Matti Kanninen

Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Butterfly Ventures
Matti Kanninen co-founded and grew a regional fund into one of the most active Nordic seed investors; as chairman/MD he favors tangible hardware startups and runs milestone-based competitive follow-on funding.
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Europe
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About Matti Kanninen

Matti Kanninen co-founded Butterfly Ventures after he and Juho Risku won a mandate from the City of Oulu to run a small regional fund, which they grew into one of the most active seed investors in the Nordics, and he's said he'd rather back a robot that delivers pizzas than an app that lets people order them. Before moving into venture capital, he was a vice president at Computer Associates and CEO of public company QPR Software, and at Butterfly he now serves as chairman and managing director, helping run a model where portfolio companies compete for more funding as they hit business milestones.

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Butterfly Ventures

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Deeptech / Hardware, Climate, Enterprise, Energy, Biotech
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€300K

Butterfly Ventures backs deep tech, hardware, and hardware-interfacing software companies with social or environmental impact, typically investing before they have revenue and often seeing those companies start earning revenue within six months—an approach reflected in a portfolio that includes conductive charging roads, magnetic-levitation bearings, ultra-fast batteries, bone-cutting tools, ICU brain monitors, and non-satellite maritime communications. The fund was reportedly the first VC in Europe to operate 100% carbon-neutrally, structured its €100M Fund IV under Article 8 SFDR rules for sustainable finance, and publishes detailed figures on assets under management, completed funding rounds, and portfolio revenue.

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