| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Nov 26, 2021 | Innovestor Invests in OGOship – a sustainable e-commerce platform | OGOship started their growth path in 2017, building a sustainable e-commerce supply chain solution. The topic of sustainability has never been bigger, and today OGOship offers a multi-network of logistic hubs across Europe, accessible via t... |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Innovestor invests in cleantech company SpinDrive | Finnish start-up SpinDrive has raised 1.6 M€ in pre-Series A funding round. SpinDrive improves the energy efficiency of industrial processes by providing active magnetic bearings to equipment manufacturers easily and affordably. Magnetic be... |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Työpaikkailmoitus: Hallintokoordinaattori | Haemme nyt nopealla aikataululla positiivista ja toimeen tarttuvaa hallintokoordinaattoria.
Työsuhde on vakituinen ja tehtävä alkaa sopimuksen mukaan mahdollisimman pian sopivan henkilön löydyttyä. Työaikasi tulee olemaan 40 h / vko ja työ... |
| Aug 15, 2021 | Innovestor invests in Innomost- Upcycling birch bark for use in consumer products | Helsinki, Finland (August 10th, 2021) The funding will be used to set up a pilot plant in their hometown of Kokkola. Innomost aims to build a production facility capable of producing 20 tonnes of birch bark products per year by 2023. Capita... |
| Jun 30, 2021 | We are hiring: Marketing Director | Innovestor Group is a fast-growing investment firm operating within the domains of venture capital, financial services and corporate venturing. We invest in startups and commercial real-estate and offer growth and innovation services. Innov... |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Innovestor invests in Brinter – 3D bioprinting from personalized drugs to human spare parts | Medical research facilities and universities often still rely on traditional methods of discovery in the research of new drugs, understanding diseases, and finding medical ways to help people. Brinter’s modular multi-material 3D bioprinting... |
| May 28, 2021 | Innovestor makes follow-on investment into Fiksuruoka in newest €19M round led by Verdane | Read the press release here (in Finnish)
”Fiksuruoka’s team has been able to execute exceptionally well during these trying times, coming out on the other side bigger and stronger, with revenues tripling last year. We look forward to con... |
| May 25, 2021 | Makia joins forces with Finlayson, Vallila and Sasta to form new Finnish design brand company Manna & Co |
Manna & Co is a new brand company bringing together the best, beloved, respected and well-established Finnish fashion brands in the industry. Each company will however continue to operate independently and with their own brand names.
... |
| May 19, 2021 | Innovestor invests in Helmee Imaging – Game-changing, visual, surface-quality control technology | HELSINKI, Finland (May 19th 2021) Helmee Imaging, a Finnish startup founded in 2013 and based in Tampere, has received investment from Nordic venture capital investor Innovestor Ventures. The company sells machine vision systems for automat... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Kuopio Health Member Spotlight – We are enthusiastic about growth | “In time, I would like to see that we have attracted several major venture rounds from foreign venture capitalists. Of course, we will have to find local investor partners for these international investors.”
– Growth is the word that set... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Hyviä kiinteistösijoituksia etsivän pääoman määrä on edelleen valtava | Suomen talous on selvinnyt toistaiseksi koronakriisistä suhteellisen hyvin. Nordea ennustaa Suomen talouden kasvavan noin 3% vuonna 2021, jolloin pandemiaa edeltänyt BKT:n taso saavutettaisiin jo tänä vuonna. Kaupallisten kiinteistöjen mark... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Sijoittajasuhdetiimimme kasvaa – Haemme Private ja Instituutio Investor Relations Managereita |
Innovestor on nopeasti kasvava pääomasijoitus- ja sijoituspalvelutoimintaa harjoittava konserni. Sijoitamme kasvuyhtiöihin ja kaupallisiin kiinteistöihin sekä tarjoamme yhtiöille kasvu- ja innovaatiopalveluita. Meillä työskentelee yli 30 ... |
| Mar 24, 2021 | We are hiring: Legal Trainee | We are now hiring a Legal Trainee to support our legal & compliance function. As a Legal Trainee, you will work as part of Innovestor’s Helsinki team providing support with various legal tasks, especially in the field of corporate law.
... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | We are hiring: Back Office Manager |
At our core, our aim is to find and support future success stories and help them succeed by not only providing capital, but also our team’s valuable know-how and networks.
We are now hiring a Back Office Manager to support our investment... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Työpaikkailmoitus: Asset Manager, Innovestor Kiinteistöt | Innovestorin tavoitteena on tarjota asiakkailleen vaivaton ja tehokas tapa kasvattaa kiinteistövarallisuuttaan aktiivisesti ja pitkäjänteisesti. Innovestorilla työskentelee yli 30 sijoitus- ja kasvuyhtiöammattilaista nuorekkaassa ja renn... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | Innovestor launches new Future of Health & Life Science Initiative |
Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are two of the most common chronic diseases people suffer from globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that more than 400 million people were living with diabetes in 2015. Similarly, the... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Innovestor Ventures Successfully Exits Ginolis Oy – Acquired by CELLINK Ab | Ginolis, a Finnish company founded in 2010, is a leading provider of robot-based automation solutions used world-wide to manufacture a variety of medical disposables and point-of-care tests such as Covid-19 tests. Today Ginolis is a multi-n... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Innovestor invests in Maculaser – Developing new laser therapy combating blinding diseases |
HELSINKI, Finland (February 10th 2021) Maculaser, a Finnish startup developing temperature-controlled laser therapy for retinal diseases, has raised €1.2 million in funding. The round was led by Finnish venture capital investor Innovestor... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | We are hiring – Analyst for Innovestor Ventures | Innovestor Ventures is looking for an Analyst to support its team in sourcing deal flow and analysing investment opportunities. Your attention will be on our new Industrial Technology fund focusing on companies from the Nordic & Baltic ... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | Innovestor invests in Surgify Medical – Reshaping how surgery is performed | ESPOO, Finland (January 8th, 2021) In addition to existing backers, among the investors in the startup’s third round were Finnish venture capital investor Innovestor Ventures, Swedish investor Peter Lindell, and well-known Finnish angel inv... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | Our 2020 Round Up | This year has been particularly hard for the elderly. Following our tradition of donating to a cause instead of buying material Christmas gifts, we decided to cooperate with Finnish startup Gubbe and give the gift of time and joy to a lonel... |
| Dec 3, 2020 | Innovestor makes follow-on investment in PromoRepublic, social media marketing SaaS provider | Investors in the companies seed round include follow-on investment from Innovestor Ventures, Genesis Investments, several superangels and the Business Finland government fund. It’s not the first time PromoRepublic has attracted funding; ove... |
| Nov 10, 2020 | Innovestor invests in Linear – Digitalizing the real estate business | Linear Oy, founded in 2018, offers a digital ecosystem that is driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning to facilitate the housing trade. The services benefit both private sellers and professional realtors.
Linear offers realt... |
| Nov 3, 2020 | Successful exit for Innovestor Ventures – Synoste gets acquired by Globus Medical | Innovestor Ventures exists Synoste, a Finnish startup that has developed high technology implants for minimally invasive bone lengthening treatment. In addition to Innovestor, Synoste had received investment from High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HT... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Scaling up institutional-grade commercial property investments |
By creating an ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors and partners, our aim is to be the best place for future Nordic success stories. We do it by funding and developing growth companies, and at accelerating pace, also commercial real esta... |
| Oct 6, 2020 | We are hiring! Innovestor Ventures Analyst Trainee | Innovestor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Innovestor and is an early-stage VC firm managing 3 venture funds with a total of 123 million euros of assets under management. We have one of the largest privately backed startup portfolios... |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Innovestor makes follow-on investment in Ruokaboksi, leading Finnish meal-kit delivery provider |
