Oulu · Seed · 9 people tracked
Investment thesis
Butterfly Ventures focuses on seed-stage deep tech, hardware, and hardware-interfacing software companies with social or environmental impact, primarily in Finland and Sweden but also across the Nordics and Baltics. The firm typically enters early, when most portfolio companies have no revenue yet, and favors a co-operative, hands-on approach in which founders receive support from all partners. It always makes its first investment at seed but reserves significant capacity for follow-on rounds. Butterfly emphasizes societal impact and is noted as an early carbon-neutral European VC.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 9 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 63 of 80 portfolio companiesDeep Tech ×23Hardware ×19AI & Machine Learning ×14SaaS ×14Cleantech ×11Advanced Manufacturing ×10Media & Entertainment ×7IoT ×6
HQs:Finland×22Sweden×5United Kingdom×3United States×2Denmark×1Netherlands×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 8 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×13 founders×3
Investments · 80 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2023 · 22017 · 13 dated
01 Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and operationally supports early-stage deep tech companies across Europe.
Deep Tech
Co-investorsKaristaTera Ventures
Adamant Health develops an AI-powered technology that uses surface electromyography (EMG) and kinematic measurements to track the visible and hidden motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMedical Devices
Co-investorsTesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd)Voima Ventures
Ampliconyx builds high-power all-fiber gain modules based on active tapered double-clad fiber technology, offering modules rated above 100 W.
Deep TechHardwareNew Materials
Amadeus Capital Partners is a UK venture capital firm, founded in 1997, that invests in deep technology companies from seed to growth stage across three areas: Intelligence (AI, advanced computing, quantum), Human (health, medicine, wellness), and Planet (sustainability, energy, materials, space).
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechQuantum Computing
Anne Glover(Co-founder)Hermann Hauser(Co-founder)
Co-investorsEnterprise Capital FundsSamsung Catalyst FundAmadeus Capital Partners
Atium develops a patent-pending electrochemical technology for selective removal of mercury from water, wastewater, and acids.
CleantechClimate TechDeep TechGöteborg, SE
Björn Wickman(Co-founder)
Co-investorsChalmers Ventures AB
Co-investorsCapital A Partners
CooliBlade develops integrated air-cooling thermal management products, including its NEOcore thermosyphon heatsink technology, for high-power electronics.
CleantechEnergyHardware
Creandum is a venture capital firm whose team is made up of former operators, founders, engineers, and specialists who back startups and their founders.
Sector Agnostic
Staffan Helgesson(Founder)in
Co-investorsCalm/Storm VCGolden Sparrow Ventures, LlcTesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd)Vintage Investment PartnersAndreessen HorowitzBain Capital Ventures+8 more
Creoir provides embedded, on-device Voice AI technologies — including automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speech signal enhancement — that operate without cloud connectivity.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechOulu, FI
Antti Lilja(Founder)Jaakko Mattila(Founder)Oskari Ketola(Founder)
Co-investorsModerne Ventures
CyberCoach provides security awareness support to help organizations keep employees informed and aware of security across specialized roles.
CybersecurityHR TechSaaS
Elonroad develops conductive charging systems for electric vehicles that charge while driving or parked, using electrified road tracks and road sensor data.
CleantechEnergyMobility & Transportation
Co-investorsBring VenturesLU Innovation
Embedl provides a platform for optimizing, compiling, and deploying AI models on edge hardware, including conversion, quantization, and benchmarking on device farms.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsChalmers Ventures ABFairpoint CapitalSpintop Ventures
Fjuul provides a plug-and-play platform that tracks physical activity and converts it into scored metrics (Fjuul points based on MET values) to power engagement, reward, and wellbeing programs.
Digital HealthInsurTechWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsKickstart Innovation
flinder builds and runs outsourced finance functions for fast-growth tech, SaaS, and e-commerce companies, providing bookkeeping, finance managers, controllers, and CFO-level support along with performance reporting.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsPeakEviny VenturesFarvatn VentureMomentumNordic Makers
Flow Computing develops the Flow PPU (Parallel Processing Unit), a licensable on-die parallel co-processor architecture that works alongside CPUs to improve parallel throughput and scalability.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsHelsinki, FI
Timo Valtonen(CEO, Co-Founder)inMartti Forsell(CTO & Chief Architect, Co-Founder)Jussi Roivainen(Chief Designer, Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsSuperhero Capital8VCMVP VenturesNeoNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Notable Capital+2 more
GBuilder provides software for real estate developers and construction projects, covering processes from marketing through to aftercare.
Construction TechPropTechSaaS
Co-investorsVendep Capital
Geyser Batteries develops high-power, heavy-duty energy storage systems built on a proprietary water-based electrolyte and its own engineering and manufacturing methods.
