2010-03-07T01:15:42Z false I'm an occasional Miniature Investor and busy serial entrepreneur. --- The last few years have been about these big beautiful crazy projects: • Wordy.com Wordy is going to change your world one sentence at a time. Send your text to Wordy, and we will nurture it, make it happen, make it perfect – in a matter of moments. At a bargain price, too! • Get In™ Get In™ is all about helping sports freaks locate, analyze, decide on the outcome of sports events faster and with more success through a unique combination of social and scientific prediction methods. • TraceWorks.com Producer of SaaS solution Headlight - a great web business application (SaaS) for creating more effective marketing teams and agencies. Notable customers would be: KLM Airlines, E*trade, Lego and many more. 125% topline growth 4 years in a row = makes me fucking proud. Our aim: To be the next salesforce.com in 3 years from now. Nordic Venture Partners has invested $7m. • Wulffmorgenthaler.com Among the best comic strips since Gary Larson. Just my opinion. I'm one of the 3 Founders. Notable achievements include: 1. 100.000+ DVDs sold in 2006 (Dolph and Rocco etc.) 2. 1 mio+ online readers every month 3. 25 animations to MTV INTERNATIONAL 5. 20.000 Calendars / Books sold 2007 6. 80.000 Calendars / Books sold 2009 Get In touch!? Skype: dr_zelig Email: mewulff @ gmail.com 701 246 true Linkedin http://dk.linkedin.com/in/wulff Twitter http://twitter.com/wulff Portfolio http://drzelig.com Morten Wulff 3 image/jpeg 128x128_portrait_banana_wulff_jpg.jpg 25684 2010-03-07T03:15:42Z morten-e-wulff 2010-03-07T01:18:10Z 4 7 rainmaking.dk 3 2010-02-10T16:40:02Z false Rainmaking is a startup factory founded in 2006. We are specialised in creating new companies. We take new ideas to the market, get the first customers and secure the right team to perform successfully. After the intitial period we hire a CEO who can take the company to the next level of performance. Exit is expected after 3-5 years. 663 Kasper Vardrup 2006-01-01 false 536 Copenhagen image/gif logo_rainmaking.gif 4152 2010-02-10T18:40:02Z Rainmaking rainmaking 2010-02-10T16:40:02Z 2 http://www.rainmaking.dk 7 dazide.com 4 2010-02-06T22:04:52Z false Dazide Oy accelerates business that is based on innovations. The main customers are start-up companies who want to go to market with new innovative products, and growth companies that want to penetrate new markets. Dazide can adopt three main roles: a consultant, an interim manager, and a venture capitalist, especially focusing in a sweat equity model. The customer benefit is efficient conversion of innovations into business. 599 2009-11-01 false 530 Dazide Oy dazide-oy 2010-02-06T22:06:39Z 3 http://www.dazide.com http://www.balderton.com/news-events/recent-news 7 balderton.com 10 2010-01-25T10:36:27Z false Balderton are one of the largest venture capital funds in Europe, and that means we are better positioned to support our companies for longer, with stronger resources. Balderton's aim is to help build long-lasting, great companies. We look for genuine innovation that creates sustainable, profitable companies. Balderton manages approx US$1.9bn in committed venture capital. The bulk of the capital comes from university endowments, charitable foundations and pension funds. Our most recent fund, Balderton IV, was raised in December 2008. Balderton was founded in 2000 by Benchmark Capital, the leading US Silicon Valley venture firm, as Benchmark Europe. Balderton formally became an independent firm in 2007, but maintains close ties with Benchmark. Balderton's Scandinavian investments to date include MySQL, Livebookings, Habbo and RebTel. 631 20 2000-01-01 false 515 London Balderton Capital balderton-capital 2010-01-25T10:41:40Z 4 http://www.balderton.com http://www.gasellit.com 7 hbe.fi 4 2010-01-11T20:41:43Z false HBE Business Engineering develops great companies, from an idea to an exit. The idea is to bring together creative minds and produce new generation services. Collaboration. Creativity. Innovation. Business. Fun. 9 2002-01-01 false 491 Helsinki image/png HBE-logo.png 6533 2010-01-11T22:42:11Z HBE Business Engineering +358 40 5447586 hbe-business-engineering 2010-01-11T20:42:11Z 3 http://www.hbe.fi 2010-01-11T20:01:57Z false Nicolai Wadstrom, a serial entrepreneur. since 1995, started companies ranging from consulting companies, software companies, media companies, computer games and internet