Blog Archives - Innovestor

Innovestor makes follow-on investment in PromoRepublic, social media marketing SaaS provider

PromoRepublic raises $1.5M to build distributed marketing software and expand services available for franchise and multi-location brands. Inve...

03.12.2020

Scaling up institutional-grade commercial property investments

Innovestor is more than a traditional venture capital investor. In addition to our role as an early-stage VC, we also operate as a co-investme...

29.10.2020

We are hiring! Innovestor Ventures Analyst Trainee

We are hiring an Analyst Trainee to join our Innovestor Ventures team who will help build deal flow and source investment opportunities. Read ...

06.10.2020

Innovestor makes follow-on investment in Ruokaboksi, leading Finnish meal-kit delivery provider

With the growing trend of consumers moving their purchases to e-commerce sites, the online grocery market has grown rapidly. Although the Finn...

21.09.2020

Innovestor invests in Shipit – One logistics platform solution for all your parcel shipping needs

Helsinki based Venture Capital firm Innovestor acts as lead investor in Shipit Oy Ab’s funding round. The total size of the round was EUR 800k...

10.09.2020

What we learned from the ‘Headed for the Swedish Market’ webinar

On the 2nd of June together with KPMG, we organised a webinar for Finnish companies interested in the Swedish market. The speakers of the webi...

18.06.2020

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 senso...

04.05.2020

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 ...

20.04.2020

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 ...

27.03.2020

Innovestor Invests in Speys – Filling the Digital Logistics Gap

Speys, a 2016 founded Finnish growth company with offices in Finland, Estonia and the Netherlands, builds digital logistics solutions enabling...

09.03.2020

Grow to Sweden: Case Mirror Line – Family Business Entering the Swedish Market

Mirror Line – 25 years of experience in customized sliding doors and storage systems Founded in 1994, Mirror Line manufactures custom-made sli...

05.03.2020

Announcing the €30 million first close of our new Industrial Technology Fund

Helsinki-based Innovestor wraps up €30M first close of new industrial technology fund to become the first VC in the Nordics and Baltics to foc...

26.02.2020

Innovestor invests in Fiksuruoka.fi – Joins the fight against food waste

Fiksuruoka.fi, the Espoo-based online store selling surplus groceries at discounted prices to combat food waste, has raised 2 million euro to ...

24.02.2020

Kasvu Open’s Investors Favourite Award made possible once again by Innovestor and Nordea

The Investors Favourite award will be once again awarded this year to one company that has participated in Kasvu Open. The award, which was la...

20.02.2020

Portfolio Insight: Remomedi Implementing the Second Wave of Pharmacy Digitalization

Pharmacies have gone through significant digital transformation in recent years. Digitalization activities have mainly focused on the interfac...

27.01.2020

Meet the team – Tomi Asanti, Director of Properties

I am Tomi Asanti, a Partner and Director of Properties at Innovestor. I joined Innovestor two years ago with the ambition, among other things,...

22.01.2020

Grow to Market – How to Get New Customers Abroad?

Grow to Market – Igniting Your International Growth since 2017 Read the full report to find out why our programs have a 95% reco...

16.01.2020

Grow to Market: Case StepOne Tech, Supporting the Goals of Sustainable Development

In 2012, four friends united to offer people the choice of whether they wanted to use fossil or renewable fuel for private motoring, regardles...

09.01.2020

2019 Innovestor highlights – Year in Review

With another year coming to a close we had some time to reflect on 2019, and so want to share select highlights and milestones with you. If yo...

19.12.2019

Innovestor invests in Luxmet – Technology Making Steel Production More Environmental

Luxmet completed their 0,8M€ oversubscribed round led by Innovestor: Advanced high temperature process monitoring and control systems for stee...

17.12.2019

Portfolio Insight: Customer-centricity is a Core Part of Mevea’s Digital Twin DNA

Customer-centricity is often highlighted as one of the most important success factors for a company. If you don’t carefully listen to your cus...

25.11.2019

Innovestor building the ’Tahdo uudistua’ business renewal program together with Säästöpankki, LähiTapiola and Elo

To help Finnish companies transform – and thereby succeed, together with Säästöpankki, LähiTapiola, Elo and regional partners we are exc...

20.11.2019

Meet the team: Anna Bernitz, Director of Legal & Compliance

I am Anna Bernitz, the Director of Legal & Compliance at Innovestor. Before joining Innovestor I worked in a law firm for +6 years where I...

13.11.2019

We are hiring! Innovestor Growth Program Trainee

About us in brief: We are a team of 33 passionate, ambitious and growth-oriented people on a mission to build the best home for growth. Innove...

