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Your traineeship is fixed-term (6 months), beginning from January 2021. The traineeship is full-time and requires, first and foremost, curious mindset and proactive working style.
Highlights of the review period: Tesi made new investments and commitments amounting to 183 M€ during the first half o...
ICEYE Continues to Set the Pace for the Market for Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR), with Four Additional Satellites planned for 2020, and Eight in 2021
Your traineeships are fixed-term (4-5 months), beginning from January 2021. The traineeships are full-time and require, first and foremost, analytical mindset.
Compared to other Finnish companies, our portfolio companies grow faster on average – total net sales grew by 12 %; total exports by 8 %...
XR technology leader receives strong support from new and existing investors to meet growing demand for enterprise virtual and mixed reality
Funding enables MariaDB to drive hypergrowth by capitalizing on the rising demand for enterprise grade cloud database solutions worldwide.
The funding will be used to accelerate Swappie’s international expansion and to support the company’s rapid growth.
Tesi invests in innovative Finnish companies looking for international growth. The Venture Bridge program is meant for companies that have previously raised at...
The market pulse survey sheds light at regular intervals to t...
The programme will temporarily expand Tesi’s investment focus and give start-up companies more time for larger scale fundraising.
Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) announced today that it will further develop its focus on cancer care providers and their patients through its...
Tesi is now looking for a full-time, fixed-term (3 – 5 months) Analyst trainee with an analytical mindset to join the Research & Development team.
The results of a wide-ranging questionnaire survey commissioned by Tesi analyses the problems faced by Finnish SMEs sector by sector.
The new €100 million fund acquires businesses that have strong growth potential but are not living up to their full potential in the current ownership.
Tesi will apply its stability programme to invest in medium-sized companies encountering sudden and temporary difficulties, but which however have the potential to overcome their financia...
Icebreaker.vc has made the first close of its second fund at 50 million euros to enable the benefits of accelerating digitalization across industr...
A market pulse survey for Finnish venture capital and bu...
The corona crisis has substantially depressed the net sales of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and the situation is expected to deteriorate e...
During 2019, Tesi made new investments and commitments amounting to €133m. Tesi gave commitments totalling €89m to ten funds and made direct investments amount...
Managed by Sparkmind.vc, the Sparkmind Fund (formerly EduImpact Fund) is the first venture capital fund in Finland to focus on the education sector. The €40 million fund w...
Helsinki, Finland - Tesi, with commitments from major Finnish institutional investors Keva, VER, Ilmarinen, Elo and LocalTapiol...
UpCloud, the European leader in high performance cloud computing services fuels its growth with €18 million in new funding. UpCloud is incredibly excited to announce that it has secure...
BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management and analytics, today announced that it has closed...
Endev, a Finnish company extracting energy and nutrients from wastewater sludge, has raised EUR 4.3 million and is scaling up its technology to f...
Venture capital firm Lifeline Ventures has raised EUR 130 million for a new fund, an amount that sets a new record for fundraising in F...
DevCo Partners has raised €180m of long-term capital for its next investment platform. DevCo aims to create glo...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (Tesi) invests in Fira to help to modernise the construction sector into solutions that serve people and the environment. Fira’s goal is to increase its impa...
Tesi made new investments and investment commitments amounting to €76m during the review period.
Tesi is now looking for a fulltime, fixed-term (4 – 5months) Investment Analyst trainee with an analytical mindset.
Finnish investor IPR.VC has raised a new fund investing in European TV, film and interactive content in the media production and...
Tesi´s Fund Investments team is looking for a full time Analyst to join the team. As an Analyst your main tasks include supporting your team with market, industry and fund prop...
The sales of Zsar Outlet village exceeded expectations
IQM as an emerging hardware leader in the race to develop a quantum computer for practical applications.
Finnish investors make significant investments in Picosun, a manufacturer of ALD equipment, increasing the company’s share capital by 12 million euros. New investors are...
Matts Grönholm (47) MSc Econ, MSc Tech has been appointed as Tesi’s CFO and member of the Management Team. He reports to the CEO Jan Sasse. Matts Grönholm will start in his new position as of 2 September 2019.
Finnish glass recycler and foam glass manufacturer Uusioaines Oy and Swedish foam glass manufacturer Hasopor AB will form Europe’s leading foam glass manufa...
Tesi is now looking for both Analyst trainee for Fund Investments team and Investment analyst trainee for Direct Investments team.
Tesi and KPN Ventures join existing investors in supporting Wirepas on its growth trajectory
Evolver, a specialized investor in Swedish and Finnish small-cap buyouts, announced 2nd April the first closing of its ma...
HappySignals’ pioneering service experience measurement has helped customers identify areas where employees are losing time while their IT Service M...
In 2018, Tesi made new investments of €121m to accelerate the growth and internationalisation of Finnish companies. The aggregated net sales of direct...
Interested in the Finnish economy and private equity? Eager to learn more about new technologie...
Some 60,000 young people have dropped out of school and working life in Finland. Often the reason is that they lack the ability, knowledge or skills to manage school, college or working lif...
ICEYE, an Earth observation company creating the world’s largest Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, today announced it ha...
Excellent opportunity to learn about the venture capital and private equity industry from data perspective
Hostaway has successfully gained a major foothold in the rapidly growing vacation rentals market, alongside its partners - Booking.com, AirBnb, and Expedia to name...
Partnera, a Finnish investment company located in Oulu, has reached an agreement to acquire Uusioaines Ltd. As a result of t...
Dispelix Ltd, the designer and manufacturer of its proprietary see-through displays for Augm...