companies. Has extensive Telco experience, and have done some management consultancy to help other startups, and larger organizations in between his own companies. Experience from CTO end CEO roles in various companies. His last ventures here is in the Silicon Valley, were he founded and runs BootstrapLabs, a Silicon Valley business lab to create the next generation Internet companies, and Whiteboard Accelerator, a business accelerator for non-us startup's that want to get traction in Silicon Valley and the US. 603 222 true BootstrapLabs http://bootstraplabs.com/ Personal blog http://www.wadstrom.net/ Whiteboard Accelerator http://whiteboardaccelerator.com/ Nicolai Wadstrom 4 image/png nicolai_wadstrom_110x110.png 10420 2010-01-11T22:01:56Z nicolai-wadstrom 2010-01-11T20:04:28Z 3 7 lagooncapital.com 4 2009-12-24T12:13:56Z false Lagoon Capital is a global investment firm financing high growth companies. 573 2007-10-01 false 466 image/jpeg Lagoon_Capital_logo_RGB.JPG 314659 2009-12-24T14:13:56Z Lagoon Capital Oy +358 400 652 627 lagoon-capital 2009-12-24T12:19:50Z 5 http://www.lagooncapital.com 2009-12-24T11:58:23Z MSc. false I invest in innovative and fast growing companies globally. Apart from financing, I also provide my knowhow and experience to the benefit of the companies. 573 217 true Ari Korhonen 5 image/jpeg Ari_Korhonen_kuva_1.JPG 267840 2009-12-24T13:58:22Z ari-korhonen 2009-12-24T12:18:44Z 4 2009-12-20T10:13:00Z false Nikolaj Nyholm is an accomplished Internet Entrepreneur and open source advocate who has spent the last 10 years pushing the forefront of Internet infrastructure projects through commercial ventures or community activity. Nikolaj is Partner at Sunstone Capital, a Nordic-based early stage investor. He most recently served as CEO of Polar Rose, an image recognition company named a World Economic Forum (Davos) 2008 Technology Pioneer and a Red Herring Global 100 winner. Prior to Polar Rose, Nikolaj worked with O'Reilly Media producing the European Open Source Convention (EuroOSCON) and CustomerMade conferences. He remains a member of O'Reilly's 'Radar' team, which Wired Magazine recently dubbed 'legendary'. Nikolaj has founded several technology companies, including Speednames/Ascio in 1998, the company which supplied the first global domain name search (acquired in 2007 by Group NBT); Imity, a mobile presence app (acquired in April 2008 by Zyb/Vodafone); and Organic Network, a now-defunct Wi-Fi startup whose legacy is OpenWRT.org, the leading open source Wi-Fi project. Nikolaj is founding investor and board member of CloudMade, the open geodata company behind OpenStreetMap.org, a 'Wikipedia of maps', board member of Epista A/S, board member of Neo Technology AB, and co-organizer of reboot (http://reboot.dk), a heralded conference that has for 11 years drawn a community of visionaries from across Europe and North America to Copenhagen each June to discuss topics within technology and culture. 4 211 true Twitter http://twitter.com/nikolaj Nikolaj Nyholm 3 image/jpeg nikolaj2-237x300.jpg 26485 2009-12-22T00:09:50Z nikolaj-nyholm 2009-12-21T22:09:51Z 4 7 sunstonecapital.com 3 2009-12-20T10:03:59Z false 100% owned by its partners, Sunstone Capital is a Nordic-based early stage venture capital investor founded by an international team with entrepreneurial, operational and financial experience. With approximately €400 million in funds under management, Sunstone focuses on developing and expanding early-stage Life Science and Technology companies with strong potential to achieve global success in their markets. Sunstone invests in early stage companies across Europe. 565 15 2007-05-01 false 460 Copenhagen image/jpeg sunstone_capital.jpg 135436 2009-12-20T12:03:58Z Sunstone Capital sunstone-capital 2009-12-20T10:03:59Z 2 http://www.sunstonecapital.com 7 kiskoventures.com 4 2009-12-18T12:32:13Z false We are Kisko Ventures, a small, dynamic, tech-based boutique investor. While there are many people out there with money to spend on startups, the startups usually have a hard time acquiring a killer team to execute their idea. The problem usually is that it is hard to convince people with just an idea. This is where we come in. We help people with ideas get their product in such a shape that they are able to get a better valuation for their company and those experienced people on board it takes to create a successful company. 