Sami Niemi

Partner at Spintop Ventures

📍 Falsterbo, Skane County, Sweden🔄 Updated October 2026💼 18 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board member & investor
Apr 2024
Simplify Salesforce security management and monitoring with security scoring and AI risk detection. Instantly reveal all AI, Human, and App activity across your Organization. Lock down access and modify Permissions with powerful insights and recommendations. Founded in 2023 by industry veterans from Salesforce, Google, ServiceNow, and F‑Secure, our innovative AI Admin solution is designed to help you streamline operations, minimize risk, and scale seamlessly as your business grows. Headquartered in San Francisco, California with R&D based in Espoo, Finland, Valo proudly serves the global Salesforce ecosystem. Ready to elevate your Salesforce experience with AI-driven insights? Ready to expand the capabilities to your other business systems? Try the free trial from AppExchange or get in touch for more information from Valo.ai
Board observer & investor
Mar 2024
https://viss.ai/ The fastest and most approachable way to build scalable automations with AI. 10 AI innovators in Sweden— #1 startup at World Summit AI 2024, featured on front page of NyTeknik, BreakIT, ... Join the journey.
Board member & investor
Aug 2023
Zymego is an digital health startup, on a mission to make healthcare more efficient and more accessible. Our platform lessens the administrative burden for healthcare workers, while increasing access and convenience for patients. The success of our solutions is based on years of experience of the healthcare industry, combined with extensive knowledge of how to build modern, user-friendly and secure systems. Our first feature, Zymego Now, is a tool that automatically schedules cancelled appointments, through a digital waiting list. This way, patients get shorter waiting time while healthcare providers avoid vacant time slots and wasted resources. We create a win-win situation for all parties involved; patients, healthcare providers and society as a whole. Because of seamless integrations with EHR/EMR-systems, the whole process, from patient interaction in the web portal to cancelling and rescheduling, is carried out automatically. Regarding integrations, the EHR/EMR industry is currently changing rapidly, with a strong focus on opening up API’s and adjusting to the global standard for integrations called FHIR. We are using this opportunity to improve the daily life for everyone in the healthcare system.
Board member & investor
Jul 2023
Embedl enables a world where physical AI is accessible, safe, and free from traditional computing constraints. We empower companies to rapidly develop and deploy embedded AI in physical products, without sacrificing performance, reliability, or transparency. Our technology enables easy, fast, and practical AI development for edge and embedded systems, lowering the barrier to bringing intelligent products to market.
Board member / Investor
Aug 2022
We founded Scrintal in Stockholm, Sweden, with the vision of creating the most enjoyable way to shape ideas – a powerful canvas where insights are built one block at a time. Over the years, our ambition grew beyond creating beautiful software. We want to drive change in how we think: To elevate the human potential through bold and innovative solutions. 🧠 The Playground for the Mind™️ – coming soon!
Board member / Investor
Jan 2021
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.
Board member / Investor
Dec 2020
IPRally is the AI-native patent search platform used by IP and R&D teams to make faster, smarter decisions with AI that’s explainable, accurate, and built for how patent work really happens.
Board Member / Investor
Sep 2020
We build audio recording, collaboration, and processing tools to help journalists, podcasters, and storytellers create great-sounding immersive experiences.
Board Member / Investor
Jul 2020
Adnavem - Your transport solution. Your choice. Adnavem is a logistics technology company connecting transport buyers and logistics suppliers through a proprietary tech platform, helping clients create bespoke logistics solutions. Adnavem facilitates international trade and offers both transport customers and suppliers the benefit of direct engagement, increased control as well as transparent market pricing and service performance. Founded in 2017, Adnavem has its headquarters in the harbor city of Gothenburg, Sweden, with operations in China, Singapore, Vietnam and Germany. The company is rapidly scaling its business through a growing ecosystems of global customers and suppliers.
Board Member / Lead Investor
May 2019
Bring your memories to life with the Once Upon app. Add your favorite photos, tell your best stories and watch as Once Upon instantly turns them into a photo book, designed to last for generations. Our vision is simple: to celebrate life and make the world a little happier. Once Upon is a photo book app that creates photo books directly from your phone. We have 2.8 million downloads and we’re growing fast. In addition to photo books, we are already looking at developing completely new products and services. Regardless of which role you take on with us, you have a unique opportunity to influence our development going forward. Our head office is in Skellefteå, our market is all over the world. So far, the app is translated into 12 languages and we have sold books to 109 unique countries worldwide. Visit our website for job openings – as we are constantly developing our app, our team also needs to grow!