The Committee on Economic Policy of Finnish Government decided in May 2018 to endorse the reorganising of the State’s mining industry holdings into Finnish Mine...
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Tesi's interim review 2018
MENLO PARK, Calif. and HELSINKI – September 20, 2018 – MariaDB® Corporation today announced that Pat Casey, SVP of Development and...
New USD $7.4 Million Investment Follows Impressive Growth in North America
Founded by Ilka Kivimäki and Pirkka Palomäki, the Maki.vc fund makes seed round or Series A round investments in promising tech startups. Launched in March 2018, the fund has already investments amount...
Henri Hakamo has been appointed as Tesi’s Chief Digital Officer (CDO), Mikael Niemi as Investment Director and Elisa Lehmusniemi as Executive Assistant. Juha Lehtola returns to Tesi’s Venture Capital team as Director.
A new financing model of the EIB and Tesi will invest EUR 100 million to growth-oriented SMEs and innovative mid-cap companies over the next eight years.
Oura Health, the Finnish health technology company behind the Oura ring, has moved its total private funding to 12.5M€ after the closure of a round led by US-based Bold Capital...
ICEYE, an Earth observation company providing synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, today announced €29 million Series B funding led by retu...
All SuperPark Oy’s shares have been sold through ownership arrangements. The new investors, the independent private equity company Sentica and the state-ow...
Venture capital funds offer investors the opportunity to take part in the success stories of innovative companies that have potential to revolutionise entire sectors, while ge...
Finnish digital health company Kaiku Health Oy, which provides intelligent patient monitoring software f...
With Additional Funding, Midaxo Reinforces Its Position as The Leading Provider Of M&A Software.
Tesi made new investments totaling €149m, incl. a €60m commitment in the fund-of-fund KRR III. Direct portfolio companies continued to...
The fund will make majority investments in small and mid-sized service companies with the aim of growing them into sec...
Thirdpresence, an AI-driven programmatic video advertising company, has raised $2.4M in seed funding to accelerate R&D on their purpose-built...
Finnish fintech company Zervant, which provides online invoicing software for small business and entrepreneurs across Europe, has announced €6 million in funding. The investment was...
The new name reflects the change in the company strategy from traditional mining business to sustainable recycling of materials and recovering valuable metals from...
LocalTapiola and Tesi have reached an agreement on a significant investment in Viria, a company that offers solutions in digital and physical security. As part of t...
In 2017 Valmet Automotive took significant steps in transforming from a Finland-based vehicle manufacturing business to a service provider with a broad offering to the automotive...
Interested in the Finnish economy and private equity? Eager to learn more about different industries? Eye for detail and abilit...
Tesi, The CapMan Buyout X fund and Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company have entered into an agreement to invest in KotiSun Group. The seller in the transaction is Panostaja Plc. As a re...
The year 2017 has been significant for Finland as we have celebrated our 100th year of independence. In addition to honoring the past, it is also a great moment to look ahead. The 100-year-history has given us...
In June-July we conducted a corporate image survey, to which altogether 500 representatives of our stakeholders responded. The survey results show that Tesi is a well-known, professional and trust...
Croda International Plc, who creates, makes and sells speciality chemicals for some of the biggest, most successful brands in the world, today announced that it has acquired IonPha...
Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services has acquired a minority stake in MetGen OY. As part of the acquisition, Ecolab will...
Already at the first closing, Inventure Fund III is the largest pure early-stage technology fund ever raised in Finland.
MariaDB® Corporation, the company behind the fastest growing open source database, today announced that it raised $27 million in...
Danish family company Danfoss has acquired Visedo, a company specializing in electric powertrains and components. Visedo is a world-leading expert in electric sol...
Since 2009, the KRR fund-of-funds concept has accelerated the growth and internationalisation of 150 companies
Proactive and analytical team player? Interested in private equity and the Finnish economy?
Tesi’s Interim Review 2017
Changyuan Group Ltd (“Changyuan”) has acquired 100% of OptoFidelity Oy (“OptoFidelity”) bringing together a unique combination of test & measurement sol...
Brella raises €1.2 million – establishes subsidiary in USA
BCB Medical, the Nordic market leader in gathering and analysing clinical data, has raised new capital from a group of high quality institutional investors led by Standout...
Matias Kaila joins Tesi as Director for Fund Investments, Jussi Hattula to lead Growth and Industrial Teams.
Mustavaaran Kaivos Oy (MKOy) is pleased to announce an arrangement of 9.7 M€ funding for the completion of a bankable feasibility study on...
BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management solutions, today announces that it has closed a...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced a EUR 25m funding of MariaDB, the company behind the fastest growing Open Source database, to supp...
The fund with the target size of €40 million will invest mainly in Finnish startups offering software to B2B customers. The investors are Finnish institutional i...
Finnish private equity company Sentica Partners has raised its new Sentica Buyout V fund, which was closed at its 185 million euros hard cap. The f...
Vaaka Partners has successfully made the first and final closing of its new fund, Vaaka Partners Buyout Fund III Ky, at its hard cap limit of EUR 225 million. Vaaka...
Rightware, the leading provider of automotive user interface software and Tesis’ portfolio company since 2013 has been acquired...
Jan Sasse takes up the role of Tesi’s CEO on 6 March 2017. “I’m excited to become the new CEO of Tesi. Tesi plays a central role in financing the international expansion of Finnish companies....
Financial year 2016 was extremely brisk in terms of Tesi’s new investments, the activity level of Tesi’s international co-investors in Finland as well as i...
