Butterfly Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Helsinki, Finland

Total investments

77

Average round size

835K

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

6.42

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.19

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileMachine LearningHealth CareManufacturingElectronicsInternet of ThingsIndustrial Automation

Summary

In 2012 was created Butterfly Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Oulu. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Finland.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

This organization was formed by Antti Kosunen, Juho Risku, Matti Kanninen. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Butterfly Ventures, startups are often financed by Finnvera Venture Capital, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Business Finland. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Finnvera Venture Capital, Sitra, Inventure. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Finnvera Venture Capital, Reaktor Ventures, Moderne Ventures.

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 popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Biotechnology. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cerenion, CadFaster, Revonte Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Deep TechCommunity/Social networkClimate tech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
DenmarkFinlandIcelandNorwaySweden
Check size
327K

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 47000000
Fund raised date
2021-06-21

Analytics

Total investments
77
Lead investments
18
Rounds per year
6.42
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (18)
  • Software (12)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • Electronics (10)
  • Biotechnology (7)
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Investments by region
  • Finland (59)
  • Sweden (6)
  • Estonia (2)
  • Saudi Arabia (2)
  • Norway (4)
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Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
574K
Group Appearance index
0.39

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AlphaMol 24 Aug 2023 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Biopharma Early Stage Venture Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Fasciawear 03 Oct 2015 Health Care Seed
Flow Computing 11 Jun 2024 Seed 4M Southern Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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