1 3 2009-12-01 false 459 Helsinki image/png kiskoventures_logo_small.png 918 2009-12-18T14:32:13Z Kisko Ventures kisko-ventures 2009-12-18T12:32:14Z 2 http://kiskoventures.com/ http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/12/11/10-mistakes-entrepreneurs-often-make-when-raising-capital/ 7 seedcap.se 1 2009-11-19T19:27:21Z false Seedcap helps businesses grow by increasing their value in the minds of customers, cooperation partners and investors. Seedcap business advisory provide entrepreneurs and startups business advice, business development and access to a large business network. Seedcap capital advisory assist startups during the process of raising venture capital funding, bank loans, Government funded financing and grants. 518 3 2008-06-01 false 424 Stockholm image/gif Seedcap-logo.gif 4108 2009-11-19T21:27:20Z Seedcap AB ++46-(0)768-600477 seedcap-ab 2010-01-22T17:30:38Z 3 http://www.seedcap.se 7 punktb.com 1 2009-11-12T09:45:56Z false PunktB is a venture management company focusing on early stage funding and growth of new companies, mainly within IT, media, mobile and entertainment. 500 2003-06-01 false 411 Stockholm PunktB punktb 2009-11-12T09:45:56Z 2 http://www.punktb.com 7 fidelityventures.com 10 2009-10-13T12:25:30Z false Fidelity Ventures Europe is a UK-based pan-European growth capital VC. Fidelity invests at the growth stage, meaning companies with demonstrable market traction and revenues, typically over 2M Euro annually. Fidelity is particularly interested in Nordic investments. Recent investment themes are in the space of enterprise software, SaaS, enterprise cleantech, healthcare IT and consumer Internet marketplaces and ecommerce. 451 1999-09-01 false 371 London Fidelity Ventures Europe fidelity-ventures-europe 2009-10-13T12:25:30Z 2 http://www.fidelityventures.com 7 ideable.fi 4 2009-09-15T08:48:49Z false We are an entrepreneur-minded company and are passionate about helping our clients to translate their innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses. We act as a venture accelerator providing services from business development to finding financing and can invest our own money into your company. Whether you have an idea or company that is in seed- or startup stage, don't hesitate to contact us. 413 2009-06-01 false 338 Helsinki image/jpeg ID_logo2.jpg 11974 2009-09-15T11:48:49Z Ideable ideable-oy 2010-01-15T11:56:40Z 4 http://www.ideable.fi 7 aaltocapital.com 4 2009-09-14T12:48:52Z false Aalto Capital is a new Finnish investment bank with extensive service offering including corporate finance-, brokerage- and research- as well as register-services. 3 11 2009-09-01 false 337 Helsinki image/png aaltocapital.png 16687 2009-09-14T15:48:52Z Aalto Capital aalto-capital 2009-09-14T12:48:54Z 2 http://www.aaltocapital.com/ 7 firstround.fi 2009-09-08T06:07:46Z false First Round Ltd is an entrepreneurial-spirited business developer, which hones good business ideas so that they are fit for investment and funding. First Round’s objective is to make Finnish business ideas become commercial faster, and more effectively. 399 2007-08-01 false 327 image/jpeg fr_logo.jpg 18564 2009-09-08T09:09:49Z First Round Oy first-round-oy 2009-09-08T06:09:49Z 3 http://www.firstround.fi 7 lifelineventures.com 4 2009-09-07T19:19:52Z false LIFELINE VENTURES IS A NEW KIND OF STARTUP ACCELERATOR. We are execution-driven. Instead of just mentoring entrepreneurs, we are in the game together with them, working as startup core team members. Depending on the specific needs of the company and its founders, we take responsibility for sales, marketing, business development, operations and/or technology. LIFELINE VENTURES WAS ALSO ACCEPTED INTO THE VIGO STARTUP ACCELERATOR PROGRAM. Under Vigo, Lifeline Ventures is uniquely positioned to drive startups towards Series A investments and international growth. The program, which provides Finnish companies with substantial, flexible early-stage funding, is managed by the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy and coordinated by Tekes. The first three Vigo accelerators - Lifeline Ventures among them - were selected by a steering committee chaired by Risto Siilasmaa on June 2009. 