Meri Helleranta

MBA, PhD, Certified Board Member

📍 Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
VC🌍 Finland
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Angel Investor
Mar 2022
Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.
Investor
Nov 2018
FiBAN is a Finnish non-profit association of private investors and one of the largest and most active business angel networks in Europe with 600+ investor members in 12 countries. A matchmaker of growth-ready early-stage startups and private investors. Our three main activities are: 👉 Matchmaking startups and private investors 👉 Sharing and developing angel investing best practices via certified investor training. 👉 Representing private investors​ interest in societal matters and through producing data from the early-stage investment landscape. FiBANs Data: www.fiban.org/data For Startups: www.fiban.org/apply For Members: www.fiban.org/join In all FiBAN events and contexts, we expect our members and partners to follow our Code of Conduct. Please find it here: https://fiban.org/code-of-conduct/ FiBAN Notification Channel for reporting inappropriate behavior: https://fiban.ilmoituskanava.fi/ and on the footer of our website.
Limited Partner - Business Angel
Nov 2018
Rising Tide Europe is a global movement to increase women’s participation in angel investing which is at just 7%. It started in 2015 as a cooperative effort between GoBeyond and EBAN with support from Next Wave Impact. We strive to create opportunities for women to thrive in their professional and personal lives by promoting financial knowledge and increasing women’s access to an important asset class through a portfolio of early-stage companies.
Board Member
2018
Nordic Female Business Angel Network (NFBAN) welcomes prospective and experienced investors – women and men – from different professional backgrounds to learn, exchange ideas, and work together for their own benefit and that of society as a whole. NFBAN encourages and supports female entrepreneurship and female angel investing. NFBAN also believes in impacting on the well-being of society while being profitable. The core focus of NFBAN is impact investing. Individual investor members at NFBAN include both female and male angel investors and we welcome anyone passionate about female entrepreneurship or impact investing. Nordic Female Business Angel Network (NFBAN) is a non-profit organization, a member of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and an official member of the Impact Investment Committee (EIIC). Contact: info@nfban.org
Experience · 9 entries
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Investments (4)
Board (1)
2026
2023
Partner
May 2023
Open Circe Capital is a venture fund management company. We are making equity investments into early-stage start-ups with global ambitions and the aim to invest in innovative and disruptive technologies. We focus on Deep-Tech, ICT and robotics technologies, where our management team, advisory partners, and mentor community can add significant value.
2022
Angel Investor
Mar 2022
Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.
2021
Partner
Aug 2021
Courage Ventures is the first purely digital health focused venture capital fund in the Nordics. We invest in early-stage Digital Health startups in the Nordics and Baltics, the region with the most sophisticated Digital Health ecosystem driving the next wave of innovations. We have exceptional access to early deal flow in the Nordics and Baltics from our extensive networks. We have an established record of taking Nordic companies to the US, the worlds most attractive growth and exit market in healthcare.
2020
Limited Partner
Jun 2020
Portfolia is the most powerful community of women and men investing in the companies we want in the world. Our collective investments are changing health, active aging & longevity, sustainability, education, and the overall venture capital landscape while also backing diversity. Our currently open funds are Femtech III, focused on enhancing the wellness of all women, and advancing innovation in womens health; and Active Aging & Longevity II, focused on significant opportunities and challenges in aging well, as well as those focused on new strides and technologies in the field of longevity. We drive change while creating wealth. If youd like to join us, email investorrelations@portfolia.com, and our Investor Relations Team will contact you.
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2018–2022 · 4 investments
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