Top 20 Sports Angel Investors in Finland in October 2023
Top 20 Sports Angel Investors in Finland in October 2023
| Investor | Sports Finland investments |
|---|---|
| Charles Plowden | 1 |
| Jyri Engestrom | 1 |
| Fabian Sepulveda | 1 |
| Mahesh Kumar | 1 |
| Andy Phillipps | 1 |
| Reima Linnanvirta | 1 |
| Petteri Koponen | 1 |
| Sebastian Laine | 1 |
| Stefan Lindberg | 1 |
| Michael Widenius | 1 |
| Katja Toropainen | 1 |
| Torsti Tenhunen | 1 |
| Sami Inkinen | 1 |
| James Corden | 1 |
| Ilari Kallio | 1 |
| Moaffak Ahmed | 1 |
| Paul Polman | 1 |
| Shamma Raghib | 1 |
| Martti Suomela | 1 |
| Teemu Takala | 1 |
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Charles Plowden is a Retired considering options at Baillie Gifford.
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- Apps, Mobile, Content
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.
Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University
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- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Finland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
- Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
- Orchid Labs — The Orchid community believes in Open Source software and that Orchid can enable a brighter, freer and empowered future.
Fabian Sepulveda
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Mahesh Kumar
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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- E-Commerce, Communities, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Wevat — Wevat makes it easy for tourists to get tax back on shopping in Europe.
- Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Angel investor and board professional with a passion on helping startups and growth companies to fulfil their true potential.
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- Software, Fitness, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
- Fiksuvuokraus.fi — Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
Petteri has founded five companies, including Jaiku (sold to Google) and First Hop (sold to Airwide Solutions). He has been a startup CEO, CTO, VP of Services and Director, in addition to working two years for Google in the US and UK. In his free time, Petteri hangs out with his family, pumps iron, plays games, writes (toy) code, and enjoys booksand movies.
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- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Metroc — Creating sales and marketing solutions for the construction & real-estate industry.
- Uplause — Number one global player and pioneer in emerging fan engagement and interactive event advertising space with exposure to an estimated 30mm fans globally by the end of 2015. Core product, Uplause Engagement System, is a patented technology for stadia crowd engagement and entertainment. A dynamic home stadium atmosphere with rising crowd noiselevels in key moments is an important ingredient in winning games. Through the integration of the Uplause system we are eliminating the need for widely used video file crowd prompts, which only simulate the noise levels of live sports audiences. Our solution provides fans content built on an advanced game engine platform to provide real time engagement-no faking it! Uplause also allows teams to track and analyze data points connected to fan energy and participation through out the whole football game or event.Uplause has established a global client base working with top teams and brands around the world.
- Vensum Power — Revolutionizing power conversion. More power in same package, less energy waste and low maintenance.
Sebastian Laine
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Stefan Lindberg is co-owner of YSUB.
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- Wellness, Fitness, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- YSUB — YSUB produces a beverage containing hemp - lemonade with a hint of hemp seeds, soothing botanicals, and some vitamins. It also has CBD beverage, but cannot sell due to regulations in Finland and other Nordic countries and is trying to create a campaign to create awareness.
- Taimi.love — Taimi manufactures optimized nutrients for a balanced life.
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Michael “Monty” Widenius is the “spiritual father” of MariaDB, a renowned advocate for the open source software movement and one of the original developers of MySQL, the predecessor to MariaDB. In addition to being chief server architect for MariaDB Corporation, he also serves as a board member of the MariaDB Foundation. He was a founder at SkySQL,and the CTO of MySQL AB until its sale to Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Monty was also the founder of TCX DataKonsult AB, a Swedish data warehousing company. He is the co-author of the MySQL Reference Manual and was awarded the Finnish Software Entrepreneur of the Year prize in 2003. In 2015, Monty was selected as one of the 100 most influential persons in the Finnish IT market. Monty studied at the Helsinki University of Technology and lives in Finland.
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- Big Data, Software, Mobile
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Sweden, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Beddit — Every morning, the Beddit Sleep Tracker shows how you've slept. Scoring high enough gets you to the green zone and helps you learn what those good nights are made out of! You can easily dig deeper into your sleep details including your resting heart rate, respiration, sleep cycles, snoring and more.Beddit is placed right under the bedsheet, connected to your mobile device and all you need to do is sleep. Sleep tracking made as easy as stepping on weight scale!The company has been working with sleep technology since 2007 specializing in ballistocardiography, a scientific method for measuring the physical micro-movements caused by cardiac activity. Beddit has become a global leader in consumer focused sleep tracking solutions.