06.11.2019

Innovestor invests in Arilyn – Telling Stories With Augmenting Reality

A warm but belated welcome to one of our this year’s newest portfolio companies, Arilyn (Robust North Ltd) who closed their funding rou...

03.11.2019

Lessons Learned – Grow to Market Autumn recap

Our Grow to Market (GTM) programs are your expressway to global business in the USA, Sweden and China. We just finished up our Autumn 2019 sea...

29.10.2019

Portfolio Insight: 9Solutions System Enables Dignified Ageing

The world’s best innovations are born from genuine customer needs. This is a bit of an overused expression, but it fits 9Solutions perfectly. ...

28.10.2019

1 Million Euro Investor’s Favourite funding award goes to Meluta Ltd

Tampere based growth company Meluta Ltd has won our €1M Kasvu Open Investor’s Favourite funding award. The award was shared at Kasvu Ope...

24.10.2019

Meet the team – Matti Härkönen

This is a feature in our monthly ‘Meet the team’ series, where we hope you get to know us and our team better. Get to know our Innovestor Igni...

09.10.2019

Portfolio Insight: Ginolis Helps Companies to Mass Produce Healthcare Devices

In healthcare there is a growing demand for light mobile devices, which can be used by consumers in addition to professionals. For example per...

23.09.2019

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 g...

06.09.2019

Multitaction’s Modular Touch Screen Solution is Straight Out of Science Fiction

Typically any innovation can be fully described in an article like this. In the case of Multitaction, however, it gets a bit difficult. Text a...

14.08.2019

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 re...

19.06.2019

Funding International Growth: Get ready to scale

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 ...

07.06.2019

M-Brain supports strategic decision making by combining human and artificial intelligence

Too often strategic decisions are made relying only on company’s internal data sources such as sales figures and estimations, customer feedbac...

Launching “Tahdo uudistua”

Press release 16th of May 2019 Read press release in Finnish Modernization is vital for companies. I...

17.05.2019

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 on...

08.05.2019

Funding International Growth: Funding sources

When looking for expansion beyond borders, one of the constraints to growth is funding. Typically, expanding into new markets requires setting...

06.05.2019

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 t...

30.04.2019

Kasvu Open Investor’s Favorite 2019 – who will win the million?

Kasvu Open is a fruitful meeting place for businesses and investors. That’s why Nordea and Innovestor are also national Kasvu Open partners. I...

24.04.2019

Portfolio Insight: Cajo Technologies – Building for Growth

This is a feature in our monthly ‘Portfolio insight’ blog series, where we will showcase our portfolio companies and provide insights on their...

08.04.2019

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 mark...

02.04.2019

Tenboron Ltd takes BNCT cancer treatment to a new era

One of the most important factors affecting the success of an innovation and startup company is timing. Of course, there also needs to be a un...

Meet the team – Wilhelm Lindholm

This is a feature in our monthly ‘Meet the team’ series, where we hope you get to know us and our team better. Get to know our Chief Investmen...

29.03.2019

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 prosp...

11.03.2019

Meet the team – Petri Laine

This is a feature in our monthly ‘Meet the team’ series, where we hope you will get to know us and our team better. Get to know ou...

26.02.2019

Portfolio insight: Miradore – Change and Leadership principles for growth

This is the first blog in our monthly ‘Portfolio insight’ series, where we will showcase our portfolio companies and provide insig...

18.02.2019

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...

06.02.2019

Monidor: Facilitating Hospital Wards with Cutting Edge Mobile Technology

Intensive care units and surgery rooms are well equipped with various medical instruments and machinery. Patients who end up in these departme...

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...

01.02.2019

Meet the team – Tommi Äijälä

Corporate turned entrepreneur, get to know our CEO Tommi My name is Tommi and I’m the co-founder and CEO of Innovestor. Before founding the co...

31.01.2019

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 tha...

28.01.2019

Supporting the startup ecosystem – Making an impact by doing more

A big goal for us this new year is to be all the more active and involved within the startup & growth company ecosystem not just by fundin...

14.01.2019

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 mediu...

21.12.2018

Our year in review – 2018

Another year is quickly coming to a close, 2018 was our 4th full year of operations and saw us achieve a great deal. Explore select highlights...

13.12.2018

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 sta...

28.11.2018

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 (initiat...

27.11.2018

A doctors view on why controlled blood coagulation at the right time, in the right place, is vital

This blog introduces our current co-investment opportunity, Aplagon Oy, and was written by Riitta Lassila, Head of Coagulation Disorders Unit,...

20.11.2018

Kasvu Open 2018 winners selected

Cajo Technologies from Oulu won first place in Kasvu Open’s Start Again category. The Startup category was won by Finnos Oy from Lappeenranta....

