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Icebreaker.vc

Founders Aleksi Partanen Lasse Lehtinen Riku Seppu00e4lu00e4 Teddie Wardi

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Total investments 107
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 64
Rounds per year 15.29
Lead investments 35
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Internet
Summary

Icebreaker.vc is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The venture was found in Europe in Finland. The main department of described VC is located in the Helsinki.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Icebreaker.vc, startups are often financed by Speedinvest, Tekes, Techstars London Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Speedinvest, First Fellow Partners, Andrus Purde. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Speedinvest, Adevinta Ventures, Takeoff Partners.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 56 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. When the investment is from Icebreaker.vc the average startup value is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Machine Learning, Advertising. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cerenion, HoxHunt, Kodit.io. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Finland. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Aleksi Partanen, Lasse Lehtinen, Riku Seppu00e4lu00e4, Teddie Wardi.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Valpas

Real Estate
Tourism
Travel
Travel Agency
$4M26 Jun 2024 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Workfellow

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Software
$3M07 Feb 2024 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

ReOrbit

Aerospace
Satellite Communication
Space Travel
$8M30 Aug 2023 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Fixably

Application Performance Management
Innovation Management
SaaS
Software
$10M05 Jun 2023 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Aibidia

Analytics
Information Technology
$15M10 May 2023 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

IPRally

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Legal Tech
Software
$11M21 Mar 2023 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Ovoro

Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
15 Mar 2023 Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Equel Social

Social Media
$1M19 Jan 2023 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Scrintal

Apps
Collaboration
Productivity Tools
Software
$1M18 Jan 2023 Stockholms Lan, Stockholm County, Sweden
News
Tesseract Raises $25M in Series A Funding

– Tesseract from Helsinki is an institutional digital asset lending company in Europe and emerging markets.
– The company raised $25m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Augmentum Fintech with participation from Icebreaker.vc, BlackFin Capital Partners, Concentric, DN Capital, Jabre Capital Partners, LeadBlock Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute and Woorton as well as undisclosed local and international investors and strategic angels.
– The new investment will be used to develop the company’s institutional offerings and cross-trading venue margin lending platform even further, hire new talent to develop new and existing partnerships, and to boost innovation in new undisclosed financial products.

Sellforte Raises €4M in Funding

– Sellforte is a Helsinki, Finland-based AI-powered marketing optimization platform.
– The company raised €4M in funding.
– The round was led by Sonae IM and also participated by Bonnier Ventures and Icebreaker.vc.
– The new investment will be used to hire new talent to scale R&D on its product offering and further expand its operations internationally.

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Total investments 107
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 15.29
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 35
Follow on index 0.39
Group Appearance index 0.52

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Valpas

Real Estate
Tourism
Travel
Travel Agency
$4M26 Jun 2024 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Workfellow

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Software
$3M07 Feb 2024 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

ReOrbit

Aerospace
Satellite Communication
Space Travel
$8M30 Aug 2023 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Fixably

Application Performance Management
Innovation Management
SaaS
Software
$10M05 Jun 2023 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Aibidia

Analytics
Information Technology
$15M10 May 2023 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

IPRally

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Legal Tech
Software
$11M21 Mar 2023 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Ovoro

Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Trading Platform
15 Mar 2023 Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Equel Social

Social Media
$1M19 Jan 2023 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Scrintal

Apps
Collaboration
Productivity Tools
Software
$1M18 Jan 2023 Stockholms Lan, Stockholm County, Sweden
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