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Inka Mero
Managing Partner at Voima Ventures
Helsinki, Uusimaa
Overview
Inka Mero is the Founder & Managing Partner at Voima Ventures, specializing in funding startups in sectors like DeepTech, Digital Health, and AI. With an extensive background in entrepreneurship and board memberships at companies like Musti Group and Nokian Tyres plc, Inka has successfully invested in and advised numerous companies, including Sooma, Kuva Space, and Origin by Ocean.
In her current role, Inka Mero has demonstrated a strong track record in driving growth, leading strategic partnerships, and fostering innovation, making her a key player in the venture capital and startup ecosystem. With investments in various stages from Pre-seed to Series A, Inka's expertise in business strategy and product innovation has been instrumental in the success of companies she has supported.
Work Experience
Founder, CEO & Managing Partner
2019 - Current
Voima Ventures is a Nordic deep tech VC fund. We invest in and help founders to grow startups with scientific foundation to global markets. With the purpose to scale solutions for the People, Planet and Industry, our mission is solve the big global challenges humankind is facing through science, entrepreneurship and capital. We work closely with the Nordic academic institutions and VTT The Technical Research Centre of Finland, as well as all the leading universities in the Nordic & Baltic region. "World changing technology entrepreneurship is hard - still someone has to do it". www.voimaventures.com
Board Member (prev advisor of the BoD)
2021 - 2024
Board member during company’s growth journey until public acquisition.
Board Member
2014 - 2023
Board Member
2015 - 2022
Investor & Board Member
2013 - 2021
Klevu Oy is a Finnish tech start up, helping online retailers turn visitors into customers. Klevu Search - a natural language search that goes beyond keyword matching, to connect shoppers and products, straight from the search box. More information on Klevu at www.klevu.com
Chairwoman
2017 - 2019
Founder & Chairwoman
2009 - 2019
KoppiCatch is today a holding company, but for 10+ years we operated a seed stage startup investor, innovator and accelerator company. Our focus and expertise was media, e-commerce and analytics, but we invested also across internet/mobile services, technologies and solutions space. Our successful investments and startups: Zokem (exit), RapidBlueSolutions (exit), HappyOrNot, Cabforce (exit), IndoorAtlas (exit), TabletKoulu (exit), Klevu.com (exit). And our failures: Juhlapesu, SteamRepublic, DesignStory, Meetin.gs, Kiririnki, Joberate, Ciegus, Varaa.com
Board Member
2016 - 2019
Founder & Chairwoman
2016 - 2018
Pivot5 (formerly known as KoppiCatch since 2008) is a seed stage technology startup investor specialized in growth venture building, disruptive growth strategies, corporate venturing and startup investments.
Chairwoman (and Investor/Co-Founder via KoppiCatch)
2012 - 2017
IndoorAtlas Ltd. is the world‘s first company to utilize magnetic anomalies inside buildings and smartphones to pinpoint positions indoors. The company was founded in 2012 as a spin-off company from the University of Oulu, Finland. Our offices are located in Oulu, Finland, and Sunnyvale, California, USA. On 09/2014 Baidu, China's largest search, and world's largest map company invested $10 M as part of series A to the company. www.indooratlas.com Keywords: indoor positioning, indoor navigation, location-based services LBS, indoor mapping, GPS, WiFi, geo-magnetic positioning, robotics, retail mobile applications, Android, iOS.
Education
Master's degree, Economics
1994 - 1998