Sitra is the venture capital investment arm of Sitra specializing in investments in seed, start-ups, early stage opportunities, and other funds. The firm invests through its three programmes namely, Health Care Programme, the Food and Nutrition Programme, and the Environmental Programme. Within the Health Care Programme, investments are focused on companies engaged in paper-free health care, seamless services, decentralised specialised health care, and support services. Within the Food and Nutrition Programme, investments are made in enterprises engaged in the food and nutrition sector, including value-adding upgrading of raw materials and new applications and service concepts in food and nutrition technology.

Sitra

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Nexstim raised $10949109 on 2007-09-06 in Venture Round

Nexstim is a medical device company that specializes in image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. The company is committed to improving the quality of life of patients with significant unmet clinical needs. It has developed a SmartFocus TMS technology designed for the treatment of the major depressive disorder.

The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.

Nexstim Plc

Headai raised $600000 on 2018-01-01 in Grant

HEADAI Ltd. develops software robots for various kinds of intellectual tasks. The company offers teachable software robots to automate selected everyday business operations as a cloud service; teach globally published MOOCs; assist in discovering relevant and interesting content; and offer information from various sources based on personal interest. It also offers artificial intelligence assisted operations; and allows users to interact with robots. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Pori, Finland.

Headai

NaturVention raised $1494890 on 2014-07-19 in Venture Round

NaturVention Enclosed Ecosystem Technologies solves global problems by combining nature and technology. We are a fast growing, venture-backed technology company. We challenge ourselves to find solutions to global problems by looking into nature, from where we have been able to find solutions for thousands of years already.

We have developed patented solutions by enhancing nature’s own processes. We use the brightest technology to enhance those processes in order to create products that are easy to use and which help people to feel better by providing clean and healthy air and food.

NaturVention

FIT Biotech raised $6045195 on 2006-06-29 in Venture Round

FIT Biotech Oy operates as a clinical-stage biotech company. The company focuses on developing antibody gene delivery technologies and gene vaccines for cancer immunotherapy, and the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, such as HIV and tuberculosis, as well as animal vaccines. The company develops and licenses its patented gene transport unit (GTU) vector technology for new-generation medical treatments. It also markets FIT-06, a GTU-based DNA vaccine, for the treatment of HIV patients. It has a research collaboration agreement with Avacta Group plc to develop gene therapies. FIT Biotech Oy was founded in 1995 and is based in Tampere, Finland.

FIT Biotech

Visionplus raised an undisclosed amount on 2012-02-01 in Venture Round

Vision+ is a Finnish company that invests into digital products such as applications, games and services in all digital platforms. The company also invests in Internet and SaaS services, apps and sometimes in special content IP deals. 

The Fund’s management team has extensive background in technology, as business angels in seed investments, entrepreneurship and the creation of successful new product, content, services and business. Members of the management team have also run development and business organizations of significant scale in global setting.

Visionplus

Vivoxid raised $6230000 on 2005-09-07 in Venture Round

Vivoxid Ltd. develops, manufactures, and markets biomaterial products for the medical device sector. The company offers MetAlive soft tissue attachment technology for implant surfaces; BonAlive bioactive glass and biodegradable polymer composite products in bone reconstruction; and FiberLive biodegradable fiberglass composites for load-bearing biodegradable implants. It has distributors in northern Europe, the United Kingdom, southern Europe, Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, and Saudi-Arabia. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Turku, Finland.

Vivoxid

Optomeditech raised $2500000 on 2014-12-10 in Venture Round

Optomeditech Oy was founded in June 2011, to develop and market products in the area of Intravenous Catheters and Blood Collection Needles. Currently the company is working on securing the CE mark and FDA 510(k) approval for its first IV catheter product and is planning on entering the market during the first half of 2015.

Optomeditech Oy

Omegawave raised $2085630 on 2013-06-27 in Venture Round

Omegawave Oy develops and provides training and performance management solutions for athletes, teams, and coaches. It offers Omegawave Team and Omegawave Coach solutions that provide comparison chart, team readiness, athlete readiness, HRV analysis, CNS analysis, and trend analysis for teams, personal trainers, tactical teams, government organizations, and more. The company also provides actionable data for various types of training; and adaptive training plans. Its products are used by multiple Olympic Federations, soccer teams, and franchises from the NFL, MLS, NHL, and MLB, as well as various other sports organizations and individual athletes. It serves its customers in China, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and internationally. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Omegawave

Savosolar raised an undisclosed amount on 2011-09-23 in Venture Round

Savo-Solar Oy, a Mikkeli, Finland-based manufacturer of solar thermal solutions.

Savosolar

SET Ventures raised an undisclosed amount on 2019-01-19 in Funding Round

Since 2007, Amsterdam-based SET Ventures has invested in European technology companies that impact the future of the energy system. SET Ventures focuses broadly on innovative energy generation, energy distribution and storage and energy efficiency. SET Fund III provides early growth-stage capital to ventures that shape the energy system transition through smart software and services-based business models.

SET Ventures

Omegawave raised $2128706 on 2013-06-11 in Seed Round

Naava raised $3442959 on 2017-01-23 in Venture Round

Naava reconnects humanity with nature. Future technology embracing millions of years of natural innovation and design lies behind the smartest green walls on the planet. At Naava, we want to help people feel better, healthier and more productive. The environment where we live, learn, and work is important for us. After all, we spend well over 90% of our time in indoors, breathing synthetic, man-made air a thousand times every hour.

By 2025 a billion people can choose to breathe Nordic forest air. Everywhere. 

Naava brings nature inside, everywhere. We allow people to experience nature in the midst of the urban environment. Our brand promise can be explained in one word: breathe.

Naava

Ipsat Therapies raised $9020000 on 2005-04-03 in Series C

Ipsat Therapies,  a biotechnology company, develops intestinal protection systems in antibiotic treatment. It focuses on the development of products for the prevention of antibiotic resistance, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, and hospital associated infections. The company offers bioengineered enzyme, which removes the excess unabsorbed harmful antibiotic in intestine and maintains a normal intestinal microflora. It also develops various antibiotics, including penicillin, cephalosporin, carbapenems, and fixed combination products. Ipsat Therapies Oy was founded in 1999 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Ipsat Therapies

AW-Energy raised an undisclosed amount on 2004-01-01 in Series A

AW-Energy Oy designs, develops, and manufactures nearshore wave energy generation equipment in Finland and internationally. The company offers WaveRoller, a device that converts ocean wave energy to electricity. It also offers site studies and life cycle services. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Vantaa, Finland.

AW-Energy

Nexstim raised $15058921 on 2011-01-26 in Venture Round