Top 10 Life Science Angel Investors in Finland (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Leena Niemistö
Angel
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2 | Finland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $552k–$3M |
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Sauli Törmälä
Angel
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2 | Finland | Seed | Life Science, Biotechnology | $589k–$1.3M |
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Marten Mickos
Angel
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1 | United States, Finland, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, Internet, Enterprise Software | |
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Keenan Rice
Angel
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1 | United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $2.3M–$5.2M |
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David Helgason
Angel
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1 | United States, Denmark, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Gaming, Information Technology | $230k–$4.6M |
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Haakon Overli
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Finland | Series A, Series B, Series C | Advertising, SaaS, Software | $1.7M–$22M |
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Kristian Ranta
Angel
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1 | Finland, United States | Seed | Health Care, Apps, Internet | $134k–$2.9M |
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Jukka Tapaninen
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed | Medical, Software, Education | |
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Feroz Dewan
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed | Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing | |
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Jorma Ollila
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed | Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing | |
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Leena Niemistö
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $552k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- #Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
- Vapaus — A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility.
- Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.
Sauli Törmälä is the Board Member, CFO at Promilless Oy. He attended University of Oulu.
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- Industry: Life Science, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $589k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.
Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Finland, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BrandBastion — The #1 choice for ad spenders and top brands. We provide 24/7 support by engaging with customers, removing harmful comments, and alerting you about issues.
- Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
- ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
Keenan Rice is the General Manager of Firebolt. He is a former vice president of marketing and alliances at Looker, a software company that employs business intelligence to make data accessible to organizations and data analysts. Prior to joining Looker, Rice led advertising, interactive marketing, and marketing operations at Turn.Rice obtainedher bachelor’s degree in marketing from San Diego State University-California State University.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waldo — The codeless way to quickly build a comprehensive test suite for teams who don't compromise on speed and quality.
- Matik — Remove the data bottleneck & pull numbers, tables, and charts directly into decks and PDFs
- Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Denmark, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $230k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
- TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
Dawn is Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, with assets under management of $1.5bn. Dawn partners with founders building the next generation of global software leaders, supporting them to harness extraordinary teams.Haakon has served on the boards of Self Trade and Wonga.com amongst others, and currently represents Dawn’sinterest at Conversocial, Crate.io, LeadDesk, Minute Media and Neo Technologies.Prior to formalising early stage investing at Dawn, Haakon worked with early stage companies from their first commercial efforts through to managing accelerated growth, often by serving as an interim manager or board member. They include G-Cluster (sold to Softbank Broadmedia) and Lateral Logic (sold to Electronic Arts).Mr. Overli studied Mathematics at the University of Oslo and holds a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from University of Durham.In his investment-banking career when the world was covered in ice, Haakon was a Director and Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking at ING Barings. Prior even to that, Haakon worked for JP Morgan in the M&A departments of New York and London.
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- Industry: Advertising, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$10M; Series B $2.5M–$22M; Series C $6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minute Media — We are a digital-first media company with a global footprint, bringing passion to life with proprietary technology that powers best-in-class content and advertising partnerships.
- Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
- Crate.io — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value
Kristian Ranta is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Meru Health.
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $134k–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
- Veri — Reveal the foods that help you feel and perform at your best. Track your metabolic health to manage weight, reduce stress and improve sleep.
- Vital — Vital is an API for wearables, medical devices and lab tests. We make it easy to connect to hundreds of wearables such as Oura, Garmin, Fitbit, Omron, and deliver at home custom branded lab tests through an API.
Jukka Tapaninen is an experienced IT business executive and a board member at Fimmic. Jukka also holds board positions at weVision, Addoro Ab, Findity and MeshWorks Wireless Oy.Jukka has a strong background in the IT industry on managing companies and business units globally. His leadership experience, from large companies like SAP and HP, aswell as from strong midsize companies has given him industry knowledge and excellent network within the strategic ecosystem and major customers. Jukka has experience in working in the United States, Singapore and multiple locations in Europe that have given him a good understanding on how business is done in different parts of the world.Jukka holds a M.Sc. degree from the Helsinki School of Economics.
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- Industry: Medical, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aiforia — Aiforia provides software and services for pathologists, scientists and healthcare professionals to use artificial intelligence for image analysis.
Feroz Dewan is the chief executive officer at Arena Holdings.
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- Industry: Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
Master of Political Science (University of Helsinki), Master of Science (Econ.) (London School of Economics), Master of Science (Eng.) (Helsinki University of Technology).Chairman and CEO, Chairman of the Group Executive Board of Nokia Corporation 1999-2006, President and CEO, Chairman of the Group Executive Board of Nokia Corporation1992-1999, President of Nokia Mobile Phones 1990-1992, Senior Vice President, Finance of Nokia 1986-1989. Holder of various managerial positions at Citibank within corporate banking 1978-1985.Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Otava Ltd and member of the Board of Directors of Fruugo Inc. Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Helsinki. Chairman of the Boards of Directors and the Supervisory Boards of The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA and Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA. Member of The European Round Table of Industrialists. Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Vice Chairman of the Independent Reflection Group of the Council of the European Union considering the future of the European Union.Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company 2000-2008. Vice Chairman of UPM-Kymmene Corporation 2004-2008.
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- Industry: Life Science, Market Research, Quantum Computing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
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