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.
Baltic Tech Ventures invests into startups and organizes pitching sessions for startups to raise further funding from multiple investors. Their investment typically covers 10% of the startup’s current funding needs. Their geographic areas of interest, in order, are Baltics, Nordics, and CEE. They seek companies that have at least some monthly revenue.
They’re interested in software startups, including hardware offerings where the main value is in the software side, as well as marketplaces. They’re most interested in B2B and B2C, but evaluate strong B2G cases (e.g. selling to military) as well.
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.
Valuatum is a company making credit risk asssessment with AI. They also make angel-type investments into early-stage companies in technology, especially B2B SaaS and energy, and traditional fields as well, such as machinery.
Their contact person for investments is Esa Mäkeläinen.
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/
ZGI Capital invests into Latvian and Baltic growth companies and startups approaching 1M€ in revenue or larger. No deep tech.
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.
Founders’ Edge is a syndicate of several active Finnish angels with expertise in areas such as medtech, analytics, B2B SaaS, machine learning and NLP.