Top 20 Travel Startup Investors in Finland in October 2023
Top 20 Travel Startup Investors in Finland in October 2023
| Investor | Travel Finland investments |
|---|---|
| Business Finland | 3 |
| Steve Jackson | 2 |
| Reaktor Ventures | 2 |
| Icebreaker.vc | 2 |
| Maki.vc | 2 |
| Finnvera Venture Capital | 2 |
| Butterfly Ventures | 1 |
| Falkensteiner Ventures | 1 |
| Vendep Capital | 1 |
| Veritas Venture Partners | 1 |
| Activum | 1 |
| Alcom | 1 |
| Nordea | 1 |
| Tesi | 1 |
| Springvest | 1 |
| River Venture Partners | 1 |
| Rkapital | 1 |
| Andreas Mihalovits | 1 |
| Jaakko Ollila | 1 |
| Kaj Hagros | 1 |
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Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Steve is a British data nerd living in Finland, a serial entrepreneur whom was once slightly famous in analytics industry circles. He's written 2 books, spoken at over 100 conferences, sold 2 companies, helped acquire 2 companies and improved over 100 websites sales or conversions in the last 2 decades. He invests only in the companies he candirectly impact as founder, director, board member or influencer. Currently working for and partner in the Travel Technology start up SaaS Toristy.com.
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- SaaS, Travel, Software
- Angel, Debt Financing
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Toristy — We are a SaaS company that makes tours, activities and holiday experiences famous with tourists. We make our partners and suppliers new revenue streams, distributing curated travel products and services through SaaS embedded marketplaces. We can create these marketplaces in minutes for distributor companies such as local airlines, ferries, trains,DMCs and hotels. This allows the distributor to help the tourist find tours and activities in the destination (where over 70% of purchases are made through word of mouth today).
Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.
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- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Finland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Founded in 2016, Icebreaker has invested in over 50 fast-growing tech startups built by domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG. In addition to the fund, Icebreaker also runs a community of more than 1000 founders and pre-founders with 5+ years of relevant industry experience and the will to start,build or join strong tech companies.With the initial ticket sizes of €150k - 800K Icebreaker provides enough funding for companies to get to a position of strength and avoid post-accelerator limbo without having to resort to disreputable sources of capital and unfriendly deal terms.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
- 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.
- IPRally — Improve your invalidity, patentability and FTO searches. Easy-to-use patent search web application, powered by unique AI knowledge graph technology.
Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
- Databutton — Databutton is an online app builder that empowers the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. It enables anyone to create dynamic online apps in minutes by connecting to a growing array of sources, models, and integrations, or by utilizing their own datasets. 먹튀검증 https://muktts.net/
- Quanscient — We are building next generation simulation software-as-a-service utilizing Quantum computing algorithms. Our specialty domain of simulations is Computational Electromagnetics.
Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Finland, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.
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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
We support selected founders in hotel, lodging, leisure and elderly care from the concept-, early stage-, pre-seed or seed-phase with specific know how, professional network, investment and infrastructure. Our geographical focus for traction in the first acceleration phase is German speaking Europe - and where you are.
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- Hospitality, SaaS, Travel
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Austria, Finland, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- AVISIO — AVISIO brings digital inventory and procurement management to independent hotels and restaurants with a highly integrated and user friendly SaaS solution. AVISIO integrates the used POS and PMS systems to automate inventory processes and give smart order quantity suggestions based on booking data.
- JetCamp — Camping & holiday park search engine & booking platform. 22.000 campings and parks across Europe. Multilingual site. PMS & channel manager connectivity. Set up in 2019 by ex-Thomas Cook managers Erwin Hoevenaar and Roderik Verburg. Together they share +40 years of digital marketing, online sales and management of travel-sellingcompanies
- MeetingPackage — Intuitive, automated venue sales management for all venues. Use smart automation to boost efficiency, grow revenue, and improve the guest experience.
B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.
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- SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
- Happeo — This intranet keeps your teams informed, aligned, and productive with a template-based page builder, integrations, and universal search across all company tools.
