Top 30 Social Network Startup Investors in Finland in October 2023
Top 30 Social Network Startup Investors in Finland in October 2023
| Investor | Social Network Finland investments |
|---|---|
| Xiaomi | 3 |
| 5Y Capital | 3 |
| BAI capital | 2 |
| Superhero Capital | 2 |
| Factor | 1 |
| dao5 | 1 |
| Alphanonce | 1 |
| Symbolic Capital | 1 |
| Hillhouse Capital Group | 1 |
| Pekka Aakko | 1 |
| 37 Interactive Entertainment | 1 |
| Bret Terrill | 1 |
| Temasek Holdings | 1 |
| Alibaba Group | 1 |
| Coatue | 1 |
| Miki Kuusi | 1 |
| Ilkka Paananen | 1 |
| Tesi | 1 |
| Kristian Segerstrale | 1 |
| Taihecap (Formerly TH Capital) | 1 |
| Wave Ventures | 1 |
| Jussi Laakkonen | 1 |
| Alexis Bonte | 1 |
| Riku Mäkelä | 1 |
| Bilibili | 1 |
| David Helgason | 1 |
| Shunrong Gufen | 1 |
| Markus Maki | 1 |
| ZhenFund | 1 |
| SwissBorg | 1 |
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5Y Capital is a firm engaged in providing early-stage venture investments. It was formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital.The investment firm manages USD 5bn in dual-currency funds in USD and RMB, backed by world-renowned sovereign wealth funds, family offices, fund of funds, university endowments, pensions, and foundations.It washeadquartered in Xuhui, Shanghai, China in 2008 by Ken Shi and Richard Liu.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, India
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- NOWCODER — NOWCODER develops a written test and interview database platform for IT programmers.
- Makino micro — Makino Micro is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to the research and development of 4D high-precision imaging radar.
- Share Creators — Share Creators develop enterprise level digital asset management, remote collaboration, project management tools. We also provide art production services.
BAI Capital is a leading venture capital fund in China. Since 2008, the team of BAI Capital has invested in more than 200 portfolios, including 17+ IPOs and 40+ unicorns. BAI Capital has two main focuses: China-based global companies and China’s structural transformation. BAI Capital seeks to partner with and empower outstanding Chinese companiesand entrepreneurs that can leverage the multiplier effect of China’s technology, talent, and supply chain advantages and to expand globally in consumer retail and services, fintech, media and content innovation, Web3 and metaverse. On the other hand, at the turning point of China’s structural transformation, the fund will also seize major cross-cycle disruption opportunities in frontier and infra tech, electric vehicles and autonomous driving, and industrial upgrade driven by enterprise software development.The investor base for BAI Capital includes institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, large insurance companies, internet giants and fund of funds globally, as well as Bertelsmann. BAI Capital has its background from Bertelsmann Asia Investments, part of the Bertelsmann Group.
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- Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Hong Kong
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- Fabrie — Fabrie develops collaboration tool for designers that has functions such as multi-person collaboration, table and diagram association, cloud storage and sharing.
- RM Group — RM Group is a creator of derivatives and technologies related to digital humans.
- Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.
Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Estonia, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- Videobot — Grow your business with personalised video funnels that engage your audience with human interaction, capture leads, guide your users, enhance customer satisfaction and increase conversion rate.Short videos have already become dominant across social media platforms. Now, this beloved user experience is available on company websites as well. The applications are vast and varied. Discover how it all works by reserving your own presentation slot.
- Doublepoint — Solving Next-Generation Interactions. Doublepoint provides future computing platforms more intuitive, robust and versatile interactions.
Factor operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Internet, Advertising, Social Media
- Seed
- Finland
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- Rated — Rated offers data on validators and node operators, which makes it easier for users to compare and contrast their performance.
- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
An experimental cryptocurrency investment fund that will convert into a decentralized autonomous organization.
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- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- Layer N — Layer N is a layer 2 network designed to hyper-scale financial applications on Ethereum.
- Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
We believe crypto assets innovate the process of value creation to value transfer
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- MetaBeat — The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform.
- Synesis One — Synesis One provides a play-to-earn model on the Solana blockchain that develops games on the frontend to incentivize users and on the backend creates datasets that train AI. This fully functional system has already been integrated with its beneficiary, Mind AI, which relies on natural language reasoning to produce conversational AI systems. Withcustomers already lined up, Synesis One's key appeal is its ability to attract other projects that will pay to use their AI solutions within the blockchain space and across different industries.
Symbolic Capital is a crypto VC founded by web3 founders. We provide web3 investing with global impact.
