| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.06.2026 | Finnish space safety startup Aavuus lands Pre-Seed funding to tackle space debris tracking | Aavuus, a Finnish building infrastructure for orbital safety, has raised Pre-Seed funding from Maki.vc.
Aavuus is building a global network of ground-based laser stations designed to push object tracking in Low Earth Orbit well beyond the l... |
| 01.06.2026 | Quanscient Secures €10M to Propel AI-Native Hardware Engineering | Quanscient landed €10 million in Series A funding. This major investment will drive its cloud- and quantum-powered multiphysics simulation platform. The technology revolutionizes hardware engineering. It bypasses slow, traditional simulatio... |
| 29.05.2026 | Helsinki Welcomes ARCTIC15 2026 — Europe’s Matchmaking-Focused Startup Event | Helsinki’s ARCTIC15 connects founders, investors, corporates, and innovation ecosystem leaders this June The event will feature 13,000+ matchmaking meetings designed to generate tangible business outcomes 600+ startups, emerging technologie... |
| 26.05.2026 | Quanscient lands €10M to advance AI- and quantum-native hardware engineering | Quanscient, a Finnish company focused on cloud-based multiphysics simulation technology and quantum algorithms, has raised €10 million in a Series A funding round to support its international expansion and further develop its simulation, qu... |
| 26.05.2026 | Quanscient Raises €10 Million To Advance Quantum- And AI-Native Hardware Engineering | Quanscient announced it has raised €10 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate international expansion and strengthen its position in multiphysics simulations, quantum algorithms, and AI-native hardware engineering.
The round was ... |
| 13.03.2026 | Proposals of the Shareholders’ Nomination Board to Spinnova Plc’s Annual General Meeting 2026 | Proposals of the Shareholders’ Nomination Board to Spinnova Plc’s Annual General Meeting 2026
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| 17.02.2026 | Ever Secures $31M Series A to Revamp Auto Retail with AI | Ever, an AI-native auto retail platform, closed a $31 million Series A funding round. Eclipse led the investment. Total capital now approaches $100 million. Ever addresses the fragmented $1.2 trillion U.S. auto market. Its proprietary AI op... |
| 12.02.2026 | Ever: $31 Million Series A Raised For AI-Native Auto Retail Platform | Ever, an AI-native, full-stack auto retail company, emerged from stealth with an oversubscribed $31 million Series A round. The round was led by Eclipse with participation from Lifeline Ventures, Ibex Investors, Maki VC, Joint Effects, JIMC... |
| 22.12.2025 | “Quietly” scaling up: Finland’s Aisti secures €20 million EIB loan to accelerate bio-based acoustic tile production | Jyväskylä-based startup Aisti has secured €20 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to expand production of its bio-based noise-reducing tiles for buildings.
The financing will support Aisti’s factory expansion in Kitee, a ru... |
| 23.10.2025 | Riff secures $16M Series A led by Northzone for business-ready vibe coding | Oslo-based Riff (formerly Databutton), the platform operators use to build and launch high-impact applications, has raised $16 million in Series A funding, bringing their total raised to $21 million. The round is led by Northzone, with back... |
| 23.10.2025 | Oslo-based Riff raises €14 million to scale its enterprise-ready vibe coding platform | Oslo-based Riff, the vibe coding platform designed for enterprise-grade applications, has raised €14 million in a Series A funding round led by Northzone, with participation from Skyfall Ventures, Maki.vc, Sondo Capital, Global Founders Cap... |
| 23.10.2025 | Riff Raises $16M in Series A Funding | Riff (formerly Databutton), an Oslo, Norway-based platform for operators at companies to build and launch high impact applications, raised $16M in Series A funding.
The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $21M, was led by N... |
| 03.09.2025 | Composition of the Shareholders’ Nomination Board of Spinnova Plc | Composition of the Shareholders’ Nomination Board of Spinnova Plc
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| 20.06.2025 | Norwegian energy startup ONiO raises €5 million for world’s lowest power MCU | Oslo-based ONiO has raised €5 million to ramp production of ONiO.zero – the first general-purpose microcontroller unit (MCU) that cold-starts from under 1µW and runs entirely on ambient energy.
The round was led by Stockholm-based node.vc, ... |
| 12.06.2025 | FinanceKey's €3M Funding: A Leap Towards Automated Treasury Solutions | In the bustling world of finance, where every second counts, a new player is making waves. FinanceKey, a Finnish fintech company, has secured €3 million in seed funding. This financial boost aims to revolutionize corporate finance teams by ... |
| 10.06.2025 | FinanceKey Raises €3M in Funding | FinanceKey, a Helsinki, Finland-based fintech company connecting banking, ERP, and treasury systems, raised €3M in funding.
