| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.08.2024 | The Rise of Alternative Proteins: A New Era in Sustainable Food Production | The world is changing. The way we produce food is evolving. As climate change looms and populations swell, the demand for sustainable food sources grows louder. Enter the realm of alternative proteins. This sector is not just a trend; it’s ... |
| 21.08.2024 | Solar Foods to List on Nasdaq, Bolstering Growth Plans for ‘Solein’ Air-Based Protein | Air-based protein developer Solar Foods announces plans to list on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland. The listing is expected to occur in September as a technical listing without any share issue or sale.
Based in Helsinki, the bi... |
| 11.04.2024 | Finnish VCs raised well in 2023 as startups struggled | Funding for startups in Finland dropped by half last year, new data shows, though venture capital firms had few problems raising for their funds.
VC hesitancy is not the only reason that startups struggled to raise; angel and corporate inve... |
| 21.03.2024 | Finnish startup Steady Energy secures a €10M investment round | Finnish startup Steady Energy secures a €10M investment round
21 March, 2024, 16:04
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Steady Energy, a Helsinki-based company special... |
| 20.11.2023 | Protein from air: Solar Foods raises $8.8m series B as it gears up to open new plant | Finnish startup Solar Foods—which makes a yellow, protein-packed ingredient called Solein by feeding microbes elements from the air—has raised €8 million ($8.8 million) in a Series B round carried out through the Finnish-based investment gr... |
| 12.09.2023 | Finnish re-commerce shop Mjuk receives €2.5M from Trind Ventures | Finnish re-commerce shop Mjuk receives €2.5M from Trind Ventures
12 September, 2023, 15:01
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Estonian Trind Ventures led the €2.5 mil... |
| 01.09.2023 | Finnish Measurlabs, a provider of laboratory analyses and testing services, secures €2.5M | Finnish Measurlabs, a provider of laboratory analyses and testing services, secures €2.5M
01 September, 2023, 12:10
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Helsinki-based ... |
| 28.08.2023 | Finland-based Metroc raises EUR 2 million in seed funding | Helsinki, Finland-based SaaS company developing novel industry-specific AI for the construction industry, Metroc raises EUR 2 million in seed funding. The round took place on August 25, 2023. Lifeline Ventures led the financing for the firm... |
| 25.08.2023 | Metroc raises €2M to bring clarity to construction projects using AI | Finnish construction tech company, Metroc, has developed a SaaS tool to assist construction firms as they seek out project opportunities. It combines public information from thousands of data sources breaking down the accessibility and valu... |
| 25.08.2023 | Finnish construction tech firm Metroc secures €2M in a seed round | Finnish construction tech firm Metroc secures €2M in a seed round
25 August, 2023, 14:02
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Metroc, a SaaS company that develops softw... |
| 27.06.2023 | Steady Energy raises 2 million euros to decarbonise residential heating with small modular nuclear reactors | Steady Energy raises 2 million euros to decarbonise residential heating with small modular nuclear reactors
Tue, Jun 27, 2023 11:25 CET Report this content
Press release June 27, 2023
The VTT spin-out will build a heating plant powered by a... |
| 27.06.2023 | Finnish energy tech Steady Energy raises €2M in a seed round | Finnish energy tech Steady Energy raises €2M in a seed round
27 June, 2023, 15:19
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Espoo-based Steady Energy, a company dedicated to... |
| 15.06.2023 | Finnish biotech Solu raises €1M to deal with antibiotic resistance | Finnish biotech Solu raises €1M to deal with antibiotic resistance
15 June, 2023, 11:34
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Helsinki-based biotech startup Solu ... |
| 29.05.2023 | Finnish energy tech Vensum raises €3.8M funding round | Finnish energy tech Vensum raises €3.8M funding round
29 May, 2023, 11:58
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The Helsinki-based startup Vensum that is focused on ener... |
| 26.05.2023 | Finnish start-up Vensum raises €3.8 million to develop software-controlled power converters | Finnish energy tech start-up Vensum has raised a €3.8 million funding round which will see it further develop its power converter technology.
Vensum Power's technology adapts to changing conditions and varying requirements to make sure the ... |
| 17.05.2023 | Finnish VC firm Lifeline Ventures closes $163M fund for early-stage startups | Venture capital firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland.
Founded in 2009, Helsinki-based Lifeline Ventures has invested in around 115 companies to date, wi... |
| 17.05.2023 | Lifeline Ventures Closes €150M Early-Stage Fund | Petteri Koponen and Timo Ahopelto, Lifeline’s founding partners
Lifeline Ventures, a Helsinki, Finland-based sector agnostic early-stage investor, closed a new €150m fund.
