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Best Artificial Intelligence Companies in Helsinki, Finland

The 32 best Artificial Intelligence companies in Helsinki, Finland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: NestAI.

32companies tracked
$172.6Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
13have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE × HELSINKI

Our analysis of 151 Artificial Intelligence companies

$81.0b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

151companies analysed
96%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
51unicorns
2021median founding year
90kcombined LinkedIn audience
58%of audience held by top 3
3companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Artificial Intelligence companies in Helsinki

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingStageEmployeesFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
16sense
Provider of a platform for machine-based detection and intelligent decision-making
——Unfunded—Kimmo Kaitala
Co-Founder & CEO
———
2Agience
Agile Science by rules of Business
——Private1————
3ailivesim
AILiveSim is a developer of a scalable simulation platform to accelerate business.
——Private5—MUIstyled-componentsEmotion+14——
4Clarvos
Developer of an agentic AI platform for digital advertising strategies
——Unfunded—Tamera Montagna
Chief Executive Officer
———
5Cognicount
Automated invoice processing solution for businesses
——Funding Raised—Juuso Heikkinen
Co-Founder
———
6Hetki
AI-based platform for meeting assistant
——Funding Raised6————
7Ikkio
Mobile app designed to help the visually impaired and blind navigate
——Unfunded—Erjon Skenderi
Chief Technology Officer | Cofounder
———
8LinkedIn Post Generator
Developer of an AI platform for generating social media posts
——Unfunded—Iuliia Shnai
Founder
Node.jsNextAuth.jsHeadless UI+8——

