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Innovestor

Founders Tommi Aijala

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Total investments 64
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 52
Rounds per year 6.40
Lead investments 29
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 1
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Electronics
  • SaaS
  • Health Care
Summary

Innovestor appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Helsinki. The company was established in Europe in Finland.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Innovestor, startups are often financed by Finnvera Venture Capital, Tekes, VTT Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Visionplus, Lifeline Ventures, Yahoo! Japan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Way to Wellville, Visionplus, Vesalius Biocapital Partners.

The current fund was established by Tommi u00c4iju00e4lu00e4. We also calculated 14 valuable employees in our database.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Innovestor is 5-10 millions dollars. This Innovestor works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 60 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Linkker, Tenboron, LNGTainer. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Finland. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Software.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Diploi

Cloud Management
Developer Tools
Information Technology
PaaS
27 Sep 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Polku Therapeutics

Medical
Therapeutics
$2M17 Sep 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Confidentialmind

Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
$1M21 Jun 2024 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Hytrade

$224K25 Apr 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Chipmetrics

Electronics
Manufacturing
$2M24 Jan 2024 Joensuu, Eastern Finland, Finland

DealGuru

Coupons
E-Commerce
$1M11 Jan 2024 Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden

Ninyes

E-Commerce
$330K01 Dec 2023 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

SpinDrive

CleanTech
Electronics
$4M08 Nov 2023 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland

Kausal

Information Services
$1M31 Oct 2023 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
News
Innomost Raises €5M in Funding

– Innomost from Helsinki is developing innovative bioactive ingredients from forest industry side streams.
– The company raised €5M in funding.
– The round was led by Metsä Spring with participation from Innovestor and angel investors.
– The new investment will be used to set up a pilot plant in Kokkola, which will be used to test and plan the process for the next industrial-scale plant, capable of producing 20 tonnes of birch bark products per year by 2023.

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Total investments 64
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 6.40
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 29
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.44

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Diploi

Cloud Management
Developer Tools
Information Technology
PaaS
27 Sep 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Polku Therapeutics

Medical
Therapeutics
$2M17 Sep 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Confidentialmind

Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
$1M21 Jun 2024 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Hytrade

$224K25 Apr 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Chipmetrics

Electronics
Manufacturing
$2M24 Jan 2024 Joensuu, Eastern Finland, Finland

DealGuru

Coupons
E-Commerce
$1M11 Jan 2024 Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden

Ninyes

E-Commerce
$330K01 Dec 2023 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

SpinDrive

CleanTech
Electronics
$4M08 Nov 2023 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland

Kausal

Information Services
$1M31 Oct 2023 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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