Wave Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Helsinki, Finland

Total investments

25

Average round size

510K

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

3.12

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.12

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareMobile AppsInternet of ThingsSustainabilityService IndustryEnvironmental Engineering

Summary

Wave Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The company was established in Europe in Finland. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Helsinki.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Wave Ventures, startups are often financed by Horizon 2020, Starlight Ventures, Propel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lifeline Ventures, Starlight Ventures, Mika Ihamuotila. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Starlight Ventures, Mika Ihamuotila, Lifeline Ventures.

The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Sweden. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Health Care. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Insurello.

The fund was created by Andreas Saari, Anton Backman, Janne Korpela, Olli Rissanen.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
SeedPre-Seed
Geo focus
DenmarkEstoniaFinlandIcelandLatvia Show 3 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 75000000
Fund raised date
2023-03-07

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
1
Rounds per year
3.12
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Software (6)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Health Care (3)
  • Mobile Apps (3)
  • Mobile (3)
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Investments by region
  • Sweden (7)
  • Finland (12)
  • Germany (2)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
690K
Group Appearance index
0.84

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BOOST Thyroid 09 Aug 2018 Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Personal Health, mHealth Seed 377K Berlin, Berlin, Germany
BuddyBB 01 Apr 2016 Mobile, Apps, Location Based Services Early Stage Venture 2M Bangkok, Thailand
Daze 19 Apr 2024 Seed 236K Southern Finland, Helsinki, Finland
MedPanel 08 Jan 2015 Biotechnology, Financial Services, Health Care, Consulting Seed 155K United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

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