• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Helsinki’s Maki.vc poised to close fund at €100M, key focus will be sustainability, deeptech

September 14, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

Helsinki-based VC Maki.vc is poised to reach the final close of its second fund at €100 million, with the aim to invest in seed-stage startups across Europe.

The first investments from the new fund include UK-based Baseimmune (antigen discovery and vaccine design), Volare (Foodtech), and PixieRay (adaptive eyeglasses).

Maki.vc’s initial ticket sizes range from €250,000 to €3 million. The VC’s first €80M fund invested in sustainable textile fiber producer Spinnova, quantum computing team IQM, and Oatly’s partner for carbon labeling, CarbonCloud.

In a statement, Maki.vc’s Founding Partner Ilkka Kivimäki said: “Within the deep tech and brand-driven focus, we have no industry or geographical restrictions, but instead we look for relentless founders. Common to the most advanced technologies and most captivating brands is their ability to approach the world’s greatest challenges in unconventional ways.”

In an interview with TechCrunch Kivimäki added: “We have 77 investments already in the new fund. So up and running and hitting the ground running.”

Is there a change in strategy?

“Actually, very little,” he said. “We were already talking about the sustainability aspect. I think that that is going to many more new materials, new processes, including all of the food tech stuff. And we are definitely not shying away from hardware and complex things. We were initial investors in IQM which is the quantum computer. We were the only venture investor in a company called Spinnova which is making yarn from wood fibers.”

The new fund is backed by 70+ LPs comprising of exited entrepreneurs and corporate executives, including Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus and Teleport co-founder Sten Tamkivi, Supercell co-founder & CEO Ilkka Paananen, Wolt co-founders Oskari Petas and Mika Matikainen, Small Giant Games chair of the board Timo
Soininen, chair of the board at Ensto Marjo Miettinen and Seriously CEO & co-founder Petri Järvilehto.

Source Link Helsinki’s Maki.vc poised to close fund at €100M, key focus will be sustainability, deeptech

David Barret
David Barret

Related posts:

  1. End of the summer: Events that may shake markets in September
  2. Taliban tells Berlin it will welcome German companies, aid
  3. China will improve opening up of capital market – securities regulator
  4. Vietnam’s capital ramps up testing after extending COVID-19 curbs

Filed Under: News

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • Myth Vs. Medicine: The Truth About Nature’s Healing Power
  • Dead Sea Scrolls May Have Been Written By Original Authors Of The Bible
  • The World’s Oldest-Ever Cat Lived On A Delicious-Sounding Diet – Including Wine
  • Next Megatsunami May Sink Parts Of The Pacific Northwest Coast By Up To 2 Meters
  • Magnetic Curtains As Wide As A City Seen On The Sun In Unexpected Findings
  • The Colorado River Basin Has Lost Enough Groundwater Alone To Fill Lake Mead
  • Ping-Pong Sponges, Dragonfish, And Snailfish Eggs Delight Scientists Exploring The Planet’s Most Remote Trenches
  • Morenci Mine, The Largest Copper Mine In US, Is A Sight To Behold
  • The Standard Model Saved Once More Thanks To The Most Precise Muon Measurement
  • New Study Rules Out Popular Version Of The Simulation Hypothesis
  • What Is Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” Actually About?
  • Suspect Accused Of Fowl Play In Scrubbed Australian Rocket Launch Is Innocent
  • Two Yangtze Finless Porpoises Have Been Returned To The Wild For First Time In China
  • Sun Filtered By Dust In Florida As Haboob The Size Of 48 States Approaches The US
  • What Is The Alaska Triangle?
  • “Egyptian Blue” Was A Color Lost To History. Finally, We Can Make It Again
  • Satellite Image Shows A Human Head Peering Out Of The Landscape In Canada
  • Video Shows Physicists Achieve “Impossible” Feat Of Rolling A Ball Vertically
  • Octopus Survives Suspected Predator Attack And Regrows Limbs – But Ends Up With 9, Not 8
  • These Are All The NASA Missions That Trump Wants To Cancel
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version