Folmer Management Oy has raised its second private equity fund, Folmer Equity Fund II Ky, which will continue the investment strategy of Folmer Equity Fund I Ky. The size of the...
Leading Nordic insulation manufacturer Jackon Group has bought 90% of ThermiSol Ltd’s capital stock. ThermiSol is a manufacturer of EPS insulation products and a Tesi p...
Valmet Automotive has signed an agreement with Semcon, an international technology company li...
Starting 1st of February, you will get to know Finnish Industry Investment under the Finnish brand name Tesi also in English. Tesi has been our unofficial nickname for years, and the change...
Valmet Automotive and Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), a leading g...
Joni Karsikas (30), M.Sc. (Technology), B. Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm), has been appointed to Finnish Industry Investment’s Venture Capital team as Investment...
CapMan Buyout X fund and Finnish Industry Investment invest in Forenom, a leading Nordic temporary housing service operator. CapMan and Industry Investment acquir...
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Helsinki and Beijing, 19 December 2016. Rightware, the leading provider of automotive user interface s...
Visedo is ready to take a global lead in providing smart and high performance electric drivetrain systems.
Finnish Industry Investment’s Board of Directors has appointed Jan Sasse, MSc (Econ), aged 49, as the company’s new President & CEO, with effect from 6 March...
This marks the second investment round for Vaadin this year. The capital will be used to further boost its investments into product development and marketing.
Put your boots on and come to meet us 30th Nov – 1st Dec at Slush in Helsinki.
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) and EOC Capital lead a 3,6 million euro investment round in Midaxo. FII invests 1,5 million euros, EOC...
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Alongside financial performance, Finnish Industry Investment assesses its economic and societal impact on a yearly basis.
“Martin Backman has been FII’s President & CEO since 2014. During his period as President & CEO, he has actively developed the com...
California-based Karma Automotive has launched its new high-end, luxury plug-in hybrid, the Karma Revero, with a digital cockpit created using K...
Record-high investment volume – €100 million to finance company growth
Keith Bonnici, M.Sc. (Econ), aged 49, has been appointed Investment Director in Finnish Industry Investment’s Venture Capital team with effect from 29 August...
Northzone is delighted to announce the closing of its biggest fund to date, Northzone VIII. The latest fund was, once again, over...
Verdane Capital IX AB (Verdane IX) has closed at its hard-cap with SEK 3 billion in commitments. The fund, which is Verdane’s largest to date, was significantly oversubscribed. Verd...
Wärtsilä has today signed an agreement to acquire Eniram, a Finland-based technology company providing the marine industry with energy management and analytics solutions. T...
DevCo to acquire Vexve, a leading supplier of valves for district heating applications
Verto Analytics, the world’s first single-source audience measurement company, has raised a €14.5m growth...
EQT Ventures secures commitments totaling EUR 566 million; to support fast-growing tech-enabled companies across Europe throughout all stages of growth Team combines succes...
OptoFidelity Ltd, the world leader in user interactions testing for smart devices, has agreed on a EUR3.6M funding including growth financing package with Finnish In...
CapMan Credit becomes Nest Capital and announces the 100 million first close of its new fund. Nest Capital is an independent investment partnership within the CapMan Group.
We produced favourable results in 2015, both operationally and financially. We made new investments totalling €...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided a EUR 8 million loan to NewIcon for its development and innovation activities in...
New Solution Intelligently Unifies Information Silos and Business Systems with Patent-Pending Technology that will Disrupt ECM and EIM Landscape.
Touhula Varhaiskasvatus was founded in 2010 and today operates over 80 pre-schools and day-care centers across Finland. Coronaria Hoitoketju, the majority shareholder of Touhula, has agree...
BMH Technology Oy, a company turning waste into recovered fuel, expands its owner...
Anna Kilpi, LL.M, (45) has been appointed Finnish Industry Investment’s Director, HR and Legal Affairs, with effect from May 2016. She will bec...
eEquity and Finnish Industry Investment invest $6M in Vaadin, the open source company whose userinterface tools are used in 40% of Fortune100 companies and by over 150 000 developers worldwide.
Rauma Marine Constructions Oy (RMC), a pioneer in arctic shipbuilding, will receive a major infusion of capital for further growth from three actors Finnish Industry Investment...
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Saltex Oy, a specialist in artificial turf surfaces, and Unisport Scandinavia AB, service provider for sports facilities are joining forces. They will...
Valmet Automotive and Mercedes-Benz have announced that Valmet Automotive will start manufacturing additional units of the Mercedes-Benz GLC SUV at the Uusikau...
Early stage VC firm targets software entrepreneurs looking to scale globally. Experienced tech entrepreneur and investor, Richard Muirhead, joining as general pa...
Team Finland will be taking part in Slush, which has joined the ranks of the world's leading technology and startup events. The event will take place in Helsinki on 11 and 12 November.
Based on the authorization received from the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders, the Board of Directors of the Company has today approved the subscriptions of new class B shares in the co...
TUI Cruises GmbH and Meyer Turku Oy signed an agreement for two cruise ships. This order further strengthens the order book of the shipyard, which contains now a high work lo...
Enevo provides a fully automated waste logistics operations management solution that creates a...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is reshuffling its Management Team and reinforcing the management of its direct investment ope...
Mahindra Holidays-Holiday Club Resorts entity becomes largest in the world ex-USA.
Today, Kotkamills Oy signed agreements totalling EUR 70 million on equipment deliveries for paper machine 2 to be upgraded in the summer of 2016. The deli...
