Aleksi Partanen
General Partner at Icebreaker.vc
Aleksi Partanen
General Partner at Icebreaker.vc
Tallinn, Harjumaa
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2016 - Current
At Icebreaker.vc we want to be the best place for people to start, build and join strong tech companies. Read more about the teams we have invested in and about their open positions here: https://www.icebreaker.vc/ From our 140M€ funds we invest €150-800k in Finnish, Swedish and Estonian teams at the earliest stage. Our community of hundreds domain experts offer you a prime network of potential team members, clients, and advisors.
Investor
2021
July 2021 led the Pre-Seed round at idea stage. December 2023 participated in the 2M€ early Seed round led by Spintop Ventures. Zymego is a plug-and-play scheduling automation platform for health care service providers ranging from private to public and one to many clinic environments.
Board Member
2020
May 2020 led the Pre-Seed round, when the company was about to start scaling their sales. June 2023 participated in the 10M€ round led by Cusp Capital and 468 Capital to scale sales globally. Fixably is an integrated software solution that allows repair technicians to manage repairs more efficiently so they can spend more time fixing their customers problems.
Investor
2018
February 2018 led the Pre-Seed round when the team was at idea stage. January 2021 participated in the €2M early Seed -round led by Join Capital and Spintop Ventures. March 2023 participated in the €10M A -round led by Endeit Capital. IPRally enables Intellectual Property professionals as well as R&D engineers to intuitively build search queries in minutes allowing very precise searches of similar existing patents saving huge amounts of time, and helping to discover patents not possible to find though regular keyword searches. Moreover, IPRally’s unique Graph Neural Network technology allows for machine reasoning of the search results, shifting the paradigm from black-box AI solutions to explainable AI solutions.
Investor
2021
January 2021 led the Pre-Seed round at idea stage. October 2022 participated in the 6M€ Seed round led by Project A Ventures. Alvin is a plug-and-play data lineage platform that lets enterprises map their entire data architecture — starting from how the data is connected to how it is transformed and how it is consumed — to track data quality inefficiencies.
Investor
2019
December 2022 participated the $2M Seed round led by Change Ventures. October 2019 led the Pre-Seed round when the company had reached MVP stage with first paying customers on-boarded.
Investor
2020
July 2020 led the Pre-Seed round at idea stage, when the team was only the two founders, Merit and Andrus. July 2021 participated in the $7.9M Seed round led by EQT. Single.Earth is a fintech startup from Estonia with strong links to the green tech and deep tech space, an international team of diverse backgrounds, driven by the passion to save the natural world. Single.Earth was founded by Merit Valdsalu, an early team member at Pipedrive, and Andrus Aaslaid who was one of the masterminds behind making Estonia world-renowned for its e-government.
Investor
2018
January 2021 participated in the $16M A-Round led by Sapphire Sport (part of Sapphire Ventures). December 2019 participated in the $5,2M Seed Round led by Global Founders Capital. December 2018 led the Pre-Seed round when the team was about to start scaling their sales.
Board Member
2018
April 2020 participated in the €4.5M Seed-round lead by Nordic Ninja. January 2018 led the Pre-Seed round when the team was designing their first MVP.
Board Member
2018
April 2018 joined the board, after which the company started to implement more aggressive international expansion strategy leading to serious growth in the US and Canada. Cloudpermit is a SaaS tool for Building Permitting, Planning & Zoning, & Code Enforcement. When your local government moves online, everyone wins with remote access to information, interactive maps, and support.
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
2004 - 2008