Reima Linnanvirta

Up to 1meur seed investments into European software startups with a consumer or community component and traction, Partner at Trind.vc

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 37 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Finland20+ investments
37
Total investments
12
Early stage
11
Mid stage
6
Late stage
21y
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Board Observer
Feb 2025
SparkReceipt is a SaaS platform aimed at simplifying the management of financial documents like receipts, invoices, and bank statements, primarily for small businesses, freelancers, and individuals. The application enables users to better sort expenses and apply for tax deductions without requiring a full accounting suite. One key feature is its OCR technology, enhanced by OpenAIs ChatGPT, for quick and accurate scanning of documents. Unlike other apps that rely on pattern matching against known databases, ChatGPT can contextually understand and categorize data from various vendors and chains, making the platform more robust and up-to-date. For teams, SparkReceipt offers collaborative tools, allowing multiple users to manage financial documents under the same account. This resolves the complications of using methods like email to share and track numerous documents. The platform also supports over 150 currencies and provides accurate currency conversions, benefitting businesses with international operations. With tiered pricing including a free option, SparkReceipt is accessible for different sizes of businesses. The Pro subscription offers features such as inviting an accountant, auto-scanning receipts from email, and unlimited document storage. SparkReceipt fills a gap in the market by offering a comprehensive yet simple solution for pre-accounting and expense tracking. Its a middle ground between expensive accounting software and basic expense tracking apps, meeting a variety of pre-accounting needs.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Focus on listening in your calls. Wudpecker will take care of your notes and tasks. Auto-magically. Wudpecker joins every call, records, transcribes, and make high-quality notes automatically. With more than 5h/week saved using Wudpecker, you can focus on things that matter the most!
Board Member
Aug 2023
Mjuk is an innovative end-to-end re-commerce marketplace for furniture. Housing the largest selection of circular furniture in the Nordics, Mjuk has already facilitated the rehoming of tens of thousands of furniture pieces and interior decor items. With the opportunity to save up to 80% on sought-after designer furniture and explore expertly cleaned second-hand furniture, Mjuk empowers sustainable furnishing without compromising quality or budget. Each week, over 100 newly added items undergo meticulous reviews and cleaning, ensuring confidence in every purchase. In addition to individual sellers, Mjuk collaborates directly with brands and retailers to find loving homes for pristine returns and archive pieces, enabling customers to acquire finds from their favorite brands at reduced prices while contributing to reducing emissions. For sellers, Mjuk provides a seamless solution, making the selling process a breeze for both individuals and businesses. From handling logistics to product cleaning and sales, Mjuk ensures a hassle-free experience for all involved. Join the circular furniture revolution at mjuk.com.
Board Observer
Oct 2022
From clubs to festivals, concerts to cultural movements, XCEED is where people come together through music, art, and shared experiences. We believe unforgettable nights don’t just entertain—they shape culture, bring communities together, and define local scenes. XCEED is the platform behind the best nights out—empowering event organizers to manage ticketing, marketing, and audience insights, while helping fans discover their next unforgettable experience—all in one place. We are creators and challengers who refuse to watch from the sidelines. Every day is a chance to rethink, rebuild, and push further. We celebrate success and embrace smart risks and deep ownership—because shaping the future isn’t for the passive. Since 2009, we’ve been bridging the gap between the digital and physical—enhancing real moments with seamless technology. Today, as one of the Financial Times "Fastest Growing Companies in Europe 2025," XCEED powers events in 350+ cities across 25 countries, developing in collaboration with leading venues, festivals, and organizers across four continents.
late stageEvents Services
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2020
It's not about the tools - it's about the teachers. But the best teachers should have the best tools! Proudly part of Kahoot!
Chair of the Board and Investor
Mar 2020
Taimer Oy, as part of the Heeros Group, is a Finnish software company that owns, produces, develops and sells PSA solutions for the business management of professional service providers. Our modular software solution, implemented with the SaaS service model, enables easy software use and implementation according to the customer’s needs. Customers are our most important resource. That is why our software development work is based on the needs of our customers, who themselves have strong expertise in project, sales, resource, time and invoice management. Join our esteemed customers and start simplifying your work today. Get yours FREE FOREVER in https://www.taimer.com. Useful Links: - Taimer Official Website: https://www.taimer.com - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taimerltd/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/Taimerltd - GooglePlus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Taimer - iTunes AppStore: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taimer-project-management-crm/id1134942794?mt=8 - YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/Taimer - Support: Please get in touch through Online Chat at “https://taimer.com” or email us at “support@taimer.com”. - Sales: to contact sales, please email us at “taimersales@heeros.com” or call 010 4243302.
Investor
Oct 2019
Skand is a Finnish brand and one of the largest manufacturers of lightweight electric vehicles in the Nordic countries. Skand was listed as no 67at the Deloitte TechnologyFast 500 -list, which recognizes the fastest-growing tech companies in EMEA. Skand specialises exclusively in electric vehicles and has been granted specific electrical certificates required by government officials in the Nordic and EU countries. We are committed to improving the everyday life for our customers. The use of electric vehicles is inexpensive, eco-friendly, convenient and fun. Skand only uses maintenance-free electric motors, which are strong, powerful and quiet. The history of Skand is built on the legacy of high-quality electrical engineering in the paper making industry. The electrical technology of a paper machine needs to be absolutely safe, precise and reliable to use - safety and quality are also our core priorities. Skand is a customer-centric Finnish company with a passion for manufacturing electric vehicles that are both stylish and functional. This ambition is woven deep into our company’s core. The range of our vehicles expands constantly to meet the demands of our customers – and we always aim to abide by our principal goals of providing style, quality and reasonable pricing
Investor & Advisor
Aug 2019
Cambri is a plug-and-play consumer insights and concept testing tool that incorporates the most advanced market research methods and technology into a super easy to use interface. We make advanced consumer research easy, accelerate learning and amplify innovation. Our goal is to make people and brands shine.
