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Maki.vc

Founders Ilkka Kivimaki Pirkka Palomaki

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Total investments 71
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 11.83
Lead investments 18
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

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

In 2018 was created Maki.vc, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Helsinki. The company was established in Europe in Finland.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 63 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Maki.vc, startups are often financed by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Techstars, European Innovation Council. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Reaktor Ventures, Horizon 2020. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Horizon 2020, European Innovation Council.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Collaboration, SaaS. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Revonte, ultimate.ai, ultimate.ai. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Onego Bio

$31M02 Apr 2024 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Baseimmune

Biotechnology
Life Science
$12M26 Feb 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

CardioSignal

Apps
Health Care
Medical
$10M23 Jan 2024 Turku, Western Finland, Finland

QDI systems

Hardware
Health Care
Medical
Nanotechnology
Sensor
$3M16 Jan 2024 Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Magic Feedback

Analytics
Internet
$1M19 Dec 2023 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Databutton

Database
Software
$5M14 Sep 2023 Oslo, Norway

Strise

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$11M06 Sep 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Quanscient

Quantum Computing
SaaS
Simulation
Software
$4M20 Apr 2023 Tampere, Western Finland, Finland

CarbonCloud

Information Technology
$8M17 Feb 2023 Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
News
Volare Raises €0.7M in Funding

– Volare is a new spinoff startup from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
– The company raised €0.7M in funding.
Maki.vc made the investment.
– The company already has a pilot plant up and running and is aiming for rapid growth.

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Total investments 71
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 11.83
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.41
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Onego Bio

$31M02 Apr 2024 Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

Baseimmune

Biotechnology
Life Science
$12M26 Feb 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

CardioSignal

Apps
Health Care
Medical
$10M23 Jan 2024 Turku, Western Finland, Finland

QDI systems

Hardware
Health Care
Medical
Nanotechnology
Sensor
$3M16 Jan 2024 Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Magic Feedback

Analytics
Internet
$1M19 Dec 2023 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Databutton

Database
Software
$5M14 Sep 2023 Oslo, Norway

Strise

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$11M06 Sep 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Quanscient

Quantum Computing
SaaS
Simulation
Software
$4M20 Apr 2023 Tampere, Western Finland, Finland

CarbonCloud

Information Technology
$8M17 Feb 2023 Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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