Sami Ahvenniemi

General Partner at Vendep Capital

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 22 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Finland20+ investments
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Apr 2025
Private market sourcing is still stuck in the past — manual research, incomplete data, and missed opportunities. Inven changes that. Our deal sourcing platform helps M&A teams quickly find, analyze, and connect with the right targets worldwide. Using proprietary data on 21 million companies and advanced algorithms, Inven enables teams to source deals 10x faster. Trusted by 850+ private equity firms, investment banks, M&A teams, consultants, and VCs, Inven ensures no opportunity goes unnoticed.
Board Member
Feb 2025
Bookboost is a CRM that helps hospitality brands manage their guest communication and deliver more effective marketing campaigns 🎯 The platform consolidates data from different sources, allowing hoteliers to extract insights and use them to create a more personalised guest experience, driving customer lifetime value (CLTV) and loyalty.
Board Member
Dec 2024
Behavix is on a mission to revolutionize how behavioral data is collected, analyzed, and utilized powering up the ResTech movement within Market Research industry. Headquartered in Helsinki with a strategic base in New York City, Behavix can helps panel companies and app/web publishers to start collecting deep and unique online behavioral data across the key digital platforms, while delivering value to data users with AI-driven data feed solutions.
early stageMarket Research
Board Member
Jun 2023
We are Hopsworks - the Platform for Data-Intensive Artificial Intelligence with the industrys Python-centric Enterprise Feature Store. Launched in 2018 by the members of the Distributed Computing Group at KTH –Royal Institute of Technology and RISE SICS AB, aiming to provide the market’s go to Enterprise Data & AI platform. Our mission is to build the world’s most scalable, secure, reliable, efficient and human-friendly data-intensive machine learning platform to enable businesses to easily develop data and AI products that help their businesses thrive. Our vision is to enable the discovery of trustworthy, actionable insights in data and easily design and apply AI solutions to complex problems.
Board Member
Feb 2022
Quantifying Trends, Quantifying Public Interest, Quantifying Impact, Quantifying Market Share, Quantifying Brand Performance, Quantify your product sales, Quantifying the Competitive landscape. – Quantifying MyWorld
Angel Investor
Jan 2020
Edge Impulse offers the latest in machine learning tooling, enabling all enterprises to build smarter edge products. Our technology empowers developers to bring more AI products to market faster, and helps enterprise teams rapidly develop industry-specific solutions in weeks instead of years. Edge Impulse provides powerful automation and low-code capabilities to make it easier to build valuable datasets and develop advanced AI with streaming data. With over 190,000 developers, and partnerships with the top silicon vendors, Edge Impulse delivers a seamless integration experience to validate and deploy with confidence across the largest hardware ecosystem.
Member of the Board
Oct 2018
Verto Analytics provides a consumer-centric measurement solution for monitoring the complex behavior of today’s consumer on every device, app, and platform used throughout the day. We provide data and insights that inform marketing, competitive intelligence, media buying, product strategy and development.
mid stageResearch
Member of the Board
Feb 2016
We’re changing the face of IoT. To set a new standard. To skip the bullshit. To get infinitely scalable connectivity. Gentle on your wallet and way better than cellular 5G. In a network that never fails. Without middlemen or infrastructure. Totally self-managing. Tailored for commercial and industrial applications. Just more than you need. For less. We give you very very good IoT.
Advisor & Angel Investor
Sep 2015
MarketMuse uses AI to accelerate content planning, creation and optimization. The MarketMuse platform identifies content quality issues on your site and builds blueprints that show you exactly how to write to cover a topic comprehensively. Publishers, content creators and e-commerce managers use MarketMuse to realize 5X+ improvements in search performance.
Advisor & Angel Investor
May 2015
Offsight helps solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of offsite construction and project-based manufacturing with our easy to use manufacturing project management software. We streamline collaboration between project managers, quality inspectors, production supervisors and other project stakeholders to ensure your factory projects stay on track.