Finnish Industry Investment made new investments in 2014 amounting to slightly less than €83m. New investment commitments, totalling €42m, were made to seven ventu...
The Meyer family, operating the shipbuilding company Meyer Werft in Germany, and the Finnish State acquired Turku shipyard from STX Europe in September 2014. Meyer Werft took up 70 percent...
Onbone Ltd, the developer of novel casting technology material, Woodcast®, has raised a total of €10 million...
Ministry of Employment and the EconomyPress Release 075/2015The Finnish government authorised the Ministry of Employment and the Economy on 2 April 2015 to subscribe fo...
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise ship owner and operator has announced their newbuilding program for 9 next-generation cruise ships to be delivered within the...
Read up on Industry Investment’s year 2014
As announced on March 5th, 2015, Kotkamills Oy has a new owner. The company has now returned to full Finnish ownership. Eagle Industries Oy was founded for this acquisition. Eagl...
Eagle Industries Oy has signed an agreement to acquire 100 % of the shares in Kotkamills Oy from OpenGate Capital. Eagle Industries is owned by MB Funds, Nordic Mezzanine, E...
From left: Thor-Erik Næss, CEO, Aidon Norge, Timo Chrons, CEO, Aidon, Sigurd Kvistad, Project Manager, Hafslund Nett, and Kristin Lian, Senior Vice President of Hafs...
AS Tallink Grupp and Meyer Turku Oy signed a contract for the construction of LNG powered fast ferry for Tallinn-Helsinki route shuttle operation...
LeadDesk, the Finnish SaaS company serving the European call center industry, has raised €5.5 million in its first round of funding led by Dawn Capita...
Valmet Automotive and RLE International, both leading service providers to the global automotive industry, have further strengthened their existing partn...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) has made significant investments in Finnish venture capital and private...
Image: Valmet Automotive Valmet Automotive expanded its business considerably in 2014. The daily production pace of the Mercedes-Benz A-Class at Uusikaupunki...
Press release, MendorEspoo, Finland Mendor, a leading diabetes technology and solution company, is happy to announce a contract with city of...
For cleantech success in BioFuel / BioEnergy category MetGen Oy honored at Cleantech Investing Seminar in Lausanne, Switzerland
The number of positive exits is on the rise.
The entrepreneurial culture is strong in Finland. In recent years more and more startup companies have set out to conquer the world and have been very successful. There are many factors con...
Ilpo Kokkila prefers long-term investments, as, in his experience, they are the most beneficial for companies.
Global economic uncertainties continue to hamper institutional investors’ appetites for venture capital and private equity in Europe. Despite the current situation, Dörte Höppner, Secretary...
“Venture capitalists play a key role in the growth and renewal of national economies,” says Marika af Enehjelm, the Managing Director of the Finnish Venture Capital Association.
Provider of medical automation solutions NewIcon Oy has raised altogether MEUR 2.3 in a financing round that brings in Finnish Industry Investment and Etera Mutual...
Team Finland and Slush, one of the world’s leading startup and technology events, are building even closer ties. Team Finland is supporting the strong growth in this year’s event and contributin...
Homecare and household services pioneer Stella is acquiring Esperi Care Oy’s response alarm and homecare services, making Stella a countrywide operator in the homecare and house...
Satu Holm-Jumppanen, MSc (Agriculture and Forestry), has been appointed Finnish Industry Investment’s Communications Manager with effect from 13 October...
VersoVentures focuses on creating new growth companies by spinning off businesses from larger companies, and is today launching a new EUR 50 million fund that inves...
Via Venture Partners, a leading Nordic multi-stage private equity firm, invests in Profit Software Ltd. Together with Finnish Industry Investment Ltd. and the management of Profit...
The State of Finland and the German shipbuilder Meyer Werft have finalised the purchase of the whole share capital of STX Finland Oy from STX Europe Ltd. Meyer Werft and th...
Finland’s private equity and venture capital industry had a brisk start to the year despite the surrounding macroeconomic...
Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE)Press Release 168/20144 September 2014 The Finnish Government authorised the Ministry of Employment and the Economy on...
Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE)Press Release 165/20141 September 2014 Martin Backman appointed President & CEO of Finnish Industry Investme...
Espoo, Finland, August 28th, 2014 – Enevo today announced $8 million of international funding to grow its sensor-based...
Martin Backman will assume his role as President & CEO of Finnish Industry Investment as of 1 September 2014. Juha Marj...
The State of Finland and the German shipbuilder Meyer Werft have signed an agreement with the ship-yard’s owner STX Europe AS regarding the purchase of the whole share cap...
Growth through globalisation
Image: Keliber Oy Keliber Oy has successfully concluded an equity issue with gross proceeds of approximately EUR 2.2 million for the development of its lithium project in Central Ostrobothnia, Finl...
Verdane Capital VIII K/S (Verdane VIII) has closed on commitments of Skr 2bn. The fund is Verdane’s largest to date and secures new capital for Nordic growth companies. Four Fi...
October 27th - 28th, 2014 Lahti - Espoo, Finland Cleantech Venture Day organised by LADEC since 2006 has grown to be the biggest meeting pla...
Helsinki, Finland – Eniram Limited, the fast-growing Finnish provider of energy management technology and data analytic services to the sh...
Armada Mezzanine Fund IV has held its first close of € 70 million reaching 70 % of its...
The Board of Directors of Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has appointed Martin Backman (44) as the new President & CEO of the company. He will assume his new...
