Foresights
Welcome! Here you can learn more about our Voima Ventures community, read founder stories, and catch up on recent portfolio updates and news.
Attracting investors in tough times
If you're currently fundraising for your startup, odds are that you’re facing some serious challenges. Raising money is always tough, but with valuations having gone ...
Reality checking deep tech investing
No matter how cool the tech is, one euro earned in a deep tech startup is worth exactly as much as one euro earned ...
New investments, team expansions, and reconnecting with the community – 2022 in a nutshell
Whew - what a year it’s been! Between the challenging economic environment, the tragic and unjust war in Ukraine and the following energy crisis, ...
Finnish baby tech startup builds momentum with investments from Oura and Natural Cycles founders
The original pioneers within wearable tech are conquering a new field – as Oura-veterans join forces with the Finnish baby tech startup Nucu™ to elevate ...
Revolutionizing the food industry and beyond – through robots with a human touch
It’s hardly news that the meal kit and e-grocery industry has virtually exploded within the last few years. With everyone wanting their groceries on ...
NADMED reveals the secrets of the human body at a metabolic level
Finnish healthtech startup NADMED brings to market a new type of NAD metabolite measurement technology based on an invention created in Professor Anu Wartiovaara’s team ...
Anna Pölönen joins the Voima Ventures team as VC trainee
The Voima Ventures team keeps on growing as Anna Pölönen joins the team in the role of VC Trainee. Anna's background lies in management ...
ElFys closed a new round from Samsung Ventures and are getting ready to scale and bring their photodiodes to wearable markets in big volumes
ElFys is tapping into a growing demand for photodetectors with people increasingly wanting to measure their health and wellbeing. Today’s announced €3M round complementing ...
Meet Cellfion – the green transformation startup bringing us one step forward to solving the energy crisis with bio-based membranes
The material science startup Cellfion celebrates its first anniversary by securing financing to enable the next steps towards the commercialization of the world’s first ...
Startups and science – how can we strive for peace in Europe and win the war through innovation?
Russia's devastating attack in Ukraine has put energy independence at the heart of the European political and economic debate. With sanctions tightening and our eastern ...
Soile Kankaanpää: “It was a dream come true: A board member position in an interesting sustainable business in a field that I was knowledgeable in”
Soile Kankaanpää blogs about her road to Member of the Board at Betolar, a Voima Ventures portfolio company. Dear All, First, thanks to ...
Welcome to Women to Boards: The 2022 edition!
We’re doing it again. Some of you might remember last year’s Women to Boards - an event we hosted to connect talented women ...
Deep tech VC Voima Ventures bets on scaling solutions from science and diversity – and is now taking on the Nordics with two new female team members in Sweden
Women-led VC funds are still few and far between - especially in the male-dominated deep tech field. Voima Ventures continues to renew the Nordic ...
Founders Spotlight: Laura Koivusalo, CEO and co-founder of StemSight
Founders Spotlight blog series introduces Voima Ventures’ portfolio company founders. In this edition we will be discussing with the co-founder and CEO of StemSight, ...