- My Telescope — My Telescope is the Share of Search analytics tool marketers use to track campaigns and build data-driven branding strategies.
Veritas is dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with a fast and discreet reply. They try to be responsive to what is often the entrepreneur's greatest need - a sensitive ear - before and after their investment is made.While they attempt to add value to their portfolio companies in all facets of their development, they believe that the mostvaluable input they provide to entrepreneurs is listening to them and accompanying them in what can be a lonely climb to the top.
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- Internet, Software, Mobile
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- fring — fring is a mobile communication service that enables free mobile Group Video calls, video calls, voice calls and live chat. fring is available on all major Smartphones (including iPhone/ iPod touch, Android and Nokia), on any mobile operator, and any mobile internet connection (3G/4G, WiFi, GPRS, EDGE). fring has a real time contactavailability feature which allows you to see who is online before you call them.fring was the 1st to bring mobile VoIP, Video and Group Video over IP. fring adds more than a million new Smartphone users every month.
- ClickFox — Improve customer experience and achieve significant ROI with BryterCX customer journey analytics. Transform event data into a map of customer behaviors.
- Ukkoverkot — Ukkoverkot Ltd is a Finnish mobile data operator, that maintains, sells and markets a 450 MHz 4G LTE mobile data network that covers all of Finland. The company focuses purely on the production of wireless telecommunication services, especially for companies, authorities and other demanding user groups and therefore does not offer voice- or SMSservices.In addition to the country wide network service, Ukkoverkot offers high-speed mobile network solutions in a narrower coverage area for both continuous and temporary needs.
ActivumSG is a private equity investment manager focused on real estate related opportunities in selected European markets.
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- Logistics, Software, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, France, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
- Storebox — Storebox is the first fully digitized self-storage solution in Europe, with more than 140 locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. We offer storage spaces for private and business purposes, which are automatically accessible at any time. With our successful and recently awarded franchise system, we manage to grow and will continueto expand within Europe.Storebox is more than just a self-storage system. FULL-SERVICE CLICK & COLLECT Click & Collect directly in your neighbourhood? Storebox allows you to quickly and easily expand the Click & Collect offer for your customers to new districts, cities and countries. We coordinate the transport and customer communication for you.MICRO-HUBS FOR THE LAST MILE Use central warehouse locations in urban areas as a starting point for the last mile. Storebox as a micro-depot offers you the fastest way to your customers, allowing you to save time, money and emissions. Customer proximity and responsiveness through local storage: Benefit from our strategically positioned storage units and serve the needs of your customers as quickly as possible. At the same time, you can reduce unnecessarily driven kilometres by your employees in the field and thus save time and money.SPARE PARTS WAREHOUSE FOR SERVICE TECHNICIANS With Storebox you can store spare parts and goods directly where they will be used. In this way, you are in close proximity to the customer and save yourself long travel times for collecting the materials from a central warehouse. Create more efficiency by receiving deliveries of goods 24/7 directly to the Storebox and returning them if necessary.
- Keyzy — Keyzy is a zero deposit, rent to buy solution helping young professionals, key workers and other first-time buyers to become future homeowners within 5 years.
Ålcom is a local provider of GSM, 3G and LTE mobile; fixed telephony, broadband, ISP services and IPTV in the autonomous Finnish region of the Åland Islands. In 2016, Ålcom partered with Ukko Mobile to extend Ukko Mobile's LTE 450MHz coverage also in Åland.[1] At the same time, Ålcom took a minority stake in Ukko Mobile.
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- Travel, Internet
- Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Ukkoverkot — Ukkoverkot Ltd is a Finnish mobile data operator, that maintains, sells and markets a 450 MHz 4G LTE mobile data network that covers all of Finland. The company focuses purely on the production of wireless telecommunication services, especially for companies, authorities and other demanding user groups and therefore does not offer voice- or SMSservices.In addition to the country wide network service, Ukkoverkot offers high-speed mobile network solutions in a narrower coverage area for both continuous and temporary needs.