Through international fund investments, Finnish Industry Investment aims at attracting international investors to Finnish technology companies
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made a €3 million commitment to DN Capital’s Global Venture Capital III LP. DN Capital is a Britis...
In terms of investment activity, 2013 was a relatively good year for Finnish Industry Investment (FII). FII made new investments and commitments amounting to €130 million...
Finnish Industry Investment and Inventure have carried out a 2.2 million euro investment in Mekitec Oy. Founded in 2006, Mekitec improves food safety by prov...
With commitments from four Finnish pension funds, the fund-of-funds held its first closing at €130 million
After the acquisition of 66,4 % of the shares by Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (fully owned by the State of Finla...
Inventure announces a new early stage venture capital fund Inventure Fund II. The EUR 50 million first closing of the fund was led by European Investment Fund (EIF), FoF Growth,...
The government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd. has acquired a majority holding (66.4 per cent of the shares) in Aker Arctic Technology (Aker Arctic). Aker Arc...
Visedo Oy, a rapidly growing developer of electrical drive components has secured an investment of € 4 million from Finnish Industry Investment and the com...
Image: BeneqOn November 15, Beneq and Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI) officially opened the ALD Application Laboratory (ALD AppLab) in St....
On-demand photo service secures investment from Conor Venture Partners and Finnish Industry Investment to capitalize on growing demand for u...
Web of Trust (WOT), a crowdsourced website reputation service surpassed 100 million downloads, doubling its’ downloads within a year.
Tapio Passinen has been appointed as Investment Director at Finnish Industry Investment’s fund investment team as of 4 November, 2013. His work includes making investments in Finnish...
Vision+’s expanded portfolio includes investments in search, ecommerce, loyalty programs, health and fitness, music distribution and entertainment
Open source database gets funding to boost adoption and develop product range
List Recognizes the Top Private Companies in Clean Technology
The first half of 2013 was positive for the venture capital and private equity industry despite the macroeconomic dow...
Photo: Valmet Automotive The manufacturing of the Mercedes-Benz A-Class has started at Valmet Automotive in Uusikaupunki, according to the production plan. T...
Aim to accelerate investments into Finnish companies and highlight Finland as the most interesting location for start-up companies
Aidon focuses in the Nordics and sets plans for Europe
Photo: Talenom Group Oy Through acquisitions made on 4 July 2013, Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company became new minority shareholders i...
Antti Kummu, CFA, has been appointed Director and Team Leader for Finnish Industry Investment’s buyouts, M&As, and investment programmes. He will be in charge of Finnish Industry Inv...
Photo: MetGen Oy Emerald Technology Ventures is pleased to announce the first investment from its new Fund: MetGen Oy, a Finnish industrial biotech company that develop...
Helsinki, 29 May 2013 – Today members of the European Venture Fund Investors Network (EVFIN) have appointed a new steering committee. Jouni Hakala has been named as the new Chairm...
Kanzi® UI Solution Continues To Gain Traction in Emerging Embedded Markets Including Automotive and Consumer Electronics Industries
Metadata-Powered Enterprise Content Management Provider to Rapidly Accelerate US Market Growth for Quality-Intensive and Regulated Industries
Helsinki, Finland - Enevo Ltd, the maker of waste management logistics optimization systems based on wireless sensors and data analytics, completes a...
In 2012, Finnish Industry Investment made new investments amounting to €57.1m. Fund investments focused on new venture capital and private equity funds that catalyse Finnish companies’ intern...
MetGen announces today the appointment of Harri Kerminen as the Chairman of the Board and personal investment by Mr. Kerminen into MetGen via his...
MetGen Oy raises a total of €2.2M in a financing round led by Sofinnova Green Seed Fund with participation from Finnish Industry Investment and Finnvera. Founded in 200...
Sentica Partners has held a closing of its Sentica Buyout IV at approximately EUR 115 million. Sentica aims to have the Fund’s final closing at around EUR 130 million later this year. Commitm...
Enterprise Finland Venture Forum takes place today in Espoo, Finland.
Vaaka Partners, Etera, Finnish Industry Investment and other shareholders have agreed to sell EMC Talotekniikka to Royal Imtech N.V. (IM-AE, technical services provider in and outsi...
On November 30th 2012, Beneq announced the acquisition of the Finnish-based electroluminescence (EL) business from US Planar Systems, Inc., a global leader in digital display technology. The n...
Helsinki, Finland --- November 26, 2012 --- The community-powered safe surfing tool Web of Trust (WOT) announced today that it has raised € 1MM investment lead by Inventure, a cross-border venture cap...
TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of carrier-neutral data centres, has acquired Academica, a leading data centre and IT services...
Nordic Mining’s subsidiary Keliber Oy has secured new equity financing of EUR 4 million for project development of its lithium project in Finland. The new capital will...
Valmet Automotive Inc. and Daimler AG have announced that Valmet Automotive will manufacture the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class to satisfy the expected high deman...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company have acquired a 40% holding in HR House Group Oy. HR House is a temporary staff...
From its supplementary budget, the State is capitalising Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, a government-owned equity investor, by EUR 30 million....
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made a 7,5 million euro commitment to Creandum Advisor’s new venture capital fund. Creandum III in...
Investments from Finnish Industry Investment Ltd., Spintop Ventures, Open Ocean Capital and OnCorps enable SkySQL to ramp up development for the enterprise and cloud
RUSNANO has invested 25 million euros in Beneq, the Finnish pioneer and world-leader in industrial production and laboratory equipment for nano-scale thin films and functional coatings. The in...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and Etera have made a minority investment in Lamor Corporation. The investment is a part of a larger transaction where the com...