30.10.2018

Press release: Million-euro funding award at Kasvu Open 2019

The new ‘Investor’s Favourite 2019’ award, announced at the Kasvu Open Carnival on October 25th 2018 provides Finnish SMEs an oppo...

25.10.2018

Slurp – Disrupting the global $10 billion speciality coffee market

This blog introduces our current co-investment opportunity, Slurp Ltd, and was written by Co-founder and CEO, Tero Rehula. Interested in co-in...

14.10.2018

“From this moment forward you are storytellers”

Americans love a good story in their personal lives as well as in business. This is the first thing that a Finnish company needs to learn when...

01.10.2018

New co-investment opportunity! Tech startup disrupting the speciality coffee market

Say hello to Slurp ☕️ Our newest co-investment opportunity is now live on our Co-investment Platform! Slurp is a global dropshipping ma...

25.09.2018

Ruokaboksi osakeanti / Arkiruokailua helpottava uusi e-Ruokapalvelu

Ruokaboksi on uudenlainen arkiruokailua helpottava palvelu, joka vähentää kuluttajalta ruokaostosten suunnittelun sekä kaupassa käynnin vaivaa...

16.08.2018

Time – The Most Valuable Resource an Investor Can Give to a Growth Company

This year, the financial sector entrepreneur and investor Saga Forss was invited to join Kasvu Open’s national panel of judges. Forss has 20 y...

06.08.2018

EEE Innovations Oy valjastaa raskaan liikenteen ajoneuvot liikkuviksi liukkaussensoreiksi

EEE Innovations Oy on vuonna 2014 perustettu ohjelmistoyhtiö, jonka missiona on tehdä liikenteestä turvallisempaa sekä kustannustehokkaampaa r...

27.11.2017

Linkker Oy:n toimittamat sähköbussit ovat menestys Turussa

Vuosi sitten Turussa aloitettu sähköbussiliikenne on osoittautunut hyvin onnistuneeksi. Päästöttömien sähköbussien on tarkoitus tuoda Turun ka...

31.10.2017

Parkkisähkö tuo sähköautojen latauspisteet kiinteistöihin

Parkkisähkö Oy on suomalainen, sähköautojen latausjärjestelmiin erikoistunut kasvuyhtiö. Pyysimme aitiopaikalta sähköautoilun yleistymistä seu...

30.10.2017

Trussmaticille merkittävä tilaus Yhdysvalloista

Ensimmäisenä maailmassa täysin automatisoidun kattoristikoiden tuotantolinjan kehittänyt Trussmatic Oy on sopinut tuotantolinjaston toimittami...

25.10.2017

Double digit returns – Introducing the iCORE-indicator

Since inception, we have through our co-investment service led investments in 24 funding rounds, in a total of 17 companies. The first co-inve...

20.10.2017

Perspective: Toyota’s investment in Finnish mobility startup MaaS Global

Perspective: Toyota’s investment in Finnish mobility startup MaaS Global Last week, Helsinki-based MaaS Global Ltd announced a EUR 14.2 millio...

09.08.2017

Innovestor leads USD 900,000 funding round in Navigine

Innovestor leads USD 900,000 funding round in Navigine Innovestor leads an international syndicate of investors to provide equity funding for ...

07.08.2017

Lentokentillä ja kauppakeskuksissa on edelleen turvallista

Lentokentillä ja kauppakeskuksissa on edelleen turvallista…...

22.06.2017

Suomalainen lääkekehitysyhtiö Tenboron Oy keräsi miljoonarahoituksen

Suomalainen lääkekehitysyhtiö Tenboron keräsi miljoonarahoituksen Tenboron kehittää BNCT-syöpähoidossa käytettävää boorin k...

05.05.2017

Sijoitatko tiimiin vai ideaan?

Sijoitatko tiimiin vai ideaan? Joku tovi sitten kuuntelin vierestä kollegani puhelinkeskustelua…...

11.04.2017

Globaalisti skaalautuva disruptiivinen äppi

Kaikki enkelisijoittajat ovat todennäköisesti törmänneet jossain vaiheessa startup:iin, jonka liiketoimintana on hankkia suuri määrä käyttäjiä...

01.02.2017

Innovestor invests in Alvega Technologies

Innovestor invests in Alvega Technologies Innovestor leads a syndicate of investors that provides funding for Alvega Technologies Inc, a growt...

31.01.2017

The hottest sectors in venture investing 2017

The hottest sectors in venture investing 2017 The prices of exchange traded stocks fluctuate significantly. Current information is basically i...

16.01.2017

$20m rahoitusjärjestely Swap.com:iin

$20m rahoitusjärjestely Swap.com:iin Innovestorin Kasvurahastoon kuuluva Swap.com teki $20m rahoitusjärjestelyn vuoden vaihteessa. Ankkurisijo...

