Courage Ventures

Courage Ventures, established in 2014 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments. It operates globally, with a particular emphasis on the United States and Northern Europe. The firm concentrates on software, health tech, cleantech, and edtech sectors, seeking to back companies that align with its ESG and impact investing principles, especially in the education and health categories. Courage Ventures leverages its global networks and expertise to add significant value to its portfolio companies' growth.

Will Cardwell

Partner

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Equally

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Equally is a developer of educational games aimed at fostering personal development and learning in children. The company creates engaging games that utilize augmented reality technology to educate kids about language, culture, and the environment. By encouraging physical activity and exploration, these games allow children to learn in an interactive manner with their peers while also providing parents with tools to monitor and reward positive behavior. Equally's innovative approach merges play with education, promoting both cognitive and physical growth in young learners.

Equally

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Equally is a developer of educational games aimed at fostering personal development and learning in children. The company creates engaging games that utilize augmented reality technology to educate kids about language, culture, and the environment. By encouraging physical activity and exploration, these games allow children to learn in an interactive manner with their peers while also providing parents with tools to monitor and reward positive behavior. Equally's innovative approach merges play with education, promoting both cognitive and physical growth in young learners.

Meru Health

Venture Round in 2018
Meru Health, Inc. is a digital healthcare company based in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Palo Alto, California, and Helsinki, Finland. Founded in 2015, it specializes in providing a mobile application that connects patients with licensed therapists through a structured 12-week program aimed at addressing mental health issues such as stress, depression, anxiety, and burnout. The platform combines continuous remote clinician support with at-home lessons and practices, including cognitive behavioral therapy and coaching in sleep and nutrition. By offering cost-effective and clinically proven digital therapeutic solutions, Meru Health empowers individuals to improve their mental well-being while also aiming to reduce overall healthcare costs.

Huoleti

Venture Round in 2017
When people are diagnosed with cancer or some other severe illness, they are too often left alone. Because we don’t have tools to stand by. Huoleti finds peers for patients and for their loved ones. It also provides tools to easily get everyday support from your community. Services like Huoleti are an important part of modern social and healthcare systems. Many of critical care patients get well – but they are left alone. For ever. That’s what we want to change.

Wellness Foundry

Seed Round in 2016
Wellness Foundry is a Finnish-American company with offices in Helsinki and New Jersey. The company's flagship product, MealLogger (www.MealLogger.com), is a digital nutrition coaching platform for use by health and wellness professionals - mainly nutritionists, dieticians and trainers - to help their clients manage weight loss, diabetes, and eating disorders or to optimize nutrition in athletic training.

Mightifier

Venture Round in 2016
Mightifier is an educational technology company focused on enhancing social and emotional skills in children. Their platform is designed to foster a positive and supportive learning environment by teaching kids self-regulation, compassion, perspective-taking, gratitude, bravery, and creativity. The platform also aids in early detection of issues like isolation and bullying, ultimately promoting better classroom interactions and reducing negative behaviors such as bullying. Teachers using Mightifier report improvements in class atmosphere, increased focus on learning, and a more positive overall school experience for students.

Mightifier

Seed Round in 2016
Mightifier is an educational technology company focused on enhancing social and emotional skills in children. Their platform is designed to foster a positive and supportive learning environment by teaching kids self-regulation, compassion, perspective-taking, gratitude, bravery, and creativity. The platform also aids in early detection of issues like isolation and bullying, ultimately promoting better classroom interactions and reducing negative behaviors such as bullying. Teachers using Mightifier report improvements in class atmosphere, increased focus on learning, and a more positive overall school experience for students.
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