Lifeline Ventures today launches Lifeline Ventures Fund I, a venture capital fund that will invest in health, games and technology companies aiming...
Jussi Sainiemi, MSc (Eng), CEFA, has been appointed Investment Manager in Finnish Industry Investment’s Venture Capital team. His duties in Finnish Industry Investment will include the an...
Launches unique revenue investment model without dilution of equity.
Finnish Industry Investment has moved to new offices. Our new visiting address is: Mannerheimintie 14 AFIN-00100 Helsinki
Finnish Industry Investment, Tekes and Finnvera, in co-operation with Technopolis, are organizing an international venture cap...
Nine leading national venture capital operators signed today a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a pan-European...
Finnprotein Oy, an early-stage soy processing company backed by Renaissance Partners, has secured EUR100mn of financing for the construction of a multi-stage soy...
The Finnish venture capital company VNT Management has raised 42 million euros at the first closing of its new venture capital fund Power Fund II...
As the volume of investments and the investment portfolios grow, Finnish Industry Investment divides its direct investment operations into three...
Anne Riekki, LLM, MSc (Econ) has been appointed Director for Fund Investments at Finnish Industry Investment for the duration...
Finnish Industry Investment and Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company have subscribed in a private placement for appro...
Finnish Industry Investment and Veritas Pension Insurance invest altogether 2 million euros in the Finnish interactive multiuser display developer Multi...
Suominen Corporation has signed an agreement with Ahlstrom Corporation to buy its Home and Personal wipes fabrics business area. Suominen will expand substantia...
Mendor, a leading company in new diabetes technologies and services, announces 8.1 Million of Venture Capital financing to facilitate its global ma...
Finnish venture capital company Open Ocean Capital Oy has established a new fund (Open Ocean Three) investing in early stage technologies. T...
In 2010, Finnish Industry Investment made new investments worth 100 million euros. At the end of the year the total outstanding investments amounted to 685m and the company was an investor in 44...
Jarkko Pelli has been appointed IT Manager at Finnish Industry Investment, starting 4.3.2011. Jarkko Pelli is responsible for developing internal IT services for the...
A large group of international venture capitalists visit Enterprise Finland Venture Forum and get to know Finlands most promising growth companies. Finnish Industr...
Finnish Industry Investment, Fennia Group, EM Group and private investors have subscribed for European Batteries Ltd shares worth 13,7 million euros in connection...
Finnish Industry Investment, Via Venture Partners and private investors have invested altogether 9 million euros in the Finnish cleantech company Beneq. Beneq is a suppli...
Axel Technologies new software for mobile and portable devices, Fuugo, takes first place in the Mobile TV category at TV innovation Awards held in Los Angeles. The judges recognize Fuug...
The President of Finland presented the national INNOFINLAND 2010 prize to Web of Trust (WOT) in observation of National Innovation Day on December 14th. The prize was awarded to Web...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company have acquired a total 11% share of 3 Step IT Group Oys capital stock. 3 Step IT is an...
Confidex Ltd. has been ranked the fastest growing technology company in Finland and the sixth in the EMEA region on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2...
Finnish Industry Investment has subscribed in an equity offering for some MEUR 7.5 worth of shares in Northland Resources S.A., representing approx...
Industry Investment and Pontos Group are investing altogether MEUR 20 in electric vehicle developer and manufacturer Valmet Automotive. Metso Corporation will...
The Board of Directors of Incap Corporation has approved the subscriptions of the directed share issue that was decided in the companys extraordinary general meeting o...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made a MEUR 15 investment in Capman Plcs fifth mezzanine fund. CapMan Mezzanine V held its first closing on 22 September at MEU...
Investment Director Anne Riekki, LLM, MSc (Econ) has been appointed Finnish Industry Investment Ltds Chief Financial...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and Pension Fennia have invested altogether MEUR 3 in passenger informa...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, Teknoventure Management Oy and Swedish private investors have invested...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) on Thursday signed an agreement on a Finno-Russi...
Conor Venture Partners, a leading Finnish early-stage technology VC, today announced the 46.5 million euro first closing of its second early-stag...
The road tanker, tank trailer and swap body manufacturing of Site Oy and Interconsult i Falkenberg Ab, both subsidiaries of Finnish Jyki Group Oy, will be me...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd made new investments in 2009 totalling MEUR 61.3. The companys total investments ro...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made a MEUR 6.6 investment in Glaston Corporation. Glaston is an international glass technology company and a pioneer in i...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made a MEUR 10 investment commitment to a new European cross stage fund. The new fund inv...
Heikki Vesterinen, MSc (Econ), has been appointed Investment Director in Finnish Industry Investment Ltds Buyouts and M&...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made a MEUR 7.5 investment commitment to a new Northzone Ventures fund that focuses o...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has subscribed NOK 6 million (EUR 765,000) for shares in Norwegian mining company Nordic Mining ASA. Th...
Finnish Industry Investment, llmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company and the companys principal owner have invested altogether MEUR 14.5 in Pekkan...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, Aura Capital Oy and previous owners have invested a total of MEUR 2.7 in Confidex Oy, which develops c...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rusnano) have signed a Letter of Intent in Moscow for investmen...
The limits set for investee companies in government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltds new MEUR 100 financing programme for stabilisatio...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltds Controller, Jani Rämö, MSc (Econ), has been appointed Financial Manager. Rämö started working in Industry Investments Finance, Admini...
