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Inventure

Inventure

Helsinki, Finland · Stockholm, Sweden · London, United Kingdom

inventure.vc

Inventure is a Nordic and Baltic early-stage venture-capital platform founded in2005 by Sami Lampinen and Timo Tirkkonen. It invests across seed and SeriesA, supporting technical founders with follow-on capital and operational expertise. Its published interests include artificial intelligence, deep technology, healthcare, biotechnology, energy, semiconductors, space, software and consumer businesses. The live directory lists ten current investment, operations and communications professionals, with offices in Helsinki, Stockholm and London. Its exact historical and FundI–IV operating manager is Onventure Oy, Finnish businessID1979075-1, a registered AIFM and EuVECA manager. The Finnish Patent and Registration Office’s official register confirms this company, originally named Holtron Partners Oy before2007. Own compliance materials explicitly distinguish the four limited partnerships Inventure Fund Ky, FundIIKy, FundIIIKy and FundIVKy from their respective corporate general partners Inventure Oy, InventureIIOy, InventureIIIOy and InventureIVOy, owned by Onventure. The brand is not a merged fund or a claim that all corporate GP companies are the same legal person. A separate newer Finnish legal company, Inventure Partners Oy3533737-5, is named by the Estonian financial supervisor as the FundV manager. Official PRH registration confirms it is distinct from Onventure. No automatic legal merger, rename or retroactive transfer of historical checks is inferred. FundV’s precise current brand-to-vehicle management and closed-capital announcement remain qualified research until a current primary operating document confirms them; no target is recorded as raised cash. The firm’s July6,2023 primary announcement confirms FundIV’s third and final closing at EUR151million commitments, exceeding its EUR150million target. Own compliance specifies June2023 final close, without an exact day. Earlier fund vehicles and reported capital are recorded with their primary source scope; general manager AUM, LP support commitments and investment-ticket ranges are not new company financing. FundIV’s earlier EUR144million second-close figure is the same fund, not an additional fund. The portfolio includes explainable-AI therapeutics company Abzu, quantum drug-discovery company Algorithmiq, computational protein designer Biomatter, brain-stimulation company Samphire Neuroscience and enterprise-AI infrastructure and semiconductor companies. The firm’s own Abzu card identifies a2021 seed investment; the issuer’s financing history is owned separately and no day, ticket, subscribing fund or personal director cash is inferred from a portfolio card.

Founded
2005
Type
Venture capital

Funds4

  • Inventure Fund IV Ky€151M

    Finnish limited-partnership venture fund operated by Onventure Oy, with Inventure IV Oy as corporate GP. The firm announced its third and final closing at EUR151million commitments July6,2023; own compliance places final closing in June2023 without an exact day. AnnouncedAt is the original primary announcement date, not an asserted June closing day. It exceeded the EUR150million target. Earlier EUR144million second close inNovember2022 is the same vehicle, not another fund. LP support under InvestEU is not an additional separate fund.

  • Inventure Fund II Ky€70M

    Finnish limited-partnership venture fund operated by Onventure Oy, with Inventure II Oy as corporate general partner. Own compliance, current direct-LP Tesi portfolio table and Tesi’s2017 annual review confirm the actual EUR70million fund and2013 launch. These sources do not identify a full-day final closing, so announcedAt remainsNULL. LP support amounts are included fund backing, not additional corpus or company cash.

  • Inventure Fund III Ky€117M

    Finnish venture limited partnership operated by Onventure Oy, with Inventure III Oy as corporate GP. Own compliance and the direct-LP Tesi current fund table report EUR117million actual fund size, launched2017. Tesi’s2017 annual review separately records EUR110million initially raised. EUR117million is the later reported total corpus, not EUR110million plus an additional117million fund. Historical EUR135million target is not a completed close. Exact date of the later reported total is unpublished.

  • Inventure Fund Ky€40M

    Original legal Finnish limited-partnership venture vehicle operated by Onventure Oy, with Inventure Oy as corporate GP. Historical EUR40million fundraising is directly confirmed by Tesi’s2017 annual review and own compliance report. The current Tesi table reports EUR41million size; this is a different report-date/rounding scope, not proof of an additional EUR1million cash closing. Own compliance specifies opened2008, while Tesi’s retrospective describes fundraising during2007. Exact final-close day is unpublished, so dateNULL.

Team

Operations and support

Anna SalminenAnna SalminenSenior Internal Operations Manager
Cristina KoehnCristina KoehnChief Operating Officer
Greg AndersonGreg AndersonCommunications and Marketing Director
Lauri KokkilaLauri KokkilaPartner
Linus DahgLinus DahgManaging Partner
Magda LukaszewiczMagda LukaszewiczPartner
Sami LampinenSami LampinenPartner
Sophie MattssonSophie MattssonInvestment Associate
Timo TirkkonenTimo TirkkonenPartner
Tuomas KosonenTuomas KosonenPartner

Co-investing

Investments