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Butterfly Ventures

Founders Antti Kosunen Juho Risku Matti Kanninen

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Total investments 78
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$835K
Portfolio companies 62
Rounds per year 6.50
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Electronics
  • Biotechnology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Artificial Intelligence
Email
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
$840K04 Jul 2024 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Flow Computing

$4M11 Jun 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

10Lines

Indoor Positioning
Internet of Things
Navigation
Robotics
$1M24 Apr 2024 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia

Aquammodate AB

$1M20 Apr 2023 Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Gestrument

Health Care
Software
$2M12 Apr 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

CooliBlade

Industrial Engineering
$967K17 Nov 2022 Oulu, Oulu, Finland

SpinDrive

CleanTech
Electronics
$1M21 Oct 2021 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland

Natufia

Food and Beverage
Health Care
Intelligent Systems
Organic Food
$3M16 Feb 2021 Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Taimi.love

Nutrition
Personal Health
Wellness
$430K23 Apr 2020 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
News
MaryRuth Organics Receives Investment from Butterfly

– MaryRuth Organics, a premium health supplement brand, received an investment of undisclosed amount from Butterfly.
– The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
– Led by MaryRuth Ghiyam, Founder and CEO, who will retain a significant ownership position alongside Butterfly, MaryRuth Organics is a digitally native health and wellness brand operating in the premium vitamins, minerals, and supplements industry.

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Total investments 78
Average round size 835K
Rounds per year 6.50
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.19
Group Appearance index 0.40

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hypertype

Artificial Intelligence
Email
Natural Language Processing
Sales Automation
$840K04 Jul 2024 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Flow Computing

$4M11 Jun 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

10Lines

Indoor Positioning
Internet of Things
Navigation
Robotics
$1M24 Apr 2024 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia

Aquammodate AB

$1M20 Apr 2023 Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Gestrument

Health Care
Software
$2M12 Apr 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

CooliBlade

Industrial Engineering
$967K17 Nov 2022 Oulu, Oulu, Finland

SpinDrive

CleanTech
Electronics
$1M21 Oct 2021 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland

Natufia

Food and Beverage
Health Care
Intelligent Systems
Organic Food
$3M16 Feb 2021 Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Taimi.love

Nutrition
Personal Health
Wellness
$430K23 Apr 2020 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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