Sami Ahvenniemi
General Partner at Vendep Capital
Helsinki, Uusimaa
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2020 - Current
Vendep invests in seed to series A b2b SaaS companies and founders originating from the Nordic & Baltic countries.
Chairman
2023
Board Member
2023
Board Member
2022
Angel Investor
2020
Edge Impulse is the platform for developing intelligent devices using embedded machine learning.
Raised $54,400,000.00 from Momenta, Knollwood Investment Advisory, Fika Ventures, Canaan Partners, Acrew Capital and Coatue.
Advisor & Angel Investor
2015
MarketMuse accelerates content research and builds AI-driven content strategies.
Raised $9,238,000.00 from LunaCap Ventures.
Advisor & Angel Investor
2015
Construction Software, Project Management
Raised $6,400,000.00 from Toy Ventures, Dan Miller-Smith, The MBA Fund, Kevin Moore, Hustle Fund, Garuda Ventures, Sundeep Ahuja, Henry Courtemanche, Gaingels and Sahil Lavingia.
Angel Investor
2015
Mentor
2015
Member of the Board 2011-2012 & 10/2018->, Chairman 2012-2017
2011 - 2022
BehavioSec is the pioneer for behavioral biometrics and continuous authentication, protecting millions of users and billions of transactions
Raised $25,681,285.00 from ABN AMRO Ventures, Cisco Investments, Conor Venture Partners, Forgepoint Capital and Octopus Ventures.
Education
MSc (Tech.)
1993 - 2010