398 Timo Ahopelto, Jarkko Joki-Tokola 2009-09-01 false 325 Helsinki image/gif LIFELINE-LOGO.gif 5738 2009-09-07T22:19:51Z Lifeline Ventures lifeline-ventures 2009-09-07T19:19:53Z 2 http://www.lifelineventures.com 7 viaventurepartners.com 3 2009-08-30T22:18:45Z false Via Venture Partners is a Nordic venture capital fund that invests in Nordic IT companies with international growth potential. The fund manages 1 billion Danish kronor and is owned by ATP, Denmark’s largest pension fund. Via Venture Partners invests up to EUR 20 mill per case in ICT growth companies ready to expand outside the Nordic region. Since its launch in 2006, Via Venture Partners has invested in 17 companies in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Although the fund invests in companies of all sizes, its focus is on companies with revenues from EUR 5 mill to EUR 30 mill. 4 7 2006-08-01 false 322 Hellerup image/png Picture_7.png 23499 2009-08-31T01:18:43Z Via Venture Partners +45 3977 5060 via-venture-partners 2009-08-30T22:18:45Z 2 http://www.viaventurepartners.com/ 2009-08-24T17:30:38Z false Ville "Wili" Miettinen is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and technologist. For the last 15 years Wili has been involved in the creation of a number of companies in the computer graphics and software industries. Wili was one of the founders and later the CTO of Hybrid Graphics in the years 1994-2006 (company was sold and became NVIDIA Finland). Spin-offs of Hybrid include companies such as Fake Graphics and Umbra. After leaving NVIDIA, Wili has been a founder at several companies, including Love of Technology Strategies (Lots), Microtask, Mies Technology and drawElements. He also holds board positions in various other software companies, e.g., Ardites and Recoil Games. Wili is also involved in industry activities; he's a member of the Chapter Team of IGDA Finland, the Chairman of SIGGRAPH Helsinki, and a member of Ohjelmistoyrittäjät. 359 155 true Lots Web Site http://www.lots.fi Linkedin Profile http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=836229 Microtask http://www.microtask.fi Photoblog http://www.flickr.com/photos/wili Ville Miettinen 5 image/jpeg wiliperu1600.jpg 606749 2009-12-23T15:34:34Z ville-miettinen 2009-12-23T13:34:35Z 5 7 lots.fi 4 2009-07-27T10:07:20Z false Lots is a tender loving equity investment company on speed. One of the founding Vigo business accelerators, Lots's business is to lavish love and order on hand-picked media technology companies. We refine our clients' business potential and position their offering for international markets. 365 8 2008-02-01 false 304 Helsinki image/png screen-capture.png 14564 2009-07-27T13:07:20Z Lots Ltd +358 9 4241 2700 lots-ltd 2009-07-27T10:07:21Z 2 http://www.lots.fi 7 businessangels.fi 4 2009-05-29T21:20:40Z false Our mission is to offer a safe and reliable web-based environment where private investors, also know as "Business Angels", and capital-seeking entrepreneurs can meet. This model has been operational for decades in many countries, having proved its efficiency. Now Business Angels Finland brings this door to new business opportunities also for Finnish entrepreneurs and investors. Visit our web page and open a new door to new business opportunities. Business Angels Finland Oy -More Than Just Money- _________________________________________________________________ Tarjoamme turvallisen ja luotettavan Internet-markkinapaikan jossa yksityiset sijoittajat eli bisnesenkelit ja rahoitusta hakevat yrittäjät voivat kohdata toisensa. Bisnesenkeli -rahoitusmalli on ollut käytössä useissa maissa ympäri maailman jo pitkään ja se on todistanut vahvuutensa yhtenä osana yritysrahoitusta. Nyt Business Angels Finland Oy tarjoaa uusia bisnesmahdollisuuksia kaikille yrittämisestä ja sijoittamisesta kiinnostuneille. Tutustu Internet-sivuihimme (www.businessangels.fi) ja avaa ovi uusille mahdollisuuksille. Business Angels Finland Oy -Muutakin kuin rahaa- 315 2008-05-01 false 265 Helsinki image/jpeg BA-Logo_500x500_.jpg 171972 2009-05-30T00:20:40Z Business Angels Finland Oy +358-50-340 6423 business-angels-finland-oy 2009-07-29T13:49:01Z 4 http://www.businessangels.fi 7 2sides.biz 4 2009-05-12T08:26:48Z false Based in Helsinki, Finland, 2 Sides Consulting provides both startups and established companies with a range of services covering technology and market studies, service and software architecture planning, implementation and integration project management, product evaluations and choices, supplier and partner audits and overall ICT strategy work, to name a few. 303 1 2007-09-01 false 252 Helsinki 2 Sides Consulting Ltd +358407371774 2-sides-consulting-ltd 2009-05-12T08:26:48Z 2 http://www.2sides.biz/ http://twitter.com/themagnifier 7 magnifier.fi 