The firm is looking to fund early-stage companies with the potential... |
| 03.05.2023 | Finnish startup Origin by Ocean secures €7.5M to detoxify the chemical industry using algae; here’s how | Espoo-based Origin by Ocean, a company that rids the oceans of harmful algae and turns them into everyday consumer goods, announced on Wednesday, April 26, that it has secured €7.5M in a Seed round of funding.
With the raised capital, the F... |
| 27.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Restaurant order app me&u bagged $30m, Remilk approved for Israeli markets, biomaterials bonanza | This week, me&u officially announced a Series C close and alt-dairy startup Remilk got approved in Israel to enter commercial markets with its products. Several biomaterials startups made headlines with fundraises, partnerships and othe... |
| 31.03.2023 | Finnish startup Inven secures €1.5M to free up M&A professionals using AI tech | Finnish startup Inven secures €1.5M to free up M&A professionals using AI tech
31 March, 2023, 12:26
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Finland-baseb start... |
| 31.03.2023 | Inven is taking the mundane out of M&L with a €1.5 million raise | Finnish M&A software start-up Inven has raised €1.5 million in Seed funding which will be used to build its team and increase customers, and further build upon the first version of its software. The funding was led by Lifeline Ventures.... |
| 09.02.2023 | Finnish TILT Biotherapeutics closes €22M financing round | Finnish TILT Biotherapeutics closes €22M financing round
09 February, 2023, 14:32
Rostyslav Sobachynskyi --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> -->
Helsinki-based TILT Biotherapeutics has an... |
| 30.11.2022 | Finnish Synergi raises €800k to make electricity consumption controllable | Finnish Synergi raises €800k to make electricity consumption controllable
30 November, 2022, 18:25
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The Helsinki-based startup Syner... |
| 26.10.2022 | Finnish startup Hyperion Robotics raises €3M to 3D print concrete | Finnish startup Hyperion Robotics raises €3M to 3D print concrete
26 October, 2022, 16:39
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Hyperion Robotics, a Finnish techn... |
| 17.06.2022 | Finland’s TILT Biotherapeutics raises €10M for cancer treatment | Finland’s TILT Biotherapeutics raises €10M for cancer treatment
17 June, 2022, 16:41
Rostyslav Sobachynskyi --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> -->
The Helsinki-based TILT Biotherapeutics... |
| 05.06.2022 | Finnish start-ups present strong growth numbers | The revenue of the member companies of the Finnish Startup Community, founded a year ago, has grown by 62 per cent from last year. The combined revenue of the companies was EUR 3.5 billion in 2021. The growth is expected to remain strong in... |
| 01.06.2022 | Gourmet lovers rejoice! Huuva gobbles €4.9 million from General Catalyst to bring delivery food outside city hot spots | The trendiest, most popular restaurants shouldn’t be the privilege of city centres or certain hot spots – and the neighborhoods in the city outskirts should have other high-quality options than the average multinational restaurant chains. T... |
| 15.02.2022 | Meet Swappie, the Finnish startup that swapped $124 million to transform smartphone consumption in Europe | The overall market for used and refurbished smartphones is forecast to grow at an annual growth rate of 10.23% between 2022 and 2027. Cashing in on the new trend to make the circular smartphone economy more accessible, Finland-based Swappie... |
| 05.07.2021 | AREX Markets raises €8.8 million, launches in UK and Spain | With its novel approach to invoice factoring, Arex Markets has raised €8.8 million in a Series-A round. The Dublin-based startup uses an algorithm-based trading mechanism that opens up capital for SME’s and provides professional investors t... |
| 12.05.2021 | Swarmia raises a $7m Seed round led by Alven only 12 months after its inception | Swarmia, a software team productivity company based in Helsinki, Finland, has closed the funding round led by Alven only 12 months after its inception, one of the largest seed rounds in the region for such a young company. Existing investor... |
| 17.10.2020 | TOP 10 FoodTech Startups of Europe | Founders: Greg Orlowski and William Shu |
| 11.12.2017 | Budapest based Shapr3D raised $1.3M and brings powerful 3D CAD modeling to iPad Pro | Riding on the success of a $1.3M investment deal backed by InReach and Lifeline Ventures, the team at Shapr3D is taking things to the next level by creating the world’s first CAD system to run Parasolid software, the world’s leading 3D geom... |
| 04.11.2016 | Fintech startup AREX secures €3 million in funding from Lifeline and LocalGlobe | Fintech startup AREX has raised €3 million in new funding from Lifeline Ventures, LocalGlobe, and a number of angel investors to provide a platform short term financing for SMBs.