Ruokaboksi’s service is based on a weekly subscription meal box, which is delivered straight to the customers door and includes all the ingredients with dinner recipes needed for the week. The company has 3 different sized meal boxes to c... |
| Sep 10, 2020 | Innovestor invests in Shipit – One logistics platform solution for all your parcel shipping needs | With the rapid growth of e-commerce over the past decade, parcel shipping volumes have increased steadily. This trend has only strengthened during the current covid-19 pandemic. Consumer behavior has in many regards changed for good, drivin... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Innovestor makes follow-on investment into Monidor, € 1M Series A round lead by Voima Ventures |
Monidor is a Oulu based health-technology company founded in 2015 who specialise in the development of small, smart devices for digital health. Currently, they have developed the Monidrop® infusion monitor, a compact device to help nurses... |
| Aug 19, 2020 | Innovestor invests in Yield Systems – Next generation AgriTech AI | Population growth and climate change impose new global challenges putting pressure on the world’s food production. Plant breeding has a key position in tackling this issue and increasing agricultural output, output which is necessary in ord... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | What we learned from the ‘Headed for the Swedish Market’ webinar |
Vilma Rissanen from Business Finland offered insight into how Finnish companies should go about expanding into the Swedish market and what they need to take into account when planning their market entry. Business Finland helps promote Fin... |
| May 4, 2020 | Portfolio Insight: Meluta, The Silent Signal Processing R&D Partner | Our portfolio company Meluta offers “situational-awareness with sound”. For example, the Tampere based company has developed intelligent sensor solutions for recognizing snow build up on roofs during winter time, notiyfing users to act in t... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Innovestor Invests in PS Audio Design – Revolutionary Audio Surface Technology | Announcing the first investment from our Industrial Technology Fund – PS Audio Design. The company raised around € 1M led by us and joined by other investors.
Located in Oulu, Finland, PS Audio Design licenses patented electromagnetic actu... |
| Mar 27, 2020 | Changes to Innovestor’s Top Management | Our founder Tommi Äijälä has taken the reins as Managing Partner of our venture capital investment arm, Innovestor Ventures but will continue to lead our overall group operations as Innovestor’s chairman of the board.
He will focus on kick... |
| Mar 9, 2020 | Innovestor Invests in Speys – Filling the Digital Logistics Gap | Freight logistics is perhaps the most underdeveloped of all major industry domains with logistics truly being a massive industry: its global size is estimated at 8,5 trillion euros (that’s 8,5 followed by seventeen zeros). The digital segme... |
| Mar 5, 2020 | Grow to Sweden: Case Mirror Line – Family Business Entering the Swedish Market | Founded in 1994, Mirror Line manufactures custom-made sliding doors and storage systems in the Karijoki municipality in South Ostrobothnia. Today, the company has a strong market position in Finland, and its customizable high-quality produc... |
| Feb 26, 2020 | Announcing the €30 million first close of our new Industrial Technology Fund |
HELSINKI, Finland ( February 26th, 9 AM EET) Finnish venture capital firm Innovestor has today announced the first close of its new B2B Industrial Technology Fund at €30M. The fund, which will be capped at €100M, is the first in the Nordi... |
| Feb 24, 2020 | Innovestor invests in Fiksuruoka.fi – Joins the fight against food waste |
Fiksuruoka.fi has in just 3 years grown from a 0 to over 6 million euro turnover generating company, showing no signs of slowing down. Through their online store, the company sells around 14,000 monthly packages originating from 180 diffe... |
| Feb 20, 2020 | Kasvu Open’s Investors Favourite Award made possible once again by Innovestor and Nordea | Last year’s winner, and our now portfolio company Meluta, won the 1 million euro award.
The award is comprised of either our investment, Nordea’s growth loan, or a combination of the two. The final awarded sum and funding combination will ... |
| Jan 27, 2020 | Portfolio Insight: Remomedi Implementing the Second Wave of Pharmacy Digitalization |
Text by Santtu Toivonen |
| Jan 22, 2020 | Meet the team – Tomi Asanti, Director of Properties |
Previously, I worked for a listed real estate investment company where I built and oversaw a property portfolio comprising of commercial properties and assets under development.