CleantechEnergyHardware
Co-investorsVoima Ventures
Happy Plant Protein develops a process that converts flours into plant-based protein ingredients for food manufacturers, designed to run in existing facilities with no waste and a neutral taste.
FoodTechNew Materials
Co-investorsNordic Foodtech VC
Harvard Business Review (HBR) publishes articles and content on management, leadership, and business topics for professionals and organizations.
Media & Entertainment
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Gunung Capital
Hintsa provides performance coaching and wellbeing programmes for athletes, business executives, and organisations, using an evidence-based method developed in Formula 1 by Dr.
Future of WorkSports TechWellness & Fitness
Aki Hintsa(Founder)Annastiina Hintsain
Co-investors500 GlobalK5 Global
Hypertype provides AI agents that handle repetitive customer support tasks by drawing on a company's own data, integrating with CRMs, helpdesk systems, and internal tools.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsLuminar Ventures
Icebreaker.vc is a venture capital firm that provides first tickets of up to €1.5M to early-stage teams from idea to seed stage, focusing on startups in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden.
Sector AgnosticNorth Attleboro, US
Julio E. Vega(Mr. Vega is the Secretary of the Issuer.)Mark Brehaut(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Kevin Murray, Jr.(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsTesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd)
Incipientus develops ultrasonic in-line monitoring systems that measure real-time flow and multipoint viscosity of complex fluids for manufacturers, allowing measurement and visualization without interrupting production.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware
Intelecy offers a no-code industrial AI platform that lets process engineers and operators build machine learning models to monitor and optimize manufacturing processes in real time.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaS
Co-investorsSkagerak CapitalYara Growth Ventures
Inventure is a generalist venture capital firm investing primarily in Nordic and Baltic companies across deep tech, consumer, healthtech, AI, and B2B SaaS sectors.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSaaSHelsinki, FI
Co-investorsMetaplanetSuperhero CapitalUnion Square Ventures (USV)Zrosk Investment Management
IPDX offers a data analytics and predictive modelling platform that helps organisations interpret operational and behavioural data to support financial planning, forecasting, and cost control.
Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaS
KNL builds Cognitive Networked HF (CNHF) software-defined radio systems that provide long-range, beyond-line-of-sight communications for military and security operations.
Deep TechDefense TechHardwareOulu, FI
Co-investorsCreandum
A Finnish-language content site providing analysis and coverage of the FIFA Club World Cup 2023, including match strategies, tactics, and player performances.
Media & EntertainmentSports Tech
Mitta is a Finnish measurement and surveying company that recently acquired eSite, a firm specializing in advanced 3D reality capture and modeling of built environments for industrial facilities, factories, and construction sites. eSite offers a SaaS product used by large industrial clients.
Construction TechDeep TechSaaS
Monidor develops easy-to-use health technology solutions to support nurses and improve patient safety.
Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesFinland, FI
Mikko Savola(CEO)Antti Puolitaival(Chief Medical Officer)
BoardJukka Kettunen(Chairman of the board)
Co-investorsInnovestor Ventures
Naava provides indoor greenery for workplaces, including green walls, potted plants, moss walls, and custom planters, along with professional green design, installation, and maintenance offered as a monthly service.
HardwareIoTWellness & Fitness
NordAmps designs, manufactures, and sells high-frequency circuits based on a patented vertical nanowire transistor technology that integrates III-V compound semiconductor materials on standard silicon wafers.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors
Jan Andersson(CEO)
Co-investorsLU Innovation
Norsepower develops wind-assisted propulsion systems for maritime vessels to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.
CleantechEnergyFinland, FI
Heikki Pöntynen(CEO)inJukka KuuskoskiinJarkko Väinämö(COO)in
Co-investorsClimate InvestmentLifeline VenturesVNT Management
A personal website of Om, a Silicon Valley veteran journalist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist, offering analysis of major technology trends and their effects on business and society.
Media & Entertainment
Reactional Music operates a music personalisation platform that provides programmable, rights-compliant music infrastructure for games and interactive media.
GamingMedia & EntertainmentSaaSStockholm, SE
Retein develops a patented molecular separation technology, based on bio-inspired stabilized channel proteins, to recover high-purity resources such as clean water and lithium from water sources.
CleantechDeep TechNew Materials
Co-investorsIndustrifondenNavigare Ventures
RiACT develops RiFLEX, a hardware-agnostic robot operating system and development platform that lets operators and integrators configure, coordinate, and run industrial and collaborative robots through a single interface without traditional programming.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechRobotics
Co-investorsCalm/Storm VCDigerati InvestmentsLeonis CapitalMoth FundPhaze VenturesXYZ Venture Capital
Slush is a founder-focused startup and venture capital event held in Europe, bringing together early-stage tech founders, investors, and speakers for talks, 1-on-1 meetings, and networking.
