Tero Mennander

General Partner at Ventech

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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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.
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Jul 2024
CeLLife. Battery, perfected. CeLLife Technologies Ltd is a pioneering deep technology startup specializing in advanced diagnostics, measurement, and quality control for the battery industry. Central to CeLLife’s offering is a patented AI measurement technology renowned as the worlds fastest and most accurate. This technology enables swift and precise analysis of battery cells, modules, and systems, providing critical data in seconds. CeLLife’s innovative approach revolutionizes battery performance assessment and quality control, catering to renewable energy storage, electric vehicles, and portable electronics sectors. As a pioneer in intelligent and digital battery measurement technology, CeLLife Technologies Ltd is committed to improving the efficiency and safety of battery products with its innovative solutions. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Tampere, Finland, and is rooted in the extensive research on rapid measurement technologies conducted at Tampere University. For more information, please visit: www.cellife.fi
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May 2023
Treon is a global leader in AI‑driven Smart Industry technologies, enabling industrial organizations to boost productivity, enhance operational visibility, and strengthen long‑term sustainability. Our fully integrated Predictive Maintenance cloud solutions bring together advanced self‑learning AI analytics, a mobile‑first user experience, automated workflows, and wireless vibration sensors—delivered through a true pay‑as‑you‑go subscription model. Today, Treon supports more than 200 customers worldwide across the manufacturing, material handling, and logistics sectors, helping them transition from reactive operations to intelligent, predictive performance.
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Nov 2020
It shouldnt take ages to see ROI from ABM 🚀 N.Rich is the only account-based go-to-market platform optimised for agile and self-sufficient marketing team: 3x faster time-to-live, 4x less time spent managing the tool, 2x faster payback vs competitors. N.Rich allows you to build your ICP, capture and generate buyer intent, reach your target accounts with advertising, and measure business impact through transparent reporting.
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Mar 2020
Mindler is a digital healthcare provider helping people achieve better mental health by making it easier to access therapy online. Every day, hundreds of digital meetings are conducted through our app, which is allowing us to fundamentally change our industry. Mindler is more than a workplace, tech company, or service. Above all, we’re defined by our purpose to empower the world to improve mental health. This is what drives us in everything we do. Mindler’s business solution makes it possible for companies to offer online therapy to their employees. Our offering is tailored to benefit both the employee and the workplace, ensuring access to efficient mental health care and cutting costs related to sick leave. Read more about our business solution at: https://mindler.se/en/mindler-for-business/ In addition, we offer organizational analyses, coaching and lectures, held by licensed psychologists.
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Sep 2019
Capcito is fair financing for small businesses. Whether you're looking for a cash injection today or a long-term partner for the future, we've got your back.
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Aug 2019
Record your sport - without a camera operator. Veo lets you record your sports match without a camera operator. Automatic recording and video-editing enables coaches and players to watch and share their sport. Veo is founded in 2015 in Copenhagen. Our vision is to democratise the video broadcasting and analytics that today only are available for the professional teams. Veo is offered for clubs, players, coaches, scouts, families and fans to give access to quality video. The videos give automised panoramic, ball detector and player detector views. The platform contains analytical and sharing features enabling all users to access and utilise the content.
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Sep 2016
For over 10 years, Freespee has been helping enterprises and marketplaces optimise engagement strategies for their customers. Customers expect seamless buying journeys, connected through convenient conversations. Sellers need to leverage the best of customer journey tracking and automation to optimise sales conversations across multiple channels. Freespee’s solution creates a seamless connected customer journey, while efficiently managing and maintaining leads for the sellers and ensuring ROI through better conversions. Since its’ inception in Uppsala Sweden, Freespee has grown and now includes offices in London and Paris. Each team in each country is proudly inclusive and diverse. At the heart of Freespee’s continued growth is the B2Human philosophy - the recognition that the key to success is empowering people and allowing for the creation of team members’ own work-life balance.
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2026
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Jan 2026
Firstbeat is the the leading platform for physiology based coaching. We transform heartbeat data into personalized information on exercise, stress and recovery. Over the course of two decades, we have helped over 10,000 organizations and thousands of sports teams worldwide to reach their health and performance potential with science-backed confidence. Today, Firstbeat services are offered in more than 70 countries. #YouHaveItInYou
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.
2024
Board Member
Jul 2024
CeLLife. Battery, perfected. CeLLife Technologies Ltd is a pioneering deep technology startup specializing in advanced diagnostics, measurement, and quality control for the battery industry. Central to CeLLife’s offering is a patented AI measurement technology renowned as the worlds fastest and most accurate. This technology enables swift and precise analysis of battery cells, modules, and systems, providing critical data in seconds. CeLLife’s innovative approach revolutionizes battery performance assessment and quality control, catering to renewable energy storage, electric vehicles, and portable electronics sectors. As a pioneer in intelligent and digital battery measurement technology, CeLLife Technologies Ltd is committed to improving the efficiency and safety of battery products with its innovative solutions. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Tampere, Finland, and is rooted in the extensive research on rapid measurement technologies conducted at Tampere University. For more information, please visit: www.cellife.fi
2023
Board Member
May 2023
Treon is a global leader in AI‑driven Smart Industry technologies, enabling industrial organizations to boost productivity, enhance operational visibility, and strengthen long‑term sustainability. Our fully integrated Predictive Maintenance cloud solutions bring together advanced self‑learning AI analytics, a mobile‑first user experience, automated workflows, and wireless vibration sensors—delivered through a true pay‑as‑you‑go subscription model. Today, Treon supports more than 200 customers worldwide across the manufacturing, material handling, and logistics sectors, helping them transition from reactive operations to intelligent, predictive performance.
2020
N.Rich
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Nov 2020
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