Valuation: €10-19 M

OpenOcean

OpenOcean invests into digital data-intensive solutions with significant indications of ability to sell and scale. B2B is a big plus, other business models are possible with very strong traction.

They have invested in open source solutions such as MySQL, MariaDB and RapidMiner. Other areas of especial interest include AI/ML, application-driven infrastructure and development tools, marketing technology, and automation and recommendation engines.

They look for cases that have a ready product + early revenue, a proven product-market fit. Typically they like to see companies already have €50k MRR (€500k/year recurring revenue).

They require a board seat as a condition of investing.  They’re often the lead investor of a round.

Vendep Capital

Vendep focuses on corporate software and has a preference for a SaaS business model. They require companies to have at least €100k/year recurring revenue from a big marketplace outside the Nordic countries.

Gorilla Capital

Gorilla Capital focuses on companies whose revenue is €4k – €300k per month. They look for capital efficient companies that focus on the business, not just the product. These are usually software companies. Hardware is ok, if the main value is in the software side.

Their investment criteria can be found on their website: https://gorillacapital.fi/.

Investor decks can be sent to petri@corillacapital.fi.

 

Icebreaker

Icebreaker invests into companies and teams with domain expertise. They don’t invest into pure game companies, but gaming technology can be interesting.