Willo raises €2.9M pre-seed to scale alignment-free wireless power

European deep-tech Willo, a team formed by Ex-Microsoft and Oura leaders, raises €2.9M in pre-seed. The round was led by Lovable investor ByFounders and included notable angel investors like Product Hunt’s ex-CTO, Wolt’s CPO, and Pleo’s Co-founder.

Helsinki, Finland, Feb 5, 2026 – European deep-tech company Willo Technologies Oy ("Willo") today announced a €2.9 million pre-seed round to accelerate the development of its alignment-free wireless power system.

The round was led by byFounders, with participation from Interface Capital, Unruly Capital, and Wave Ventures, alongside a group of angel investors including Andreas Klinger (Co-initiator of EU Inc & former CTO of Product Hunt), Niccolò Perra (Co-founder & CTO of Pleo), Vincent Ho-Tin-Hoe (CPO at Wolt & scout for NEA), Urho Konttor i (Co-founder & CEO of Varjo), and Sune Alstrup (Founder of The Eye Tribe, acquired by Meta).

While most wireless power systems depend on alignment or directionality, Willo has designed a system that keeps devices charging over the air even as they move and rotate. Their technology was first presented publicly at CES 2026, where the company’s system won CNET Group’s Best of CES™ 2026 Awards.

“Wireless power is one of the last unsolved infrastructure layers in autonomy. Until power can be delivered without cables or manual charging, robots and devices will remain operationally constrained. Willo is working to remove that barrier, and this funding round lets us turn a breakthrough demonstration into a real engineering phase,” said Harri Santamala , Co-founder and CEO of Willo.

Now, the team’s focus is on building the technical foundation and early reference system that partners can begin evaluating and integrating around.

“Willo is creating a new way to transfer power over the last meter, which removes one of the major constraints for all modern infrastructure,” said Magnus Hambleton , Partner at byFounders. “They are pairing deep technical work with universally applicable hardware execution that very few teams in Europe can pull off.”

Willo was co-founded by Harri Santamala, Dr. Nam Ha-Van , and Marko Voutilainen . The company’s core technology draws on more than a decade of wireless power research led by Nam Ha-Van. Willo’s engineering and hardware team includes senior leaders from Microsoft, Nokia, and Oura. They are supported by postdoctoral researchers who have relocated from Japan and the United States to Finland to take the system from first prototype to scalable production.

The company is headquartered in Finland and operates across Europe, the United States, and Japan.