Top 35 Sports Startup Investors in Finland (May 2026)

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• Xiphera — Xiphera is a Finnish company designing hardware-based security solutions using standardised cryptographic algorithms.
• Jungle AI — Jungle uses artificial intelligence to predict component failure, and poor performance in an advanced asset management software.
• Upsy Company — Discover Upsy, the AI-powered online shopping assistant designed to transform your webshop into a sales powerhouse. Boost your conversion rates, improve customer service, and amplify your online sales with Upsy's innovative features today

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• Haltian — End-to-end IoT solutions and world-glass product design services from Haltian
• Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
• Value.Space — Space based risk assessments & monitoring

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• Enfuce — Enfuce is a cloud-based financial services provider that specializes in card issuing and payment processing services. It helps banks, fintech, and financial institutions become and remain fully PSD2 compliant, and helps them give third-party service providers access to digital accounts.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inEspoo, Finland.
• Nordcloud — Nordcloud is a European leader in public cloud infrastructure solutions and cloud-native application services. Since 2011 we have completed more than 500 deployments to help our enterprise customers gain the maximum benefits of the cloud, including security, agility, scalability and overall cost-savings.
• Aurealis Pharma — Multi-target cell and gene therapies for unmet medical needs. Developing therapies for chronic wounds, cancer and inflammatory diseases.

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• Reactional Music — GESTRUMENT is the revolutionary gesture based instrument.
• EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
• Retein — Aquammodate is a greentech company that produces highly pure water at minimum energy cost.

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• Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
• Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
• Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.

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• Akeyless Security — Akeyless Vault platform built to secure IT and DevOps resources, credentials, and access, on hybrid cloud and legacy environments.
• ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
• Summit Nanotech — Summit Nanotech innovates direct lithium extraction (DLE) processes to economically and sustainably unlock lithium resources globally.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• Hintsa — Discover a better you, with methods proven in Formula 1 and Fortune 500.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• Varjo — Varjo makes the most advanced augmented, virtual and mixed reality headsets for professionals. Welcome to the immersive workplace.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick-and-pack automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
• Grasp — Grasp mission is to increase the rate at which humans learn.
• Amperecloud — ampere.cloud is Renewables & Environment company

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• 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.

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• Quindar — Satellite Mission Management for startups. Operate faster than your competition.
• Instabase — Instabase combines the latest AI breakthroughs with industry expertise to create real business value for your business.
• Few and Far — Few and Far is the next-generation platform for experiences in Web3, including NFTs, DeFi, gaming, and more. They help NFT projects with launchpad services, minting tools, outbound marketing, and more. They offer creators the liquidity, ability to earn, and listings alongside the top collections on NEAR.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Blinto — Blinto offers an online auction platform that offers both sellers and buyers the opportunity to meet via a complete online auction service. The products primarily auctioned on its websites are construction machines, commercial vehicles, and tools.
• Verified — Verified specializes in providing services for electronic signing, identification, anti-money laundering and API integration solutions.
• Urban Volt — UrbanVolt makes sustainability easy via our unique light as a service model. They retrofit commercial premises with led lighting for no upfront cost. Their unique light as a service business model allows their clients to enjoy cash and energy savings from the moment of installation. They created this company and capex-free model because theybelieve businesses should not bear the financial risk of energy reduction projects. Their commitment to maintaining light fittings makes sustainability easy.

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• 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.

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• Argent — Argent gives you the best of Ethereum for a fraction of the cost. Easily buy, earn, stake and invest crypto.
• Elo Health — Get nutrition supplements uniquely formulated for your body and goals, based on at-home biomarker testing. No trends, just science and pure ingredients.
• Five Lives — Five Lives, your brain health coach. Take the risk assessment and start improving your brain health today!

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• TactoTek — Set your imagination free and create user experiences with the help of sustainable smart molded structures.
• Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group — Attribute, predict and optimize the business outcome of marketing and media plans with Blackwood Seven's Unified Marketing Modeling platform.
• Verto Analytics — Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

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• 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

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• Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
• Minervax — MinervaX is pursuing the development of a vaccine against Group B streptococcus (GBS) infections by utilizing a particular fusion protein : click to read more
• Seamless Therapeutics — Seamless Therapeutics is changing the paradigm of gene editing through a pioneering approach to restore health in patients with severe conditions in a safe and precise manner. Seamless technology platform unlocks the reprogramming of recombinases, a highly versatile class of enzymes.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• 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.

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• StepOut.pro — A digital platform for fitness & wellness freelancers to streamline their business activities

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• 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.

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• 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.