Industry Investment and Ilmarinen have invested a total of MEUR 4 in Machinery Group Ltd. The Finnish multisectoral group operates internationally, importing an...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltds Investment Manager Anne Riekki, LLM, MSc (Econ), has been appointed Investment Director. Ms Riekki started with Industry Investment...
Private equity investor Folmer Management Ltd has formed a new private equity fund that invests in Finnish SMEs. The size of the Folmer Equit...
Industry Investment has launched a special financing programme for stabilisation. In addition to normal investment targets, the programme has the following objectives: - to safeguar...
Swedish company XCounter AB, which is listed on the AIM stock exchange, has acquired almost one-half of the Finnish technology company Oy Ajat Ltd. Ve...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made a MEUR 9,7 commitment to the new Verdane Capital V...
Finnish Industry Investment has given a MEUR 10 investment commitment to the CapMan Buyout IX LP fund, which specialises in buyouts in the Nordic countries. The funds siz...
Juha Lehtola, MSc (Tech), has started as Investment Manager at government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd. Mr Lehtolas duties in the Direc...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd made new investment...
Michael "Monty" Widenius, founder of MySQL and a guru for the global open source movement, has invested in WOT, Web of Trust....
Conformiq Inc, a Finnish developer of tools and services for automated software testing, has received an i...
Eniram Ltd, a provider of dynamic decision support systems for the shipping industry, has raised a financing package totalling MEUR 5 for its international...
Axel Technologies Oy, a software company specialising in mobile TV technology, has received a follow-on investment of MEUR 2.4. The investors in this investment ro...
Established in December by government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) and Finnish employment pension co...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, Swedish InnovationsKapital and British Tempo Capital Partners have i...
A group of Russian industrial investors led by ONEXIM Group has acquired 82% of the shares in the LED chip company OptoGaN Oy including the share...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) and Finnish employment pension companies Ilmarinen...
Private equity investor Sentica Partners Oys new fund raised MEUR 50 from leading Finnish institutional investors before the first closing of the fund. The largest investment commitmen...
Aura Capital Oy and government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd have made a follow-on investment amounting to EUR...
The government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) has committed 10 million euros to a new international Life...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made an investment commitment of MEUR 10 in the new CapMan Public Market fund, which invests in listed Nordic companies...
Midinvest Management Oy, Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and private investors have made a total investment of MEUR 4.6 million in nonw...
A fund managed by private equity investor Sentica Partners, Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and the companys key p...
The companys executive management, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and a group of private Finnish...
Masdar, an Abu Dhabi fund that invests in cleantech, has acquired a substantial shareholding in Finnish wind power company WinWinD Ltd. WinWinD designs, develops...
Jouni Hakala, LLM, MBA, has been appointed Director, heading the fund investments team, and a member of Finnish Industry Investment Ltds Ma...
The entire issued stock of Halikko Works Oy and Tomi-Steel Oy has been transferred to Halikko Group Oy, the majority of which is owned by a group of investors formed by Helmet Business...
Government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment has co-invested, with a group of private investors, EUR 1.3 million in Fi...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has made an investment commitment of EUR 10 million in the new Eqvitec Mezzanine Fund III, which invests in Nordic SMEs. The new...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, Oy Wedeco Ab and Mutual Insurance Company Pension Fennia have made an investment commitment totalling EUR 11 mi...
Jussi Hattula, MSc, has started as Investment Director at Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, working in the Direct Investments team. Previously Mr Hattul...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, Forssa Telephone Company Ltd, Innofinance Oy and the funds managed by Finnish private equity company Sentica Partners Oy will sell their...
Ekahau, a portfolio company of venture capital investor Nexit Ventures Ltd, has received an investment of over EUR 10 million to meet the challenges of fast market growth. Nexit Ventur...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and a group of investors formed by investment company Helmet Business Mentors Oy now hold a majority shareholding in Pesmel Group Oy,...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) and Tutor Invest Ltd have invested in LiLLi Group Ltd, which offers digital caretaker servic...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII), a government-owned investment company, posted a healthy profit for the third consecutive y...
Viconsys Oy, a company based in Jyväskylä, Finland, that supplies machine vision applications for process industrie...
Eqvitec Technology Fund III, advised by Eqvitec Partners Oy, has together with Finnish Industry Investment Ltd acquired a maj...
Inventure Oy has established a fund that invests primarily in Finnish innovations and early-growth stage and technology companies. The...
Venture capital investor Nexit Ventures has started a new venture capital fund for investing in early-growth mobile technology companies. The size of the Nexit Infocom II...
Axel Technologies Oy, a developer of mobile TV technology, has received over EUR 1 million in venture capital from Nexit Ventures Oy and previous investor Finnish...
Kareline Oy Ltd, a Finnish manufacturer of composite materials, has strengthened its resources with a second round of financing in order to internationalise. The follow-on investment was ma...
Arrangement builds on joint innovation
VNT Management Ltd has established a new venture capital fund, Power Fund II, which focuses on new energy technology investments. Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, Varma Mutual Pension Insura...
The Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company and Finnish Industry Investment Ltd have concluded a preliminary agreement to participate...
The gaming company Chat Republic Games has developed Finlands first community-based multiplayer online game set in the world of Formula 1 racing. Launched in cooperation with the AT&...
Easy Led Oy, the Savonia University of Applied Sciences Company Plus project, Cav...
A group of investors managed by Sentica Partners has sold Elematic Group Oy, a precast concrete production technology provider, to a private equity fund managed by Pamplona Capital Management...
