
EIT Food Accelerator
A multi-location accelerator that will support 50 high-impact food-space startups over a four month program.
Food, Beverage +5
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Updated Jun 2026

A multi-location accelerator that will support 50 high-impact food-space startups over a four month program.
Food, Beverage +5

Ventech is a European & Chinese early-stage investment fund that invests in the digital economy.
Early Stage VC, Multi-Stage VC +7
Consumer Goods, Media +10
$100 – $8,000,000

Supporting resilient founders
Seed, Series A +4
Health, AI +13
$660,000 – $1,300,000
€100K - €2M

The way we work and invest has changed. Be part of that change
Seed
FinTech, AI +9

Providing pre-seed funding for extremely promising startups in the Nordics.
Pre-Seed, Early Stage VC +2
Finance, Financial Services
Up to €100,000

Accelerator with the goal of lowering Carbon footprint.
Seed
AI, Banking +9
€100K for 3-19%

An accelerator for startups creating learning solutions with pedagogical impact.
Seed, Early Stage VC
Education, Social Entrepreneurship
3% equity for the acceleration program

Investing in the growth phase of digital companies.
Multi-Stage VC
Consumer Goods, Media +12
€100K - 1M

Scaling technical, AI-driven data pioneers from Europe to global category leadership

#1 startup accelerator in Finland, supporting 50+ startups/year on their journey from an idea to first revenue
Early Stage VC, Seed
Industry Agnostic
Equity-free program with optional €25K - €50K pre-seed investment for ~5% equity

Supercharging the future
Seed, Series A
Renewables, Energy Generation +2
€100k - €1.5M

OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.
Seed, Early Stage VC +1

Maki.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven startups obsessed with challenging category norms.
Seed, Pre-Seed
SaaS
€300K - €3M

Since 2005 Inventure has backed over 100 companies including Wolt Swappie Jobbatical aiMotive and more.
Seed, Early Stage VC +1
Backing the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
Seed, Early Stage VC +1
Enterprise Software, B2B +7
Thominvest is a family office based in Helsinki, Finland owned by investment companies Thomasset Oy and Thomfinance Oy.
Series A, Series B +4
Enterprise Software, Software +1

Ingman Group is a venture capital company based in Helsinki, Finland.
Early Stage VC
3d Printing, Smart Manufacturing +14
Kiilto Ventures is a family-owned company.
Seed, Early Stage VC
Sustainability, Hardware +3
€100,000–€500,000
Besodos Investors Oy is a family owned investment company founded in 1995.
Seed
Sustainability, Circular Economy
Holdix Oy Ab is a finnish family-owned investment company situated in Helsinki.
Seed, Early Stage VC
Energy, Climate +2
Vaens is a family investment office focused on impact investing on data and software driven companies in the Nordics
Seed
B2B, Software +4
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
Seed, Early Stage VC
Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and B…
Seed

Helen Ventures invests in the most innovative and transformative startups in the energy, e-mobility, circular economy, decarbonisation, and digital solutions sp…
Seed, Early Stage VC
Clean Energy, Wind +13

Sitra is the venture capital investment arm of Sitra specializing in investments in seed, start-ups, early stage opportunities, and other funds. The firm invest…
Seed, Early Stage VC +2
PayTech, Fintechs +10
N/A
Seed, Early Stage VC +1
$250,000 – $12,000,000

We are an investment company that also offers fundraising advisory services.
Seed, Early Stage VC

We are a Luxembourg-based investment fund.
Seed, Early Stage VC
Pre-Seed, Seed +1
$300 – $1,000,000

We are a company that accelerates success stories through investment.
Pre-Seed, Seed +2
Hardtech, Audio +16
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