Harri Manninen

Founding Partner at Play Ventures

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 20 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Finland20+ investments
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Board Member
Jun 2022
Cypher is a mobile interactive entertainment company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story.
Board Member
Jun 2020
We make action games with epic stories to foster lasting connections with players around the world.
Angel Investor
Feb 2020
MeetinVR takes long-distance collaboration to the next level through Virtual Reality. Companies are now able to have professional meetings in virtual environments at any time, from anywhere. Maximizing the capabilities of VR, Meetin VR combines the flexibility of online meetings with the interactivity of in-person meetings, enabling people to get together in fully customizable virtual workspaces where they can talk, interact, and feel as if they are sharing the same space. Users will be able to share and review media together (360 content, images, videos) and will have access to tools to enhance creative collaboration, making it easier than ever for companies to brainstorm, sketch and prototype ideas together. Follow us! https://www.facebook.com/meetinvr/ https://twitter.com/meetinvr https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJ_hYo8Scep2DxnqBWI6RQ
Board Member
Feb 2020
Crafting outstanding games!
Board Member
Jan 2020
We’re on a mission to create arcade games everyone can enjoy – and are seriously fun to play!
early stageEntertainment
Board Member
Dec 2019
mod.io is a User Generated Content solution for game developers and publishers. Harnessing the creativity of players who make new content for the games they love, mod.io provides the tools for this UGC to be played across PC and consoles, curated for quality and safety. Retain and engage players, through the power of cross-platform UGC. Connect to your community now with mod.io.
Board Member
Aug 2019
We are an independent, venture-backed game developer with veterans from places like CCP, Next Games, Blizzard Entertainment, Ubisoft, and Remedy. We are assembling a world-class team to build our MMO - Pax Dei: a social sandbox, accessible on any screen and offering new ways of playing with our friends. We have studios in Helsinki, Reykjavík and Paris. We support both remote and in-office work, following one simple rule: work where you are most productive! Join us now and impact the game we develop and the company we’re building.
early stageComputer Games
Board Member
Aug 2019
Small team of expert mobile game developers making huge experiences.
early stageComputer Games
Angel Investor (IPO NASDAQ 12/2019)
Aug 2019
Astralis A/S owns all commercial and media rights for the Astralis brand. Founded in 2016, Astralis is the most winning CS:GO team in history, sporting an impressive array of titles and trophies, including no less than four Major titles, three of those won back to back. Esports is for all and the vision of Astralis is to champion the positives of esports and gaming, on- and off line.
Angel Investor
Mar 2019
Osgenic is a software company from Helsinki, Finland. We are creating a new environment where surgeons can prepare for procedures safely. Our mission is to make surgery safer for the patients and surgeons.
Board Member
Dec 2018
We’re a group of accomplished game-makers specialized in developing uplifting game experiences that spark creativity and imagination. We established Reworks Ltd in the summer of 2018 to develop Redecor. Redecor aims to become the #1 playground for home decor. It is a place to play, explore designs, find inspiration, and connect with others who share a passion for home decor. If you like home decor, you will love Redecor! Play design challenges, mix and match thousands of home decor items, choose the winning combos and share your creativity with millions of fellow Redecorators. With Redecor, you can express your style and find fresh ideas like never before. Reworks is part of the Playtika Family. Playtika Holding Corp. is a leading mobile gaming company and monetization platform with over 35 million monthly active users across a portfolio of games titles. Playtikans are storytellers and coders, artists and data-scientists, explorers and strategists. Not only building games, but bringing them to life. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, and guided by a mission to entertain the world through infinite ways to play, Playtika has over 4,000 employees in 15 offices worldwide including Tel-Aviv, London, Berlin, Vienna, Helsinki, Chicago, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Newport Beach, Kiev, Bucharest, Minsk, Dnepr, and Vinnitsa.
