# Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in Finland in May 2026

## Lifeline Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 16
- 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.

## Tesi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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

## Finnvera Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Butterfly Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## 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.

## Grid.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Battery

Grid.vc is the first investor in superb teams disrupting the energy business.

## VTT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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?

## Nidoco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Mika Ihamuotila
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Sustainability, FinTech, Internet

Mika Ihamuotila - Board of Directors @ Rovio Entertainment Corporation

## Voima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Sitra
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics

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 oncompanies 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.

## Risto Siilasmaa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Risto Siilasmaa is the Founder at F-Secure. Risto Siilasmaa attended Aalto University.

## Mikael Hed
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Consumer Electronics, Hardware

Investor, Executive Chairman at Kaiken Entertainment Ltd.

## Wave Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Internet

Founded in 2016, Wave Ventures is the largest student-run VC in Europe, backed by Nordic unicorn founders, investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. We operate both from Finland and Sweden with a team of five people from the top universities in the region.

## Bragiel Brothers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds.
Dan Bragiel launched the firm in San Francisco, California in 2016.

## Valve Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, CleanTech, Oil and Gas

Valve Ventures is a Helsinki-based angel and early-stage venture 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. 

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

Leena Niemistö

## JOINT JOURNEY
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Active investment firm that calling founders with a great product vision across diverse industries

## Green Campus Innovations Oy
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Battery, Biotechnology

Provide an effective, outsourced incubation and acceleration platform .

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

## Ali Omar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Übermorgen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy

We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.

## 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.

## Springvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy

## Fennia Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Battery, Manufacturing, Product Design

Fennia Group provides risk management and insurance services for enterprises, entrepreneurs and private households.

## Korkia
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy

Korkia is a private equity firm that makes investments in renewable energy and clean tech sectors. It also specializes in alternative investment fund management and also provides financial advisory and consultancy services.

## Taaleri
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Lending

Taaleritehdas Wealth Management is helping all Finns see the advantages of ownership and find their own way to own.


## Infosto
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Sensor, Organic, Automotive

Infosto is a Finland-based venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments.

## Moomin Characters
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering

Moomin Official Site: discover Moominvalley and the magical characters created by Tove Jansson. Get the latest Moomin news and stories.

## John Nurminen Oy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

John Nurminen Oy is a company that provides distributor of nautical charts.

## EM Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Battery, Manufacturing, Product Design

EM Group is a Finnish family-owned company that develops and owns electrical. Our most important subsidiary is Ensto. The group companies operate in 20 countries and employ some 1700 people. The group turnover is approximately 250 million euros. www.emgroup.fi

## Vesa Puttonen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Packaging Services

Vesa Puttonen is a professor of finance from Finland.

## Granström Mari
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering

Granström Mari is the Chief Science Activist at Origin by Ocean.

## Climate Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Energy, CleanTech, Manufacturing

OGCI Climate Investments focuses on delivering the transition to lower carbon emission energy sources. The leaders of the ten major oil and gas companies are committed to the direction set out by the Paris Agreement on climate change. They support its agenda for global action and the need for urgency. Through their collaboration in Oil and GasClimate Initiative (OGCI), they can be a catalyst for change in their industry and more widely.OGCI aims to increase the ambition, speed and scale of the initiatives they undertake as individual companies to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of their core oil and gas business – and to explore new businesses and technologies.

## Trung Nguyen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Shoes, Gaming, Recycling

Trung Nguyen CEO at Axie Infinity. He attended FPT University during 2010-2017.

## Aura Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: iOS, Blockchain, Information Technology

Aura Group is a financial services company operating out of Australia and Singapore that provides tailored wealth and funds management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Our vision is to build trust that lasts generations.

## True Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

## LähiTapiola
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Internet

LähiTapiola is based on mutual company form, a group of companies owned by its customers, serving the personal, farm, entrepreneurial.

