Investors in Finland

We provide comprehensive support, including mentorship, resources, and industry insights, to help startups refine and scale their media-related innovations. At Yle Media Startup Accelerator, we aim to drive the success of forward-thinking media ventures.

Kielo Startup Investor and Business Incubator. Kielo Growth is an angel investor collective investing technology and industry agnostically in aspiring startups. We are also managing North Finland's biggest startup and growth company community and hub next to University of Oulu in Teknologiakylä.

Kiuas is the #1 startup accelerator in Finland, supporting 50+ startups/year on their journey from an idea to first revenue. Kiuas enables early-stage startup founders to successfully build companies that change the world for the better. We empower founders to learn and grow with world-class support, connections, and resources for their startup journey from idea to fast growth.

We are happy to present you the project RAISON - a unique platform for operations with investments and personal finance, using algorithms of artificial intelligence. The platform allows you to store fiat and crypto-currency assets in one place, to invest in products associated with blockchain technology, to analyze your own financial state, and also has an application for everyday life, which enables, for instance, paying for purchases with virtual cards via Apple Pay and sharing accounts for dinner.

Inventure is the early-stage VC that knows how to get Nordic and Baltic founders to the next level. Since 2005, the team has been in venture with over 90 companies ranging from deep tech to consumer internet brands, including Wolt, Swappie, Stravito and Jobbatical. With its €377 million of assets under management, Inventure focuses on Seed and Series A investments across Nordics and Baltics, with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm.

Maki.vc is a seed-stage VC firm dedicated to partnering with founders who never conform to category standards. From inception to series A and beyond, we partner with deep tech and brand driven companies obsessed in challenging category norms.

OpenOcean is a pan-European early-stage Venture Capital investor with offices in Helsinki and London. Our investment strategy focuses on leading or co-leading Series A investments with initial ticket sizes up to €5m in European companies driving the data economy, including B2B platforms and Enterprise Software technology. Our founding team members include key persons behind MySQL AB (sold to Sun Microsystems Inc. for $1 Billion in 2008), after which the team jointly built category leader MariaDB Corporation Ab, as well as forming and managing OpenOcean.

Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) is a state-owned investment company that invests on market terms both in venture capital and private equity funds, and directly in startups, scale-ups, and large industrial projects.

Aboa Advest is a family-owned investment company focusing on startups and other growth companies. Founded in 2015, we have been particularly interested in impact investing: Impact investing generates a beneficial social or environmental impact, as well as a financial return. (*) We are an active investor in Finnish growth companies. We revised our investment strategy in January 2020: our primary focus is to invest in Venture Capital funds. To date we have invested in two buyout funds and five VC funds, adding value in DeepTech startups. Our investment strategy is based on a long-term perspective: we expect a significant return on our investments in 10 years time.

We finance Finnish growth companies with instruments varying from debt to equity. In the last 7 years we have invested over 100 MEUR in Finnish growth companies with our anchor investors.

Investor and accelerator/incubator for VR/AR Startups in the Nordic region. We offer participating startups equity investment, mentorship opportunities, workspaces, and back-office services.

Monttu Ventures is a pro-bono development company focusing on early-stage startups founded by individuals with a background in the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Turku University of Applied Sciences, or Novia University of Applied Sciences. With 78 co-founders and over 730 000€ capital, we help promising companies by sharing the expertise of our shareholders and leveraging the services of our business partners. Additionally, we can invest in the most potential companies.