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We invest in digital-first startups and support their journey toward sustainable growth.
Sofokus Venture’s funding vehicle, Digital Heart Capital II, is dedicated to investing in and accelerating early-stage “digital heart” startups. Founded in 2020, Digital Heart Capital I fund has backed ten digital-first companies and now focuses on supporting its portfolio in later funding rounds.
With over 20 years of digital business experience, we specialize in high-growth digital ventures, bringing an entrepreneurial spirit and a “late founder” mindset to drive your growth. We invest in early-stage startups (angel, pre-seed, and seed rounds).
For early-stage companies, financial stability is essential, but even more critical is having support through challenges and pivotal moments. Since each company is unique, we don’t follow a one-size-fits-all accelerator model; instead, we offer both financial investment and targeted support tailored to key areas identified together:
While building a business can often be industry-agnostic, digital ventures require specialized knowledge. Designing the employee experience, building platform-based revenue models, creating MVPs, ensuring scalability, and driving product-led growth are just some examples where this expertise comes into play.
When you talk to us about modular business, application architecture, SEO, security, or managing technical debt, we understand and can provide support. Our background in developing digital business sets Sofokus Ventures apart from most investment firms.
Conventional investment wisdom suggests that risks generally diminish as a company grows. While we don’t disagree, digitalization brings unique challenges. Through regular audits of custom software solutions, we see how easily hundreds of thousands can be sunk into applications needing extensive rework due to early missteps.
In a digital-first company, rapid growth can mean early mistakes scale up fast. That’s why we’re passionate about joining early and helping you manage business risks—starting with lifecycle management for your core business solutions.
eMabler creates a more sustainable future by making eMobility more accessible with the API-first electric vehicle charging platform.
Mintti Cleaning offers a responsible and modern alternative for quality-conscious businesses and consumers.
Coventures brings together entrepreneurs and innovative companies to solve the world’s most relevant challenges.
With their cutting-edge mobile service, Raxalle transforms on-boarding processes on construction sites.
QualityDesk is the easy way on to assess and improve your own and the performance of your call centre teams.
Liveto provides all the tools for successful events, whether virtual, physical or hybrid.
With our 1 million users, Exolyt is a social media analytics providing TikTok analytics to brands, influencers and businesses.
eMathStudio offers a fun way to learn mathematics with a digital guidance.
Confienta is a Finnish company established to serve our ageing population and their relatives.
Statzon is a subscription-based market intelligence platform providing access to in-depth market reports and insights from hundreds of trusted sources.
Sellai’s platform provides professional B2B sales representation as a service to companies struggling to find competent outsourced sales agents.
BlogTec’s easy-to-use online platform gives companies access to high-quality SEO & content services without requiring a big budget.
CaterMate is a HoReCa staffing company providing first-class caterers for all types of events.
Wudpecker’s AI tool creates convenient summaries and to-do lists of relevant information from virtual meetings, notes, emails and files.
Comprehensive freight management with one system – FreightOpt is a system for shippers to search, book and track shipments.
ConfidentialMind is a software solution for deploying AI applications either on-premises or in a private cloud. It enables companies to build and host AI applications that handle confidential data without compromising on data security.
Clevenio helps businesses boost sales and strengthen customer relationships through a multi-channel approach, automated follow-ups, and real-time analytics.
Exhive is a platform that streamlines and supports product development projects by leveraging generative AI to achieve goals effectively.
We make early-stage investments in two different phases: pre-seed and seed (also known as angel round). Pre-seed is often an informal round of funding, typically involving close associates and occurring very early in the innovation process. Team formation may not yet be complete, product/market fit may not have been established, and the core digital software might still be in development.
At this stage, our investment focus is on shaping the business fundamentals to create a scalable competitive advantage through digital solutions. Designing the software, implementing the MVP, and outlining the product vision are common steps, and building or strengthening the founding team is often essential.
During the pre-seed investment, we will collaborate with you to define a plan and objectives if requested. Achieving these goals will facilitate further investment in your company at the seed stage.
The seed funding round is typically the company’s first official financing round. This stage often involves multiple investors, including private angel investors.
A typical seed-stage company has formed its core team, brought a product to market, and acquired its first customers. The aim is often to establish the company’s presence in the market and accelerate growth.
We invest in the seed stage alongside other investors to ensure there is a robust support network around the company. Depending on the situation, we can act as either the lead investor or a co-investor. We are flexible, and our primary goal is to ensure a cohesive funding round that propels the team and the company’s story forward.
We are committed to helping early-stage digitally powered businesses. While we cannot invest in everyone, at least we try to guide you to the next door. So feel free to get in touch and we’ll talk more about your situation!
Turo Numminen
Head of Startup Investments Business
turo.numminen@sofokus.com
+358 50 517 1752