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Gorilla Ventures Oy

Founders Petri Lehmuskoski Reijo Syrju00e4lu00e4inen Risto Rautakorpi Timo Tiihonen

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Total investments 50
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$198K
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 4.17
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 2
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • Internet
Summary

Gorilla Ventures Oy is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 participants. Despite the Gorilla Ventures Oy, startups are often financed by Vertical.vc, Tekes, Startup Wise Guys. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Takeoff Partners, Arteel Ventures, Wallstreet Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nuard Ventures, Tekes, Veturi Venture Accelerator.

The fund was created by Petri Lehmuskoski, Reijo Syrju00e4lu00e4inen, Risto Rautakorpi, Timo Tiihonen. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from Gorilla Ventures Oy is 5-10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Flashnode, Klinik, EatAndTheCity Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are B2B, Ad Network. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Manna Insect

Animal Feed
Internet of Things
$148K01 Jan 2020 Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland

Hala.ai

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
14 Jun 2018 Harju maakond

Press Door

Digital Media
Health Care
Medical
Social Media
Software
$324K15 Jan 2018 Finland, Uusimaa

DIGITAIKA

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Video Editing
01 Jan 2018 Finland, Uusimaa

EatAndTheCity

Digital Media
Information Services
Journalism
$3M22 Nov 2017 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

CollectiveCrunch

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Energy Efficiency
Forestry
Paper Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
$295K20 Sep 2017 Finland, Uusimaa

Polka Dot Studio

Computer
Fashion
Lifestyle
26 Apr 2017 Finland, Uusimaa

Apps
Fitness
Social Media
Video
01 Jan 2017 Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

CloudBounce

Audio
Music
Musical Instruments
$283K20 Dec 2016 Tampere, Finland

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Total investments 50
Average round size 198K
Rounds per year 4.17
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.36

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Manna Insect

Animal Feed
Internet of Things
$148K01 Jan 2020 Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland

Hala.ai

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
14 Jun 2018 Harju maakond

Press Door

Digital Media
Health Care
Medical
Social Media
Software
$324K15 Jan 2018 Finland, Uusimaa

DIGITAIKA

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Video Editing
01 Jan 2018 Finland, Uusimaa

EatAndTheCity

Digital Media
Information Services
Journalism
$3M22 Nov 2017 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

CollectiveCrunch

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Energy Efficiency
Forestry
Paper Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
$295K20 Sep 2017 Finland, Uusimaa

Polka Dot Studio

Computer
Fashion
Lifestyle
26 Apr 2017 Finland, Uusimaa

Apps
Fitness
Social Media
Video
01 Jan 2017 Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

CloudBounce

Audio
Music
Musical Instruments
$283K20 Dec 2016 Tampere, Finland
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