Niklas Lahti

Investor & operator in digital businesses - building something new

📍 Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2023
VC🌍 Finland
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Board member, Investor
Aug 2017
Craft detailed motion design for the web, and apply to HTML, WebGL, or your in-house tech stack.
Investor, board member
Feb 2016
Growthminds is a growth strategy consultancy that helps scaling businesses with a structured process to achieve growth. We use customer intelligence to forecast the impact of different growth decisions so businesses can follow a realistic route to scale.
Co-Founder, Investor
Jan 2016
Integrify is a leading tech talent platform based in Finland. Since 2016, our mission has remained the same: to connect tech talent with forward-thinking companies.
Experience · 11 entries
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2025
Founder, Advisor
Oct 2025
Aurafleet is building Europe’s first AI-native logistics operating system for SME road freight companies. Across Europe, small and mid-sized transport companies still manage their operations with a patchwork of Excel sheets, WhatsApp chats, legacy telematics systems and paper workflows. This creates inefficiencies, human error and high operational costs — a “coordination tax” that drains profitability and slows down growth. Aurafleet brings everything together into a single intelligent platform that understands, learns and acts. Our system integrates order management, route planning, driver communication, telematics analysis, timesheets and invoicing into one AI-powered workspace. Instead of just showing dashboards, our AI interprets data, highlights what matters and recommends concrete actions in natural language. Key features include automatic order digitization, AI-assisted route and shift planning, multilingual driver-dispatch communication, and telematics analysis that delivers easy-to-read performance reports for both drivers and supervisors in their own languages. With the EU Data Act taking effect in 2025, fleets will gain direct API access to their vehicle data — and Aurafleet is built natively for this new, open-data era. Our approach eliminates the need for proprietary hardware and outdated software integrations, giving operators full control over their data and operations. Aurafleet was founded in 2025 in Turku, Finland, by a team combining deep logistics experience, AI and software expertise, and proven operational leadership. Our first pilot customers are launching in late 2025. We’re on a mission to keep Europe’s transport data in European hands and to make modern logistics software finally work for the people who move the world.
Co-Founder
Sep 2025
Global Stealth PE/VC Fund is founded by Karina Rukmini Binol, the CEO and Company Owner of Karina Rukmini Binol Consolidated Trust. As of May 29, 2025 except for Karina Rukmini Binol there are no other employees/individuals/entities affiliated with Global Stealth PE/VC Fund. Please do not tag/mention us unless Global Stealth PE/VC Fund has requested it to be so or granted permission. Stealth PE/VC Fund is a Private Equity & Venture Capital Fund with a Global & EMEA HQ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and with an APAC HQ in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Global Stealth PE/VC Fund operates as a general partnership investing in global early-stage startups (Seed & Series A). The Co-Managing Partners, General Partners, and Venture Partners of the Fund also partake as LPs in VC Funds across the globe. Copyright Stealth PE/VC Fund. All rights reserved.
Founding Partner
Sep 2025
DAL Partners is an investment company founded by Casimir Kontio, Markus Remes and Niklas Lahti. DAL Partners focuses on selected few investments into Finnish SMEs with untapped growth potential. DAL provides its companies with meaningful growth capital and full-time operational involvement to unlock transformational growth through AI, commercial and operational excellence and M&A. DAL Partners is chaired by Yrjö Närhinen.
2023
Board Member
Mar 2023
Heeros is a Finnish software company specialising in cloud-based business management solutions. Our solutions meet the changing needs of SMBs that are looking to invest in integrated, user-friendly systems used across the organization. Heeros portfolio covers solutions to digitalize key business processes from financial and human resources management to enterprise resource planning. Heeros solutions are already used by more than 18 000 companies and other organizations in 20 different countries. Roughly 500,000 invoices are processed every month using the Heeros software. We have offices in the Netherlands and Finland.
2020
COO
Nov 2020
Tesseract Investment is a regulated institutional digital asset lending company based in Finland, providing yield-generating solutions to institutional clients, such as cryptocurrency trading platforms and custodians across Europe and other emerging markets. Our white-label product, Earn API by Tesseract, enables partners to offer their customers different financial products tailored to specific risk strategies. Since founding in 2017, we have a track record of rigorous risk management, innovation, and profitable growth. In June 2021, we raised a 25 MUSD Series A to supplement our growth. We are recruiting.
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2016–2023 · 4 investments
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