A private investment firm run by Risto Siilasmaa and Kim Groop. Grounded in a deeply held set of values around entrepreneurship, trust, integrity and helping solve the world’s problems. We partner with strong and ambitious technology entrepreneurs driven by a mission to fix or build something important in the world.
Location: Finland, Mainland Finland, Helsinki
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2016
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Portfolio 2
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 26.05.2026 | Quanscient | quanscient.com | $21.59M | Finland |
| 14.12.2022 | The Uprigh... | uprightproject.com | $5.33M | Finland, M... |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.06.2026 | Quanscient Secures €10M to Propel AI-Native Hardware Engineering | Quanscient landed €10 million in Series A funding. This major investment will drive its cloud- and quantum-powered multiphysics simulation platform. The technology revolutionizes hardware engineering. It bypasses slow, traditional simulatio... |
| 26.05.2026 | Quanscient Raises €10 Million To Advance Quantum- And AI-Native Hardware Engineering | Quanscient announced it has raised €10 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate international expansion and strengthen its position in multiphysics simulations, quantum algorithms, and AI-native hardware engineering. The round was ... |
| 19.05.2026 | CRACI raises €1.4M for EU cybersecurity compliance platform | Finnish cybersecurity startup CRACI has raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from First Fellow Partners and Wave Ventures. The funding will support product development and the expan... |
| 06.04.2026 | Endform: €1.5 Million Raised By Playwright Testing Platform To Accelerate End-To-End Test Execution | Endform, a developer tooling company focused on accelerating Playwright end-to-end testing, has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding to further build its parallel test execution platform. The round was led by Alliance VC, with participat... |
| 31.03.2026 | Endform secures €1.5M for high-performance web testing tools | Stockholm-based Endform, a platform designed to run browser-based end-to-end tests at high speed, has raised €1.5 million in funding. The round was led by Alliance VC, Antler, First Fellow, and Greens, with participation from a group of str... |
| 02.09.2025 | Detectify expands AppSec platform with new API scanning capabilities Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Advanced application security testing startup Detectify AB today announced the expansion of its AppSec platform with the addition of advanced application programming interface scanning capabilities that allow organizations to identify and r... |
| 12.06.2025 | FinanceKey's €3M Funding: A Leap Towards Automated Treasury Solutions | In the bustling world of finance, where every second counts, a new player is making waves. FinanceKey, a Finnish fintech company, has secured €3 million in seed funding. This financial boost aims to revolutionize corporate finance teams by ... |
| 10.06.2025 | FinanceKey secures €3M to eliminate manual work in corporate finance teams | Finnish real-time cash management platform FinanceKey has raised €3 million in seed funding to scale its client base, expand into new markets, and accelerate the shift to fully automated enterprise treasury systems. Founded by former Nokia ... |
| 13.12.2022 | Helsinki's Upright raises €5 million to help scale its impact data analysis engine | Upright has raised €5 million in seed funds to scale up its Upright Project, a deep tech-driven open data analysis project that allows organisations to measure the net impact of companies and funds on the environment, health of people, know... |
| 13.12.2022 | Finland’s Upright Project raises €5M to make net impact data more available | Finland’s Upright Project raises €5M to make net impact data more available 13 December, 2022, 15:56 Rostyslav Sobachynskyi --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Helsinki-based deeptech... |
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