Monttu Ventures

Accelerating Academic Startups!

What is Monttu Ventures?

Monttu Ventures, established in 2017, is a student-led development company based in the Turku-region. We focus on early-stage startups founded by individuals with a background in the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Turku University of Applied Sciences, or Novia University of Applied Sciences.

With 78 co-founders and over 730 000€ in capital, we help promising start-ups become success stories by sharing knowledge and resources as well as acting as a sounding board.

How can Monttu Ventures help you?

We prefer to be the first outsider investor in the company. Maximum financial investment per company is 25 000 €. We also focus on giving our target companies resources from our own shareholders, for example, knowledge from specific market areas and contacts. We recommend the target company to combine our financial investment with Business Finland’s Tempo-funding to achieve multiplier effects. We focus on startups where our impact is the most beneficial.

The selection Criteria

One founding team member is from one of the universities of the Turku area

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A credible and scalable business model

A committed team (at least one full-time member) with a wide skillset and who are eager to learn

IP strategy

A business model with significant growth potential

We prefer startups with an early-stage exit possibility

A realistic valuation of the company based on progress

Startup? Funding? Start with talking to us!

Janus Joenpolvi

Janus Joenpolvi

Chief Operating Officer

Harald Spoof

Harald Spoof

Deal Flow Manager

Riku Hietanoro

Riku Hietanoro

Deal Flow Manager

Oliver Seila

Oliver Seila

Deal Flow Manager

Anton Suomalainen

Anton Suomalainen

Deal Flow Manager

If you have an idea and want to pitch it to us, please contact the Deal Flow team at:  dealflow@monttuventures.fi