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Inventure

Founders Sami Lampinen Timo Tirkkonen

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Total investments 149
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 92
Rounds per year 7.84
Lead investments 29
Follow on index
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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
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
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

Reveel

Museums and Historical Sites
Product Design
Smart Cities
Software
Tour Operator
Tourism
Travel
$767K07 Feb 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Leya AI

Apps
Consumer Applications
EdTech
Language Learning
Mobile Apps
$1M06 Feb 2024 -

Lassie

Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Pet
$27M28 Nov 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Capalo AI

Artificial Intelligence
$590K11 Oct 2023 Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland

Getpaid

Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$6M05 Oct 2023 Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Commsignia

Automotive
Internet of Things
Wireless
$15M05 Sep 2023 San Jose, California, United States

ReOrbit

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

Starcart

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Online Portals
$3M28 Aug 2023 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Logical Clocks

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Open Source
Software
$6M29 Jun 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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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Total investments 149
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 7.84
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 29
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Reveel

Museums and Historical Sites
Product Design
Smart Cities
Software
Tour Operator
Tourism
Travel
$767K07 Feb 2024 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Leya AI

Apps
Consumer Applications
EdTech
Language Learning
Mobile Apps
$1M06 Feb 2024 -

Lassie

Insurance
InsurTech
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Pet
$27M28 Nov 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Capalo AI

Artificial Intelligence
$590K11 Oct 2023 Kuopio, Eastern Finland, Finland

Getpaid

Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$6M05 Oct 2023 Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Commsignia

Automotive
Internet of Things
Wireless
$15M05 Sep 2023 San Jose, California, United States

ReOrbit

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

Starcart

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Online Portals
$3M28 Aug 2023 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Logical Clocks

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Open Source
Software
$6M29 Jun 2023 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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