Sparkmind.vc
Mikonkatu 9, Helsinki, 00100, Finland
Overview
Sparkmind.vc is the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. The company invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. The investment sweet spot of the company is from seed to international growth phase with single investments up to €5m.
- Total investments
- 16
- Lead investments
- 8
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- E-Learning
- EdTech
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- imagi
Participated · Seed · Jul 2026
Imagi builds classroom tools and curriculum to teach K–12 students coding, basic computer skills and AI literacy, and it partners with tools like Lovable to provide controlled, teacher-managed access to vibe coding. The platform screens every prompt and generated response and asserts compliance with COPPA, FERPA and GDPR to avoid retaining student data or allowing partners to train on student activity. Imagi trains teachers on using AI and computational tools so they can confidently teach students how to build with AI rather than just consume it. Since launching in 2018, the company says it has reached more than 700,000 students across 140 countries. OpenAI provided $1 million in credits to enable free access to the Imagi x Lovable tool for schools. Imagi plans to use fresh capital to expand into more K–12 schools, grow district sales efforts, hire staff, add product features and launch a new platform next month.
- Fuzu
Participated · Series B · Jul 2026
Fuzu operates an AI-driven platform that helps jobseekers with career guidance, personalised learning and skills development while providing employers with talent acquisition services and labour market insights. Founded in 2015, the company reports more than 7.5 million lifetime users. Management, led by CEO Jussi Hinkkanen, plans to use new capital to enhance the platform and grow the company’s workforce. Fuzu also intends to expand into additional African markets to capture rising demand for digital recruitment and career development services. The company’s recent $3.86M Series B further validates investor interest in its growth trajectory and product-market fit.
- AUTOVIO
Led · Equity · May 2024
Autovio provides a digital platform that centralizes organization, marketing, sales, billing and customer support for driving schools. The company says 50 driving schools currently use its infrastructure and about 3,000 learners have obtained their licenses through Autovio. Its stated goal is to make driving-school operations more efficient—raising the number of instructors per administrative staff from an industry average of roughly 2.5 to about 11. The platform also aims to improve the learner experience by enabling payments and appointment booking via smartphone, reducing bureaucracy and calls. The founders validate the concept in their own four-person driving school with daily reality checks. Autovio was founded in 2021 and is based in Berlin. The company recently completed a €3.8 million financing.
- Packwise
Participated · Equity · May 2024
Autovio digitizes the driving-school sector through mobile apps aimed at driving instructors and learners. The platform additionally offers services for marketing, sales, customer support and invoicing to driving schools. The company was founded by Tom Kedor, Philipp Goebel, Amir Hadi and Carsten Eckmiller. Autovio is headquartered in Berlin. The article reports a recent external investment of €3.8 million. No operating metrics were disclosed in the coverage.
- Tiney
Participated · Series A · May 2024
tiney operates a tech-enabled childcare service that recruits, trains and supports ‘micro-entrepreneurs’ to become registered home-based childminders. The company provides an app with tools for processing invoices, handling taxes, ensuring Ofsted compliance, plus marketing support, business advice, lesson plans and peer support. Parents use the app to book childcare, make payments, and monitor their child’s development. tiney’s community has over 1,000 childminders registered, hundreds more in training, and provides early years education to more than 5,400 children. The startup plans to use new funding to expand operations and development efforts across its network. Tiney operates a two-sided platform that recruits people interested in becoming childminders, provides free in-person and online training and ongoing professional development, and lists trained childminders for parents to discover and book. The company handles messaging, invoicing and administrative tasks for bookings and takes a 10 percent commission on jobs and contracts completed through its platform. Tiney aims to streamline a bureaucratic public registration process and replace handwritten journals with online progress tracking that parents and authorities can monitor. Only about 20 percent of applicants are accepted into Tiney’s training program today, and the company is onboarding roughly 25 new childminders per month. The typical Tiney minder is in their early thirties and the program attracts a diverse mix of BAME, immigrant and professional career-break participants. With new funding, Tiney plans to scale onboarding and grow its pool of trained childminders across the UK.