| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.01.2024 | Takeoff Academy – People and company culture as keys to a su... | The latest installment of the Takeoff Academy took place on December 18th and this time the topic wa... |
| 10.01.2024 | Invitation to the Takeoff Partners Investment Screening Day ... | We kindly ask the entrepreneurs interested to participate to send their investor decks to info (at) ... |
| 10.01.2024 | MeetingPackage.com boosts growth with 1,2 MEUR seed financin... | MeetingPackage.com is backed by several well-known travel industry executives, including Jani Kaskin... |
| 10.01.2024 | Videoly connects videos to online stores – and experiences m... | Videoly finds video content, curates it, and enables webstores to easily embed the right video conte... |
| 10.01.2024 | Mythbusting: Getting sales meetings in North America - How h... | Futures Platform is a tool that helps organizations structure their foresight work and bring people ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Clean it up on time: how to schedule your Series A financing... | February 2020
As any estate agent would tell you, preparation is everything when it come to selling... |
| 10.01.2024 | Winning traction: Creating customer experiences that transla... | When a new business starts, it builds on an idea of providing a solution to a customer problem that ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Takeoff Partners invests in Pilvi™, online business enabler... | Pilvi’s entire EUR 250 000 financing round is a combination of a Tekes loan and equity capital from ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Portfolio company news: MeetingPackage accelerates internati... | Originally known as a marketplace, MeetingPackage has changed its operational focus by introducing m... |
| 10.01.2024 | Success factors of internationalization – eBook | Taking startups global is a trending topic around the world. Yet there is very little publicly avail... |
| 10.01.2024 | Markko Vaarnas of Takeoff Partners joins the FiBAN Board of ... | FiBAN is a large Finnish non-profit association of private investors. They aim to improve the possib... |
| 10.01.2024 | Kim Väisänen joins business growth advisor Takeoff Partners... | Takeoff Partners specializes in internationalizing B2B software and service businesses. Kim Väisänen... |
| 10.01.2024 | Jouko Virtanen appointed Chairman of the Board for Takeoff P... | “It is great to be back in Finland, working hands on with local entrepreneurs to establish new busin... |
| 10.01.2024 | Success Factors in Internationalization: From entrepreneurs ... | International growth takes a vision, and to start up a growth company, there should be at least one ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Successful integration after acquisition – lessons learned | The Finnish founded GIA successfully internationalized and offered services to multinational compani... |
| 10.01.2024 | Startups: Understand EU's new privacy laws, attend event on ... | European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) defines how information related to EU... |
| 10.01.2024 | Startup Board work: 10+1 things for the Board to focus on in... | Startup companies start from scratch by definition, and there are countless unknowns surrounding the... |
| 10.01.2024 | How can growth companies find and engage board members and u... | Let’s start with the need for a professional Board. When will one become necessary for a startup com... |
| 10.01.2024 | SaaS company, utilize your Board and advisors | Recently, we have announced three investments, in Futures Platform, Artist Exchange, and most recent... |
| 10.01.2024 | Key takeaways from SaaStock, Dublin | Thoughts and notes below by our Managing Partner Markko Vaarnas:
To further summarize, the discussi... |
| 10.01.2024 | Futures Platform organizes the Strategic Foresight Summit 20... | The future is full of fascinating opportunities - but how to make sense of them? Join in to learn an... |
| 10.01.2024 | Invitation to the Takeoff Partners Investment Screening Day ... | We kindly ask the entrepreneurs interested to participate to send their investor decks to info (at) ... |
| 10.01.2024 | New eBook: KPI Benchmarks Every SaaS Leader Should Understan... | Leading a SaaS business is, as we know, much about numbers – monitoring your key metrics and "s... |
| 10.01.2024 | Entering the North American market – the typical lessons and... | Jouko Virtanen nods at the above points: These are some of the top challenges that any entrepreneur ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Cuckoo Workout – A fun way of addressing the global challeng... | - |
