| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.05.2025 | Revolutionizing Cancer Care: Hedera Dx Secures €15 Million to Expand Access Globally | In the world of healthcare, innovation is the lifeblood that keeps the industry moving forward. A recent infusion of €15 million into Hedera Dx, a Lausanne-based biotech company, exemplifies this spirit. This funding, part of a Series A rou... |
| 27.05.2025 | Swiss BioTech Hedera Dx has just bagged €15 million to bring modern cancer care to patients across the globe | Lausanne-based Hedera Dx, a BioTech company, today announced the closing of a €15 million Series A financing round to drive advanced cancer care and overcome structural barriers that prevent cancer patients from accessing targeted cancer th... |
| 10.03.2025 | Detectify launches Alfred to automate CVE security testing with AI
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| 22.10.2024 | Helsinki-based Avenue Biosciences raises €2.3 million to scale AI-enhanced protein engineering | Avenue Biosciences, a transatlantic biotechnology company specialising in novel protein engineering technologies, announced the successful closing of their €2.3 million seed financing round. Led by Voima Ventures, with additional participat... |
| 16.04.2024 | Stravito launches AI assistant for enhanced data-driven decision making
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One click below supports our mission to provide f... | Knowledge management startup Stravito AB today announced a generative artificial intelligence assistant designed to help users extract and synthesize insights for data-driven business decisions at large scale.
Called Stravito Assistant, the... |
| 29.04.2020 | Platypus raises €2.3 million to help companies reduce staff turnover | Today Copenhagen-based Platypus, the SaaS startup that improves person-organisation cultural alignment to reduce staff turnover, announces it has raised around €2.3 million from social impact fund Mustard Seed MAZE, the Nordic technology fu... |
| 23.01.2020 | Noquo Foods raises €3.25m in seed funding to crack plant-based cheese | Swedish startup Noquo Foods has raised €3.25 million ($3.7 million) in seed funding from a list of heavyweight investors to develop plant-based cheese. Since starting the company just over a year ago, founder and CEO Sorosh Tavakoli says th... |
| 15.08.2019 | Hungarian Commsignia just received a $11 million investment to make roads more safe and traffic more efficient | Commsignia, a market leader in V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) solutions, announced the closing of a $11 million fundraising round led by Karma Ventures (Estonia) and the Samsung Catalyst Fund (US), together with Partech (France), Inventure (Fi... |
| 02.11.2018 | Estonian business management software Scoro raises €4.4 million | Scoro's Team / Photo: tech.eu (http://tech.eu/brief/scoro-seed-round/)
Estonian business software platform Scoro raised €4.4 million in Series A founding local media reported. The round was lead by Livonia Partners, with Tera Ventures and t... |
| 24.09.2018 | Latvian fintech startup Nordigen secures $800K additional funding from Seedcamp and Inventure | In its latest seed round, the Riga-based fintech startup Nordigen raised $800,000 for further expansion from the VC firms Seedcamp and Inventure. With the help of this additional funding, Nordigen plans to disrupt credit bureaus and help cr... |
| 28.03.2018 | CEE startup scene overkilling London | A decade ago if you wanted to start a company in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) you were forced to head west to fund your startup and get the critical know-how from people that had been there, done that. Because locally, the investors mainly ... |
| 18.03.2018 | Insight Venture Partners Leads 5M Euros for Detectify | Detectify, a Sweden-based web security company, announced a financing round of €5 million led by New York based venture capital and private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners. Existing investors, Paua Ventures and Inventure, also partici... |
| 17.03.2018 | Europe needs to halt its startup brain drain to the U.S. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The startup community in Europe is well accustome... |
| 17.03.2018 | Europe needs to halt its startup brain drain to the U.S. | The startup community in Europe is well accustomed to the limitations of its local investment community, which, although growing steadily, can never quite match that of Silicon Valley. In fact, for founders of startups in especially dicey e... |
| 11.01.2018 | Budapest-based AImotive just raised $38 million in Series C funding | AImotive, formerly called AdasWorks, the full-stack autonomous vehicle technology company announced the closing of its $38 million Series C funding round, led by B Capital Group and Prime Ventures, with participation from Cisco Investments,... |
| 21.12.2017 | Inventure Launches Nordic Early Stage Venture Capital Fund | Inventure, a Helsinki, Finland-based venture capital firm investing in seed and early-stage technology companies, has announced the first closing of Inventure Fund III, at €110m.
The closing was led by European Investment Fund (EIF), Finnis... |
| 19.12.2017 | Nordic VC firm Inventure outs new €110M fund to invest in early-stage tech startups in the region | There’s been a slew of new European VC fund raises over the last few months, including mostly recently Seedcamp, Balderton, and Brighteye Ventures, but now we can add Inventure to the list. The Nordic VC firm is announcing a new fund to inv... |
| 21.07.2017 | Finnish clinical genetics testing firm Blueprint Genetics raises €14 million | Blueprint Genetics, a Finnish genetic testing company, has raised €14 million in a round led by Creathor Venture and MedTech Innovation Partners with participation from Inventure and Pontos Group.
