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Butterfly Ventures
Venture capital · Oulu, Finland · Europe
Butterfly Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 that invests at the seed stage, with offices in Oulu, Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn and Copenhagen. It reports 77M€ under management and describes itself as one of the most active early stage VCs in the Nordic region.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeep techhardwareimpactsustainabilitynordicsseed
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Or find every investor that fitsButterfly Ventures lists 48 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (33%), Healthcare & Biotech (16%) and AI & Machine Learning (12%). 56% of its companies are based in Finland. It invests most often alongside Springvest, Almi and Chalmers Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Butterfly Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Butterfly Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 48. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 82th | 48 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 68th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 58th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 33% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 16% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 12% | 18% |
| Consumer | 8% | 3% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 8% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 4% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 4% | 8% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Springvest | 3 |
| Almi | 2 |
| Chalmers Ventures | 2 |
| Innovestor | 2 |
| Sarsia | 2 |
| Superhero Capital | 2 |
| Voima Ventures | 2 |
| 01Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4594%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company36%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Butterfly Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Butterfly Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 29 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 26 Feb 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 12 Jan 2026 | Round | |
| 5 Nov 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Butterfly Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Butterfly Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
48 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company produces autonomous pavement marking robots. | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| 3AWater provides a system for monitoring metal levels in industrial waters to make informed decisions faster and avoid costly delays, production issues and environmental incidents. | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Ampliconyx develops, manufactures and delivers gain modules, fiber lasers and amplifiers for demanding high-power applications. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Atium develops innovative water treatment technologies for the removal of mercury from water and other fluids. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Birdsview provides 3D concrete scanning and rebar mapping services using non-destructive methods like ground penetrating radar and 3D tracking. | Consumer | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Cerenion provides innovative solutions for practical EEG monitoring in acute healthcare. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Coolbrook replaces fossil-fuel combustion in industrial production with clean electricity using its RotoDynamic Technology. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| CooliBlade develops and provides thermal management solutions for power electronics | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Creoir develops voice AI technologies for mission-critical systems, particularly in defence environments. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| CyberCoach provides security and AI skills training in Teams and Slack | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Drev develops tools and services that enable manufacturers to safely capture, recycle, and reuse particles, transforming waste into a resource. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Nov 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Elonroad provides smart, cable-free charging solutions for electric vehicles. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Embedl helps deploy PyTorch models to production | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Fjuul harnesses the potential of data to help promote and reward physical activity as part of an engaging insurance, health service, or corporate wellbeing offering | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Flow Computing enables next generation SuperCPUs with its Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) technology | Healthcare & BiotechRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| GBuilder empowers real estate development and construction projects to streamline processes and achieve their goals | Real Estate & ConstructionEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Geyser Batteries develops water-based storage engineered for sub-10-millisecond response and 100,000+ cycles for various applications including AI data centers and grid stabilization. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces plant-based ingredients from flours for use in food products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- butterfly.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 5 Nov 2025
- Companies checked
- 48
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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