- MoSync — Mosync: Your go-to solution for fast, secure & automated cloud data sync, storage & file sharing. Transfer CIFS, NFS & more with ease. Try it today!
- import.io — Unlock a world of data with Import.io. We deliver the web data you need to power your business with intuitive apps, powerful APIs, and expert services.
Katja Toropainen is the founder of Inklusiiv. Prior to that, she served as a chief program curator at Slush. Katja holds a master's degree in information and service management from Aalto University.
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- Software, iOS, Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
See https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttenhunen/
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Sami Inkinen is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Virta Health, a specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Previously, Mr. Inkinen was the co-founder of the leading online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO andpresident and board member until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group. He also worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. A physicist by training, Mr. Inkinen started his career as a radiochemist at a nuclear power plant and holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Helsinki University of Technology. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. He thinks his greatest luxury today is a small vegetable garden at his San Francisco Bay area home.
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- Health Care, Fitness, Medical
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Edamam — Edamam provides nutrition solutions to businesses in the food, health and wellness sectors, leveraging its proprietary cloud-based, structured-data semantic technology platform. Unlike traditional competitors, we deliver value-added nutrition data in real time and at fraction of the cost, saving clients both time and money. Clients include Nestle,Samsung, Epicurious, Gannett and The New York Times.
- Augmedix — Augmedix harnesses the power of AI to provide industry-leading medical documentation & data services, giving physicians more time to focus on patient care.
- Cricket Health — Cricket Health identifies kidney disease early and provides personalized care teams to manage it more proactively. We're making an impact on kidney disease.
James Corden
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- Apps, Mobile, Content
- Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.
- Imprint — Imprint partners with today's top brands to offer their customers branded credit cards, debit cards, and rewards programs at a fraction of the cost.
Ilari Kallio
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Serial entrepreneur and hands-on early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia.
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- Music, Cryptocurrency, Video Conferencing
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Finland, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ovoro — Ovoro is an automated crypto trading app that offers users a streamlined, efficient and convenient way to manage their investments. With an intuitive interface, Ovoro allows you to easily set up and monitor your trades, eliminating the hassle of manual trading. Trying out Ovoro is risk free as trading can be done in a simulated environment with noreal money involved.
- Yousician — Yousician is a fun way to learn the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele or singing. Enjoy thousands of songs with Yousician as your personal music teacher!
- Carbo Culture — We are a climate technology company building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
Paul Polman was elected to the Dow Board of Directors in February 2010, and serves on the Environment, Health, Safety and Technology Committee.Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V. – Chief Executive Officer, January 2009 to date. Nestlé S.A. – Executive Vice President of Americas, January 2008-September 2008; Chief Financial Officer 2006-2008. TheProcter & Gamble Company (a provider of consumer, pharmaceutical, cleaning, personal care and pet products) – Group President Europe, 2001-2006; CFO of the Year 2007, Investor Magazine; Carl Lindner Award 2006, University of Cincinnati; WSJ/CNBC European Business Leader of the Year 2003. Member of United Nations high level task force on post 2015 development goals. President of the Kilimanjaro Blindtrust/Chair of Perkins International Advisory Board. Board member of Global Consumer Goods Forum. Member: International Business Council of WEF, Swiss American Chamber of Commerce and vice chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Member of the B-Team (a global initiative to help transform the future of business). Honorary degrees from Universities of Northumbria, UK in 2000 and University of Cincinnati in 2009.
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- Apps, Mobile, Retail
- Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
- Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.
- Grove Collaborative — Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first products across household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty, and pet, serving millions of households across the U.S. The Grove Co.brand helped create the zero-waste home care category and continues to be the market leader. Every item Grove offers, from both brands they craft — like their flagship brand Grove Co., plastic-free personal care line Peach, and clean skincare brand Superbloom — and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for clean ingredients, efficacy, sustainability, cruelty-free formulas, and ethical supply chain practices. Grove, a public benefit corporation, is on a mission to move Beyond Plastic. Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.
Shamma Raghib
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Martti Suomela - Co-Founder & Partner @ Kodit.io
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
Teemu Takala
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities
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