09.01.2017

Significant arrangement in the Finnish venture capital market: Innovestor acquires majority stake in Seed Fund Vera

Significant arrangement in the Finnish venture capital market: Innovestor acquires majority stake in Seed Fund Vera Today on 16 December 2016,...

16.12.2016

Mobile Storytelling Ab:n osakeanti merkittiin täyteen kahdessa viikossa

Ruotsin johtava pelillistämiseen keskittyvä yritys Mobile Storytelling Ab:n osakeanti merkittiin täyteen kahdessa viikossa. Yhtiö keräsi noin ...

25.11.2016

Trussmatic Oy:n osakeanti keskeytetty ylimerkinnän vuoksi

Trussmatic Oy:n osakeanti keskeytettiin ennenaikaisesti ylimerkintätilanteen vuoksi. Rahoituskierroksella kerättiin varoja yhtiön tuotannon te...

30.09.2016

Plantui Oy merkinnässä 23.09 asti

Plantui Oy merkinnässä 23.09 asti Plantui Oy on kotimainen korkean teknologian yritys, joka valmistaa design laitteita yrttien kotikasvatuksee...

31.08.2016

Blog: Play-offs in European equity crowdfunding begin

Blog: Play-offs in European equity crowdfunding begin Volumes of capital raised by equity crowdfunding platforms are strongly on the rise, whi...

08.08.2016

Innovestor visits the Republic of Tatarstan

Innovestor visits the Republic of Tatarstan Wilhelm Lindholm, Partner & MD Russia in Innovestor, visited Tatarstan as part of a business d...

07.07.2016

Innovestor tests Navigine’s indoor positioning technology at railwaystation in Moscow

Innovestor tests Navigine’s indoor positioning technology at railwaystation in Moscow Innovestor’s portfolio company Navigine, developer of a ...

28.06.2016

Blog: What returns to expect as an angel investor?

Blog: What returns to expect as an angel investor? People considering direct investments into early-stage growth companies often wonder what r...

22.06.2016

Join Us In Startup Village!

Join Us In Startup Village! Startup Village is one of the largest venture capital events in Europe. This year it takes place in Moscow on 2nd-...

10.05.2016

Yepzon Ltd share issue open now

Yepzon Ltd share issue open now Finnish Yepzon Ltd has developed a low cost GPS device, which can be used to locate e.g. people, pets and valu...

Innovestor Ltd share issue was oversubscribed

Innovestor Ltd share issue was oversubscribed Innovestor Ltd’s own directed share issue was concluded successfully and was oversubscribed. Inn...

12.04.2016

Innovestor invests in Navigine

Innovestor invests in Navigine Innovestor leads a syndicate of investors that provides funding for Navigine, a growth company which develops e...

22.03.2016

Innovestor Invests in LNGTainer

Innovestor Invests in LNGTainer Innovestor’s latest target company LNGTainer Ltd’s funding round was successful. The size of the r...

16.03.2016

Innovestor advises Scool in funding round

Innovestor advises Scool in funding round Innovestor took part as an advisor in Scool Ltd’s funding round. Innovestor acts as financial ...

Innovestor expanding to Sweden

Innovestor expanding to Sweden Innovestor opened a branch office in Sweden on January 21st. The Swedish operation will be headed by ex-Nordea ...

27.01.2016

Innovestor invests in Yepzon

Innovestor invests in Yepzon Innovestor leads a syndicate of 23 investors to provide funding for Yepzon, a company which develops applications...

27.11.2015

SLUSH 2015 in Helsinki

SLUSH 2015 in Helsinki Innovestor took part in Slush in November. Once again, SLUSH was extremely well organized and there were number of inte...

13.11.2015

Open Innovation Forum in Moscow

Open Innovation Forum in Moscow One of the biggest VC events, Open Innovation Forum, is arranged in Moscow once a year. Once again, SLUSH was ...

31.10.2015

Innovestor invests in Apped

Innovestor invests in Apped Innovestor leads a syndicate of 14 investors to provide funding for Apped, a company which helps customers to incr...

23.10.2015

Innovestor is now a partner with B3CF

Innovestor is now a partner with B3CF Innovestor has commenced partner cooperation with British & Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce in Finl...

14.10.2015

Innovestor invests in Labrox

Innovestor invests in Labrox Innovestor leads a syndicate of 23 investors to provide funding for Labrox, a company which develops equipment an...

02.10.2015

Moscow Startup Village 2015

Moscow Startup Village 2015 Innovestor participated Startup Village event for the second time in the Skolkovo near Moscow. Almost ten thousand...

04.06.2015

Innovestor invests in Verso Globe

Innovestor invests in Verso Globe Innovestor leads a syndicate of 14 investors to provide funding for Verso, a company which company develops ...

08.05.2015