The round was led by Maki.vc, with participation from existing investor First Fellow Partners.
The company intends t... |
| 10.06.2025 | FinanceKey secures €3M to eliminate manual work in corporate finance teams | Finnish real-time cash management platform FinanceKey has raised €3 million in seed funding to scale its client base, expand into new markets, and accelerate the shift to fully automated enterprise treasury systems.
Founded by former Nokia ... |
| 03.06.2025 | Deepdots: The AI Revolution in Customer Feedback Analysis | In the bustling tech landscape of Copenhagen, a new player is making waves. Deepdots, formerly known as Magic Feedback, has just secured €5.5 million in Seed funding. This fresh capital is set to propel the company into the stratosphere of ... |
| 03.06.2025 | Volare: €26 Million Raised For Advancing Insect Protein Technology | Finnish biotech company Volare announced the closing of a €26 million funding round to build Volare 01 – which is a facility set to become the most efficient protein production plant in the world and to advance its unique technology.
Invest... |
| 02.06.2025 | Copenhagen-based deepdots raises €5.5 million to scale AI-driven customer feedback platform | deepdots, a Danish end-to-end AI platform for streamlining customer feedback analysis, has raised a €5.5 million Seed funding round to address the full voice-of-customer lifecycle.
The round was led by Dawn Capital, a leading specialist B2B... |
| 28.05.2025 | Insects to the Rescue: How Volare is Revolutionizing Protein Production | In a world grappling with food security, a Finnish startup is turning the tide. Volare, based in Pori, has just secured €26 million in funding to build a groundbreaking facility. This isn't just any facility; it's designed to be the most ef... |
| 27.05.2025 | Can flies feed the world? This Finnish BioTech startup thinks so—and just raised €26 million to prove it | Pori-based BioTech company Volare today announced the closing of a €26 million funding round to build Volare 01 – a facility aiming to become the most efficient protein production plant in the world, and to advance its technology.
The round... |
| 27.05.2025 | Volare raises €26M to advance sustainable insect protein production | Finnish biotech company Volare has closed a €26 million funding round to build protein production plant Volare 01 and to advance its unique technology.
Volare turns food industry side streams into sustainable insect protein, oil and fertili... |
| 06.05.2025 | Lightsonic raises €3.3M Seed to scale fiber optic sensing for infrastructure | Lightsonic, a UK–Norwegian deeptech, has secured €3.3 M in seed funding to scale its AI-powered software platform for distributed fiber optic sensing. The round was led by Maki.vc, with participation from RAISE Ventures and Sondo.
The compa... |
| 01.03.2025 | European Innovation Council Fuels DeepTech Revolution with Major Investments | In the heart of Europe, innovation is blossoming. The European Innovation Council (EIC) is leading the charge, injecting substantial funds into groundbreaking technologies. Two companies, QDI Systems and NanoPhoria, are at the forefront of ... |
| 26.02.2025 | TrackSights secures €1M Pre-Seed from Maki VC to transform automotive data intelligence | Copenhagen startup Tracksights has raised €1 million Pre-Seed from Maki Ventures for its AI-powered platform for the automotive sector.
The platform is digitising an industry that often relies on clipboards and spreadsheets, and is plagued ... |
| 24.02.2025 | QDI Systems receives up to €7.5 million investment for X-ray and SWIR applications | QDI Systems, a DeepTech company based in Groningen, announced today its €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to scale its quantum dots (QDs) technology for X-ray and shortwave infrared (SWIR) applications.
The total... |
| 13.12.2024 | Aisti's Acoustic Revolution: €29 Million to Harmonize Sustainability and Sound | In the heart of Finland, a quiet revolution is brewing. Aisti, a startup based in Jyväskylä, has struck a chord with its innovative approach to acoustic solutions. The company recently secured €29 million in Series A funding, a significant ... |
| 12.12.2024 | ‘Sound’ investment: Aisti secures €29 million for sustainable acoustic tiles | Jyväskylä-based startup Aisti has successfully closed a €29 million Series A funding round to accelerate the production of its innovative acoustic tiles, which are made from renewable wood fibres.
