Helen Ventures

Helen Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Helen, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It invests from its balance sheet in early and growth‑stage startups across Europe and Israel, with a focus on energy, e-mobility, circular economy, decarbonization, and digital solutions for the energy sector. The firm targets renewable energy technology, smart energy solutions, distributed energy systems, and related digital platforms, seeking to accelerate the adoption of transformative technologies in collaboration with customers and industry experts. By supporting startups that advance sustainable energy and related digital capabilities, Helen Ventures aims to help create new energy era solutions accessible to customers and partners.

Henri Isohanni

Principal

Annastiina Jurmu

Associate

Mikael Myllymäki

Vice President and Head

Antto Piirainen

Associate

Past deals in Energy

node.energy

Series B in 2025
node.energy develops software-as-a-service solutions for managing decentralized energy systems in commercial and industrial real estate. Its platform optimizes local energy microgrids, reducing administrative workload, energy costs, and carbon footprint while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Gradyent

Series B in 2025
Gradyent is a Dutch AI cloud platform established in 2019. It optimizes heating systems for district heating companies using Digital Twin technology, combining geographical, weather, sensor data with physical models and AI. This enables real-time optimization and future scenario simulations, reducing heat loss by 20%, CO2 emissions by 10%, and fuel costs by 5-10%.

Emulate Energy

Series A in 2025
Emulate Energy provides a white-label SaaS platform for mid-sized electricity utilities to monetize behind-the-meter demand flexibility through a virtual battery system. The platform offers end-to-end control of the value chain, enabling utilities to coordinate behind-the-meter assets, link EVs, charging stations, solar inverters, batteries, and smart thermostats, and participate in energy markets. By optimizing these resources, utilities can reduce customer energy costs and improve grid efficiency and sustainability through integrated distributed energy resources.

Nobile Group

Seed Round in 2024
Nobile is an energy sharing hub platform, directly connecting the producers and suppliers of renewable energy

enspired

Series B in 2024
Enspired is a digital energy trading service provider that facilitates the integration of flexible assets into power spot markets. It employs AI-based algorithms to automate trades, maximizing clients' asset value while supporting grid stability. The company serves leading utilities and renewable/battery operators across Europe.

Renewcast

Seed Round in 2024
Renewcast provides advanced wind power generation forecasting services. Its SaaS platform offers continuous updates every hour, enabling clients to access the latest forecasts directly via API for any subset of plants in their portfolio.

Cervi

Private Equity Round in 2022
Cervi specializes in providing ventilation and clean indoor air and cooling solutions. Its solutions include clean indoor air, energy-saving solutions, modernization of ventilation, refrigeration and refrigeration equipment maintenance.

Gradyent

Series A in 2022
Gradyent is a Dutch AI cloud platform established in 2019. It optimizes heating systems for district heating companies using Digital Twin technology, combining geographical, weather, sensor data with physical models and AI. This enables real-time optimization and future scenario simulations, reducing heat loss by 20%, CO2 emissions by 10%, and fuel costs by 5-10%.

node.energy

Series A in 2022
node.energy develops software-as-a-service solutions for managing decentralized energy systems in commercial and industrial real estate. Its platform optimizes local energy microgrids, reducing administrative workload, energy costs, and carbon footprint while ensuring regulatory compliance.

enspired

Series A in 2021
Enspired is a digital energy trading service provider that facilitates the integration of flexible assets into power spot markets. It employs AI-based algorithms to automate trades, maximizing clients' asset value while supporting grid stability. The company serves leading utilities and renewable/battery operators across Europe.

Gradyent

Seed Round in 2020
Gradyent is a Dutch AI cloud platform established in 2019. It optimizes heating systems for district heating companies using Digital Twin technology, combining geographical, weather, sensor data with physical models and AI. This enables real-time optimization and future scenario simulations, reducing heat loss by 20%, CO2 emissions by 10%, and fuel costs by 5-10%.
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