Overall, I have been in the finance industry for the past 2... |
| Jan 16, 2020 | Grow to Market – How to Get New Customers Abroad? |
Read the full report to find out why our programs have a 95% recommendation rate and how 84% of respondents stated that the program was relevant to their market entry efforts and 87% reached the goals they had set for the program. Make su... |
| Jan 9, 2020 | Grow to Market: Case StepOne Tech, Supporting the Goals of Sustainable Development |
“We are doing very well right now. In 2018, our company’s revenue was EUR 435,000, and 2019, it will be approximately EUR 2 million. At the same time, our exports have grown from about EUR 200,000 to over EUR 1.5 million, and our staff ... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | 2019 Innovestor highlights – Year in Review |
As an early-stage venture capital investor, this year we invested around €6,5M consisting of;
On our direct co-investment side, where we open up our investment cases to fellow co-investors for syndication, we organized 11 funding round... |
| Dec 17, 2019 | Innovestor invests in Luxmet – Technology Making Steel Production More Environmental | Heavy industry plays its own significant climate change role. The media often highlights for example air travel and the meat industry as mainly responsible for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. But, as a matter of fact, heavy industry is a bi... |
| Nov 25, 2019 | Portfolio Insight: Customer-centricity is a Core Part of Mevea’s Digital Twin DNA | When the company started some 15 years ago, the founders applied for a loan with Tekes (nowadays Business Finland). The loan was not granted so they had to develop their business immediately and find customers in order to break eventually m... |
| Nov 20, 2019 | Innovestor building the ’Tahdo uudistua’ business renewal program together with Säästöpankki, LähiTapiola and Elo | SMEs are the backbone of Finland’s economy and well-being. However, many entrepreneurs face increasing challenges in an ever-changing business environment. One of the biggest challenges is the ability of the entrepreneur and his or her empl... |
| Nov 13, 2019 | Meet the team: Anna Bernitz, Director of Legal & Compliance | Additionally, I was lucky to get to be part of developing new business and participating in strategy work. Years as an attorney taught me a great deal of problem solving, effectiveness and value-adding thinking.
If I had to describe my j... |
| Nov 6, 2019 | We are hiring! Innovestor Growth Program Trainee | We are a team of 33 passionate, ambitious and growth-oriented people on a mission to build the best home for growth. Innovestor is a Nordic early-stage venture capital investor, who actively offers direct co-investment opportunities and bui... |
| Nov 3, 2019 | Innovestor invests in Arilyn – Telling Stories With Augmenting Reality | Helsinki based Arilyn has in five years grown to be a significant international augmented reality (AR) company. Augmented reality refers to complementing the physical world with digital elements. In practice for example the popular Finnish ... |
| Oct 29, 2019 | Lessons Learned – Grow to Market Autumn recap | We just finished up our Autumn 2019 season, and what a year! In total, this year together with our 14 GTM partners, we organized 5 programs (2x USA, 2x Sweden, 1x China) in which 30 companies participated. Additionally, around 170 companies... |
| Oct 28, 2019 | Portfolio Insight: 9Solutions System Enables Dignified Ageing | This led him to think about the possibilities of remote monitoring. As a result, he created a device resembling modern day intelligent wristbands, which transmits information about the person wearing it over a Bluetooth connection.
Herrala... |
| Oct 24, 2019 | 1 Million Euro Investor’s Favourite funding award goes to Meluta Ltd | Meluta makes machine language understandable to people by using signal processing and sensor technologies. The company specializes in acoustic and vibroacoustic (structure-borne) measurements.
Meluta operates in a very interesting industry... |
| Oct 9, 2019 | Meet the team – Matti Härkönen | I am Matti Härkönen, Innovestor partner and the Managing Director of Innovestor Ignite, the team at Innovestor that builds and executes growth programs, and also . I joined the Innovestor team via the recent Kasvun Roihu acquisition, a comp... |
| Sep 23, 2019 | Portfolio Insight: Ginolis Helps Companies to Mass Produce Healthcare Devices | “After nine years of development we are now transforming to be an industrial player”, says Teijo Fabritius, the CEO of Ginolis. “We are currently growing rapidly and need more professionals to scale up our operations. Our standards are very... |
| Sep 19, 2019 | Building the best home for growth – Innovestor acquires Kasvun Roihu Ltd | Innovestor and Kasvun Roihu became intertwined at first in the spring of 2018 when 50% of Kasvun Roihu’s shares were acquired by Innovestor. A year on, both companies identified a greater need to work closer together, hence the resulting ac... |
| Sep 6, 2019 | New Fall = New Market for these companies | In this fall we are heading to Stockholm and New York together with two Grow to Market groups.Companies heading to Sweden follow our earlier groups in the sense of industry and size. Most of the companies come from software and technology i... |
| Aug 20, 2019 | Remomedi Ltd / New Co-investment Opportunity |
As digitalization sweeps across various industries, Remomedi has become a perfect match for the pharmacy industry. Their products allow both independent and retail chain pharmacies to better utilize technology and data to improve their ke... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | Multitaction’s Modular Touch Screen Solution is Straight Out of Science Fiction
Hardware & software working together
Making the right decisions | Multitaction is based on research projects at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University. Those projects investigated touch screen technology based on machine vision. In a decade things have advanced from research to a successful compa... |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Interested in creating business in the USA? |
Please join FREE OF CHARGE bootcamp on August 28-29 at A Grid, Otakaari 5 A Espoo. The days will cover a basic package of everything you need to know now, back home, before entering the US markets.
