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Seeking an investor for your startup? Read this first!

A startup aiming for strong growth should consider seeking a venture capital and private equity investor to join their company's growth story. When a professional investor invests in the...

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Backing the world’s first glasses-free mixed reality solution – Why FOV Ventures invested in Distance

In 2016, Varjo was founded and became a category defining company that built some of the most advanced XR products in the world that others tried to imitate. If...

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FOV Ventures: investing in 100x better computers

Flow Computing Emerges from Stealth to Outperform State-of-the-Art CPUs such as Apple’s M-series. Data volumes have grown substantially with the rapid rise of generative AI, increasing demands on mobile...

Press releases

Private equity and venture capital investors identify 47 potential IPO candidates from portfolios

The IPO market has experienced an unusually long quiet period. However, private equity and venture capital investors have identified numerous companies within their portfolios that they believe have the...

Blogs

#1 in private equity in Europe, but what’s Finland missing?

Last week, we reported that Finnish companies received the most private equity (PE) investments in Europe relative to GDP in 2023. Let’s dig deeper into the details. In 2023,...

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Gorilla Capital invests in Habbie – a digital service for rehabilitation, habilitation and preventive training

Habbie’s service makes training fun and motivating, ensures the quality of the treatment and promotes compliance and follow-up. For staff and caregivers, Habbie provides the opportunity to help more...

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Finnish companies lead European private equity statistics

According to recent statistics from Invest Europe, the umbrella organisation for European private capital, Finnish companies received the most private equity investments relative to GDP in Europe last year....

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Enifer secures €36M in funding to solve the world’s soaring protein need with its proprietary mycoprotein

The Finnish biotech scaleup is gearing up the production of its PEKILO® mycoprotein with a new €33M factory located in Kirkkonummi, Finland. With already existing collaborations with the world’s...

Blogs

Steps to venture capital and private equity funding

Venture capital or private equity refers to an investment into a company made by a professional investor, typically in exchange for a portion of the company's shares. It is...

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ArgusEye announces the successful closure of a new funding round — led by Finnish Voima Ventures

ArgusEye, an emerging player in transformative sensor technology for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced the successful closure of a new funding round, raising 32.5M SEK (approximately 2.8M Euro). This round...

Publications

How to raise venture capital and private equity funding – a guide for entrepreneurs

Is venture capital or private equity the right option for you? How to find the right investor? Our guide for entrepreneurs answers your...

Press releases

M&A market slowdown reflected in 2023 private equity investments in Finland – positive shift in investors’ market sentiment

The subdued M&A market of the previous year has left its mark on private equity investments, witnessing a decline in activity among Finnish buyout and growth investors compared to...