## KPMG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax & Advisory services.

## Lauri Rosendahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Packaging Services

Lauri Rosendahl is Senior Vice President of Global Trading & Market Services for Nasdaq. He is responsible for equity and equity derivatives trading and products at Nasdaq in Europe, and he is also President of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd since 2009. From February 2013 to May 2014, Mr. Rosendahl oversaw Nordic Equities and Equity Derivativeswithin Nasdaq’s Transaction Services Nordic division. Since joining Nasdaq in May 2009 until February 2013, Mr. Rosendahl was Head of Product Management for Nordic Equities and Nordic Equity Derivatives. During this time, Nasdaq Nordic implemented CCP clearing for cash equities and launched INET trading system for cash equities and GENIUM INET for equity derivatives. From January 2012 to February 2013, he was, in parallel, responsible for the Baltic and Armenian operations of Nasdaq, during which time the Baltic operations was re-organized and integrated into one regional operation. Mr. Rosendahl has over 20 years of experience in the financial markets, having held several senior management positions within securities trading, equity research and investment banking with several banks and brokers including Deutsche Bank, ABN Amro / Alfred Berg, Carnegie and Kaupthing. He also has a long renowned career as a telecom equipment analyst, in particular for his highly ranked research work on Nokia. As Head of the Helsinki Stock Exchange, Mr. Rosendahl is also a board member of the Securities Market Association in Finland, which is responsible for Corporate Governance and Takeover issues in Finland. Mr. Rosendahl has been a founding member of The Finnish Financial Analyst Society and a board member from 1989 to 1993. He has further acted as member of the board of The Finnish Brokers' Association (1992-1996, 2004-2005), The Private Brokers' Association (1992-1996) and on the Supervisory Board of the Helsinki Stock Exchange (1993-1995). Mr. Rosendahl has also acted as a Member of the Board in the Finnish Deposit Guarantee Fund (2008 – Feb 2009).

## Mikko Rannila
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Packaging Services

Mikko Rannila - Founding Partner @ Magnifier

## VNT Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vaasa, Western Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Electronics, Information Technology

VNT Management is a venture capital management company that offers its services to investors and entrepreneurs.The company offers investors with 3 venture capital funds, all of which focus on clean technology. Furthermore, it offers an IRR of 25% and a position in the top quartile of European venture capital funds. Entrepreneurs are offered withsupply management, business idea, application, and product concept development, and technology scanning and evaluation services.VNT Management was founded in 2002 and is based in Finland.

## Emerald Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Software

We provide venture capital for companies with cutting-edge technology that solves key issues in the transition to a net zero emissions world.

## Lakan Betoni
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Joensuu, Eastern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Industrial Manufacturing, Environmental Engineering

Lakan Betoni is a building material company that produces concrete blocks, environmental concrete, ready-mix concrete, and dry mix products.

## Renaldas Zioma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Information Technology

Renaldas Zioma

## Ilkka Paananen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

## Jukka Rannila
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Packaging Services

Jukka Rannila Entrepeneur and Investor.

## Volvo Cars
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1

The first mass-produced Volvo car rolled off the production line in Gothenburg in 1927. Since then, they have delivered a steady stream of cars equipped with world-leading innovations. Today, they are one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world with sales in about 100 countries.Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) is owned byZhejiang Geely Holding (Geely Holding) of China. Volvo Cars formed part of the Swedish Volvo Group until 1999 when Ford Motor Company bought the company. In 2010, Geely Holding acquired Volvo Cars.They produce premium cars with the following body types: Sedans, Estates/Sportswagons, Cross Country vehicles, SUVs, and Convertibles. Their cars are characterized by intuitive, human-focused, functional Scandinavian design and good craftsmanship.Relative to the strength of the brand, Volvo Cars is a small producer with global sales reaching 421,951 cars in 2012. Their largest markets are the United States, Sweden, China, Germany, and the UK. Their corporate and brand strategy is ”Designed Around You” and puts people at the heart of everything they do.As a responsible company, they want to contribute to a more sustainable society. To ensure that they are in harmony with customers and society, they do their part by spearheading the development of sustainable mobility - from plug-in hybrids and all-electric cars to active cooperation in a partnership project on road trains.They are proud to continuously deliver world-first solutions; innovations that put people first, by saving and simplifying their lives. Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo until 1999 when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company as part of its Premier Automotive Group. Geely Holding Group then acquired Volvo Cars from Ford in 2010.

## Ben Feder
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Shoes, Gaming, Mobile

Ben Feder is an accomplished and creative and entrepreneur and investor, with a long and proven track record in the media and telecommunications sector. He has held pubic company board positions in Japan and the United States. Ben is co-founder of ZelnickMedia, a successful private equity firm in the U.S.that focuses on the media andcommunications industries; and he is formerly the CEO of Take Two Interactive, a $2 billion public video game company that develops and publishes video games such as Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Civilization.

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