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- Blockchain, Software, Internet
- Seed
- United States, Canada, Finland
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- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
- Range Protocol — Permissionless Infrastructure for Smart Money Management. We are the leading gateway to smart on-chain money managers, bringing maximised yields and optimal capital efficiency to users of different risk profiles.
Hillhouse Capital Group is an investment management firm that invests with a long-term time horizon. Hillhouse owns companies across equity stages, spanning the range from new start-ups to the world’s most established public companies. It may invest in a company as a start-up and continue to hold it in the portfolio as a public equity investment.This stage-agnostic investment style allows them to focus on multi-year results, rather than on quarterly earnings.Hillhouse Capital Group invests globally, with a particular focus on Asia. Independent, proprietary research lies at the heart of our investment process. Our team members are sector experts in consumer, Internet, media, and healthcare. Hillhouse Capital Group was founded in 2005 and is based in Beijing, China.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, India
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- Immorna — Immorna specializes in the production of RNA-based therapeutics.
- Xingmai Innovation — Xingmai Innovation creates, develops, and sells intelligent swimming pool cleaning robots.
- Deep Vision Intelligence — Deep Vision Intelligence is a developer of embedded machine vision products.
Pekka Aakko
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- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Lygg — Private flights with door-to-door airport transfer at a fraction of the cost. Save 67% of travel time. No crowds, no queues, no stress. And it's carbon neutral.
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
37 Interactive Entertainment (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "37 IE") was founded in 2011. In 2015, the listing for the entire company was completed and quickly climbed to the top of China's stock market (Stock code: 002555). In 2017, 37 IE was named by Newzoo as one of the Top 25 Public Companies by GameRevenues. They were also named as one of the "New China Nifty 50" companies by Goldman Sachs. They are now included in the CSI 300 index and MSCI index (China A). They have offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Anhui, Jiangsu, Beijing, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, as well as North America and Europe.They have multiple game publishing platforms such as 37Games(China), 37Mobile and 37Games(Overseas). They also have several elite game studios such as Aurora Studio. 37 IE has four main corporate values:dedication, precision, team work and innovation. They have been able to establish a stronghold within the market due to their ability to recruit an retain staff who specialize within the internet and entertainment industries.As a leading game publisher and developer, they are expanding their business to other areas such as film, music and animation production, the development of VR content and healthy & lifestyle industry. Their goal is to build a global-leading cultural and creative company.
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- Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- China, Canada, Finland
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- Yahaha — Yahaha develops a platform where developers and game players can use the engine to develop their own games and publish it on the platform.
- Homerun Smart — Shenzhen Qianhai Homa Technology Co., Ltd. is an independent research and development enterprise dedicated to artificial intelligence technology products. Headquartered in Guangzhou, the company has gathered high-tech talents from German technology R&D team and domestic well-known technology R&D team to provide independent research anddevelopment for the company. A solid technical guarantee. The development and production of smart pet feeders, smart pet companion robots and a variety of pet smart hardware are on the strategic agenda, and soon our smart hardware products will truly enter the family life and redefine the smart family lifestyle.
- Falcon Technology — Falcon Technology builds consumer-grade AR ecosystem and provides users with high-quality AR products and services.
Bret Terrill is the CEO and co-founder of Tenuki, Inc., a social games development company. He also writes about the social games industry.
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- Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
- Angel
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore with a multinational staff of over 900 people. Our portfolio is valued at S$403 billion.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series C, Series D
- United States, China, India
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- Ola Electric — Ola Electric Mobility engages in the leasing of electric cars. It is working with vehicle and battery manufacturers, cities, driver-partners, and the mobility ecosystem to make electric mobility convenient, dependable, and affordable. Ankit Jain and Anand Shah founded Ola Electric Mobility on May 26, 2017. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru inIndia.
- Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.
- Electric Hydrogen — Electric Hydrogen designs and builds low-cost, high-efficiency green hydrogen systems to economically decarbonize industrial sectors like ammonia and steel
Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. They enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate, and improve their efficiencies. They provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with theirusers and customers and operate in a more efficient way.Their businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, and innovation initiatives. In addition, Ant Financial, a company in which they have agreed to acquire a 33% equity stake, provides payment and financial services to consumers and merchants on their platforms. An ecosystem has developed around their platforms and businesses that consists of consumers, merchants, brands, retailers, other businesses, third-party service providers, and strategic alliance partners.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, India
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- Mirauge3D — Mirauge3D is a fully automatic, efficient, 2D and 3D integrated image intelligent modeling system. They offer software that supports multi-core parallel processing architectures and GPU cluster computing.
