Helen
Corporate VC · Helsinki, Finland · Europe
Helen is a Finnish energy company that sells electricity, district heating, cooling and solar solutions to households and businesses. Its venture unit, Helen Ventures, made corporate venture capital investments in European startups.
Invests inEducationIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsenergye-mobilitycircular economydecarbonisationdigital solutionsclean energy
Your fit with Helen
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Or find every investor that fitsHelen lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Education (75%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (25%). 50% of its companies are based in Switzerland. It invests most often alongside Capricorn Partners, Junction Growth Investors and Redstone.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Helen, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundHelen does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 50% |
| Growth | 50% |
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 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 75% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 25% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Capricorn Partners | 1 |
| Junction Growth Investors | 1 |
| Redstone | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Capricorn Partners
Compare Helen head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Helen| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Mar 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 2 Apr 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Helen
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Helen's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
2 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eturnity helps energy installers manage every step of their projects in one workflow | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Gradyent provides a digital twin platform to optimize and decarbonize heating, cooling, and steam grids | EducationEducation | Apr 2025Series B | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- helen.fi
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 2
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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