Venture Capital & Minority Investments

Venture Capital & Minority Investments

Venture capital investments demand long-term strategic expertise across diverse fields to ensure optimal returns.

With our long history of being one of the most active Nordic law firms advising in venture capital and growth equity financings, we are deeply connected to the venture capital industry.

Through our extensive experience and client base, we have a thorough understanding of market terms and participants. By leveraging this knowledge, we are able to act as a strategic advisor to our clients and provide efficiencies in a way that is unmatched in the Finnish market.

We have the expertise to efficiently handle all aspects of venture capital and minority investments, such as:

  • legal due diligence and ESG reviews
  • term sheet documentation
  • investment and shareholder agreements
  • corporate resolutions
  • follow-on financing rounds and other financing arrangements
  • employment agreements and incentive schemes for key personnel
  • exits.

Our clients include domestic and international venture capital investors, institutional and corporate investors, growth-focused development financers, and green transition investors making direct investments in growth companies. Through our market-leading Growth Companies practice we act as a strategic partner to various founder-led and venture-backed companies in their fundraisings and other growth initiatives.

Clients value our agile, reactive, and proactive way of working. You will be supported by a dynamic and responsive core team. Through our cross-practice approach, all relevant industry and domain knowledge is integrated into every investment process. Our processes are further optimised through the use of AI and advanced legal technology.

Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers International consistently rank our services and our lawyers among Finland’s best.

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Latest references

byFounders.vc – DataCrunch’s USD 64 million Series A funding round
We supported byFounders.vc as the Finnish counsel in their investment in DataCrunch Oy in a USD 64 million Series A funding round. DataCrunch provides scalable AI compute solutions from energy-efficient data centers in Iceland and Finland. byFounders.vc is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Case published 11.9.2025
Springvest – ReOrbit’s EUR 45 million Series A funding round
We advised Springvest Oyj in organising a EUR 45 million Series A funding round for ReOrbit, a space technology company and a leading provider of software-first satellites. It’s the largest all-equity Series A round in Finland and one of the most significant deals overall in the European space and defence sector. The purpose of the funding round is to support ReOrbit’s growth. The round consisted of a private placement reserved for professional and institutional investors, which included, e.g. Icebreaker.vc, Expansion VC, 10xFounders, Inventure VC, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, and Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company, and an EUR 8 million public share offering, which was oversubscribed within 4.5 hours. Springvest is a Finland-based investment firm that connects unlisted growth companies with investors. ReOrbit builds sovereign satellites and connected systems for national security.
Case published 9.9.2025
Ten Eleven Ventures & Tesi – EUR 275 million Series B financing round of IQM Quantum Computers
Castrén & Snellman advised the lead investors Ten Eleven Ventures and Tesi in the EUR 275 million Series B financing round of IQM Quantum Computers, the global leader in building quantum computers. The round is largest Series B round ever in Finland and the second largest in the Nordics. In addition to the lead investors represented by C&S, the round was participated by several new and existing investors, including pension funds Elo Mutual Pension Insurance and Varma Mutual Pension Insurance, strategic investors Companies of Schwarz Group and Winbond Electronics Corporation, and sovereign wealth funds EIC and Bayern Kapital. Ten Eleven Ventures is the original cybersecurity-focused, global, and stage-agnostic investment firm. The firm identifies, invests in, and helps grow top cybersecurity companies addressing critical digital security needs, leveraging its team, network, and experience to build successful businesses. Since its founding, Ten Eleven Ventures has raised over USD 1 billion and made over 60 cybersecurity investments across various stages worldwide. Tesi (Suomen Teollisuussijoitus Oy / Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) is a state-owned investment company with an industrial policy mission focused on driving economic growth, renewal, and investments. Tesi invests on market terms both in venture capital and private equity funds, and directly in startups, scale-ups, and large industrial projects. IQM Quantum Computers, founded as a deep tech spin-off from Aalto University in 2019, specialises in developing quantum computers utilizing superconducting circuits. The company designs and produces quantum processors at its facility in Espoo, providing computing solutions and optimizations tailored to both research and industrial applications. In addition to its Finnish operations, IQM has expanded its presence to Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States.
Case published 4.9.2025
Readpeak – Capital Investment
We advised Readpeak in an arrangement where Finnish growth fund Voland Partners made an investment in Readpeak. Readpeak is a service platform specialising in native advertising for purchasing, designing, and targeting the distribution of advertising space. Readpeak has quickly risen to a leading position with its platform solution, which enables an easy way to target and schedule communications as part of the news feed on media sites. Readpeak is a company founded in Helsinki in 2014, which has since expanded to nine European market areas and collaborates with over a thousand publishers. Readpeak redefines content-driven advertising using advanced machine learning models, creating added value for both quality media and journalism. Voland Partners is a minority investor specialising in the development of technology companies, with a mission to work together with entrepreneurs to build successful companies responsibly, creating success stories that benefit the entire society. Readpeak is Voland Partners’ sixth investment target, into which the fund company is investing from its first growth fund of 57 million euros.
Case published 10.4.2025
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