# Inven

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/inven

- Industry: Financial Services
- Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland
- Website: www.inven.ai/
- Total disclosed funding: $14M
- Latest round: Series A (May 17, 2025)
- Investors on record: 4

## About

Based in Helsinki, Finland, and co-founded by Ekku Jokinen, Niilo Pirttijärvi, and Tommi Kupiainen in 2022, SearchCo Oy, doing business as Inven operates as a fintech company offering a financial data platform for website and data analysis. The company utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to analyze millions of websites and extract relevant business data. The range of solutions offered by Inven is a platform to search and find private equity companies, identify investment banking companies, and business brokers, as well as consulting and corporate development services. The company’s platform caters to consulting firms, business brokers, investment banks, private equity firms, corporate development teams, and investors, helping them streamline their processes and save time and effort in identifying potential deals and synergistic acquisition targets. Users can also access ownership types, business models, financial data, contact data, and more, all in one place. In May 2025, Inven raised USD 12.8 million in series A funding co-led by Vendep and Ventech, with participation from Joint Effects and Lifeline Ventures. Individual investors also participated in the round. The company plans to utilize its March 2025 funding to headcount growth, US expansion, artificial intelligence engineering, product development, customer success team scale.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, May 17, 2025, $12M — Ventech, Lifeline Ventures, Vendep, Joint Effects
- Seed, Mar 25, 2023, $1.6M — Lifeline Ventures

## Investors

- Lifeline Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/lifeline-ventures) — Seed, Series A
- Ventech (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/ventech) — Series A
- Vendep (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/vendep) — Series A
- Joint Effects (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/joint-effects) — Series A