Porvoo-headquartered SEATOM has been selected for NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) 2026 programme, joining the Operations in Extreme Environments challenge track. The Porvoo-based company, which is developing dual-use nuclear-powered maritime systems, will receive €100,000 in initial contractual funding and take part in DIANA’s six-month accelerator, working with defence stakeholders and test […] Read more ›
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IndyKite comes out from stealth with the announcement of a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round co-led by Alliance Venture and SpeedInvest. The company aims to provide the identity layer for the decentralised web. IndyKite uses an open-source technology that will allow developers to map out people, devices across networks and bring personalisation and authorisation services ... Read more ›
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Icelandic startup Treble Technologies, specializing in sound simulation and sound design software, has announced a $2m seed financing round. Main investors are Börkur Arnviðarsson founder of ChemoMetec, Omega ehf., Sigþór Sigmarsson of Novator Partners LLP and Trausti Kristjánsson. The company, founded in late 2020, has the architecture, engineering and construction industry as its main target ... Read more ›
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Katapult Group’s single largest investment of 50 million NOK was made this year in 18 impact tech startups beginning the 2021 Accelerator Program this October. One of those 18 is a Finnish 3d printing startup. Norwegian impact-focused investment fund Katapult has selected 18 companies to invest in from 15 different countries and spanning 5 continents ... Read more ›
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EQT reinforces its commitment to impact and launches the EQT Future fund, targeting mature companies with market-shaping impact potential Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, and Jacob Wallenberg, Chairperson of Investor AB, are set to co-chair the EQT Future Mission Board which will provide strategic direction and impact-focused advice The EQT Future fund will have ... Read more ›
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WHO and Psyon Games have joined forces to launch a new tower defense game called the Antidote COVID-19 to turn complex, scientific information into a fun learning experience. During the course of the game, players will learn about their immune system, pathogens, vaccines and how to protect themselves from COVID-19. The game comes at a ... Read more ›
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Stockholm-based startup Lace Laboratory, making high-quality lace underwear for home delivery, today announces that it has raised €1.8 million. Investors include Jacob de Geer, founder of iZettle, Susanna Campbell, investor and Director of the Board at Kinnevik among others. This latest round brings the total funding to date to €2.5 million. The fresh funds will ... Read more ›
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 Ankeri, an emerging leader in the modernization of marine cargo vessel and charter management, announced today a late-seed round of €2 million, led by Icelandic venture firm Frumtak Ventures. This new round will help Ankeri strengthen the development of its platform and increase its presence in key shipping hubs between North America, Europe and Asia. Ankeri ... Read more ›
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Inbalance, a Lithuanian company that develops and operates smart EV charging stations, has raised an investment of 1.5 million euros in the post-seed round. Two new private investors Tomas Dirvonskas and Paulius Šarka are joining the existing investors: Contrarian Ventures, Coinvest Capital, the co-founder of the first Lithuanian unicorn Vinted Mantas Mikuckas, and angel investor ... Read more ›
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Revieve, a Finnish technology company specializing in delivering personalized digital brand experiences for skin, health, beauty, and wellness, has continued accelerating its partnerships by launching industry-first digital skincare advisor experiences with brand and retail partners in the Middle East, Europe, India, and Australia. Revieve powered global beauty retailers to deploy an AI-powered skincare solution,” Digital ... Read more ›
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Finnish data management startup Aiven announced a $60 million investment on a $2 billion valuation today. The announcement comes after the company received a $100 million investment in March at an $800 million valuation, an impressive increase given the timeline. The round was made up of Aiven’s existing investors, World Innovation Labs and IVP co-led ... Read more ›
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The Danish challenger bank Lunar  has acquired payment gateway Paylike to launch its own one-step checkout solution for its business customers. Paylike, which Lunar acquired for an undisclosed amount, handles over €100m of transactions every year and will help the bank to boost its current business banking offering. “When we founded Paylike in 2015, we ... Read more ›
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The European and Israeli cloud ecosystem is accelerating as never before. Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. $30B. The $900M ... Read more ›
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Estonian-German female-founded startup Grünfin on announced the launch of its investment platform focused on sustainable, values-based investments, for European consumers.The company has raised €2M round of funding for the launch. The round was led by Norrsken VC. Other investors in this round include Superangel, Lemonade Stand and a angel investors with backgrounds in Wise, Pipedrive, ... Read more ›
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Three months after first announcing their Series A raise at $21.5 million, the Göteborg-based banking platform for e-commerce players, Juni has raised more than twice the amount of the first portion of the raise to $73 million. The funds from this large raise will be used up towards increasing headcount and launch a fully integrated ... Read more ›
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TrusTrace, a Stockholm-based software company with a market-leading platform for supply chain transparency and product traceability within the fashion, food and retail industries, today announces a $6 million growth investment led by Industrifonden and Fairpoint Capital, together with previous investors BackingMinds, and with support from Fashion for Good. The new capital will be used to ... Read more ›
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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 especially in seed-stage investment rounds, which represent about half of all international investments made. In 2020, Finnish venture capital investors (later VC investors) invested a record ... Read more ›
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The marketing world has increasingly become a world of marketing technology. However, marketers do not necessarily possess the technical knowledge to process terabytes of data generated by a campaign.Stockholm-based Funnel, addressed this problem by building a no-code platform to help manage that process.They have is announced $66 million in funding, a financing round that highlights ... Read more ›
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After launching its first product in July this year (the Ear (1). Nothing, the audio tech company founded by Swedish One Plus co-founder Carl Pei, announced a “Series A Extension” of $50 million, bringing total investments to $74 million. The extension follows a $15 million Series A announced in February. Nothing announced a $1.5 million ... Read more ›
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While the fastest growing sector is currently biotech, Finnish angel investors find healthtech a more attractive investment prospect. Tesi’s investment director Joni Karsikas is pleased with Tesi’s and FiBAN’s latest research results, which indicate that in future years these sectors will offer attractive prospects for later-stage investment. Charting trends in angel investing, the study used a ... Read more ›
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Polar Night Energy is a Tampere-based startup that designs and builds heat storages for renewable energy. The company raised about half a million euros in its just-completed round of financing. The funding is used to hire employees, develop products, and commercialize services. The successful financing round enables our market entry and leads us to a ... Read more ›
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