Board Member / Lead Investor
Mar 2019
Strossle is a fast growing media tech company, helping publishers optimize content distribution. We use machine learning technologies to adapt the user experience based on context and personal interests. It’s Artificial Intelligence for media. Strossle was founded in Sweden in 2013 by a team of entrepreneurs with an extensive media background. The shared perception was that the media industry was losing ground with its conservative view on technology and business models. Instead of embracing new distribution and business opportunities, media companies tried to lock users into their own channels and increase the amount of intrusive display ad formats that users had to sit through. Strossles mission is to help publishers out of this negative spiral and become future-proof. With Strossle publishers empower their content by: - Making sure every user is presented to an optimal mix of content - resulting in higher engagement. - Attracting new users through promotion of their best performing content in Strossle's publisher network. - Leveraging their premium environments by offering native advertisers extended reach. These values have clearly resonated with publishers. Since launch Strossle has had an average monthly growth rate of 20%, and now we're going global with our way of thinking. Today the company has offices in Stockholm, Malmö, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Madrid and New York.
Board Member / Lead Investor
Nov 2018
PinMeTo is a SaaS platform that connects multi-location brands with the biggest search, map, and social media platforms, letting them keep their business information up-to-date everywhere, manage their reviews, and maximize their social reach – all from one place. Trusted by enterprise companies like H&M, 7-Eleven, and Hertz, PinMeTo is quickly becoming a global leader among location marketing and local SEO technologies.
Board Member
Apr 2017
Crosser designs and develops a hybrid-first Streaming Analytics & Integration software for any Cloud, On-premise or Edge. The Crosser Platform enables real-time processing of streaming, event-driven or batch data for Intelligent Pipelines & Automations and for Industrial IoT. All managed from a single Control Center and powered by a low-code and low-effort experience.
Board member
Jul 2016
Terranet is on a mission to save lives in urban traffic. We develop breakthrough tech solutions for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles (AV) that improve safety for everyone who moves on the road. With a unique patented vision technology, Terranet’s anti-collision system BlincVision scans and detects road objects ten times faster and with higher accuracy than any other ADAS technology available today. Terranet is based in Lund, Sweden, and in the heart of the European automotive industry in Stuttgart, Germany. The company is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market since 2017(Nasdaq: TERRNT-B).
Board Member
Jun 2016
Modcam has created a solution to provide data-driven insights based on computer vision. Our MOD.01 is the most compact sensor with built-in video analytics for people tracking in retail and offices. The data provided enables retailers to increase sales and facility managers to make buildings smart.
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2024
Board member & investor
Apr 2024
Simplify Salesforce security management and monitoring with security scoring and AI risk detection. Instantly reveal all AI, Human, and App activity across your Organization. Lock down access and modify Permissions with powerful insights and recommendations. Founded in 2023 by industry veterans from Salesforce, Google, ServiceNow, and F‑Secure, our innovative AI Admin solution is designed to help you streamline operations, minimize risk, and scale seamlessly as your business grows. Headquartered in San Francisco, California with R&D based in Espoo, Finland, Valo proudly serves the global Salesforce ecosystem. Ready to elevate your Salesforce experience with AI-driven insights? Ready to expand the capabilities to your other business systems? Try the free trial from AppExchange or get in touch for more information from Valo.ai
Board observer & investor
Mar 2024
https://viss.ai/ The fastest and most approachable way to build scalable automations with AI. 10 AI innovators in Sweden— #1 startup at World Summit AI 2024, featured on front page of NyTeknik, BreakIT, ... Join the journey.
2023
Board member & investor
Aug 2023
Zymego is an digital health startup, on a mission to make healthcare more efficient and more accessible. Our platform lessens the administrative burden for healthcare workers, while increasing access and convenience for patients. The success of our solutions is based on years of experience of the healthcare industry, combined with extensive knowledge of how to build modern, user-friendly and secure systems. Our first feature, Zymego Now, is a tool that automatically schedules cancelled appointments, through a digital waiting list. This way, patients get shorter waiting time while healthcare providers avoid vacant time slots and wasted resources. We create a win-win situation for all parties involved; patients, healthcare providers and society as a whole. Because of seamless integrations with EHR/EMR-systems, the whole process, from patient interaction in the web portal to cancelling and rescheduling, is carried out automatically. Regarding integrations, the EHR/EMR industry is currently changing rapidly, with a strong focus on opening up API’s and adjusting to the global standard for integrations called FHIR. We are using this opportunity to improve the daily life for everyone in the healthcare system.
Board member & investor
Jul 2023
Embedl enables a world where physical AI is accessible, safe, and free from traditional computing constraints. We empower companies to rapidly develop and deploy embedded AI in physical products, without sacrificing performance, reliability, or transparency. Our technology enables easy, fast, and practical AI development for edge and embedded systems, lowering the barrier to bringing intelligent products to market.
2022
Board member / Investor
Aug 2022
We founded Scrintal in Stockholm, Sweden, with the vision of creating the most enjoyable way to shape ideas – a powerful canvas where insights are built one block at a time. Over the years, our ambition grew beyond creating beautiful software. We want to drive change in how we think: To elevate the human potential through bold and innovative solutions. 🧠 The Playground for the Mind™️ – coming soon!
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