Top 12 Artificial Intelligence companies in Helsinki

#1
Series D · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2013
$115.6Mraised
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Developer of technology addressing human and societal problems with urgency. It builds next-generation solutions. The company fosters values of humility, accountability, and creativity.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 8.2% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Lead
Activity: 3 partnerships (incl. Patria) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2025Series D$115.6M
Founders & team
Peter SarlinFounder
Investors
Tesi, Nokia
Tech stack
Animate.CssAstroCloudflareFont AwesomeGoogle Font ApiHsts
#2
Public · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2014 · 3 employees
$23Mraised
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Provider of an AI and cloud-based, deep learning image analysis platform in all therapy areas. It provides analysis of digital pathology images for pathologists and researchers. The products are aiforia create, aiforia on-demand, and aiforia cloud.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 11k LinkedIn followers — 12.4% of this cohort's audience · 17 engagements/post (1.5× cohort median)
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Post IPO$4.9M
  • Jun 2021Series B$15.4M
  • Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$483.6K
  • Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$2.3M
Founders & team
Jukka TapaninenCEO
Investors
Epredia, Europa, Ascend Capital Partners, ACME, Sto Rahoitus, Businessfinland
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAnimate.CssAnime.JsApple Icloud MailBootstrap
#3
Acquired · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2017 · 240 employees
$11.2Mraised
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Silo.AI provides customized AI-powered solutions using its proprietary AI technologies. Offers scalable expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. Also claims to be developing its own platform to provide human-centered AI solutions to business organizations.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2024Grant (prize money)$1.3M
  • Jun 2022Series B—
  • Jun 2019Series A$11.2M
Founders & team
Tero OjanperaCo-FounderPeter SarlinCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Businessfinland, Altor Equity Partners, Europa
#4
Series A · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2017 · 30 employees
$6.6Mraised
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MVision AI developed AI enabled medical imaging platform. The platform is developed for radiation therapy to treat cancer. It assists doctors with therapy planning for patients that require radiation therapy treatment.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers — 10.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. Radio-Onkologiezentrum Biel Seeland Berner Jura (ROZ)) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2023Series A$5.8M
  • May 2018Seed$730.8K
Founders & team
Saad Ullah AkramCo-FounderMahmudul HasanFounder & Chief Strategy Officer & Board memberHeikki ArponenCo-Founder
Investors
Voima Ventures, J12, Icebreaker, Nuard, Founders' Edge, Athensmed
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementComplianzContact Form 7CookieyesCore-Js
#5
Acquired · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2020 · 13 employees
$5.1Mraised
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Provider of a platform offering AI-enabled writing assistance. It helps users to manage their daily communication by converting their normal words into ready-to-send e-mails, messages, and posts. Users can also apply bullets, templates, and other writing functions in their emails.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 4.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2021Seed$4.4M
  • Dec 2020Seed$658K
Founders & team
Aaro IsosaariCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Project A, Lifeline Ventures, Seedcamp
#6
Deadpooled · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2015 · 9 employees
$4.7Mraised
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Curious AI provides an artificial general intelligence technology for supervised and semi-supervised learning of AI models. Claims that the software solution has capabilities of human-level knowledge work and can deliver automated knowledge work solutions. It enables computers or systems to mimic human cognition more closely by taking the human brain as its model. Use cases are in the areas of invoice automation, document understanding, business process analysis and prediction, and database understanding.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2017Series A$3.7M
  • Oct 2015Seed$1M
Founders & team
Harri ValpolaCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Invus, Lifeline Ventures, DCVC, Balderton Capital, Westcott, Businessfinland
#7
Acquired · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2016 · 20 employees
$3.1Mraised
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Jenny provides an artificial intelligence-based conversational agent "Jenny" which can be used to answer general customer questions. The virtual agent learns from the existing customer database and uses machine learning to improve as used. Currently, it can be integrated with the Genesys platform is will be available for the Avaya and Cisco. It also provides an API that can be integrated with custom customer service platforms. Some of the potential clients are CoreNet Global, University of Turku, UKKO.fi, etc.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2019Seed$2.3M
  • Feb 2017Seed$120K
  • Aug 2016Seed$671.2K
Founders & team
Miikka HaavistoCo-Founder and COO (GetJenny was acquired by LeadDesk August 2021)
Investors
Techstars, Dubai Angel Investors, Exio Capital Partners, Businessfinland, Nestholma, Avanto Ventures
Tech stack
AdrollAdroll Cmp SystemCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#8
Seed · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2015 · 19 employees
$853.4Kraised
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AI-powered solution for dictation and transcription of medical data. The app offered by the company assists healthcare professionals to take notes using their mobile from any location. The app is independent of the EHR solution for storing and sharing patient medical data.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Distribution Recognition Engineer, Medical Transcriber
Funding rounds
  • May 2021Angel$853.4K
  • Oct 2017Seed—
Founders & team
Simo SorsakiviFounder & CEO
Investors
Icebreaker, Founders' Edge, Startup Creasphere, Winterbackwoods
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailHubspot
#9
Seed · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2014 · 29 employees
$1.4Mraised
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Provider of text analytics solutions leveraging machine learning technology. Its chief offerings include AI moderator and text analytics. The moderator is an automated real-time moderation tool that uses machine learning algorithms to manage, analyze and visualize large masses of text in any language. The software learns from examples of how the moderation guidelines of the company work and removes any inappropriate messages. Text analytics is a SaaS platform, accessible through an API, that defines the semantic contents of a piece of text or a larger document and gives classifications, tags, or segments automatically.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 5.9% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: The Architect, Backend All-Rounder
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2017Seed$1.4M
Founders & team
Mari-Sanna PaukkeriCo-Founder & CEOTom PackalenCo-Founder
Investors
Vendep Capital
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#10
Seed · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2017 · 28 employees
$561.5Kraised
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Front AI provides services for developing customer service chatbots to enterprises. It leverages its proprietary artificial intelligence and natural language processing based platform, for developing the bots, which comes built-in with modules covering banking, insurance, pension, telecom, public sector, and HR services. The developed bot features multi-lingual support (22 natural languages including all the Nordic languages) and can be integrated with all backend systems, either via interfaces or RPA.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 3.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2019Seed$561.5K
Founders & team
Matti ToivonenChief Experience OfficerJari AnnalaPartner
Investors
Lifeline Ventures, CapMan, Digital Workforce
Tech stack
ActivecampaignAutoptimizeBeaver BuilderCalendlyCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#11
Deadpooled · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2017 · 2 employees
$418.1Kraised
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Meeshkan is a Finnish startup that has developed an application that allows data science teams to train and deploy ML models from Slack. It allows developers to change a learning rate, pause training, and redistribute compute using simple commands. Additionally, users can schedule training and testing, containerize models, and share models with colleagues. The bot uses patent-pending technology for speedy partitioning of data-flow across the distributed infrastructure. It is compatible with multiple frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow and is optimized for deep learning workflows. The company was the winner of the Slush 100 startup competition.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2018Seed$418.1K
Founders & team
Mike SolomonCo-Founder & CEOMakenna SmutzCo-Founder & COO
Investors
Futuristic, Founders' Edge, Maria 01, Nordic Makers, Connect Ventures
Tech stack
ReactGatsbyEmotionGoogle AdsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Ads Conversion Tracking
#12
Deadpooled · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2015 · 4 employees
$139.4Kraised
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Etsimo is an AI based visual discovery platform for easy content discovery. It works on top of any document collection system by refining existing indexes and keywords, thus it provides more accurate data results. It empowers the user to explore the search results visually and then it predicts further search directions which the user might want to take. The results are refined with every user interaction, providing more accurate results as the search progresses and the machine learns. It works with a web browser on all devices, and the back end can be either installed in the clients environment or deployed in the cloud on top of proprietary and corporate or public data.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2018Seed—
  • Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$139.4K
Investors
Terveystalo, Europa, Exio Capital Partners

