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Inventure

Investor type Venture Capital
Founders Sami Lampinen Timo Tirkkonen

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Total investments 134
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 83
Rounds per year 7.88
Lead investments 22
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 12
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

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

Inventure appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Helsinki. The venture was found in Europe in Finland.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Finland. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bitbar, DrugStars, Abzu.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Inventure, startups are often financed by Tekes, Lifeline Ventures, First Fellow Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are First Fellow Partners, Lifeline Ventures, Tesi. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by First Fellow Partners, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Lifeline Ventures.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 34 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Inventure works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Inventure is 1-5 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Sami Lampinen, Timo Tirkkonen. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Melon

Content Delivery Network
Social Media
Social Network
$1M06 Dec 2022 -

Finch

Architecture
B2B
Construction
$2M10 Nov 2022 Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden

Steep

$1M11 Oct 2022 Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden

Hedera Dx

Health Care
$16M20 Sep 2022 Epalinges, Vaud, Switzerland

Jobbatical

Artificial Intelligence
Education
Information Technology
Professional Services
Recruiting
$13M09 Sep 2022 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia

Medoma

Health Care
$7M06 Sep 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

12traits

Information Technology
Machine Learning
Psychology
$21M18 Aug 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bunch

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Gaming
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Mobile Apps
Personal Development
Software
Video Chat
$2M15 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

Starcart

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Online Portals
$1M01 Jul 2022 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
News
Stravito raises $14.6M to create a ‘Netflix for enterprise market research’

– Stravito, a market research and insights company, raised €12.4m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Endeit Capital and joined by existing investors HenQ, Inventure and Creades.
– To date, Stravito has raised €20.1m.
– The company appointed Elaine Rodrigo, chief insights & analytics officer at Reckitt Benckiser, to its board of directors.

Yousician raises $28M to make music education more accessible

– Yousician, a music education company, raised $28m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Atomico and joined by existing investors Lifeline Ventures, Draper Esprit, and Inventure.
– It brings Yousician to a valuation of $100m.

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