Top 15 Franchise Startup Investors in Finland in October 2023
Top 15 Franchise Startup Investors in Finland in October 2023
| Investor | Franchise Finland investments |
|---|---|
| Business Finland | 5 |
| Innovestor | 2 |
| Cecily Drucker | 2 |
| Vendep Capital | 2 |
| Andreas Mihalovits | 2 |
| Digital Future | 2 |
| Pekka Koskinen | 2 |
| HOWZAT Partners | 2 |
| Nick Bilogorskiy | 1 |
| Spring Capital | 1 |
| Sampo Parkkinen | 1 |
| Alfabeat | 1 |
| Flyer One Ventures | 1 |
| DAAL | 1 |
| Aviram Jenik | 1 |
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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.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fixably — Fixably is the repair management solution to seamlessly connect all users, from the end customer to the technician, and all repair systems within your service business.
- Valosan — Scale your international PR into any local market. With Valosan, you connect with PR specialists in local markets and pitch your story to real journalists
- Vensum Power — Revolutionizing power conversion. More power in same package, less energy waste and low maintenance.
Welcome to Innovestor! We are a Finnish investment company focusing on venture capital, corporate venturing services, and real estate.
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- Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- SynergyXR — SynergyXR is a no-code, cloud platform that lets companies design, onboard, sell, and support across all XR devices without writing a single line of code
- HVR Cardio — HVR Cardio Transformative Mitral Valve Repair Solutions The Future of Mitral Valve Repair Our mission is to develop solutions for mitral valve interventions that are faster, easier to use, and less invasive without compromising clinical efficacy. About HVR Cardio Utilization of new technologies and less...
- Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.
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- B2B, SaaS, Content
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.
B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.
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- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
- Happeo — This intranet keeps your teams informed, aligned, and productive with a template-based page builder, integrations, and universal search across all company tools.
- My Telescope — My Telescope is the Share of Search analytics tool marketers use to track campaigns and build data-driven branding strategies.
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
- Tuvalum — Make used bikes great again! Tuvalum is the largets and most trusted site in pre-loved bikes. Every used bike is carefully certified by our expert mechanics. Our mission is to transform the bicycle industry for a more sustainable future through digitization and a great customer experience. Get the bike you really need for your goals and needs, allthe bikes are supremely certified by expert mechanics.
- Qoala — Qoala, founded in 2019, is a browser extension that finds and applies discount codes on online stores and provides its users with cashback, creating a more reliable purchase funnel for more than its 3000 affiliated stores and ensuring its customers will take advantage of the best available deals while shopping online.
Digital Future is a leading Ukraine-born VC firm. We provide late seed and early stage funding to revenue-enabled companies with initial traction, scalable business model, indefatigable team and global ambition. Our portfolio includes companies from Ukraine, Europe, Israel, and United States.
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- SaaS, Software, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Moodmate — I will help you learn more about mental health and self-care, fight stress and stay optimistic no matter what
- OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
- Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
Founder at Leadfeeder
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- B2B, SaaS, Content
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.
- Cuutio Software —
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
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- Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Suitepad — 2012, the idea for SuitePad was born. Merge guests' wallet, phone, remote, room-service menu, spa catalog, and newspapers on a device's vision was that for the first time was financed thanks to favorable expectant Android tablets.Product development was accompanied by renowned private and chain hoteliers from Germany, Austria, andSwitzerland. So the SuitePad was very close to the actual needs of the developed chain and private hotels. After 2013, the first SuitePad installation is completed, the product is found not only in sales so far in 11 European countries, but was also honored with numerous industry-related awards. These include the u. A. CeBit BITKOM Innovation Award 2013, the Gastro Vision Award 2014 of the Travel Industry Club Best Practice Award 2014, and the HSMAI Technology and Innovation Award.
- Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system which allows users to select accommodation based on their different levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
- Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
Nick Bilogorskiy is a founding team member at Cyphort, a next-generation anti-malware startup, and is currently leading security research there. He came to Cyphort from Facebook where he was the chief malware expert and a security spokesperson for the company, keeping 1 billion active users safe and secure.His Facebook focus was on annihilatingbotnets that targeted Facebook (e.g., Koobface) by developing countermeasures, remediating victims and working with law enforcement agencies on bad actor attribution and enforcement. Prior to joining Facebook, Nick managed virus research teams at SonicWALL and Fortinet.Nick is skilled in reverse engineering, analysis, writing patterns and tracking malware, frequently quoted in the media. He presented and published research papers at major security conferences. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing science and philosophy from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and a GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) certification. He holds several patents in computer security.Nick has been an angel investor since 2012, investing into 2-3 seed stage companies per year, focusing on cybersecurity, AI and IOT. He invested in Petcube, Cymmetria and Uber, among others.Nick Bilogorskiy is also the founder and a Director of the largest Ukrainian charity in California, Nova Ukraine, helping Ukraine by fighting corruption, providing humanitarian aid, and increasing awareness about Ukrainian culture in the US.
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- Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- People.ai — Uncover the Fastest Path to Revenue
- Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
- PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.
Investments in exceptional teams in the Baltics & Nordics.Our two main focuses include: 1. Startups with a technological edge. Seed stage. Our check size is from €50K up to €200K. With a vast experience in startup building, we typically get hands-on with our advice and help the founders achieve operational excellence. 2. Innovators oftraditional sectors. SMEs with a proven track and strong market position. Clear plans to accelerate the growth. Our investment ticket can be from €300K to €700K to support these aspirations. If you think we have a match, reach out through invest@springcapital.ee.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
- FoodDocs — Globally trusted Food Safety Management System to get and stay compliant. #1 Food Safety software for production, food service, and retail.
- EyeVi Technologies — EyeVi is a provider of road network intelligence with AI-powered on-demand mapping technologies.
Co-founder @Revieve. General Partner @LandInChicago. Co-founder & COO @ RapidBlue Solutions (acquired in 2013). Member of Board @PromoRepublic. Mentor, advisor and early stage angel investor in startups.
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- B2B, SaaS, Content
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.
Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.
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- Software, Marketing, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Poland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Monetizr — Monetizr is a unique in-game advertising platform that enables brand marketers to engage with GenZ and Millennial audiences. Monetizr offers sequential multi-touch brand placements, scalability across hundreds of mobile games, high engagement, and data collection in exchange for valuable rewards.
- Fluency — Fluency is a blockchain-empowered CBDC proprietary platform revolutionizing the existing financial system. Their blockchain enterprise smart contract platform was developed for the purpose of building and interconnecting national multi CBDC networks. Fluency Aureum allows issuance, distribution, and exchange of multi-CBDCs between central banks,commercial banks, merchants, and consumers. The company's proprietary technology is specifically tailored with the idea of bringing technological and economical innovations of digital currencies to the existing financial system.It was incorporated in 2019, headquartered in London, UK with subsidiaries in Delaware, US, and Dublin, Ireland.
Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.
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- Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus
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- Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
- Filmustage — Filmustage is the first AI-based solution for automatically breakdown movie scripts in seconds. Designed to save you time on routine tasks.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.
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- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
- Ordera — Ordera is a mobile application focusing on enhancing the pick-up (takeaway) experience in the F&B industry, using Ordera people will be able to place and pay for their orders before their arrival to the venue and pick them up on the go in less than 30 seconds whether from the store or even from their cars like a virtual drive-thru. And with ourbuilt-in loyalty program, the more people use the application the more free-stuff they collect from their favorite venues. On the other hand, Ordera helps venue owners to increase their sales, know their customers, and maintain their loyal ones!
- Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).
Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
- Apolyta — Threat simulators use playbooks and checklists. Adversaries don't. Prepare for the real threats of tomorrow with adaptive attack emulation.
- Vicarius — Consolidate vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation in a single automated solution.
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