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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...
A race against time is on
In the past years, powerful megatrends have started to impact our daily life. Climate change, the environmental impact of plastic usage and new energy sources are well known topics...
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...
Finnish venture capital investors increasingly making international investments, indicating internationalisation of the industry
Finnish venture capital investors are increasingly investing in companies outside Finland. Although investments are made in many different sectors, ICT companies have raised the most funding. Finnish investors participate...
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...
Companies owned by private equity investors grew clearly faster than peer companies, even during the pandemic
A recent study by the Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA) and KPMG shows that private-equity-backed companies are once again the fastest-growing companies in Finland: their growth in terms of...
Fewer women in the private equity and venture capital industry in Finland than elsewhere in Europe
The private equity and venture capital industry in Finland has seen rapid growth in recent years. In the past two years, the number of employees in the industry has...
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...