Together with Consulate General of Fi... |
| Jul 1, 2019 | Petri Kalliokoski appointed as new Chairman of the Board for Innovestor Ventures | At Innovestor, our goal is to provide not only capital but also crucial know-how and networks to our portfolio companies to support them in building their business’. In order to achieve this, we strive to surround ourselves with the best po... |
| Jun 19, 2019 | Do you have what it takes before entering Chinese market? | China has now become a great power in the global scale, and its foreign policy affects not only the Asia-Pacific but also numerous of other regions. According to the President Xi Jinping, China’s destiny is the realization of the Chinese dr... |
| Jun 14, 2019 | Happy Birthday To Us! | We turned 5 years old this May and decided to celebrate our birthday on 12.6.2019 at our office with our nearest and dearest. Thank you all who came, and to all of you who have joined us along the years on our mission to supporting the most... |
| Jun 7, 2019 | Funding International Growth: Get ready to scale
Be Ready to Scale…
…Scale…
…And Show You Can Scale Further | In my previous blog, I explained some of the main sources of funding for growth companies. Now I’ll go through why your company must be ready to scale in order to secure the funding.
In order to obtain funding for international expansion, ... |
| Jun 7, 2019 | M-Brain supports strategic decision making by combining human and artificial intelligence
From a research project to a global player
Competitive advantage from human-computer co-operation |
According to Cedercreutz, it is very important to ensure the relevance of external information sources. “No-one wants to browse endless lists of irrelevant articles. That’s why at M-Brain we pay special attention to selecting proper infor... |
| May 31, 2019 | Arilyn / Co-investment opportunity
Augmented Reality as a Service
Ambitious growth plans
Funding round details | Augmented reality has for sometime now been a talked about hot topic future technology. In essence, augmented reality is the technology that expands our physical world, adding layers of digital information onto it. The technology is not to ... |
| May 29, 2019 | Sensmet raises EUR 700K – Breakthrough Technology For Real-time Water Quality Analysis
Sensmet’s unique proposal
From research projects to first paying customers |
IPCC’s report published last year raised people’s awareness on climate change. According to the report, the climate is warming even faster than what has been previously estimated. Reversing this development requires radical actions. To ac... |
| May 19, 2019 | Innovestor invests in Swedish Fintech company Splitgrid | Innovestor invested as the lead investor into the fintech company Splitgrid, a Sweden-based company providing software solutions for securing payments between suppliers and retailers automatically. Other co-investors included Almi Invest, C... |
| May 17, 2019 | Launching “Tahdo uudistua” |
Press release 16th of May 2019
Read press release in Finnish
Modernization is vital for companies. In order to succeed in the increasingly competitive world, companies need to find the time and energy to constantly develop a... |
| May 8, 2019 | In the world of “What ifs”, what opportunities could unfold if risks were no concern in your business? | Risks are an integral part of running any successful business. From the perspective of the entrepreneur or company leadership risks are not only a negative thing, since often bigger risks lead also into greater growth potential and higher m... |
| May 7, 2019 | Innovestor Expands its Co-investment Operations to Commercial Properties
Co-invest in commercial properties
Expertise holds a strong role in the process | Co-investment is at the heart of Innovestor’s operational model and opens the doors to targets normally accessible only to professional investors. Innovestor differs from typical venture capitalists and financial services companies in that ... |
| May 6, 2019 | Funding International Growth: Funding sources
Different Funding Sources | When looking for expansion beyond borders, one of the constraints to growth is funding. Typically, expanding into new markets requires setting up a structure to support the new business; at least sales, customer support, delivery, and admin... |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Introduction to Nasdaq Stockholm | Nasdaq Stockholm has for many years been one of the leading IPO hubs in Europe, in particular for small and medium sized companies (SMEs) in the technology sector. The success can to a large extent be explained by Sweden’s unique ecosystem ... |
