Sakari Pihlava brings nearly two decades of hands-on software experience from engineer to IPO leadership at F-Secure before becoming an investor, combined with cross-border VC experience in Munich and Boston that gives him an uncommon mix of European and US venture perspective for a Nordic seed GP. He maintains an unusually technical profile for a GP with 17+ years of coding experience and active GitHub projects, which he pairs with his focus on how AI shifts software from co-pilots to full autopilots in productivity tools.
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Vendep Capital
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SaaS, Enterprise, AI, Fintech, Marketplaces
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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€100K - €3M
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Vendep Capital is the only pure-play B2B SaaS specialist VC in Finland, now focused on AI-native SaaS across the Nordics and Baltics with €0.1–3M tickets, where 100% of their companies receive follow-on in the next externally led round and ~78% of portfolio Series A rounds come from investors they introduced. The partnership was built by former SaaS founders and operators who have invested together since 2011 and run a tightly focused platform exclusively for B2B SaaS founders, including an annual portfolio retreat for peer learning among SaaS operators.
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