AREX, derived from “account receivables exchange”, offers a p... |
| 18.05.2016 | Creandum backed Peak launches mobile-first brain training app | Peak, the successful UK-based brain training app, backed in part by Creandum, has launched in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden with localised versions to the native languages of each country.
Peak is the app that trains your cognitive function ... |
| 05.05.2016 | Nordic Startup Awards finalists announced | The semi-finals of the Nordic Startup Awards are now finished. This series of events promotes and celebrates startups in the Nordic region. Country winners are chosen for each country, and the finalists move upwards to a grand ceremony held... |
| 08.04.2016 | Fintech dominates Nordic startup investments | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| 14.03.2016 | Blooming measures your heart and brain to reduce stress at work | Finnish startup Blooming is aiming to help bouncing-off-the-walls-stressed office workers regain control of their lives by using wearable tech. The service includes monitoring and tracking stress levels, plus recommendation software and med... |
| 25.02.2016 | Lifeline Ventures Closes Third Venture Capital Fund, at €57M | Finnish early stage venture capital firm Lifeline Ventures closed its third fund, at €57m.
Limited partners in Lifeline Ventures Fund III Ky include new institutions as well as private and family-owned investors.
Led by Partners Timo Ahopel... |
| 22.02.2016 | Finnish VC, Lifeline Ventures, Raises 57 Million Euros | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| 19.02.2016 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Happy Friday! This week, Tech.eu tracked 11 technology M&A transactions and 64 funding deals (totalling €137 million) in Europe and Israel.
Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free weekly newsletter, along with in... |
| 10.02.2016 | From Nokia’s Snake Game To Supercell, Finland’s Gaming Industry Is Serious Business | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| 12.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 12, 2015 | TigerText raised $50M; Eyefluence secured $14M; Flexe landed $4.4M
Flexe, provider of on-demand warehousing, today announced that it has raised $4.4 million in seed funding, which added to $1.9 million in previous investments brings the sta... |
| 29.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 29, 2015 | Brandwatch completed $33M funding; Qvella raised $20M; Gobble landed $10.75M
Mangatar, a Milan, and Salerno, Italy-based social and mobile gaming startup, raised €1.1 million ($1.2 million) in funding. The funds were raised via Fi.R.A. (Fin... |
| 01.10.2015 | YouTube Co-Founder Leads Drinkable Supermeal Startup Ambronite to $600k Seed Round | Alternative foods are back in our headlines today after Ambronite, a Finnish food technology company producing an organic meal replacement drink, raised $600k in seed funding.
And, as with other startups in the space, the company attracted ... |
| 11.05.2015 | Synoste Raises €2.2M in Series A Financing | Synoste Oy, an Espoo, Finland medical device company, raised €2.2M in Series A financing.
The funding was raised from existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Finnvera, Lifeline Ventures, Mectalent Oy and existing business angels a... |
| 10.12.2014 | Optomeditech Raises $2.5M in Funding | Optomeditech Ltd, an Espoo, Finland-based developer of a light-guided intravenous catheter system, raised $2.5m in funding.
The round led by Lifeline Ventures and Sitra, The Finnish Innovation Fund.
Earlier this year, the company secured th... |
| 28.08.2014 | Enevo's waste bin sensors get $8M | 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 Internet of Things is everywhere.
At least, t... |
| 28.08.2014 | Enevo Raises $8M in Funding | Enevo, an Espoo, Finland- and Boston, MA-based provider of trash bin sensors, raised $8m in funding.
Backers included Earlybird, Lifeline Ventures, Finnish Industry Investment and Draper Associates and Risto Siilasmaa, among others.
The com... |
| 28.08.2014 | Enevo's waste bin sensors get $8M | The Internet of Things is everywhere.
At least, that’s what the latest round of funding headed toward Enevo would indicate. The company just landed $8 million in Series A funding to expand its waste collection system into the global market.... |
| 25.07.2014 | TechCrunch Helsinki Meetup Sees Finland’s New Startup Generation | Finland has a rich heritage in technology. Whatever crisis of confidence the masters of Nokia had, eventually leading to its gutting by Microsoft, that long heritage has served it well, giving rise to a several generations of engineers and,... |
| 22.04.2014 | Lifeline, The Early-Stage Finnish VC Firm That Backed Supercell, Closes Another Fund | Lifeline Ventures has never ceased to surprise me.
There’s their annual benchpress and dead-lifting contest every November to find the world’s strongest investor and founder.
Or, I mean, just look at their portfolio:
Trash-sorting robotic s... |
| 15.11.2013 | Synoste Closes €2.8M Funding | Synoste Oy, a Helsinki, Finland and Düsseldorf, Germany-based medical device company, closed an up to €2.8m funding round.