| 10.01.2024 | Invitation to the Takeoff Partners Investment Screening Day ... | We kindly ask the entrepreneurs interested to participate to send their investor decks to info (at) ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Invitation to the Takeoff Partners Investment Screening Day ... | We kindly ask the entrepreneurs interested to participate to send their investor decks to info (at) ... |
| 10.01.2024 | 8 requirements VCs expect your B2B SaaS startup to meet or S... | November 2019
As angel-like investors, we usually enter a startup’s lifecycle at the pre-seed or se... |
| 10.01.2024 | Invitation to the Takeoff Partners Investment Screening Day ... | We kindly ask the entrepreneurs interested to participate to send their investor decks to info (at) ... |
| 10.01.2024 | An afternoon with global minded entrepreneurs - Recap of the... | - |
| 10.01.2024 | Invitation to the Takeoff Partners Investment Screening Day ... | We kindly ask the entrepreneurs interested to participate to send their investor decks to info (at) ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Running an effective Board meeting in a growth company / sta... | In my earlier two blog posts about the Board work in a startup or growth company, I discussed the ch... |
| 10.01.2024 | Invitation to the Takeoff Partners Investment Screening Day ... | We kindly ask the entrepreneurs interested to participate to send their investor decks to info (at) ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Portfolio company news: Cuckoo Workout® grows internationall... | Cuckoo Workout® was selected to be part of Business Finland’s Young Innovative Company Funding progr... |
| 10.01.2024 | How a board of directors prepares for mergers and acquisitio... | The theme for the Future Board meeting was mergers and acquisitions from the perspective of the boar... |
| 10.01.2024 | Takeoff Partners invests in Miradore, Device Lifecycle Manag... | Miradore has its roots in the Finnish paper company UPM; the founding team originally handled IT dev... |
| 10.01.2024 | Expert advice on taking Finnish SaaS Products to the North A... | In Howspace’s case, it all comes down to an excellent product that was ready for the markets. While ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Takeoff Partners invests in Enbrite.ly as part of syndicate | The Slush pitch winner's award was doubled from the original 250,000€ to 500.000€ in just 48h prior ... |
| 10.01.2024 | Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016! | Our Best Wishes,
the Takeoff Partners team |
| 14.08.2023 | Eficode acquires Takeoff Partners’ portfolio company Avoset... | Founded in 2010 as a family business, Avoset is an Atlassian Platinum partner with solid expertise, ... |
| 07.12.2022 | Software company Lenio successfully completed a €390k fundin... | Another rising star in the Finnish software startup scene: Tampere-based Lenio Oy collected €390,000... |
| 23.10.2022 | After surpassing the milestone of 1,000 board meetings, Mark... | October 2022
Although Markko Vaarnas is presently a board professional, he began his ongoing run of... |
| 04.03.2022 | With an impressive growth trajectory and a new acquisition, ... | March 2022
The leading Atlassian expert in Finland, Avoset Oy is merging with Polar Shift Oy, which... |
| 23.02.2022 | We asked CollectiveCrunch Co-CEO Rolf Schmitz about startups... | February 2022
When talking about the dangers of lack of diversity when it comes to insight, Collect... |
| 26.10.2021 | Kim Väisänen is out with a new book on selling: “The secrets... | September 2021
Besides being investors, all three of us at Takeoff Partners work as advisors to our... |
| 03.06.2021 | New eBook: Ready for Takeoff – Grooming your SaaS business t... | This eBook offers a complete overview on the topics that should be on the agenda of every B2B SaaS b... |
| - | 6+1 tips for renewing growth company board | December 2020
We have written about board work from many different perspectives in the past, includ... |
| - | Company culture carried HUONE through the pandemic—it’s a cr... | November 2021
A year ago, we interviewed Evon Blomstedt to discuss how the pandemic is shaping the ... |
| - | New CEO of Futures Platform: “Foresight is a success factor ... | October 2021
When Juha Mattsson was first acquainted by Futures Platform, his initial thought was t... |
| - | Expanding to North America: here’s how you do it in 2021 | March 2021
Here at Takeoff Partners, we are all passionate about helping SaaS startups expand abroa... |
| - | How to steer a SaaS company towards scalable growth? It requ... | October 2021
When you have your product and you have your market fit, the next step is to achieve s... |
| - | Portfolio company news: Howspace completes €12M Series A fun... | May 2021
Takeoff Partners’ portfolio company Howspace has announced completion of a €12M Series A F... |
| - | Post-pandemic eCommerce boom is accelerating Videoly’s expan... | March 2021
There are a few things that work for Videoly’s advantage, when it comes to achieving the... |
