Voima Ventures

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VCMatch tracks Voima Ventures as an investor focused on AI/ML, Enterprise SaaS, and Digital Health companies, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, Finland, Nordics, and Europe markets, and $1.47m to $40m check sizes. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

Check Size

$1.47m to $40m

Stages

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B

Focus Areas

AI/ML, Enterprise SaaS, Digital Health

Geography

Finland, Nordics, and Europe

Investment Thesis

Voima Ventures is a science-first, impact-oriented VC that invests exclusively in deep tech and academic spin‑offs to “solve major global problems by combining science, entrepreneurship, and capital.” They back companies from pre-seed and technology spin-offs through leading Series A (and occasionally Series B), focusing on long‑horizon, hard‑to-build technologies that “require time and courage to build” and helping founders scale those solutions to global markets.

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

Voima Ventures is most relevant for founders raising Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds in AI/ML, Enterprise SaaS, Digital Health, and Medtech, especially across Finland, Nordics, and Europe, with public check-size signals around $1.47m to $40m.

Focus statement

Voima Ventures is a €40M deep tech fund that "invests purely in startups with deep tech and scientific backgrounds" across domains such as bio & new materials, medtech & life sciences, imaging & optics, IoT & electronics, robotics, software & ICT and AI, with the explicit mission to "help founders scale global solutions for the people, planet and industry."

Value Add

Pure deep‑tech, science-driven mandate: "invests purely in startups with deep tech and scientific backgrounds" (€40M fund).
Close ties to research/commercialisation ecosystem: manages a portfolio of VTT Ventures ("20 prominent deep tech companies including Solar Foods, Paptic, and Dispelix") and lists VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland as a cornerstone investor.
European institutional backing and strategic network: cornerstone investors include VTT and the European Investment Fund (EIF); supported by InnovFin Equity and EU programmes (Horizon 2020 / EFSI).
Flexible stage exposure: invests from pre-seed and technology spin‑offs through leading Series A and occasionally Series B ("Our investments vary from pre-seed stage and technology spin-offs to us leading a series A (and even series B)").
Hands‑on, growth entrepreneur team with Nordic + global mindset: they explicitly combine "science-driven innovation together with the Nordic serial entrepreneurial experience and a global mindset" to accelerate scale.
Track record of commercialising research into product and market (examples: Agate Sensors, MVision AI) and ability to coordinate grants and EU funds alongside equity rounds (e.g., Agate round included Business Finland grants).
Talent/operational support orientation: runs a trainee program to bring specialised scientific and scaling expertise into deal flow, diligence and portfolio support.