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
- Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
- Series A, Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Convion — Convion is a fuel cell system developer committed to commercializing solid oxide fuel cell systems in range of 50–300kW for distributed power generation. The company's products are designed for premium energy efficiency, reliability, and operational flexibility. Convion will provide its customers with sustainable power generation solutions forpower security, energy independence, and premium efficiency.Convion was founded 2012 and is based in Finland.
- Mobidiag — Mobidiag is a commercial stage, fast-growing Finnish-French biotechnology company that develops and markets innovative molecular diagnostic solutions for gastrointestinal infections, antimicrobial resistance management, healthcare associated infections (HAIs), respiratory infections and sepsis. Based on well-established qPCR and microarraytechnologies, Mobidiag offers a broad range of tests and automated platforms. These include a comprehensive range of fast, reliable and cost-effective molecular diagnostic solutions for the detection of infectious diseases adapted to laboratories of all sizes. They allow detection of most clinically relevant bacteria, parasites, viruses and markers for antibiotic resistance.
- Finbiosoft — Finbiosoft is a company focused in developing Validation Manager™ software service. Validation Manager is the perfect tool for clinical laboratories and diagnostic companies to digitalize, automate and standardize the time-consuming and error sensitive data handling of validations and verifications.
River Venture Partners is an angel syndicate that focuses on supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in digital media, marketing, e-commerce, entreprise and education technology.
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- Internet, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- The Netherlands, Finland, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Contentoo — Outperform competitors with Contentoo's Creators Cloud. Leverage AI and top freelancers for quality content creation, localisation, and optimisation at scale
- Anyways — Een tijdelijke auto voor de deur. Zonder gedoe. Met het auto abonnement van Anyways heb jij je eigen auto. Voor hoe lang je zelf wilt.
- Clubee — Manage your club with ease. Websites, Member Management, Communication, Finance, Sponsorships and more.
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- Mobile, Travel, Leisure
- Seed
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- CreateTrips — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
- Tuvalum — Make used bikes great again! Tuvalum is the largets and most trusted site in pre-loved bikes. Every used bike is carefully certified by our expert mechanics. Our mission is to transform the bicycle industry for a more sustainable future through digitization and a great customer experience. Get the bike you really need for your goals and needs, allthe bikes are supremely certified by expert mechanics.
- Qoala — Qoala, founded in 2019, is a browser extension that finds and applies discount codes on online stores and provides its users with cashback, creating a more reliable purchase funnel for more than its 3000 affiliated stores and ensuring its customers will take advantage of the best available deals while shopping online.
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- SaaS, Hotel, Events
- Seed, Funding Round
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
- MeetingPackage — Intuitive, automated venue sales management for all venues. Use smart automation to boost efficiency, grow revenue, and improve the guest experience.
Kaj Hagros is Partner at Redstone based in Helsinki and covers the Nordic and Baltic countries. Kay has a broad history as an entrepreneur, investor, and C-level executive. Prior to Redstone, Kaj was the co-founder and CEO of seed investor and venture accelerator Pivot5, CEO of Nasdaq Helsinki traded Tecnotree Corporation, COO of FOX Mobile, VP ofMarketing of First Hop, and Head of Strategy and Business Development at Nokia Networks. Kaj has executed a broad range of early-stage investments and successful exits and chaired companies such as Booxmedia, Cabforce, Readpeak, Hibox, Heltti, and Inderes.Mr. Hagros attended Aalto University, NYU Stern School of Business, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), HEC Paris, TRIUM Global Executive MBA, Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan, and Merisotakoulu - Sjökrigsskolan - Naval Academy.
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- SaaS, Local, Travel
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Cabforce — Cabforce.com is on a mission to make the door-to-door travel experience agony free. They offer fixed price quote, secure online credit card payment and electronic receipts for taxi, private hire car, and minibus bookings in the top 40 European cities.
- Booxmedia — Your Trusted Partner in IP Video Delivery. We have been delivering IPTV Set-Top Box and media player solutions to Pay TV, Digital Signage and Enterprise TV providers for over 25 years.
- Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
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