Investor & Advisor
Aug 2019
Oppobot is a smart digital tool that streamlines concept creation and testing process. It provides instant access to global audiences through our panel provider Research Now SSI. Our clients are mainly international consumer goods and services companies. It is a perfect match for businesses who want to identify winning growth opportunities with less time and fewer resources, yet more systematically. Concept test results are available even in 24 hours, max within a week. Oppobot allows businesses to focus their energy on the most value-creating tasks: crystallizing ideas according to design-thinking principles, choosing the right target audiences and analyzing test results. Oppobot does the rest: creates valid and reliable test questions, and generates test results and comparisons. On a mission to save the world from pointlessness.
Board Member
May 2019
Screenful is the easiest way to visualise and share your project progress using data from your existing tools. Get a quick overview of your team's status on your smartphone or tablet. Maximize the effect by installing a large visible display. Free Trial http://screenful.com Free Demo http://screenful.com/online-demo Pricing http://screenful.com/pricing Tour http://screenful.com/tour
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2019
Our software turns employee engagement into intelligent insight and continuous improvements.
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2019
Witview is a smart review platform that gives your online store instant access to millions of product reviews collected from thousands of sources all around the world.
Investor & Advisor
Mar 2019
Fiksuvuokraus.fi is an apartment renting platform for long-term contracts. In our service, the rental process is simplified and accelerated with the latest technologies that are primarily used only for apartment selling. We think that also rental apartments deserve to be found with modern tools.
early stageReal Estate
Investor
Dec 2018
The Feelingstream toolkit (https://www.feelingstream.com/) is a platform that transcribes (with ASR models), classifies (with NLP models) and provides exciting visibility (with Business Intelligence tool). It can be used to discover new sales leads, detect conversations indicating customer churn but also bottlenecks in the processes or errors in customer service. Large companies lose a massive amount of money if they do not focus on existing customers. Feelingstream protects sensitive data by providing on-premises data security or even data masking and anonymising. The impact of using the Feelingstream tool for large organisations is getting more visibility but also skyrocketing the sales revenue. With the Feelingstream tool teams see how well they serve their customers quality-wise, but in addition to that the product units are able to step closer to the customer. Closer to the customer means that the designed processes are visible, trackable and detectable - a great way to enhance the experience for customers and employees. This means more meaningful conversations and better retention rates for companies.
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Board Observer
Feb 2025
SparkReceipt is a SaaS platform aimed at simplifying the management of financial documents like receipts, invoices, and bank statements, primarily for small businesses, freelancers, and individuals. The application enables users to better sort expenses and apply for tax deductions without requiring a full accounting suite. One key feature is its OCR technology, enhanced by OpenAIs ChatGPT, for quick and accurate scanning of documents. Unlike other apps that rely on pattern matching against known databases, ChatGPT can contextually understand and categorize data from various vendors and chains, making the platform more robust and up-to-date. For teams, SparkReceipt offers collaborative tools, allowing multiple users to manage financial documents under the same account. This resolves the complications of using methods like email to share and track numerous documents. The platform also supports over 150 currencies and provides accurate currency conversions, benefitting businesses with international operations. With tiered pricing including a free option, SparkReceipt is accessible for different sizes of businesses. The Pro subscription offers features such as inviting an accountant, auto-scanning receipts from email, and unlimited document storage. SparkReceipt fills a gap in the market by offering a comprehensive yet simple solution for pre-accounting and expense tracking. Its a middle ground between expensive accounting software and basic expense tracking apps, meeting a variety of pre-accounting needs.
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
EBAN is the pan-European representative for the early stage investor community gathering over 150 member organizations in more than 50 countries today. Established in 1999 by a group of pioneer angel networks in Europe with the collaboration of the European Commission and EURADA, EBAN represents a sector estimated to invest 11.4 billion Euros a year and playing a vital role in Europe’s future, notably in the funding of SMEs. EBAN fuels Europe’s growth through the creation of wealth and jobs.
Board Observer
Apr 2024
A no-code SaaS loan management system empowering lenders and businesses in different sectors to unlock their full potential. For lenders: scale your businesses without the hassle of IT management. For non-finance industries: integrate fintech products into your customer journey. inGains product philosophy is built on two principles. First, companies shall focus on their core activities, not IT management. Thus, product strategy has been to implement no-code features to empower business users to adapt how the system operates. Second, the solution shall be ready from the shelf, yet customizable. While the majority of fintech requirements are similar, there should be an opportunity to implement edge cases via custom IT development on top of inGains solution. Company founders are among industry pioneers to custom build the first loan management systems for online lenders back in 2011 and further serving 50+ lenders globally. All the experience and know-how has been aggregated into inGains no-code SaaS loan management system that serves secured and unsecured loan products, subscription and rent-to-own fintech products to consumers and businesses in various industries, online or offline, in cash or by transfer.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Focus on listening in your calls. Wudpecker will take care of your notes and tasks. Auto-magically. Wudpecker joins every call, records, transcribes, and make high-quality notes automatically. With more than 5h/week saved using Wudpecker, you can focus on things that matter the most!
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