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

Terhi Vapola Ph.D

VP and Head of Helen Ventures

Past deals in Utilities

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.

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.

Renewabl

Seed Round in 2024
Renewabl is a technology company specializing in renewable energy procurement. It offers a platform that enables businesses to achieve their sustainability goals by matching their energy consumption with blockchain-backed certificates from wind and solar farms, facilitating efficient decarbonization.

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.
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