Sector Agnostic
Helsinki-based mobile game developer building social, long-lifecycle games, operating since 2013.
Co-investorsSisu Game VenturesSpintop VenturesCreandumEQT Ventures
SpinDrive develops active magnetic bearing (AMB) technology and provides services spanning client-specific AMB system design, parts supply, and commissioning for manufacturers of high-speed machines.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechClimate TechDeep TechHardware
Alexander Smirnov(CTO)inJanne Heikkinen(CEO)inNikita Uzhegov(COO)inTeemu Sillanpää(CPO)
Co-investorsD11ZInnovestor VenturesRhapsody Venture PartnersSDGx
SpinDrive designs, supplies and supports active magnetic bearing (AMB) systems and controller platforms for industrial OEMs whose high-speed machinery depends on bearing performance and lifecycle cost.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardware
Co-investorsRhapsody Venture PartnersSDGxInnovestor
Sports Tracker is a mobile app for iOS, Android, and Apple Watch that lets users track, explore, and analyze their sports and fitness activities.
ConsumerSports TechWellness & Fitness
Springvest is a Finnish growth investment service that lets private individuals, family offices, and institutional investors invest in unlisted domestic technology companies, either directly through funding rounds or indirectly via Springvest Oyj shares.
Fintech
StealthCase develops patented laser-treated glass antennas that allow 4G and 5G signals to penetrate energy-efficient low-E glass, improving indoor cellular coverage in modern buildings.
Construction TechDeep TechHardwareTampere, FI
Stratechery is a subscription publication offering written and audio analysis of the technology industry, covering topics such as AI models, business strategy, and market dynamics.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment
Ben Thompson
Surgify Halo is a medical technology company that develops innovative bone cutting technology designed to improve safety, precision, and efficacy in surgical procedures.
Deep TechHealthtechMedical Devices
Co-investorsInnovestor VenturesWave Ventures
Taika3D develops design automation software for custom orthotics and insoles, using 3D machine vision and AI to automatically generate 3D orthotic designs from foot scans in seconds.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHealthtech
Co-investorsNina CapitalNovaCapital
TVM places brand advertising in physical retail and out-of-home environments near the point of purchase, offering high-dwell-time exposure through creative content.
AdTechMarketing Tech
Co-investorsDeBa Ventures
Upright provides a model and AI engine that quantifies companies' and investment funds' sustainability impacts, risks, and opportunities, drawing on scientific research rather than company reports alone.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechImpact & Social GoodHelsinki, FI
Co-investorsPlanet A Ventures
Uute Scientific is a biotechnology company that develops Re-Connecting Nature™, a biodiversity-rich microbial ingredient platform derived from Finnish soil and validated by scientific studies to stimulate the immune system and support skin health.
BiotechNew MaterialsWellness & Fitness
Valossa builds multimodal video AI that watches, listens to and reads video content to generate transcripts, captions, metadata, summaries, highlight clips, and brand and content detection, offered through products like Valossa Assistant, Transcribe Pro, and Ad Scout.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Mika Rautiainen(Founder & CEO)
Co-investors01Ventures
WhatIsMyMovie.com is a movie search tool that lets users find films by describing any aspect of the content in natural language or by entering exact movie quotes.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerMedia & Entertainment
Zenniz makes an end-to-end smart tennis court system combining electronic line calling (audio sensors and cameras), shot analytics, video review, gamified practice drills, and live match streaming tools.
HardwareIoTSports TechHelsinki, FI
Sebastian Laine(Founder)
Co-investorsSuperhero Capital
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCreandum · thepaypers.com · Aug 24, 2026

Flinder · finsmes.com · Aug 19, 2026
Anne Glover · rse.org.uk · Jul 10, 2026
Cerenion · cerenion.com · May 28, 2026
SpinDrive · finsmes.com · Oct 28, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Butterfly Ventures made?
- Butterfly Ventures has 79 tracked investments.
- What stage does Butterfly Ventures invest at?
- Butterfly Ventures invests at the Seed stage.
- What is Butterfly Ventures's typical check size?
- Butterfly Ventures typically writes checks of $300K.
- What sectors does Butterfly Ventures focus on?
- Butterfly Ventures focuses on Cleantech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Hardware, Impact & Social Good.
- Where is Butterfly Ventures located?
- Butterfly Ventures is headquartered in Oulu, FI.
- Does Butterfly Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Butterfly Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Butterfly Ventures co-invest with?
- Butterfly Ventures most often shares deals with Innovestor Ventures, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd), LU Innovation, among 47 tracked co-investors.
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