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E-Mobility startup &Charge secures investment from Helen Ventures and Porsche Ventures to accelerate European expansion

&Charge GmbH, a German e-Mobility and impact startup, has closed an investment round led by Helen Ventures and Porsche Ventures. This Seed+ investment round allows the Frankfurt-based startup to...

Circular economy company Finncont targets international expansion with the support of Sponsor Capital

Finnish private equity company Sponsor Capital will become the majority owner of Finncont, a leader in circular economy. The aim of the transaction is to support Finncont’s future growth...

MB Funds to support the growth and international expansion of Alltime

Finnish infrastructure and property maintenance company Alltime Oy gets MB Funds, a private equity company with over 30 years of experience, as its main owner in the transaction signed...

Bocap invests into Good Sign, a leading provider of smart pricing and billing automation software

Bocap’s third consecutive fund (Bocap SME Achievers Fund III) has completed its first investment into Good Sign Oy, a Finnish forerunner in subscription management and recurring billing cloud service...

Nordic FoodTech VC closes a €42M fund

We are excited to announce a closing of our first fund at €42M, exceeding the €40M target size! We launched the fund in April 2020 as the first early-stage...

CapMan Buyout exits Bright Group to global event technology provider NEP Group

Funds managed by CapMan Buyout have entered into a definitive agreement to sell the subsidiaries of Bright Group Oy, a 360 supplier of live events services in Northern Europe...

Kuva Space to provide real time precision agriculture and global carbon sequestration from space

Climate change is already strongly changing our environment and the global food security is beginning to halter. With their space-borne services Kuva Space helps farmers in precision farming as...

FVCA’s Newsletter 5/2021 – Diversity, ESG & three new funds

From our latest newsletter, you can read more about Diversity: How many seats do women hold in the top management and boards of PE-backed-companies? Three new venture capital funds...

Voima Ventures investment: photodetector company Elfys raises €3M to ramp up the production for the growing wearable market

ElFys is tapping into a growing demand for photodetectors with people increasingly wanting to measure their health and wellbeing. Today’s announced €3M round is dedicated to ramping up the...

Vendep Capital launches third specialist fund to back B2B SaaS startups in the Nordics and Baltics

Vendep Capital, a specialist early stage B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) investor, has launched a third fund with the first close of 40 million euros. The firm previously...

StemSight cures blindness with stem cells

Over 12 million people suffer from corneal blindness but with StemSight’s innovation they can gain their sight back. This all female founded team just launched their company and announced...

Melt&Marble raises a €750K seed round to create fats that close the taste gap between animal and plant-based meats

Melt&Marble (formerly Biopetrolia), a company working on fermentation-based production of animal fats, has closed a seed round of €750K led by Nordic FoodTech VC. Other investors include Paulig’s venture...