Board Member
Dec 2018
Redhill Games is a game studio headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It is formed by a seasoned team of industry veterans. We are aiming high but approach this opportunity with humility and determination. Redhill Games has been in a unique position in the Finnish gaming industry since its foundation in 2018. With our experience in multiplayer FPS and access to exciting projects as a co-development partner, we can offer many unique and valuable job opportunities to experienced professionals, as well as promising new talent looking to make their mark on the gaming industry. As a small team, we value responsibility. Everyone contributes to creating the company culture and making games appealing and unique. When we look for new team members, we love to see passion, integrity, and team spirit. We pride ourselves for: Trusting our talent and ensuring they’re heard when they bring new ideas forward. We welcome innovating and testing new things boldly – it’s better to have tried and failed rather than having tried at all Believing in personal growth – we offer excellent careers progression plans and plenty of options for developing individual skills with on-demand learning platforms available to employees 24/7 Valuing diversity and character – we are all different but have a common purpose. We respect each other’s talents and contributions and treat each other equally. There is absolutely no room for discrimination at Redhill Games Being international – we already have colleagues from 20 countries! Working towards a healthier work-life balance by being flexible where it counts Loving, playing, and developing games with pride – you will always have someone to play with at Redhill!
early stageComputer Games
Angel Investor
Nov 2018
FitXR is a fitness technology company working at the cutting edge of VR and MR. We’re a funded scale-up on a mission to impact more lives than any other fitness company, and build a healthier world for everyone. We started life in 2016 in a garden shed in the UK. Today, we’re building FitXR, one of the top-downloaded apps on the Meta Quest store. We’ve raised close to $40m from top investors such as Maveron, Hiro, BoostVC and TriplePoint. We’re a remote-first team of just under 100 people from across the US, UK, and Spain, and we’re committed to making it simpler and more enjoyable for people to get moving. We believe that anybody can fall in love with fitness and make movement part of their life. We’re guided by our Principles of Play: eight core beliefs about how we treat each other and our community. We make space for every voice, believe in the importance of a learner’s mindset, and prioritize team success over individual glory. The FitXR app contains a growing range of fitness studios, where members can choose from box workouts with world-class trainers like Olympian Nicola Adams, powerful HIIT workouts, and immersive dance classes. While nothing compares to trying it yourself, you can watch a trailer here: https://youtu.be/I_jdov6lU-0 FitXR is available on Meta Quest 2 and has been downloaded by over a million people worldwide. Featured in Forbes, Empire, T3, Washington Post, Mens Health, GQ and more. In 2022, FitXR ranked 6th in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups.
Angel Investor
Jun 2018
School Day is the best tool for district leaders and teachers to proactively lead well-being in the classroom to improve learning results. WELL-BEING - MOTIVATION - SEL SKILLS - LEARNING RESULTS CONTACT US: Website: www.schoolday.com General: info@schoolday.com
Angel Investor
Dec 2017
Crafting outstanding games!
early stageComputer Games
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Board Member
Jun 2022
Cypher is a mobile interactive entertainment company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story.
2020
Board Member
Jun 2020
We make action games with epic stories to foster lasting connections with players around the world.
Angel Investor
Feb 2020
MeetinVR takes long-distance collaboration to the next level through Virtual Reality. Companies are now able to have professional meetings in virtual environments at any time, from anywhere. Maximizing the capabilities of VR, Meetin VR combines the flexibility of online meetings with the interactivity of in-person meetings, enabling people to get together in fully customizable virtual workspaces where they can talk, interact, and feel as if they are sharing the same space. Users will be able to share and review media together (360 content, images, videos) and will have access to tools to enhance creative collaboration, making it easier than ever for companies to brainstorm, sketch and prototype ideas together. Follow us! https://www.facebook.com/meetinvr/ https://twitter.com/meetinvr https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJ_hYo8Scep2DxnqBWI6RQ
Board Member
Feb 2020
Crafting outstanding games!
Board Member
Jan 2020
We’re on a mission to create arcade games everyone can enjoy – and are seriously fun to play!
early stageEntertainment
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