The funding will primarily support the cons... |
| 15.11.2024 | Guypo's new venture raises $125M, RealWear acquires Almer, and Bek Ventures launches $250M Fund III | This week we tracked more than 95 tech funding deals worth over €1.2 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most i... |
| 12.11.2024 | Maki.vc Ignites Innovation with €100 Million Fund | In the heart of Helsinki, a financial spark has ignited. Maki.vc, a venture capital firm, has launched its third fund, a robust €100 million, aimed at fueling the engines of pre-seed and seed-stage startups across the Nordics and Northern E... |
| 12.11.2024 | Maki.vc launches €100M Fund for Pre-Seed and Seed-stage startups | Helsinki-based venture capital firm Maki.vc has launched its third fund of €100 million to invest in Pre-Seed and Seed-stage startups across the Nordics and Northern Europe.
Maki.vc’s first and second funds have helped propel a number of hi... |
| 12.11.2024 | Maki.vc Launches €100M Third Fund | Maki.vc, a Helsinki, Finland-based venture capital firm, has launched its third fund, at €100m.
Backers included over 50 limited partners, including the builders of Skype, Wise, RELEX Solutions, WithSecure (formerly F-Secure), Aiven, and Su... |
| 12.11.2024 | Helsinki-based Maki.vc launches a €100 million fund for deep tech and brand-driven startups | Maki.vc, a venture capital firm based in Helsinki, has launched its third fund of €100 million to support pre-seed and seed-stage startups in the Nordics and Northern Europe. This latest fund aims to invest in deep tech and brand-driven com... |
| 05.11.2024 | Quanscient's Quantum Leap: A €5.2M Boost for the Future of Simulation | In the heart of Tampere, Finland, a quiet revolution is brewing. Quanscient, a technology startup, has just secured €5.2 million in funding. This isn’t just another round of investment; it’s a ticket to the future. The company is pioneering... |
| 05.11.2024 | Quanscient secures €5.2M for quantum algorithms-driven platform | Finnish quantum startup Quanscient, has raised €5.2 million for its quantum algorithms software. The round was led by Nordic firm Crowberry Capital and Speen Holding with follow-on investments from Finnish early-stage venture capital invest... |
| 18.09.2024 | QMill: Pioneering Quantum Solutions with €4 Million Seed Funding | In the heart of Espoo, Finland, a new player is making waves in the quantum computing arena. QMill, a startup founded in 2024, has successfully raised €4 million in seed funding. This financial boost comes from a mix of venture capital firm... |
| 18.09.2024 | QMill Raises €4M in Seed Funding | QMill, an Espoo, Finland-based quantum-computing company, raised €4M in funding.
Backers included Antler, and Maki.vc while Business Finland, a Finnish government agency for innovation, trade, and investment, which provided a grant.
The com... |
| 04.04.2024 | Onego Bio Revolutionizes Food Industry with Animal-Free Egg Protein | Onego Bio, a US-Finnish biotech company, has secured a groundbreaking $40 million in Series A funding to propel the commercialization of its innovative animal-free egg protein. The company's Bioalbumen® is a game-changer in the food industr... |
| 02.04.2024 | Onego Bio Secures $40M Series A for animal-free egg protein | Onego Bio has completed its $40 million Series A funding round to drive the commercialisation and manufacturing of egg protein via precision fermentation. Onego's Series A funding is one of the largest A-rounds in the Nordics, bringing the ... |
| 02.04.2024 | Helsinki-based Onego Bio gets €37M to develop animal-free egg protein | Read this article in:
Helsinki-based Onego Bio, a food-biotech company, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $40M (approximately €37M) in a Series A funding round led by NordicNinja, marking one of the largest A-rounds in the Nordics.
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| 02.04.2024 | Onego Bio Poaches $40M Series A to Launch Precision-Fermented Egg Protein in North America | 5 Mins Read Finnish precision fermentation startup Onego Bio has closed a $40M Series A funding round to commercialise its animal-free egg protein, Bioalbumen. It expects to obtain self-affirmed GRAS status in the US soon, paving the way fo... |
| 01.04.2024 | Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is one step closer to cracking the traditional egg market | In 2023, higher egg prices provided an opportunity for alternative protein companies to show they could compete with traditional egg manufacturers.
A year later, prices have calmed down, but the flurry of activity in creating more sustainab... |
| 01.03.2024 | Baseimmune: Revolutionizing Vaccine Development with AI | London-based Baseimmune, a biotech company, has secured €10.4M in funding to develop mutation-proof vaccines using AI. Led by MSD Global Health Innovation Fund and IQ Capital, the funding will accelerate the development of three vaccine can... |
| 27.02.2024 | UK-based Baseimmune raises €10.4M to develop mutation-proof vaccines using AI; here’s how | Read this article in:
London-based Baseimmune, a biotech company using deep learning AI to forecast pathogen mutations for vaccine development, has secured $11.3M (approximately €10.40M) in a Series A round of funding.