The company plans to use the investment to ... |
| 28.11.2016 | Finnish cloud startup UpCloud raises €4 million from Inventure | Helsinki-based cloud computing company UpCloud has raised €4 million in a funding round led by Finnish VC Inventure to fund its internationalisation.
UpCloud has data centres in Helsinki, London, Frankfurt, and Chicago and now plans to open... |
| 23.11.2016 | Cancer care platform Noona raises €1.5 million seed round | Digital health startup Noona Healthcare has raised €1.5 million in a seed round led by Inventure with participation from The Noaber Foundation and Capricorn ICT Arkiv.
Finland-based Noona provides a mobile platform for cancer treatment cent... |
| 16.11.2016 | Now Interact secures $5M Series A Round from Industrifonden, SEB and Inventure | The machine learning platform Now Interact lands $5 million (SEK 44 million) in a Series A round led by SEB Venture Capital and Inventure together with existing owner Industrifonden. With the funding, Now Interact will continue investing in... |
| 16.11.2016 | Swedish machine learning startup Now Interact raises $5 million | Stockholm-based Now Interact, a B2C predictive intelligence solution, has raised $5 million (€4.6 million) in a Series A round led by SEB Venture Capital and Inventure with participation from owner and largest investor Industrifonden.
With ... |
| 27.10.2016 | KNL Networks secures $10 million for its “internet anywhere” communications | Finland’s KNL Networks has raised $10 million in a new Series A round led by Creandum with participation from previous investors Inventure and Butterfly Ventures and a number of angels.
The startup, which has been in stealth for over four y... |
| 23.08.2016 | Workflow software startup Scoro raises $1.9 million seed round | Scoro, a work management software startup, has secured a $1.9 million seed funding round. The round was led by SmartCap, the investment arm of the Estonian Development Fund, Inventure, and Alchemist Accelerator.
The Estonian startup builds ... |
| 07.10.2014 | Yoogaia Raises Funding from Inventure | Yoogaia, a Helsinki, Finland-based live, interactive online yoga studio, raised $630k in funding from Inventure.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to expand globally.
Led by Mikko Petäjä, Founder... |
| 01.09.2014 | Blueprint Genetics Raises $3.9M in Funding | Blueprint Genetics, a Helsinki, Finland-based developer of a clinical grade genetic diagnostics platform , raised $3.9m in funding.
Backers included Inventure and Avohoidon Tutkimussäätiö, a Finnish foundation, which joined existing Finnish... |
| 01.09.2014 | Inventure Closes Second Fund at €68M | Inventure, a Helsinki, Finland-based venture capital firm, recently closed its second fund, Inventure Fund II, at €68m.
Founded in 2005, Sami Lampinen, Timo Tirkkonen, Ilkka Kivimäki and Fei Xu (Operations, Shangai, China), Inventure is an ... |
| 12.08.2014 | CyberLightning Completes $4.2M Financing | CyberLightning Ltd., an Oulu, Finland-based IoT software provider, completed a $4.2m financing round.
Backers included Inventure, TEKES, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, and EU sponsored funds. In conjunction with the funding, Inv... |
| 12.08.2014 | IoT company CyberLightning announces $4.2M round | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 12.08.2014 | IoT company CyberLightning announces $4.2M round | In case there was any doubt in your mind that the Internet of things (IoT) is the future, here’s another feather in that particular cap: Following the recent launch of its industrial Internet visualization and management software, CyberLigh... |
| 28.05.2014 | The former Angry Birds team seeks to strike gold again with Monsu, its new mobile game | Boomlagoon, a Finnish game studio that the creators of Angry Birds started, wants to show that it can still make some magical and wildly popular game characters that millions of mobile players can enjoy. So the Helsinki-based game studio is... |
| 28.05.2014 | The former Angry Birds team seeks to strike gold again with Monsu, its new mobile game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Boomlagoon, a Finnish game studio that the creators of Angry Birds started, wants to show that it can still make some magical and wildl... |
| 19.05.2014 | Eliademy Raises Seed Funding from Inventure | Eliademy, a Finland-based online education platform operated by CBTec, raised a seed funding from Inventure.
The amount of the round, completed from the new Inventure Fund II, a €50m venture capital fund launched in January 2014.
The compan... |
| 19.05.2014 | Klevu Raises €250K in Funding | Klevu, a Helsinki, Finland-based self learning search platform for online stores, raised €250k in funding.
Backers included Inventure, Finnish seed investor and accelerator KoppiCatch and several Finnish and Russian angel investors.
The com... |
| 06.05.2014 | Boomlagoon Secures $3.6M in Series A Funding | Boomlagoon, a Helsinki, Finland-based mobile games company, secured $3.6m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Northzone, with participation from Inventure and 360 Capital Partners, and existing investors Jari Ovaskainen and London Ven... |
| 06.05.2014 | Former Angry Birds creators raise $3.6M for Boomlagoon game studio | Boomlagoon, a Finnish game studio created by former Angry Birds creators, has raised $3.6 million in funding to build mobile games.