Synoste has raised a seed round of €0.8m to advance the development of its first product aimed at the limb lengthenin... |
| 07.05.2013 | Nonstop Games Raises $2.9M in Seed Funding | Nonstop Games, a Singapore-based games company, recently raised a $2.9M (approximately €2.2M, SGD$3.5M) in seed funding.
The round (closed in March, 2013) was led Creandum III and Lifeline Ventures.
The company is using the funds to launch ... |
| 30.04.2013 | Enevo Completes €2M Funding Round | Enevo Ltd, an Espoo, Finland-based developer of waste management logistics optimization systems based on wireless sensors and data analytics, completed a €2m funding round.
Backers included Finnish Industry Investment and Lifeline Ventures.... |
| 14.12.2012 | Applifier Raises €3M in Series B Funding | Applifier, a Helsinki, Finland-based company that operates a cross-promotion network for social games and applications, has raised €3m (approximately $4m) in Series B funding.
The round was led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from ... |
| 18.09.2012 | ZenRobotics embraces the four R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Robots | ZenRobotics has raised $17 million by creating Wall-E for industry.
The company brings together high technology and recycling to address the world’s trash problem. Its flagship product is the ZenRobotics Recycler, an artificial intelligence... |
| 18.09.2012 | ZenRobotics Raises €13M | ZenRobotics Ltd. a Helsinki, Finland-based developer of robotic recycling solutions, is raising €13m (approximately $17m) in funding.
Backers include Invus and Lifeline Ventures.
The company intends to use the capital to grow and to commerc... |
| 18.09.2012 | Funding Daily: If the world was run by robots… | 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!
There were so many funding announcements, it woul... |
| 18.09.2012 | ZenRobotics embraces the four R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Robots | 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!
ZenRobotics has raised $17 million by creating Wa... |
| 09.05.2012 | Arctic Diagnostics Completes € 2.7M Funding | Arctic Diagnostics Ltd, a Turku, Finland-based manufacturer of a multianalyte point-of-care diagnostic system for respiratory tract infections, completed a € 2.7m funding.
The round was led by Lifeline Ventures, participation from existing ... |
| 19.01.2012 | Playmysong Closes Angel Funding and Launches in NYC | Playmysong, a Finnish start up that provides a based free app and web service allowing users to both play songs in social jukeboxes and to host their own social jukebox experience, has closed an angel funding (of undisclosed amount) and lau... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| - | Meet Swappie, the Finnish startup that swapped $124 million to transform smartphone consumption in Europe | The overall market for used and refurbished smartphones is forecast to grow at an annual growth rate of 10.23% between 2022 and 2027. Cashing in on the new trend to make the circular smartphone economy more accessible, Finland-based Swappie... |
| - | Gourmet lovers rejoice! Huuva gobbles €4.9 million from General Catalyst to bring delivery food outside city hot spots | The trendiest, most popular restaurants shouldn’t be the privilege of city centres or certain hot spots – and the neighborhoods in the city outskirts should have other high-quality options than the average multinational restaurant chains. T... |
| - | Meet Droppe, the Nordic startup building stronger European wholesale market with €2.2 million | Building a more connected European industrial wholesale market by linking European industrial buyers to European manufacturers, Finnish startup Droppe has raised €2.2 million seed funding. The round was led by Lifeline Ventures and joined b... |
| - | AREX Markets raises €8.8 million, launches in UK and Spain | With its novel approach to invoice factoring, Arex Markets has raised €8.8 million in a Series-A round. The Dublin-based startup uses an algorithm-based trading mechanism that opens up capital for SME’s and provides professional investors t... |
| - | Nanophotonics maker Dispelix sees $33 million in new funding | Finnish waveguide design technology company Dispelix has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The company makes single-layer waveguides and see-through displays, primarily focused on augmented reality applications. The new wave o... |
| - | Helsinki’s metabolic health monitor Veri raises $4 million, aims to put a nutritionist by your side 24/7 | Helsinki-based glucose tracking for non-diabetics wearable technology startup Veri has raised $4 million in a combined pre-seed and seed round that was led by PROFounders. The round(s) also saw participation from Lifeline Ventures, Accel, a... |
| - | SYNOSTE Ltd raises €5.1 million to launch its smart skeletal deformation correction technology | SYNOSTE Ltd, a Finnish medical device company creates smart solutions for patient-friendly bone-lengthening and bone-deformation correction. The company, also located in Düsseldorf, Germany has raised over five million euros to start clinic... |