4 2009-05-12T07:24:56Z false We are a startup accelerator fund from Helsinki, Finland focusing on innovative ventures on mobile, social media and entertainment sectors. Our aim is to fill the gap in the local market for high potential ventures that are seen as at an too early stage for other investors or funds. We are ten young professionals with a mission to mold market opportunities and great business ideas into operating investment-grade businesses. In total, we have founded over 30 companies, been involved in over 25 M&A cases and raised over 35 million euros of venture capital. Most of us have been entrepreneurs since our early twenties and have now founded Magnifier for investing in new start-ups. 7 10 2009-01-01 false 251 Helsinki image/png magnifier_logo.png 12924 2009-05-12T10:24:56Z Magnifier magnifier 2009-05-14T19:16:11Z 3 http://www.magnifier.fi/ http://bootstraplabs.com/blog 7 bootstraplabs.com 1 2009-04-28T18:13:20Z false BootstrapLabs bootstraps new and existing Internet and technology startup products/services into proven companies. BootstrapLab sallows European companies to quickly and efficiently get an entry to the US market and Silicon Valley in particular. BootstrapLabs can help early stage companies that are in a commercialization phase and ready to go-to market to establish themselves in Silicon Valley, scale up, find licensing and partnership opportunities as well as funding and exit partners. 118 1 2008-09-01 false 236 image/png BootstrapLabs.png 10499 2009-04-28T21:13:19Z BootstrapLabs bootstraplabs 2009-04-28T18:14:16Z 3 http://bootstraplabs.com/ http://tane.li 7 wisdomlikesilence.com 4 2009-04-22T21:18:40Z false Wisdom Like Silence is Taneli Tikka's own investment and "consulting" company. Involved in Taneli's activities as a small-time angel investor, board of directors professional, advisor and growth company developer. 21 2007-04-01 false 229 Wisdom Like Silence wisdom-like-silence 2009-04-22T21:18:40Z 2 http://www.wisdomlikesilence.com/ 7 actoncapital.de 10 2009-04-16T13:21:36Z false Acton Capital Partners is a Munich(Germany)-based specialist investor in internet- and mobile-based, consumer-oriented businesses. Having managed more than 30 investments since 1999 the Acton team brings a wealth of expertise to the companies in which it invests, delivering superior capital returns. The highest profile names on the list of successes include "ciao.com", the product and price review comparison website, "abebooks.com", the world’s largest used and antiquarian book site, and "holidaycheck.com", the traveller to traveller travel forum. Acton Capital Partners targets later stage companies with an established track record of revenue and profitability. The ideal investment candidates are European technology-enabled companies striving to take their growth opportunities to the next level. 277 2008-04-01 false 221 Munich, Germany image/jpeg logo_final.jpg 88915 2009-04-16T16:24:11Z Acton Capital Partners +498924218870 acton-capital-partners 2009-04-16T13:24:11Z 3 http://www.actoncapital.de 7 gradde.se 1 2009-04-13T16:00:37Z false Grädde Invest is a Swedish partner owned venture capital firm investing in early stage internet companies. All partners have entrepreneurial background. 118 7 2006-01-01 false 217 Stockholm image/png GräddeInvest.png 13707 2009-04-13T19:00:37Z Grädde Invest AB +46-70-379 46 77 gradde-invest-ab 2009-04-13T16:00:38Z 2 http://gradde.se/ 7 4 2009-04-06T13:01:16Z false Conor invests in early-stage technology companies originating from Finland, Sweden and the Baltics. Investment areas include information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics. 257 3 2005-04-01 false 207 Espoo image/pjpeg logo_pieni.jpg 21940 2009-04-06T16:01:16Z Conor Venture Partners conor-venture-partners 2009-04-06T13:02:26Z 3 http://www.conor.vc 7 en.clickinvest.se 1 2009-03-10T13:31:07Z false We offer website owners (Media Partners) a new way to profit from their available advertising space, as well as an opportunity for small- to medium-sized growth companies to achieve their full market potential. We do this by investing online advertising space from our Media Partners in exciting growth companies in exchange for shares. 