# Top 30 Social Network Startup Investors in Finland in May 2026

## Xiaomi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Hardware

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## 5Y Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Xuhui, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology

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.

## Superhero Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Early-stage VC searching for the next Superheroes.

## BAI capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Internet, Software, Financial 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.

## Pekka Aakko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

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## Bret Terrill
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, Social Network

Bret Terrill is the CEO and co-founder of Tenuki, Inc., a social games development company. He also writes about the social games industry. 

## Temasek Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series D
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## Miki Kuusi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy

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.

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

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.

## Kristian Segerstrale
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, PC Games

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.

## Riku Mäkelä
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, Social Network

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.

## Shunrong Gufen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wuhu, Anhui, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Online Games, Manufacturing

Shunrong Gufen is a manufacturer of automotive plastic fuel tanks and testing equipment.

## dao5
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1

An experimental cryptocurrency investment fund that will convert into a decentralized autonomous organization.

## Alphanonce
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

We believe crypto assets innovate the process of value creation to value transfer

## Symbolic Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Internet

Symbolic Capital is a crypto VC founded by web3 founders. We provide web3 investing with global impact. 

## Hillhouse Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Changyang, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## 37 Interactive Entertainment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Information Technology

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.

## Alibaba Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

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.

## Coatue
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Coatue is a lifecycle investment platform focused on turning big ideas in world-shaping technology companies.

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

## Taihecap (Formerly TH Capital)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, EdTech, Retail

Investment Bank, Financial Services

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

## Jussi Laakkonen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, Social Network

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.

## Alexis Bonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Apps

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.

## Bilibili
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Animation, Gaming

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.

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## ZhenFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Markus Maki
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, Social Network

Markus Maki is an Executive Chairman at Remedy Entertainment.

## Nomad Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Apps, Music, Internet

Early stage venture capital focused on consumer technology, marketplaces and new ways for everyday people to make money over the internet.

## SwissBorg
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

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