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Illusian
Investor · Helsinki, Finland · Europe
Illusian is a group of founders and operators from companies such as Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, Parloa, Silo AI and Iceye that supports startups, scale-ups and philanthropic initiatives. It describes itself as a founder office offering networks, capital and expertise to founders and founder-minded operators.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfounder-ledeuropeventure philanthropyaisoftwarehealth
Your fit with Illusian
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Or find every investor that fitsIllusian lists 20 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 40% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (24%), Healthcare & Biotech (12%) and Education (12%). 32% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside IVP, Index Ventures and 01A.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Illusian, 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 Illusian's whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 20. 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 roundIllusian does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 40% |
| Series A | 40% |
| Series B | 20% |
| 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 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 66th | 40% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 31th | 24% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 24% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 12% | 15% |
| Education | 12% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 9% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| IVP | 3 |
| Index Ventures | 3 |
| 01A | 2 |
| Accel | 2 |
| Evantic | 2 |
| Sequoia Capital | 2 |
| Solari Capital | 2 |
| Tesonet | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers20100%
- 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 togetherCompare Illusian 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 Illusian| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 6 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 30 Sept 2025 | Series B | |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Illusian
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Illusian's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
20 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseten brings inference, training, and execution together on one platform to power companies | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| CodeWords turns a description into a live workflow, for anyone with a job they repeat every week. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| DeepL provides translation services for text, files, and voice, as well as other language tools. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Fifty Years is a pre-seed and seed focused VC firm that backs founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems and also helps start companies | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| FR8 provides a space and resources for young people to work on their ambitious ideas and projects | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Gameto is a biotechnology company that develops innovative solutions for women's reproductive health, including treatments for infertility and menopause. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Herizon helps international professionals get hired | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Linear provides a system for product development for teams and agents | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Makiina is a full stack robotics company transforming raw materials into physical agents that think and act in the real world. | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| The company works to prevent exclusion and inequality among children, young people, and families | EducationReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| N8n provides a platform for automating workflows using AI and integrations with various tools and services. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Nadija Children’s Hospital provides mental and physical rehabilitation for war-affected children in Ukraine | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| NewOrbit engineers and operates Very Low Earth Orbit satellites for applications such as Earth observation, global connectivity, and weather forecasting. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Nyt provides educational content and training for schools and educational institutions to teach entrepreneurship and economics to children and young people. | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Ovido provides a platform that turns scattered product specifications, supplier documents, and certificates into one structured product record for e-commerce, compliance documentation, and Digital Product Passports. | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Riff creates AI agents for industrial operations to work alongside people and across systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Sekasin Kollektiivi coordinates a chat service for young people to discuss various issues. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Suno generates music using artificial intelligence. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Vibe.co provides TV advertising services for brands to reach shoppers and measure sales performance | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Sept 2025Series B | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- illusian.org
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 17 Jun 2025
- Companies checked
- 20
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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