201 4 2008-12-01 true 180 Stockholm image/pjpeg Single_logo_3_.jpg 36137 2009-03-10T15:31:06Z Click Invest +46 (0)70 639 39 19 click-invest 2009-12-22T20:43:08Z 3 http://en.clickinvest.se 7 indexventures.com 10 2009-03-08T22:02:41Z false Index Ventures is one of the leading venture capital firms and have been active in venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Information Technology, Life Science and Clean Technology sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey and focuses on investments from seed through growth stage companies. Recent Scandinavian and Baltic exits include Skype (the pioneering communications company acquired by eBay); MySQL (the world's most popular open source database recently acquired by Sun). 4 23 1996-03-01 false 178 Geneva, London and Jersey image/png Picture_4.png 10306 2009-03-09T00:03:10Z Index Ventures index-ventures 2009-03-08T22:03:36Z 4 http://www.indexventures.com/ 7 northcappartners.com 3 2009-02-22T22:07:17Z false NorthCap Partners is a Copenhagen headquartered venture capital company formed by a team of experienced professionals with a strong track record of developing technology businesses in the IT field. NorthCap Partners have strong and well-tested competencies in all essential areas of building successful technology businesses including: * Internationalization strategy and execution * Recruiting world-class teams * Structuring partnership deals * Sales strategy and operation * Market intelligence and Technology trends NorthCap Partners was formed in January 2007 in a merger between IVS A/S and Bankinvest IT Venture. Both companies have many years of experience as venture capital investors in the IT sector. 7 2007-01-01 false 156 Copenhagen image/gif northcappartners_logo.gif 3452 2009-02-23T00:07:16Z North Cap Partners +45 77 30 90 00 north-cap-partners 2009-02-22T22:07:17Z 2 http://www.northcappartners.com/ 7 teknoseed.se 1 2009-02-22T21:58:22Z false TeknoSeed is a venture capital company, financing start-ups with ties to academia and the R&D community. Since inception in 1997, TeknoSeed has become a leading provider of early stage venture capital in southern Sweden. TeknoSeed's business concept is based on becoming a partner early on in companies with good potential for development. Teknoseed was established by the Foundation for Technology Transfer in Lund to, on a purely commercial basis, bridge the gap between early-stage high-tech ideas and later-stage venture capital. 7 1997-01-01 false 155 Lund image/png TeknoSeed_logo.png 4327 2009-02-22T23:58:21Z TeknoSeed AB +46 46 286 87 56 teknoseed-ab 2009-02-22T21:58:22Z 2 http://www.teknoseed.se/ http://www.openoceancapital.com/blog/ 7 openoceancapital.com 4 2009-02-16T19:17:07Z false Open Ocean is a venture capital company investing into disruptive technology start-ups. Open Ocean was the first major investor in the open source database company MySQL AB, which was sold to Sun Microsystems for 1 B USD in 2008. Open Ocean is backed by the MySQL AB Founder Michael "Monty" Widenius. 3 2009-02-01 true 144 Espoo image/png Picture_2.png 12805 2009-02-16T21:17:07Z Open Ocean Capital open-ocean-capital 2009-02-16T19:17:08Z 2 http://www.openoceancapital.com/ 7 inventure.fi 4 2009-02-12T07:51:44Z false Inventure Oy is a venture capital firm actively developing Nordic early stage technology companies. Inventure manages funds with over EUR 53 million in total capital base. The size of Inventure’s investments is typically EUR 1-5 million. Examples of Inventure’s portfolio companies are e.g. MySQL, uNav Microelectronics, Silex Microsystems, and Fastrax. Inventure is owned by the management team. 160 4 2005-08-01 false 137 Helsinki image/pjpeg logo1.jpg 27504 2009-02-12T09:51:44Z Inventure Oy +358 400 399 912 inventure-oy 2009-02-12T07:51:45Z 2 http://www.inventure.fi 7 oei.dk 3 2009-02-08T20:30:38Z false Østjysk Innovation A / S invests in in young, innovative and research-related firms at very early phases, and provides also knowledge, skills, and administrative services. The current investment areas: 1. biotechnology 2. pharmaceutical products 3. medical technology 4. IT in the broadest sense 5. material technology 6. communications 7. electronics 8. environmental technology and environmental monitoring 9. technologies and products related to agriculture and the food industry 10. new forms of business services. The shareholders of Østjysk Innovation are: * Jyske Bank * INCUBA a/s * Aarhus University Research * Science Aarhus A / S * Ã…rhus Kommune * Freshwater Center in Silkeborg 7 2009-02-01 true 134 Aarhus image/png ostjysk_innovation_logo.png 7063 2009-02-08T22:30:38Z Ostjysk Innovation A/S +4586205190 