Sunbo Angel Partners represents 17 Korean LPs and 120 SMEs, investing into research-based early stage B2B companies globally.
Invest in country: Iceland
Nordic Startup School accelerates startups and invests into the best ones.
They do two batches per year. Spring batch application period is in Jan-Feb, and program start is in Feb-March. Autumn batch application Aug-Sep, and program start is around the end of September. Program length is three months, but they support the best ones for 9 + 12 months more for a total of 2 years.
They’re interested in startups from all areas, but generally not from health and education sectors.
Fazer is looking for food tech startups who focus on food (the substance), raw materials and food production process technologies.
For example solutions that help in berry or cocoa availability around the year would be interesting.
They’re interested especially in commercial cooperation, and also willing to invest in a few select startups.
Startup introductions can be sent to Jussi Loponen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zloponen/. Please include an introductory text in the connection request.
Tech Consulting Group TCG is a small team of Finnish serial entrepreneurs with a strong experience in growth, internationalization and digitalization. Team has deep roots in both tech and business side. They’re the founders behind companies like Eficode and ePassi.
They seek cases where they can actively participate in to help the company grow and internationalize. They seek a board seat.
Generalist co-investment fund from Lithuania. They invest alongside three or more angels or VC funds that are not backed by public money. They consider all business sectors, however the fund wouldn’t invest into weapons or vices (cigarettes, gambling etc.).
They can fund up to 70% of a total investment round. They cap their return at 6% annually during the investment period, with the excess shared among other investors of the syndicate. The investments must benefit Lithuania, e.g. companies need to have or open an office and hire employees in Lithuania.
OP Lab is the startup collaboration unit of OP, a major Finnish bank. They seek startups to purchase innovations from as an early adopter, while also seeking for more mature startups to acquire.
Their focus is on solutions that are linked to fields of banking, insurance & finance in general. Fields such as fintech, insurtech, AI, biometrics, customer experience, and loyalty etc. are of interest to them.
They’re happy to connect with startups that are interested in the Finnish market.
AI4Cities is looking for solutions that use articial intelligence to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption. The participating cities are Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Paris region Stavanger, Tallinn.
They’re seeking 40 consortiums to participate in phase 1 (up to €40k per company), of which 20 continue to phase 2 (up to €80k) and three to phase 3 (up to €240k).
An applying consortium can consist of one or more companies. The emphasis is on European companies (main applicant of consortium and at least 50% of the budget expenditure).
Companies can seek others to form consortiums with through the matchmaking of two pre-events as well as the form on the website.
Their applications are open from 1.12.2020 to 28.2.2021.
Contact through website and email: info@ai4cities.eu.
Access 4 Future is a market entry program for startups wishing to help people in the target countries get better access to healthcare: India, Niger, Philippines, Egypt, Thailand.
The program’s support includes connections locally (piloting), regionally and globally (scalability) and covers startups’ piloting costs. Each location has a different challenge for startups to help in, and they have different application periods during autumn 2020. Challenges include for example furthering the education and training of doctors.
The chosen solutions have to be scaleable. For example a solution that will be piloted in two hospitals might later expand to the state, then the country and finally internationally.
LitCapital is focusing on funding small cap growth companies with proven traction and a scalable solution. They prefer B2B companies, but are interested in especially strong B2C or B2G cases as well. Their home market is Lithuania, and they’re also looking at companies from nearby EEA markets. A connection with Lithuania is a plus.
Most often they are the lead investor of a round. They seek a stake of 20% or more and will actively participate on the board level in growing the company.
Salo IoT Campus is a community of high-tech companies, researchers and educational instutitions working together on a daily basis. They have over 100 companies and 2 000 people on working and studying on their campus.
They offer versatile premises, comprehensive services and an active expert community. They are seeking more companies and partners to join them in making a smarter future.
They’re based in Salo, Finland, approximately one hour from Helsinki.