Valuation: €1 M or less

Startup Norway

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 Group

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

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 Incubator

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.

Valuatum

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 (Climate & Ocean)

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

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

Founders’ Edge is a syndicate of several active Finnish angels with expertise in areas such as medtech, analytics, B2B SaaS, machine learning and NLP.

 

.Cocoon

.Cocoon is a startup founder mentoring program by experienced angel investors who pre-screen founders for coachability. For the best business cases they invest up to €100k during the program.

The managing team includes the key people from Contriber Ventures, who invested into 35 startups after founding the second Estonian unicorn, Playtech, and a manager from Buildit Accelerator with experience from 60+ investments.

MatchingWINGS

MatchingWINGS is a Dutch angel network, investing into startups seeking €150 – 500k investment rounds. They’re also happy to discuss with startups expanding to the Netherlands, even if they’re at a later stage.

They invest into companies in pre-revenue and early revenue stages. They generally don’t invest into capital-intensive companies (e.g. some medical or hardware companies).