stjysk-innovation-a-s 2009-02-08T20:43:36Z 3 http://www.oei.dk/ 7 veraventure.fi 4 2009-02-06T13:58:06Z false Veraventure Ltd is a government backed venture capital company making investments in innovative Finnish seed and startup companies. Veraventure is fully owned by its parent company Finnvera Plc. 150 13 2009-02-01 true 132 Helsinki, Kuopio, Oulu image/pjpeg veraventure.jpg 8955 2009-02-06T15:58:06Z Veraventure Ltd veraventure-ltd 2009-10-12T11:56:17Z 5 http://www.veraventure.fi http://vcperspectives.com/wordpress/ 7 creandum.com 1 2009-02-03T16:56:28Z false Creandum is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies. The firm has 120 million Euros under management and is today the fastest growing independent partnership of its kind in the Nordic region. Creandum invests in innovative companies in high growth markets led by outstanding entrepreneurs. All investment professionals at Creandum has started companies or been part of successful startups. 4 7 2003-11-01 false 130 Jakobsbergsgatan 18, 111 40 Stockholm image/gif Creandum.GIF 8877 2009-02-03T18:59:14Z Creandum +46 (0)8 524 636 30 creandum 2009-03-15T15:39:49Z 7 http://www.creandum.com 7 teollisuussijoitus.fiin_english 4 2009-02-01T19:32:26Z false Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses. Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with private co-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings. The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570. 4 2009-02-01 true 128 Helsinki image/gif Teollisuussijoitus_logo_eng.gif 3391 2009-02-01T21:32:26Z Finnish Industry Investment +358 9 680 3680 finnish-industry-investment 2009-12-21T21:54:05Z 8 http://www.teollisuussijoitus.fi/in_english/ http://www.nexitventures.com/news/ 7 nexitventures.com 4 2009-02-01T19:29:22Z false Nexit Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on wireless innovation. Based in Helsinki (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden) and Saratoga (Ca., USA), Nexit invests primarily in Nordic and US early stage technology companies. With expertise and contacts across the wireless ecosystem, the Nexit team opens up and creates opportunities for its portfolio. For the companies in Nordic countries, Nexit's business contacts in Silicon Valley provide a bridge to markets, partners, experienced management and investors. US-based ventures get an opportunity to profit from the Nordic market-leading wireless network infrastructure, technology, insight and advanced user base. 3 2009-02-01 true 127 Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; Silicon Valley, USA image/png NexitVentures_logo_small.png 5118 2009-02-01T21:29:22Z Nexit Ventures +358 9 6818 910 (HEL) / +1 408 725 8400 (Silicon Valley) nexit-ventures 2009-02-07T09:35:33Z 5 http://www.nexitventures.com/ http://www.aggregatemedia.com/nyheter.html 7 aggregatemedia.com 1 2009-02-01T13:06:13Z false Aggregate Stockholm AB is a management company with the administrative commission for Aggregate Media Fund I KB (fully invested), Aggregate Media Fund II Nordic KB (fully invested), Aggregate Media Fund III KB (fully invested) and Aggregate Media Fund IV KB ("The Fund") – funds owned together with about ten greater media companies. The Fund invests media space as expansion capital for smaller and middle-sized companies in Sweden who with an increased marketing can considerably improve their development which will imply an increased value of the company for the owners. This fund offers media space during 3 years in Sweden. Simply described this means that a defined marketing budget, consisting of advertising space in a broad media mix, is offered to the companies. In return, ownership in companies will mainly be taken as shares. The media mix consists of advertising space in television, radio, business & specialist press, popular press, daily press, internet and outdoor advertising. 