Helsinki-based Boomlagoon is one in a series of Finnish game startups that have successfully raised money in... |
| 13.03.2014 | Mekitec Raises €2.2M | Mekitec Oy, an Oulu, Finland-based provider of innovative X-ray equipment for identifying unwanted objects in food packages, raised €2.2m in funding.
Backers included Finnish Industry Investment and Inventure.
The company intends to use the... |
| 14.05.2013 | Rightware Closes $5.2M Series B Funding | Rightware, a Espoo, Finland-based provider of embedded user interface (UI) software and performance benchmarking tools, closed a $5.2M Series B funding.
Backers included Inventure, Nexit Ventures, and new investor Finnish Industry Investmen... |
| 14.05.2013 | Finnish Startup Rightware Closes $5.2M Series B To Drive Global Growth Of Its Embedded UI Creation Tool Business | Rightware, a Finnish startup that sells embedded user interface software and performance benchmarking tools to car makers and consumer electronics companies needing to build graphical user interfaces has announced it has closed a $5.2 milli... |
| 03.12.2012 | Web Of Trust, Exclusive Interview with Co-Founder Sami Tolvanen | Helsinki, Finland-based Web Of Trust recently raised €1m in funding. The startup provides a community-powered safe surfing tool that attracted our attention. Co-founder Sami Tolvanen joined us to speak about the company, the solution they o... |
| 26.11.2012 | Web Of Trust Raises €1M in Funding | Web Of Trust, a Helsinki, Finland-based community-powered safe surfing tool, raised €1m in funding.
The round was led by Finland and China-based Inventure, with participation from private investor Risto Siilasmaa and the Finnish Industry In... |
| 26.11.2012 | Web Of Trust, The Crowdsourced Safe Surfing Tool, Raises Further $1.3M Led By Inventure | Web of Trust (WOT), the safe surfing tool/browser add-on which is powered by the crowd, has raised a fresh €1M (approx. ~$1.3M) led by Finland/China-based VC firm, Inventure. Also participating in the round is private investor, Risto Siilas... |
| 26.11.2012 | Web of Trust closes €1m investment round led by Inventure | The community-powered safe surfing tool Web of Trust announced today that it has closed a further investment round of € 1 million led by Inventure. Other participating investors include private investor Risto Siilasmaa and the Finnish Indus... |
| 14.11.2012 | Miradore Closes €1,2M Funding Round | Miradore, a Lappeenranta, Finland-based provider of a solution that enables the efficient management of diverse IT environments, has closed a €1,2m funding.
Backers include Finnish Inventure and Belgian ICT executive and industry influencer... |
| 09.10.2012 | Freespee Closes €3.3M Financing | Freespee, a Uppsala, Sweden-based provider of call-based advertising technology and services, has closed a €3.3m financing round.
The round has been led by Sunstone Capital, with participation from existing investor Inventure.
The company i... |
| 06.09.2012 | Startup Sauna Puts Some Money Where Its Mouth Is, Secures Inventure Backing | Startup Sauna has always been a slightly puzzling thing. It acts ike an accelerator but does not fund startups. It simply offers European (mostly from Nordic countries) and Russian startups coaching sessions and demo trips to Silicon Valley... |
| 13.10.2011 | The Helsinki Spring | I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship.
I was invited to F... |
| 07.10.2011 | The Helsinki Spring | Entrepreneurship in Finland I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepre... |
| 15.09.2011 | ThingLink Adds Rich Media Tags To Online Images | TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant ThingLink is a Helsinki, Finland and U.S.-based startup that lets you add rich media tags to online images. These tags appear as small dots when you hover your cursor over the image, and can link... |
| 08.03.2011 | ThingLink joins forces with SoundCloud to let users add sounds to images | ThingLink, which provides tools to let users embed links into images, has partnered with SoundCloud to add audio as an option.
The idea is that those who work primarily in audio – musicians, bands, sound designers etc. – can now include ima... |
| 08.02.2011 | Freespee raises €1.1m for its call tracking and pay-per-call solution | Freespee, which provides call tracking and pay-per-call solutions for the “lead generation industry”, has closed a second round of funding of 1.1 million euros.
The new investment comes from Finland’s Inventure and will be used to fuel grow... |
| 05.10.2010 | Thinglink, the product tagging startup, raises $1m for its in-image ad network | Thinglink, the product tagging startup founded by design blogger Ulla-Maaria Engeström (wife of Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engestrom, who is also an adviser), has raised $1 million in seed funding from Nordic investors Inventure and Lifeline Ven... |
| 15.08.2007 | Nanotechnology equipment supplier Beneq raises EUR 3 million in venture capital funding | Danish venture capital investor Via Venture Partners has together with Finnish Inventure Oy and other earlier investors invested EUR 3 million in nanotechnology equipment supplier Beneq (www.beneq.com). |
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