Funding & investor landscape

$172.6Mtotal disclosed funding
12companies funded
24disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Businessfinland4 rounds
Europa3 rounds
Founders' Edge3 rounds
Lifeline Ventures3 rounds
Maria 013 rounds
Byfounders2 rounds
Exio Capital Partners2 rounds
Icebreaker2 rounds
ACME1 rounds
Altor Equity Partners1 rounds

Notable founders

Peter Sarlin
Founder · NestAI
Jukka Tapaninen
CEO · Aiforia
Tero Ojanpera
Co-Founder · Silo.AI
Saad Ullah Akram
Co-Founder · MVision
Mahmudul Hasan
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer & Board member · MVision
Aaro Isosaari
Co-Founder & CEO · Flowrite
Harri Valpola
Co-Founder & CEO · Curious
Miikka Haavisto
Co-Founder and COO (GetJenny was acquired by LeadDesk August 2021) · GetJenny
Simo Sorsakivi
Founder & CEO · Inscripta
Mari-Sanna Paukkeri
Co-Founder & CEO · Utopia Analytics
Tom Packalen
Co-Founder · Utopia Analytics
Matti Toivonen
Chief Experience Officer · Front AI
Prism market signals · Finland · country-scoped Prism corpus, 60,512 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Artificial Intelligence coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH FROM Helsinki · institutions

What Helsinki researches in artificial intelligence

18 papersstance +0.2638% breakthrough38% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Genetic diversity and population structureGenomics and Phylogenetic StudiesAnalytical Chemistry and ChromatographyAnimal Behavior and ReproductionMachine Learning in HealthcareLegume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
top institutions
  • University of Helsinki15
  • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology3
  • Helsinki University Hospital2
  • Helsinki Institute of Physics1
  • Helsinki Deaconess Institute1

Common questions

How many Artificial Intelligence companies are there in Helsinki, Finland?
Radar tracks 32 indexable Artificial Intelligence companies headquartered in Helsinki, Finland that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Artificial Intelligence companies in Helsinki, Finland?
The Artificial Intelligence companies in Helsinki, Finland on this list have raised a combined $172.6M in disclosed equity funding across 12 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence company in Helsinki, Finland?
NestAI is the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence company in Helsinki, Finland, with $115.6M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Artificial Intelligence companies in Helsinki, Finland are funded?
12 of the 32 Artificial Intelligence companies in Helsinki, Finland on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Artificial Intelligence unicorns are there in Helsinki, Finland?
None of the Artificial Intelligence companies in Helsinki, Finland on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Helsinki, Finland Artificial Intelligence companies?
The most active investors in Helsinki, Finland Artificial Intelligence companies on this list include Businessfinland, Europa, Founders' Edge, Lifeline Ventures, Maria 01.
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