| Apr 29, 2019 | Sensmet Ltd / Co-investment opportunity |
We measure other climactic elements such as air quality, but have had no good solutions so far for water. Even though water is vital for all forms of life, and plays a big part in combating climate change, there has not existed an efficie... |
| Apr 24, 2019 | Kasvu Open Investor’s Favorite 2019 – who will win the million? |
Every company involved in Kasvu Open this year has a real opportunity to be the Investor’s Favorite. However, Riihimäki and Äijälä both agree that the award will most likely go to a slightly later stage company. Because even though your f... |
| Apr 23, 2019 | Tenboron raises €1.5M – an investment that impacts lives | Tenboron Ltd, a 2010 founded Helsinki based pharmaceutical company has developed a new novel boron delivery agent to help fight cancer together with the already proven cancer fighting BNCT (Boron Neutron Capture Therapy) treatment.
“Tenbor... |
| Apr 8, 2019 | Portfolio Insight: Cajo Technologies – Building for Growth | Cajo Technologies has brought together all the components needed for their success. Business is booming and the company is currently on the verge of rapid growth both in the domestic Finnish market as well as internationally.
In October 20... |
| Apr 2, 2019 | Tenboron Ltd takes BNCT cancer treatment to a new era |
Tenboron Ltd, a pharmaceutical company that has developed a new novel boron carrier for head and neck cancers to be used in BNCT treatments, has just opened their 1.5M€ funding round with us at just the right time. Tenboron’s innovation i... |
| Apr 2, 2019 | Finnish Leader and Leadership in Sweden – Lessons Learned | Finland and Sweden are neighbouring countries which share an almost 700 year long and common history. Sweden is the second biggest export market for Finland and is often seen as a stepping stone to the Nordic and European markets for growin... |
| Mar 29, 2019 | Meet the team – Wilhelm Lindholm | I am Wilhelm Lindholm, Partner and CEO at Innovestor. My responsibilities include new investments, new products, and other growth initiatives. My educational and professional background is in corporate finance and business development. When... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | Tenboron Ltd / New co-investment opportunity |
Cancer is unfortunately one of the leading causes of death worldwide and is a challenging disease to treat due to its characteristics of recurrence, resistance and inoperability. Luckily, the number of cancer research treatments have been... |
| Mar 11, 2019 | Year of Pig, Smooth and Prosperous Growth | After February 5th 2019, it is official start of Year of Pig according to Chinese Lunar calendar. Pig year is known as a lucky year with prosperous growth. So to all embarking on China venture, may you be blessed with prosperity and success... |
| Feb 26, 2019 | Meet the team – Petri Laine | I am Petri Laine, the Managing Partner of Innovestor Ventures. Before joining the Innovestor team in 2016, I worked almost eleven years at Finnvera. There my responsibility was to set up a seed fund called Vera, which ended up investing int... |
| Feb 18, 2019 | Portfolio insight: Miradore – Change and Leadership principles for growth | I am Simo Salmensuu, CEO of Miradore. Miradore is 2006 founded Finnish software company providing cloud-based SaaS product to MSPs (Managed Service Providers) and IT departments to secure and control their clients’ devices in the most cost-... |
| Feb 6, 2019 | The US Market: What should Nordic companies know when considering market entry? | The US market is a large, competitive, noisy and challenging one. Let’s just say that it presents a unique set of features and characteristics that are certainly quite different than what most Nordic companies are used to. To be successful ... |
| Feb 6, 2019 | Monidor: Facilitating Hospital Wards with Cutting Edge Mobile Technology | Before the patients can go home, they typically spend some time in a hospital ward. General wards have a lot less medical instruments available. For example, infusion pumps can be almost missing from the ward. Even though ward patients are ... |
| Feb 1, 2019 | New CEO for Kasvu Open Oy | Board of Kasvu Open has appointed Jaana Seppälä as a new CEO of Kasvu Open. Seppälä will start as an executive vice president 1st of March and as a CEO 1st of September when the current CEO Uljas Valkeinen retires.