The round was led by ... |
| 24.01.2024 | Finnish healthtech CardioSignal raises $10M in Series A funding | Finnish healthtech CardioSignal raises $10M in Series A funding
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| 30.11.2023 | Finland’s issuer processing company Enfuce raises €8.5M for growth in key European markets | Read this article in:
Espoo-based Enfuce, a provider of embedded finance solutions, announced that it has secured €8.5M in a new follow-on investment round. This funding comes on the heels of Enfuce’s €45M Series C funding round launched in... |
| 30.11.2023 | Finnish issuer processing company Enfuce raises €8.5M | Finnish issuer processing company Enfuce raises €8.5M
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| 14.09.2023 | Helsinki’s Maki.vc joins $5.1M round for Norwegian startup Databutton | Helsinki’s Maki.vc joins $5.1M round for Norwegian startup Databutton
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| 06.09.2023 | Norwegian fintech startup Strise raises €10M. Finnish Maki VC joins the round | Norwegian fintech startup Strise raises €10M. Finnish Maki VC joins the round
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| 06.09.2023 | Dutch VC Curiosity-backed fintech startup Strise raises €10M led by Atomico | Read this article in:
Oslo-based Strise, a tech company that offers KYC intelligence systems, announced on Wednesday, September 6, that it has secured $10.8M (nearly €10M) in a Series A round of funding.
This round follows the company’s fun... |
| 20.04.2023 | Quanscient raises €3.9 million to help bring products to market faster with its quantum computing-powered solution | Quanscient, the Finnish cloud and quantum computing-powered multiphysics simulation technology provider has raised €3.9 million. The Seed funding came from Maki.vc and will be used to further accelerate product development and expansion.
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| 20.04.2023 | Finnish simulation software provider Quanscient raises €3.9M in a seed round | Finnish simulation software provider Quanscient raises €3.9M in a seed round
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| 24.03.2023 | The EUROe with Membrane Finance CEO and co-founder Juha Viitala and Maki.vc's Partner Paavo Räisänen | Digital currencies. Love 'em, hate 'em, or ambivalent about 'em, the financial instruments are here to stay. But for all the volatility that we've seen in the markets, where exactly does Europe stake its claim in the ecosystem? And what's t... |
| 21.02.2023 | CarbonCloud raises €7.5 million to bring clarity on climate risks to food industry supply chains | Gothenburg, Sweden-based climate SaaS company CarbonCloud has received €7.5 million in a series A round co-led by Cusp Capital and Peak, joined by its existing investors TS Ventures and Maki VC.
Founded in 2019, CarbonCloud's climate intell... |
| 21.02.2023 | Maki.vc invests in CarbonCloud during a €7.5M Series A round | Maki.vc invests in CarbonCloud during a €7.5M Series A round
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| 17.02.2023 | CarbonCloud raises €7.5 million to bring clarity on climate risks to food industry supply chains | Gothenburg, Sweden-based climate SaaS company CarbonCloud has received €7.5 million in a series A round co-led by Cusp Capital and Peak, joined by its existing investors TS Ventures and Maki VC.
Founded in 2019, CarbonCloud's climate intell... |
| 03.02.2023 | Finnish Maki Ventures co-leads €3.4M seed round for Ever Dye, a French deeptech | Finnish Maki Ventures co-leads €3.4M seed round for Ever Dye, a French deeptech
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| 02.02.2023 | Paris-based Ever Dye raises €3.4M to develop sustainable dyes for the textile industry | Paris-based Ever Dye, a deep-tech startup, announced on Wednesday, February 1, that it has raised €3.4M in a Seed round of funding. The startup creates a chemical method for textile dyeing factories to colour fibres quickly, efficiently, an... |
| 01.02.2023 | Baking up deep hues, France's Ever Dye raises €3.4 million | Taking inspiration from the Parisian artisan landscape, Ever Dye is working on dye products sans chemical agents to radically cut down on textiles carbon emissions.
