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Emerging trends: ESG, mega rounds, and tech investments
FVCA’s Managing Director Pia Santavirta and the association’s Chairperson Janne Holmia, partner at the international private equity firm Verdane, list five directions in which they believe the Finnish private...
MB Funds has sold Debora to Mehiläinen
MB Funds has sold Debora, a Finnish home care service provider, to Mehiläinen in a transaction signed on 7th December 2021. Debora's child welfare services businesses are not included...
FVCA Newsletter – Slush edition
With the biggest startup event in the Nordics just about to start, we decided to summarize this year's highlights of the Finnish venture capital and startup scene. You can...
Intera to exit Renta
Intera Fund II Ky and Intera Fund III Ky to exit Renta Group. The new owner will be IK Partners, a European private equity firm. Renta Group is a...
OGOship raises €4M to continue growth
OGOship raises €4M to Build a Sustainable E-commerce Platform – Cross continental customers have already been onboarded. OGOship, a scalable 3PL service provider helping e-commerce businesses to streamline their...
A record-breaking start to the year: nearly one billion euro invested in Finnish companies by private equity investors in the first half of the year
Finnish companies received €929 million in private equity investments in the first half of the year, an all-time high in a six-month period. The record €1.5 billion that was...
Onvest and Tesi to acquire a stake in Puurakentajat enabling the company to enter a new growth phase
Family company Onvest Oy has acquired a significant stake in Puurakentajat Group Oy, the Finnish expert in solid wood construction, and becomes an active industrial owner of the company....
Verso Capital invests in Vetrospace, a pioneer in designing virusfree workspaces for offices and healthcare facilities
Vetrospace addresses the growing need for safe working and meeting spaces as part of the global efforts to return to the office. The company’s spaces are equipped with patented...
MB Funds to sell Pinja to Norvestor
Software company Pinja has grown rapidly along with the increased demand for digitalization solutions in industrial and service sectors. MB Funds, who backed the development of Pinja, divests its...
Verso Capital invest in mobile X-ray technology leader Solutions for tomorrow Ab
The investment will accelerate Solutions for tomorrow’s international expansion plans and launch new growth initiatives, including broadening the product portfolio. Solutions for tomorrow, a Swedish med-tech company, designs and...
SensorFu automates cybersecurity
Oulu, Finland 11.11.2021 - SensorFu Oy, a cybersecurity company which protects companies' critical information systems, has completed a 610,000EUR financing round to accelerate the company's expansion into international markets....
A record-breaking amount of venture capital funding to Finnish startups – previous years’ records broken already in the first half of the year
Finnish startups raised a record-breaking amount of venture capital investments from domestic and foreign investors in the first half of 2021 – the total amount of last year’s investments...