Advisor & Angel Investor
May 2015
Actvcontent is an innovative technology company that provides a simple solution to manage all factory operations by leveraging mobile and cloud technology. Our clients range from heavy equipment to automotive manufacturers and include some of the most recognizable Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Clients leverage the cutting edge aspects of our technology (e.g. live scheduling, instant access to drawings and real-time communication with the floor) to streamline their production process, improve cycle times, reduce scrap/rework, cut operational costs and boost productivity. Learn More at https://www.actvcontent.com.
Angel Investor
Feb 2015
Connecting creators and advertisers. Matchmade is an easy-to-use platform that brings advertisers and creators together for targeted and measured campaigns. Matchmade continuously analyses channels, videos, streams on YouTube and Twitch. That’s over 1.1 Billion videos and 9.2M YouTube channels to date. For more information, please visit: https://matchmade.tv/ or email hello@matchmade.tv.
Angel Investor
May 2014
Develop Better Software, Faster! AirPair is an extensive network of experts with deep knowledge across many technology stacks and solutions. AirPair accelerates software development by "pairing” experts with your engineers in real-time via video and screen sharing, leading to better teams and better software that’s produced faster, and at lower costs. To find an expert, visit => www.airpair.com/find-an-expert
Angel Investor
Apr 2014
Predictive analytics for user churn. We use machine learning to help you identify when, and why, your users are leaving. Were building data science tools and predictive analytics solutions for businesses who want value without headcount. Our platform will also include ways for people to collaborate on datasets and analyses. Were in beta, but we have several companies using our product right now. Data science is a high demand field and want to democratize it for all companies to use.
Member of the Board
Oct 2009
Neo4j Graph Intelligence Platform transforms data into knowledge, powering dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems and intelligent applications so organizations can act faster with confidence.
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2025
Board Member
Apr 2025
Private market sourcing is still stuck in the past — manual research, incomplete data, and missed opportunities. Inven changes that. Our deal sourcing platform helps M&A teams quickly find, analyze, and connect with the right targets worldwide. Using proprietary data on 21 million companies and advanced algorithms, Inven enables teams to source deals 10x faster. Trusted by 850+ private equity firms, investment banks, M&A teams, consultants, and VCs, Inven ensures no opportunity goes unnoticed.
Board Member
Feb 2025
Bookboost is a CRM that helps hospitality brands manage their guest communication and deliver more effective marketing campaigns 🎯 The platform consolidates data from different sources, allowing hoteliers to extract insights and use them to create a more personalised guest experience, driving customer lifetime value (CLTV) and loyalty.
2024
Board Member
Dec 2024
Behavix is on a mission to revolutionize how behavioral data is collected, analyzed, and utilized powering up the ResTech movement within Market Research industry. Headquartered in Helsinki with a strategic base in New York City, Behavix can helps panel companies and app/web publishers to start collecting deep and unique online behavioral data across the key digital platforms, while delivering value to data users with AI-driven data feed solutions.
early stageMarket Research
2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
We are Hopsworks - the Platform for Data-Intensive Artificial Intelligence with the industrys Python-centric Enterprise Feature Store. Launched in 2018 by the members of the Distributed Computing Group at KTH –Royal Institute of Technology and RISE SICS AB, aiming to provide the market’s go to Enterprise Data & AI platform. Our mission is to build the world’s most scalable, secure, reliable, efficient and human-friendly data-intensive machine learning platform to enable businesses to easily develop data and AI products that help their businesses thrive. Our vision is to enable the discovery of trustworthy, actionable insights in data and easily design and apply AI solutions to complex problems.
2022
Board Member
Feb 2022
Quantifying Trends, Quantifying Public Interest, Quantifying Impact, Quantifying Market Share, Quantifying Brand Performance, Quantify your product sales, Quantifying the Competitive landscape. – Quantifying MyWorld
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