To get its product out the door Ever Dye just raised €3.4 million in seed f... |
| 08.12.2022 | Finnish fintech Membrane Finance raises €2M in a seed funding | Finnish fintech Membrane Finance raises €2M in a seed funding
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| 24.11.2022 | Tera Ventures Invests in Rentle and Circular Economy | Tallinn-based Tera Ventures co-led Rentle’s Seed+ round of EUR 3.8M Rentle is a Finnish circular economy startup that provides rent commerce tools for merchants The new investment will allow the startup to scale globally by developing numer... |
| 08.11.2022 | Finnish Maki.vc participates in a €3.3M round for KYC software startup Strise | Finnish Maki.vc participates in a €3.3M round for KYC software startup Strise
08 November, 2022, 09:58
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| 07.11.2022 | Norwegian KYC platform Strise raises €3.3 million | Norwegian know your customer intelligence platform Strise has completed a €3.3 million aimed at further expanding the company’s European marketplace presence as well as roll out "Strise Global", their new product for counterparty ... |
| 05.10.2022 | Orthodontics-at-home maker K Line Europe raises €5.3 million | Düsseldorf-based K Line Europe has raised €5.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Nordic seed-fund Maki.vc. The new capital is expected to help the company continue expansion across Europe, as well as enter the Asian, Middle Eastern... |
| 20.09.2022 | Finnish startup Rentle secures €3.8M in a seed funding | Finnish startup Rentle secures €3.8M in a seed funding
20 September, 2022, 09:33
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| 19.09.2022 | Reimagining commerce for circular economy, Finnish platform Rentle raises $3.8 million | The World Economic Forum said the world might change in one of eight ways by 2030 - one of them being our collective consumerist behaviour. Experts at the World Economic Forum predict, “you will own nothing, and you’ll be happy. Whatever yo... |
| 24.08.2022 | Maki.vc appoints Pauliina Martikainen as Partner | Helsinki-based seed-stage venture capital firm Maki.vc has appointed Pauliina Martikainen as their new Partner.
Helsinki-based Maki.vc, founded and backed by a team of tech entrepreneurs, invests in brand-driven and deep tech companies acr... |
| 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... |
| 16.05.2022 | Dutch-based QDI Systems secures €1.3M to produce high-quality X-rays with low radiation; here’s how | Groningen, the Netherlands-based QDI Systems, a startup developing imaging devices based on quantum dots for medical X-ray applications, announced that it has raised €1.3M in a fresh round of funding.
The round was led by Helsinki-based Mak... |
| 10.05.2022 | Led by former Curve co-founder and Monzo COO Tom Foster-Carter, online grocery startup Lollipop raises £5 million | London-based Lollipop has raised £5 million in a seed funding round led by Octopus Ventures. Targeting busy families, particularly with children, Lollipop is the app that finally brings meal planning, shopping, and cooking services all unde... |
| 21.04.2022 | Norwegian Outshifter reaps in €1.2 million to back smaller e-commerce players | Oslo-based e-commerce startup Outshifter has completed a €1.2 million funding round to create a more balanced e-commerce playing field and build new partnerships. The company has recently tied up with food delivery giant Wolt, Egmont and ot... |
| 12.04.2022 | Equipped with €15 million, Zevoy plans to bring hassle-free expense management tech in Europe | Building the future of expense management for companies, Finnish fintech startup Zevoy has raised a €15 million funding. The Series A round was led by Blossom Capital with participation from European investors Maki.vc and Brightly Ventures.... |
| 22.02.2022 | Finnish startup Onego Bio Ltd raises EUR 10 million in seed funding to commercialize a breakthrough technology to produce egg white without chickens | Finnish startup Onego Bio Ltd raises EUR 10 million in seed funding to commercialize a breakthrough technology to produce egg white without chickens
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| 17.02.2022 | When the student becomes the master: driver coaching platform and AI data collector Yaak raises €7.3 million | Berlin-based driver coaching platform Yaak has raised €7.3 million in a new funding round in order to further its ambitions of improving the safety of human drivers in order to build safer self-driving vehicles. The new investment will be u... |
| 14.09.2021 | Helsinki’s Maki.vc poised to close fund at €100M, key focus will be sustainability, deep tech | Helsinki-based VC Maki.vc is poised to reach the final close of its second fund at €100 million, with the aim to invest in seed-stage startups across Europe.
The first investments from the new fund include U.K.-based Baseimmune (antigen dis... |
| 17.03.2021 | Finland-based payment services provider Enfuce raises €7 million in Series-B round | Finland-based payment services provider Enfuce has raised €7 million in a recent Series-B funding.