Seppälä has been already... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Meet the team – Tommi Äijälä | My name is Tommi and I’m the co-founder and CEO of Innovestor. Before founding the company in 2014, I worked in banking, capital markets and asset management for nearly 15 years.
When im not in meetings or at the office, I keep active by p... |
| Jan 28, 2019 | Conquering the US markets | Conquering the US markets is often seen as one the most challenging goals in companies’ internationalization plans. The reason for this is that even though the US has enormous market potential; significant share of companies’ market entries... |
| Jan 25, 2019 | Medtech company Monidor is on a mission to ensure proper IV therapy for every patient | Monidor has developed a small infusion therapy pump device called Monidrop and an intravenous (IV) Screen remote monitoring software.
Today most patients IV therapy is still conducted manually, by nurses setting the infusion speed by visua... |
| Jan 14, 2019 | Supporting the startup ecosystem – Making an impact by doing more | That is why for 2019, we have partnered with:
Kasvu Open as a nationwide 2019 partner. Kasvu Open is the biggest national growth sparring competition (but more like a program) in Finland. This year we also launched an award together with... |
| Jan 7, 2019 | We are hiring! Are you our new Director, Legal & Compliance? | Innovestor Group is a fast-growing Finnish venture capital and financial services company. We manage venture capital (VC) funds, and make direct investments into startups and commercial properties. What makes us unique in the VC landscape, ... |
| Dec 21, 2018 | Towards China, Sweden and USA in Spring 2019 | According to the SME Business Barometer published in this fall by The Federation of Finnish Enterprises already 24% of Finnish small and medium sized companies are doing business internationally. We need to support this” internationalizatio... |
| Dec 13, 2018 | Our year in review – 2018 |
This past year, we have in total invested around 18,8 million euros into startups and completed a total of 62 funding rounds (see image below). On our co-investment side, around 270 co-investors have invested together with us this year.
... |
| Dec 5, 2018 | Innovestor X Kasvu Open – Nationwide 2019 partner | We have already for the past year of 2018 been actively participating in Kasvu Opens events, and as a shareholder in Kasvun Roihu, have a hand in operating the year long growth sparring program as well. Kasvu Open is the largest growth spar... |
| Nov 28, 2018 | The million euro question – how to invest in startups? | Author: Wilhelm Lindholm, Chief Investment Officer, Innovestor Ltd.
For a long time, it was challenging for private investors to invest in startups. Returns from startup investments have been excellent during the past decade in Finland (FV... |
| Nov 27, 2018 | European Championship for Kasvu Open | The award was presented by the European Commission on Tuesday 20 November at the SME Assembly in Graz, Austria. A total of 19 entries (initiatives and programs) were submitted for the competition from across Europe.
Kasvu Open received the... |
| Nov 22, 2018 | Swedish co-investment opportunity- Splitgrid, Retail’s New and Secure Payment Solution | PLEASE NOTE: THIS CO-INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN SWEDEN AND NOT SHOWN ON OUR CO-INVESTMENT PLATFORM
Splitgrid offers an innovative solution that is an important tool for both suppliers and stores to think about if loo... |
| Nov 21, 2018 | Rekryilmoitus: Osa-aikainen Innovestor Ventures Analyytikko | Innovestor Ventures: Analyytikko (osa-aikainen)
Tyyppi: Vakituinen, osa-aikainen
Työaika: 8 -20 h/vko
Haettu tausta: Opintojen keski- tai loppuvaihe
Sijainti: Aleksanterinkatu 46C, Helsinki
Aloitusajankohta: Mahdollisimman pian, esimer... |
