Investors in Finland

CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets management and investment company. They have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate and infrastructure for 30 years. They serve investors in the private assets class on a broad scale. Their roots are Nordic but their handprint and their networks are international. At CapMan, they build better organised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, they invest in real estate and infrastructure, because they believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.

Vaaka Partners Oy is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, mezzanine, middle market, bridge financing, co-investment, and management buyout investments. For its mezzanine investments, the firm invests in convertible bonds and bonds with warrants or profit sharing loans in the form of junior or subordinated loans. It does not have an industry preference. The firm prefers to invest in small and medium sized companies based in Finland, Scandinavia, and the European Union. The firm seeks to take a majority stake in portfolio companies and typically exits its investments between three years and seven years through a sale or an IPO. Vaaka Partners Oy was founded in 1989 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Superhero Capital is to founders what Alfred is to Batman – the help from behind the scenes. The fund has four full-time ‘Alfreds’ helping in building scalable tech, metrics and insight, business model and storytelling. The team has collectively founded, worked at and invested in over 60 startups in various fields including ecommerce, fintech, healthtech, and industrial tech.

Trind Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in Tallinn, Estonia. Investing in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds all the way to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. Trind Ventures partners are Joel Aasmäe, Ivar Siimar, Kimmo Irpola and Taavi Lepmets.

Founded in 1995, Tesi is a government agency based in Finland. The firm promotes finnish business and employment and also conducts both direct and indirect investments in companies and investment vehicles.

Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in angel, seed, startups, Series A, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology, financial technology, healthcare, games, online, web based, Internet, biotechnology, life sciences tools and services and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Sponsor Capital Oy is a private equity firm specializing in investments in industry and family company ownership restructurings, acquisitions including management buyouts and buyins, generation transfers, turnaround, divestment of businesses from larger groups and privatizations, and growth capital in medium sized companies. The firm is unconstrained by sector limitations. It prefers to invest in Finnish mid-sized companies. It seeks to make majority investments alone or with a co-investor. The firm prefers to exit its investments between four and seven years through an initial public offering. Sponsor Capital Oy was founded in 1997 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Vendep Capital Oy, formerly known as Vendep Oy, is an accelerator specializing in seed/startups, incubation, growth capital, and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in business-to-business, fintech, SaaS, web-based services, and mobile services companies. The firm seeks to provide software development resources to startup companies. It seeks to invest in European tech hubs like Finland, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, or United States with the focus on Silicon Valley. The firm seeks to invest between €0.5 million ($.60 million) and €1 million ($1.19 million). It makes investment in firms with monthly recurring revenue of €0.03 ($0.36 million). It raises funding during an acceleration period of 6 months to 24 months. It often co-invest but the firm does not initially require syndication. The firm syndicates investments alongside other funds. The firm invest in 4-5 pre-Series A companies per year. Vendep Capital Oy was founded in 2002 and is based in Helsinki, Finland, with an additional office in Mountain View, California.

Inventure is a leading early-stage venture capital company in the Nordics and Baltics. Inventure invests in innovative and fast-growing companies, led by exceptional entrepreneurs and willing to disrupt their industries. Inventure’s team is a great mix of experienced entrepreneurs, industry experts, and investment professionals committed to help start-ups build global success stories. Inventure operates in Helsinki, Stockholm and Shanghai.

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union. The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds; equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds. The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises. EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors. European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.