Fastest growing diode laser company will expand product offering with leading fiber products from LIEKKI
MB Equity Fund IV of the private equity company MB Funds has raised EUR 260 million from Finnish institutional investors, mainly pension companies and insurance companies. Finnish Ind...
Medical technology company Nexstim Oy completed its EUR 8 million financing round successfully. New investors, lead by HealthCap, include the European compa...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd. and the Swedish investment company Karolinska Development III AB, an affiliated company of Kar...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has co-invested EUR 400,000 with a group of five private investors in Against Intuition Oy, a...
Finnish institutional investors have invested a total of EUR 30 million in the new Sentica Terveysteknologia I fund. The largest investors are Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Finnish In...
Private equity investor Sponsor Capital Oy has raised EUR 175 million for a new private equity fund from Finnish institutional investors. Sponsor Fund III will follow...
Inveni Capital, a new Finnish-German venture capital company, raised over EUR 20 million for its Inveni Life Sciences Fund l in the first round of fund-raising. First-round investors inc...
The government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) posted the best reco...
Anne Riekki, MSc (Econ), LLM, has started as Investment Manager at Finnish Industry Investment Ltd as a member of the team making investments, directl...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and a private investor have invested a total of EUR 130.000 to Virtual Air Guitar Company Oy, a console game developer. The technology company...
Forchem's main shareholders that include funds advised by Bio Fund Management, Profita Management, and OKO Venture Capital, Finnish Industry Investment, and the management share holders Hannu Näsi...
Wi-Fi RTLS and Software Tools Maker Attracts New Funding for Worldwide Expansion from a Syndicate of International Investors.
Talvivaara Mining Company Ltd. today announces the completion of a 33 million private placement financing round to...
Concilio Networks, a stealth mode start-up company aiming to enable VoIP benefits to every mobile handset, today announced an agreement with Cono...
India's Sterling Infotech Group (SIG) through its Mauritius company, Avis Ventures Limited has made a Euro 20 Million capi...
Private equity fund managed by Sentica Partners Oy, alongside Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Compa...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) has invested EUR 1.25 million in the Canadian ore exploration company Belvedere Resourc...
Kari Ståhlberg, MSc, CEFA, has started work as Finnish Industry Investment Ltd's Investment Manager as part of the team making capital investments in gr...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd has invested EUR 1.5 million in Vulcan Resources Limited, a mining company listed on the Australian stock exchange. Al...
Industry Investment Ltd Finland's leading investor in early-stage companies
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) has made a seeding investment in Suomen Puheentunnistus Ltd. Puheentunnistus has developed a Finnish-language automatic...
Heini Noronen, MSc, has been appointed Investment Manager of Finnish Industry Investment Ltd with effect from 1st December. She will be handling initial...
A new Finnish-Thai venture capital fund has been established to finance the growth and internationalization of technology companies. An agre...
he first survey carried out by the government-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) to evaluate its activities indicates the comp...
ZIPic Oy starts the manufacturing of miniature size electronic modules in Tampere, Finland. The production clean room and highly automated production line will be completed by the end of 20...
Asta Sjöblom, MSc (Pol.) has been appointed Communications Manager and member of the Management Team of Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, with effect f...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd made a ten million euro investment commitment to the Dutch Life Sciences Partners III Fund. The Fund's first...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and other owners of Setec Oy (Setec) have agreed to sell Setec to a Luxembourg based company Gemplus International S.A (Gemplus), listed in Euronext Paris...
Finnish Industry Investment, UPM and Outokumpu Technology have established a jo...
Finnish Industry Investment is co-operating with the Australian Sentient Group having a target to develop risk financing for the mining industry. The Sentient Group and I...
Finnish Industry Investment Ltd and Merlin Biosciences Ltd have signed a cooperation agreement. The main objective of the agreement is to gain new...
Sentio Invest Ltd has started a new Private equity fund in Pirkanmaa area in central Finland. New fund concentrates in industrial small and medium sized growth...
Helmet SME Ventures II fund was founded in the beginning of 2002. The first closing was made then with the amount of over 13 million euros. Industry Investment partici...
The ownership arrangement and the related financial negotiations concerning Finlux Ltd - formerly Turku TV Operations Ltd - have been completed. The arrangement aims at sec...
Finnish Industry Investment invests in a new Tamseed Ky venture capital fund which starts to operate in Tampere region. The fund invests in companies at their earl...
As a result of the MBI deal the ownership of the Ceiko Ltd was transferred to Kari Koponen, Juri Virkki, and private equity funds managed by Nordea Capital and Ab...
A 10 million euro investment commitment was made (by Industry Investment) to Procuritas Capital Investors III L.P. fund in its second closing on July 11, 2002...
Teknoventure Management Oy's new venture capital fund Teknoventure Rahasto II Ky was founded in Friday J...
MB Equity Fund III, founded in April 17,th 2002, is one of the leading finnish buy-out funds with focus in corporate restructuring- processes such as MBO's. The capital to MB Fun...
Finnish Industry Investment has made an investment commitment of 10 million euros to a new venture capital fund totalling 107 million euros. Inves...
Incap Corporation has signed a letter of intent concerning the sale of the shares its furniture sector, Incap Furniture Ltd, to a group of investors which are Finnish Industr...
In December 2001, Industry Investment made an investment commitment of EUR 2 million to the Aboa Venture III fund managed by Aboa Venture Management Ltd. The Aboa Ventu...
Finnish Industry Investment is a co-founder of a new regional fund in eastern Finland. The GrowHow Fund I is managed by Teknia Invest Ltd. The European Inves...