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Finland's capital has a well-earned reputation as a place where great tech companies get their start. A strong community of venture capital firms is a big reason why.
You'll find established players like Lifeline Ventures, with nearly 200 investments, alongside others like Inventure, which has seen more than 20 of its companies exit. The city is full of opportunities for founders looking for the right partner.
Below is our list of the best 13 VC firms in Helsinki.
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Buy It For $97 $297 →As a fund started by serial entrepreneurs, Lifeline Ventures backs resilient founders from their earliest stages with funding, talent, and hands-on support. They take a sector-agnostic approach to help build category-leading companies like Aiven, focusing on investments from inception through Series A.
As a Nordic venture capital investor and financial services company, Innovestor backs early-stage growth companies with capital. They support their portfolio with competitive funding terms and strategic insight from a team of experienced industry professionals.
Inventure backs early-stage founders across the Nordics and Baltics, fighting fiercely for a select few they believe can build transformative futures. This dedicated approach has helped launch successful companies like the delivery platform Wolt, proving their model of building lasting, two-way trust.
As a European private equity and venture capital firm, 3TS Capital Partners supplies expansion capital and buyout funding to technology companies like Tresorit and 123Formbuilder. Their team operates as active partners for small and medium-sized businesses, delivering value beyond capital through a network of sector experts and co-investors.
Focusing on the Nordic and Baltic tech scene, Icebreaker.vc provides pre-seed and seed funding to startups built by founders with deep industry expertise. Their community-driven approach supports founders from idea to launch, helping companies like HoxHunt and Logmore get to a position of strength and avoid the common post-accelerator limbo.
OpenOcean provides early-stage capital to European B2B software companies building the data economy. The firm's team, which includes key people behind MySQL and MariaDB, uses its deep operator experience to scale startups focused on automation, data infrastructure, and the future of software.
Superhero Capital backs insight-driven startups in Finland and the Baltics at the seed stage. They invest between €100k and €1M to help founders transform their unique market perspectives into growing companies.
Nordic Science Investments bridges the gap between academia and business by turning scientific research from the New Nordics into global companies. They invest from pre-seed to Series A in deeptech, healthtech, and life science startups, helping visionary founders commercialize their research and address global challenges.
As the first fund in the Nordics investing explicitly in food technology, they support early-stage companies that are transforming the food system. Their portfolio is built around startups creating scalable and healthy solutions, aiming to foster a more sustainable food future.
As the first Nordic venture capital firm focused on the learning sector, they invest in teams transforming education from early childhood to corporate training. They support companies from the seed to international growth phase, helping them scale their impact on how the world learns.
Beyond our main list, there are even more firms helping founders get their start. Together, they have funded 75 startups and guided more than 20 of them to an exit.
The group includes some of the area's oldest investors as well as newer ones. Here is a closer look at the other venture capital firms funding what's next in Helsinki.
| VC Firm | Year Founded | Nº Investments | Nº Exits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 58 | 20 | |
| 2018 | 17 | 1 | |
| — | — | — |
