Wharton Alumni Angels has approx. 400 members doing angel investments into promising startups globally. Their most active regional clubs are in US, UK & Europe, and Brazil. They prefer tech-enabled companies that have early revenue or other significant indications of their ability to start scalable growth.
Invest in country: Iceland
Indie Investments is the angel investment company of Heikki Nakari. He has a long corporate background in the financial sector and asset management. As an angel investor he’s very selective. Environmental technologies are close to his heart, but the business fundamentals have to always be strong as well.
Due to his strong and varied background in the financial sector, he has the capacity to offer more than just an angel ticket in especially interesting cases.
Startup Norway is a private organization, offering multiple acceleration programs for Nordic startups and investment opportunities for angel investors. In addition to pitching events, they offer a training program for angel investors. Their startup programs include generalistic fundraising for early-stage startups, as well as ones focused on fields like travel, fashion, sustainability.
They prefer startups have at least a working prototype. They also have some programs for Norwegian startups where an idea can also suffice.
Fiskars is looking for globally scalable innovations to cooperate with and/or invest into, that have synergies with their business of durable consumer goods. They’re especially interested in new services and business models in the space related to professional handheld home and garden tools, kitchenware and interior decoration.
Fiskars is launching their innovation hub website, Bruk, in the end of September 2021.
Fernbrook Capital Management invests in revenue-stage, B2B, B2B2C, and B2C consumer-tech companies. They use their operating expertise (Estee Lauder, Harrods, Saks Fifth Avenue) to help founders of consumer brands and enterprise consumer-tech companies to scale globally.
They prefer to lead or co-lead investments syndicates.
Gold Ventures is an Austrian startup investment bank and accelerator. They invest into multiple different kinds of tech startups that have at least 40ke/mo MRR. They broker investment together from over a dozen sources, investing up to 10Me into one company over time.
They’re less interested in real estate, stock exchange and public institutions, and more interested in private B2B companies, ranging from SaaS to medical devices, and biotech to AI and machine learning. They got an especially strong background in cyber security.
Future Foodways invests into scalable food and agriculture tech startups that define the future of food and its production. Regenerative agriculture and food tech is especially interesting for them.
Most of their initial investments are within the range of €500k-1M.
Contact inquiries are welcome at hello@futurefoodways.com.
Metsä Spring is looking for startups that add value to the Metsä Group ecosystem. They’re the CVC unit of Metsä Group, a large Finnish forest industry group.
On manufacturing model companies they focus on those in the pilot and demo phase. On service model companies they’re most interested in those in the proof-of-concept stage.
Katapult Ocean is an investor-accelerator looking for startups working in the ocean. They’ve invested in and support more than 30 ocean startups. As long as you are a startup with a positive impact on the ocean, they’d like to hear from you. Their tickets are €150k-500k. http://katapultocean.com/
Katapult Climate’s tickets are €120k-450k. https://www.katapultclimate.com/
YIT is seeking startups related to real estate and construction sectors that have synergies with their core offerings. They are interested in business cooperation, co-development and investing.
Their recent investments include Nuuka Solutions by Loudspring and Freesi by Iisy, which help monitor and optimize energy usage, indoor air quality etc.
The sweet spot for cooperating with YIT is when companies have approx. 1M€ or more in turnover.
Startups can contact directly anton.pelo [ät] yit.fi.