Sparkmind.vc is the Nordic venture capital company focused on learning sector. We invest in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. We invest from seed to international growth phase with single investments up to 5 million euros. For more information, please visit www.sparkmind.vc
Location: Finland, Mainland Finland, Helsinki
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2017
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Portfolio 1
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 28.05.2020 | Kide Scien... | kidescience.com | $2.66M | Finland, M... |
Persons 11
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Kai | Talas | Partner | - | k*i@sparkm... | - | |
| - | Oskari | Lehtonen | Member of ... | - | - | - | |
| - | Marko | Kyyrönen | Managing P... | - | m***o@spar... | - | |
| - | Saga | Forss | Investment... | - | - | - | |
| - | Vesa | Laakso | Partner | - | v**a@spark... | - | |
| - | Elise | Tarvaine | Investment... | - | - | - | |
| - | John | Martin | Advisor | - | - | - | |
| - | Pekka | Mattila | Investment... | - | - | - | |
| - | Peter | Lindström | Investment... | - | - | - | |
| - | Janne | Rainvuori | Member of ... | - | - | - |
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Mentions in press and media 21
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| 10.12.2025 | Oneday Secures $4 Million From Flashpoint To Accelerate AI Powered Entrepreneurship Platform | Flashpoint has provided $4 million in growth debt financing to Oneday, the technology-powered university that awards accredited business degrees by guiding founders through the process of building real companies. The investment comes from F... |
| 12.10.2025 | German AI Startup Resourcly Secures €2.7M for Industrial Inventory Revolution | German AI innovator Resourcly landed €2.7M in seed funding. The platform tackles manufacturing's $2.5 trillion idle inventory problem. It harmonizes complex parts data, removes redundancies, and recommends alternatives. This significantly b... |
| 07.10.2025 | Coupa kauft Scoutbee – cleverly übernimmt Complori – Neura Robotics kauft ek robotics | Im #DealMonitor für den 7. Oktober werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-A... |
| 09.09.2024 | “Wir denken, dass KI die Zukunft des Lernens unterstützt” | Das Berliner Unternehmen Tomorrow University, 2020 von Christian Rebernik und Thomas Funke als Tomorrow’s Education gegründet, startete einst mit einem berufsbegleitenden Masterprogramm. Inzwischen positioniert sich das EdTech als “moderne ... |
| 14.09.2023 | Finnish Sparkmind.VC co-led €2M for Denmark-based edtech Swap Language | Finnish Sparkmind.VC co-led €2M for Denmark-based edtech Swap Language 14 September, 2023, 13:45 Mariia Denysiuk --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Aarhus-based Swap Language, a lang... |
| 07.05.2023 | 'Higher education institutions are not agile enough' - can edtech step in to fill the gap? | The European edtech sector is having 'a main character moment', and while Covid played no small part in its rise to fame, the ecosystems in Europe and the confidence in the sector through VC funding are playing their part to keep the 'swagg... |
| 05.05.2022 | Smowltech cierra una ronda de €1,65M con Wayra y los fondos de impacto Fondo Bolsa Social y Sparkmind VC | 05/05/2022 Nota de prensa LA EDTECH SMOWITECH CIERRA UNA RONDA DE INVERSIÓN DE €1,65M CON WAYRA Y LOS FONDOS DE IMPACTO FONDO BOLSA SOCIAL Y SPARKMIND. La startup española de edtech Smowltech ha cerrado una ronda de inversión de 1,65 mil... |
| 11.12.2021 | Berlin-based Wonderwerk trains a new generation of remote-first sales teams with $2.5M seed funding | Wonderwerk has raised $2.5M seed funding to help sales teams enter the remote age with its data-driven sales training and performance tracking tools. Funding comes from new investor Sparkmind.vc* and startup studio Founders*, with particip... |
| 28.07.2021 | The importance of international scalability in edtech, according to Europe’s specialist VCs | Edtech investment boomed during pandemic year 2020 and shows no signs of abating in 2021. In its recent edtech funding report, Brighteye Ventures found that European edtech venture capital surpassed $1 billion in the first half of this year... |
| 24.06.2021 | Early-stage edtech focused VC firm Sparkmind closes fund at €55 million | Helsinki’s edtech focused firm Sparkmind has closed its fund at €55 million, with the aim of supporting seed to Series B round founders. Sparkmind’s primary focus is on European startups, but they report that they’re not strictly limited by... |
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