Investors in Finland

Superhero Capital: Early-stage VC investing in insight-driven startups from Finland and the Baltics, empowering founders to be superheroes with funding up to 1M€.

Since 2012 Butterfly Ventures team has invested into ~100 early-stage companies. Our business track record is strong, and we take an active stance in supporting the startups from early on. Most of them do not have any revenue at the time of our entry, and we are often the first VC to get on board. Here’s a few more companies from our active portfolio along with selected exits and other venture capital investments that are managed by Butterfly Ventures team. Feel free to explore them further.

Lagoon Capital is a global investment firm financing high growth companies. Lagoon Capital invests also to venture capital and buyout funds as well as to listed companies. Lagoon Capital, established in 2007, supports technology companies with capital investment, expertise, and custom support to accelerate growth and success.

Vendep Capital is a B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. They invest in the best early stage software entrepreneurs, providing funding ranging from 0.1–3M euros depending on the stage.

Green Campus Innovations is a new business developer and cleantech seed investor, supported by shareholders including LUT University, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, LUT Research Foundation, and Vitako Association.

Innovestor was founded in 2014 to solve a very tangible problem for technology entrepreneurs: lack of capital for growing the business. At the same time, we had identified an increasing demand among private investors to gain access to promising early-stage technology startups. Our first product, an online co-investment platform, was developed and brought to market to address this opportunity. The business gained traction, and our community grew. We were able to attract ambitious founders and smart investors to the platform. Meanwhile, we had reached another conclusion: a more impactful way to support founders is by backing the lifecycle of a company, not just a single round of funding. For achieving that at meaningful scale, the most suitable model is a VC fund.

Welcome to Icebreaker.vc. We want to be the best in supporting people to start, build and join strong tech companies and here's what we do: - We invest in teams in Finland, Estonia and Sweden - No stage is too early for us to invest in - Our initial investments range from €150-800k - We're always eager to hear from ambitious and diverse teams We have invested in over 70 companies with domain expert founders from companies like Rovio, Pipedrive, Spotify, Wise and Veriff.

Straightforward Capital is a venture capital company that helps companies to unleash their growth potential. Straightforward Capital invests into companies that are in their early growth stage. We consider Finnish high-tech sector as our home market. Our fund acquires minority stakes in technology companies and plays an active role in their strategic planning and development. During the investment process we have always the ambition to be the leading investor and add value to this process by our experience. Our initial investments range from 500 thousand to 2 million euros.

We believe in probabilities and statistics, not luck. We rigorously follow our investment criteria and diversify our investments across 100 companies. That is why the risk is lower than in average VC and we can even talk about likely returns. We invest in startups that prefer a cautious and calculated approach to risk. We call these entrepreneurs camels - the ambitious yet resilient players in the startup landscape. For us the camel characterizes the way the company makes its startup journey - displaying curiosity and intelligence and having a remarkable ability to successfully reach their destinations. They use resources efficiently, navigate steadily through diverse market conditions and quickly adapt to changing environment.

We invest in early-stage companies aiming to radically renew the food system – from the soil to the orbit and from new sources of protein to better ways of eating. The fund was launched in 2020 and has 42M€ to invest in approximately 20 companies in the Nordics and Baltics.

Prodeko Ventures is a development company founded by Tuotantotouluiden kilta Prodeko and Prodeko Alumni, which started operations in 2015. The company's goal is to help Prodeko growth companies and individuals succeed and grow. Prodeko Ventures realizes its goal by making early-stage investments in companies with Prodeko key personnel.

Voima Ventures helps founders accelerate the growth of deep technology ventures to global markets. We shed light on the ideas and technology that require time and courage to build. The way we work is simple: we combine science-driven innovation together with the Nordic serial entrepreneurial experience and a global mindset.