€5 million is coming from Tencent, with the additional €2 million arriving from previous investor Maki. Prior investment was supported by a m... |
| 08.01.2021 | Tech.eu Podcast #201: Quantum computing in Europe, funding comes in all flavours, Hopin snaps StreamYard, and more | The Tech.eu Podcast is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
This week, we talk about what’s going on in ... |
| 03.12.2020 | ultimate.ai scores $20M for a supportive approach to customer service automation | Ultimate.ai, a virtual customer service agent builder, has closed a $20 million Series A round of funding, led by Omers Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures and existing investors HV Capital, and Maki.vc — bringing its total ra... |
| 06.10.2020 | Helsinki rides the Slush wave toward a booming startup future | In September 2020, Helsinki’s City Council approved plans for an expansion of the existing “Maria 01 Campus,” a former downtown hospital complex. Even before it starts spreading its acreage, the facility is already home to 120 startups and ... |
| 20.05.2020 | Helsinki-based Happeo nabs €10.9 million for its ‘happier’ social intranet | Today Finnish startup Happeo, an employee communications platform, announces having raised approximately €10.9 million in a Series A funding round led by INKEF Capital. Happeo’s previous investors DN Capital, Maki.vc and Vendep Capital also... |
| 16.03.2020 | Tech.eu Podcast #160: Mental health in tech (Stewart Rogers and Dmitri Sarle); marketing for early-stage deep-tech startups (Pauliina Martikainen) | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
You can find the latest... |
| 09.07.2019 | IQM Finland raises €11.6 million to speed up advancements in quantum computing | Espoo-based IQM Finland is building scalable cryogenic hardware for general purpose quantum computers. The startup—a spinout from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)—is developing high-speed quantum processor... |
| 13.03.2018 | Maki.vc is a new early-stage VC out of Helsinki co-founded by the Chair of Slush | A new early-stage VC fund targeting tech startups in the Nordics is getting its official launch today. Founded by serial entrepreneur and Slush Chairman Ilkka Kivimäki, and former F-Secure and startup executive Pirkka Palomäki, Helsinki-b... |
| - | When the student becomes the master: driver coaching platform and AI data collector Yaak raises €7.3 million | Berlin-based driver coaching platform Yaak has raised €7.3 million in a new funding round in order to further its ambitions of improving the safety of human drivers in order to build safer self-driving vehicles. The new investment will be u... |
| - | Helsinki’s fintech services provider Enfuce brings in €45 million | Centred around its card-as-a-service offer, Enfuce has raised €45 million in a Series C funding round. The Helsinki-based firm intends to use the new capital to continue international expansion efforts as well as further the development of ... |
| - | Norwegian Outshifter reaps in €1.2 million to back smaller e-commerce players | Oslo-based e-commerce startup Outshifter has completed a €1.2 million funding round to create a more balanced e-commerce playing field and build new partnerships. The company has recently tied up with food delivery giant Wolt, Egmont and ot... |
| - | We know what you listened to last year: The top 10 episodes of the Tech.eu Podcast | Last year brought the European startup ecosystem many megarounds and IPO listings — as well as 70 episodes of the Tech.eu Podcast. In the show, we interviewed founders, VCs, policy makers, and other ecosystem players to help the listeners m... |
| - | IQM takes quantum leap with €128 million to combat climate crisis | The next decade is predicted to be the decade of quantum technology with governments and organisations investing in preparing for the quantum future now. Finland-based deep tech startup IQM Quantum Computers (IQM) has raised €128 million in... |
| - | Making workplace happier with better intranet, Happeo picks up €25.4 million | In a time when businesses need to centralise their knowledge more than ever, Helsinki’s Happeo has raised $26 million to boost better communication within an organisation with its social intranet platform. The Series B round was led by Ende... |
| - | Equipped with €15 million, Zevoy plans to bring hassle-free expense management tech in Europe | Building the future of expense management for companies, Finnish fintech startup Zevoy has raised a €15 million funding. The Series A round was led by Blossom Capital with participation from European investors Maki.vc and Brightly Ventures.... |
| - | Led by former Curve co-founder and Monzo COO Tom Foster-Carter, online grocery startup Lollipop raises £5 million | London-based Lollipop has raised £5 million in a seed funding round led by Octopus Ventures. Targeting busy families, particularly with children, Lollipop is the app that finally brings meal planning, shopping, and cooking services all unde... |
| - | Finnish third-party logistics startup OGOship raises €4 million | Helping e-commerce businesses streamline their supply chain, Helsinki-based startup OGOship has raised €4 million in a pre-series A funding round. The funding will be used to drive international expansion plans, with the company adding 4 to... |
