## 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.

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