- Lazada Group — Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile
- Hengyu Medical — Hengyu Medical is a medical device firm focused on R&D and production of IVUS and optical coherence tomography, and catheter equipment.
Coatue is a lifecycle investment platform focused on turning big ideas in world-shaping technology companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, China, United Kingdom
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- Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
- Sierra Space — Sierra Space is a commercial space company at the forefront of innovation for the new space economy, including space transportation & low-Earth orbit destinations.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.
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- E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Finland, Kenya, Lithuania
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- Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
- Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
- Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
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.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
- Riot — Meet Riot, the all-in-one platform that drives better protection for your team.
- SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.
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
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- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United States, Argentina
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- Virta — The Virta platform for electric vehicle charging gives you an accelerated and cost-effective channel to launch, operate, and grow an EV charging business.
- Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
- 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.
Kristian Segerstrale is the Co-founder of Initial Capital and Board member of Supercell, as well as the Co-founder and CEO of Playfish. Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001.He was a co-founder of mobile gaming pioneer Macrospace – today Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU) in 2001 through the successfulIPO in 2007. He left to co-found Playfish, the social gaming pioneer, where he served as CEO through the company’s rapid growth to 60 Million players and the subsequent acquisition by Electronic Arts for $400M in 2009. After a period as EVP Digital at Electronic Arts driving the aggressive transformation of the company from packaged goods to digital, Kristian left in March 2013 to focus on startups. Today Kristian leads seed stage investments with Initial Capital and serves on the board of Supercell, the #1 iOS game company.Kristian has previously served on the board of LOVEFiLM, the European streaming video pioneer until its acquisition by Amazon.com.
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- Gaming, Online Games, PC Games
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Finland, India
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- Battlebound — Battlebound is on a mission to build memorable lifelong gaming communities that invite players into Heroic Stories, creating deep connections and positive life changes. Heroic stories are thrilling gameplay moments that bring players together and enrich players lives inside and outside the game. We believe blockchain technology will deepen these moments and enrich the player experience when paired with world-class gameplay.
- nCore Games — nCore Games is a mobile games and interactive entertainment company.
- Lightforge Games — Lightforge Games is a new, all-remote video game studio on a quest to change how the world plays RPGs.
Investment Bank, Financial Services
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- Software, EdTech, Retail
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, Finland
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- Yahaha — Yahaha develops a platform where developers and game players can use the engine to develop their own games and publish it on the platform.
- MegaRobo — AI & Robotics Company based in Beijing,China.
- Walnut Coding — Hetao101 is a children's edtech startup that enables children to continue systematic learning for aged 6-12. The company also provides online children's programming teaching services and course products. The edtech startup plans to deploy the funding proceeds to develop AI-focused applications and upgrade technology.Hetao101applies theComputer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) teaching standards to develop a specialized curriculum with an emphasis on programming skill development, programming training and providing professional coding to guide students interested in computer science. They committed to promoting programming education through scientific and technological means and to inspire the learning power of Chinese children through advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and adaptive learning, and scientific-educational methods.Heta101 was founded on August 9, 2017, and is based in Beijing, China.
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.
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- Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Finland, Sweden, Germany
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- Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
- Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
- Taika Tech — Taika Tech builds a novel interface for controlling the surrounding technology by making sense of your hand movement and location with a smart ring
CEO and founder of Applifier, cross-promotion network for social games and apps reaching tens of millions of MAU. Everyplay, Laakkonen's startup in the social gaming space, turned into Applifier recently.Business development director at Bugbear Entertainment, an independent game developer. Expertise in business development, sales,marketing, PR, production and process developmentCo-founder of ASSEMBLY Organizing, the arranger of the 5000+ participants four day computer festival held in Helsinki, Finland held since year 1992.Over five years of experience in data security software industry in R&D, product marketing and process re-engineering at F-Secure Corporation.Laakkonen is from Helsinki, Finland.
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- Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
- Seed, Angel
- Finland
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- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
- Savage Game Studios — Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay.
Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Finland, Portugal, United States
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- AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.
Riku Mäkelä is a member of the board at slush, a technology conference for startups and tech talent to meet with top-tier international investors, executives and media.
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- Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
- Angel
- Finland
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- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
Bilibili provides high-quality content and an immersive entertainment experience, and have built their platform based on the strong emotional connections of their users to their content and communities. They started as a content community inspired by ACG, and have evolved into a full-spectrum online entertainment world covering a wide array ofgenres and media formats, including videos, live broadcasting, and mobile games. They have a young and culturally aspirational user base willing to invest in a high-quality entertainment experience.Bilibili uses an Adobe Flash or HTML5 player, which can be manually switched, to play user-submitted videos hosted by either itself or third-party sources, while featuring a real-time overlaying subtitle system for interactive playback experience.
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- Media and Entertainment, Animation, Gaming
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- China, Hong Kong, Japan
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- Card Club — Card Club is focused on animation derivative cards and IPs including Douluo Dalu, Fight Break the Sky, Ghost Slayer, Disney, Pixar, etc.
- VOICE BEAR — VOICE BEAR is a comprehensive film and television entertainment service provider company.
- Zhejiang China Entertainment — Zhejiang China Entertainment is a company that provides game creation and operation services.
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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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, Finland
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- 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.
Shunrong Gufen is a manufacturer of automotive plastic fuel tanks and testing equipment.
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- Mobile, Online Games, Manufacturing
- Series A
- China, Finland
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- Yahaha — Yahaha develops a platform where developers and game players can use the engine to develop their own games and publish it on the platform.
- Ximmerse — Ximmerse offers a range of mobile visual computing and inertial tracking research solutions for AR/VR devices. The company’s solutions include a cross-platform optical tracking system based around a high FOV stereo camera; and a suite of controller peripherals.Ximmerse was launched by Mike Bailey in December 2014 and is based in Guangdong,China.
- Shenliu Microintelligence — Shenliu Microintelligence focuses on the design of domestic independent controllable GPU chips.
Markus Maki is an Executive Chairman at Remedy Entertainment.
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- Gaming, Online Games, Social Network
- Angel
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
ZhenFund is a seed fund founded by former entrepreneurs to invest in the most promising innovators. New Oriental co-founders Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang established ZhenFund in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. ZhenFund now has a network of over 800 portfolio companies, including over 30 unicorns based in China. Webelieve that great businesses start with exceptional founding teams. We are dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs build successful companies by providing them with mentorship and the best resources available. Some of our services include biannual demo days to top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, as well as fundraising. Our strong and large CEO network also facilitates entrepreneurs helping each other, especially via our WeChat platform. ZhenFund has been ranked as the “#1 Early-Stage Investment Firm” for six years. Bob Xiaoping Xu, Founder of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2016 and ranked #11 in 2019. Anna Fang, Founding Partner and CEO of ZhenFund, has been named on the Midas List since 2019 and made her 4th appearance as #12, and #1 on Midas Seed List in 2022.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mogic AI — Mogic AI is an advertising technology platform that provides tools to create and launch campaigns by pulling product images into ads using AI.
- Levinthal — Levinthal is an AI-driven protein design platform. They offer services for artificial intelligence in food safety and medical care. They offer synthetic biology, food, feed, and environmental protection.
- Altos Radar — Altos Radar accelerate the development and implementation of 4D Imaging Radar technology in driver-assisted and fully autonomous driving systems.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Initial Coin Offering
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- D8X — D8X is an institutional-grade perpetual futures DEX with a financial engineering approach that significantly transforms the way perpetual futures can be traded on-chain.
- Phaver — Welcome to the biggest mobile app on Lens Protocol. Access all that Web3 Social has to offer through one easy-to-use app. Engage with your favourite creators, connect your NFT's, earn rewards and more
- Lum Network — The first decentralized protocol for businesses to build authentic trust with their customers.
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Robosense
— RoboSense (Suteng Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.) is the world leading environment perception solutions provider of autonomous driving LiDAR. The company is striving to deliver the world with cutting-edge robotic perception solutions which can perfectly integrate premium LiDAR hardware, 3D data processing algorithms, and deep learning technology.Through constant technology innovation, the company has made possible for robots to “see” the world with excellent environment perception capability.Registered in 2014, RoboSense is founded by a group of PhDs from Harbin Institute of Technology who have been working on LiDAR technology for more than 7 years. Over the past 4 years of commercialization, RoboSense, centered around LiDAR environment Perception technology has set up a complete operation system integrating R&D, Production, and Marketing.Besides an R&D center with Operation team headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China, the company has an R&D center in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Until April 2017, the employee base of the company has exceeded 200 people(production employee excluded) with more than 60% are Postgraduates and PhDs. For a long time, the company has maintained cooperation with world-class educational and research institutes including MIT, HKUST, Tsinghua, and HIT on talent sourcing and academic exchanges.
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GrandeurRF
— GrandeurRF is a new technology company that combines RF device design, R&D, manufacturing, and sales. It supplies microelectronic devices.
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Yuantong Technology
— Yuantong Technology is a company that specializes in superior photoelectric sensors and intelligent optical perception systems. It provides superior optical perception solutions for businesses such as smartphones, medical devices, machine vision, and self-driving cars.
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