3 2009-02-01 true 125 Stockholm image/png aggregateMedia_logo.png 1998 2009-02-01T15:06:13Z Aggregate Media +46 8 660 55 80 aggregate-media 2009-02-07T08:59:50Z 5 http://www.aggregatemedia.com/ 7 1 2009-01-22T22:00:49Z false early stage operative investments 3 10 partners 2005-05-01 false 115 Stockholm image/png Bild_9.png 336226 2009-01-23T00:00:48Z Firm Factory Network +46703976659 firm-factory-network 2009-02-07T09:18:33Z 4 http://mindpark.se 7 mindpark.se 1 2009-01-22T19:57:56Z false We make ideas fly. Mindpark is a web developing agency with the swedish morning newspaper industry as its main clients and beneficiaries. Our purpose is to define and implement projects and business opportunities in new/digital media. The company´s goal is to ensure the economic survival of a newspaper industry in a world that has come to rely more heavily on digital information channels. Mindpark is making the traditional digital and sees to it that the newspaper industry will keep making money tomorrow. Mindpark is the product of Joakim Jardenberg and the joint venture of five regionally strong newspaper corporations who in there investments in Mindpark has created a new entity and continuing business relationship. Mindpark ensures innovation and profit for its owners by being dedicated to web based production and business models. 3 4 2007-10-01 false 114 Helsingborg image/jpeg mindpark-logo-xtrm.jpg 6348 2009-01-22T21:57:55Z Mindpark +46735187700 mindpark 2009-02-07T09:32:02Z 4 http://mindpark.se http://www.asi.ee/news 7 asi.eeen 7 2009-01-08T14:24:08Z false Ambient Sound Investmets (ASI) was established in 2003 as an equal partnership by four founding engineers at Skype. ASI team of about 10 people are managing 100 million Euros of the partners' assets and growing an independent investment vehicle. ASI investment targets tend to: * Have R&D at the core of their nature * Be in the seed or early stage of the company life-cycle * Be built by people who want to be global leaders in their field * Have technology or technology-based service providers for their customers * Be based in Eastern Europe, Russia or Asia, and demonstrating global ambition * Own intellectual property in their core technology area 3 10 2003-08-01 false 92 Tallinn image/png Picture_8.png 6216 2009-01-08T16:24:08Z Ambient Sound Investments ambient-sound-investments 2009-02-07T09:01:41Z 5 http://www.asi.ee/en/ 2008-12-14T22:39:44Z false Petteri Koponen is the founder of two companies which he both steered to a succesful exit with the other co-founders. His first company FirstHop was acquired by Airwide Solutions. Koponen's second exit was Jaiku, which was acquired by Google. Koponen worked at Google in London, UK. He left his job at Google in October 2009 and joined a Finnish startup accelerator Lifeline Ventures, that is also one of the three original Vigo accelerators. 4 47 true Jaiku http://www.jaiku.com/ Airwide Solutions http://www.airwidesolutions.com/ Lifeline Ventures http://www.lifelineventures.com/ Petteri Koponen 5 image/png Picture_8.png 189856 2008-12-15T00:39:44Z petteri-koponen 2009-12-21T12:13:31Z 6 7 popa.com 1 2008-12-13T19:09:03Z false Popa invests in and builds companies in sports, media and mobile. Currrent projects are listed on the website 3 2 2000-04-01 false 61 Stockholm/Malmö image/jpeg popa.jpg 128579 2008-12-13T21:17:36Z Popa +46707767733 popa 2009-02-07T09:44:13Z 5 http://www.popa.com 2008-12-01T07:29:40Z University of Turku, Stud.Soc.Sc false Asmo Halinen is one of the pioneers of internet and community services in Finland and he has a very versatile career in the industry since 1995. Nowadays Halinen is working at Iltalehti, the number one web property in Finland, as a Business Director, internet. He is also involved in several start-ups as a Member of the Board or as an Advisor. During 2001-2008 Halinen worked in Apaja, the company he co-founded in 2001. Apaja's online gaming community service Aapeli is one of the most popular entertainment sites in Finland and it has been localized in 15 other countries as well. Before Apaja Halinen was leading the content businesses of Saunalahti where he lead Saunalahti.fi portal from scratch to Finland's second most used web service during 1999-2001. Asmo Halinen is also one of the Founding Partners of startup accelerator fund Magnifier and the founder & one of the contributors at Vierityspalkki.fi, a widely followed publication following the Finnish digital media sector. 11 20 true Public profile on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/asmunder Asmo Halinen's Twitter feed http://twitter.com/asmunder Blog (in Finnish) http://asmunder.net/blog Asmo.Halinen.net http://asmo.halinen.net Asmo Halinen 5 image/jpeg asmohalinen.jpg 3948 2009-01-09T14:03:16Z asmo-halinen 2010-01-30T09:02:47Z 14 2008-11-22T13:58:18Z false Jyri Engeström is a Finnish sociologist and an entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the activity stream and micro-blogging service Jaiku. He joined Google with the rest of the Jaiku team when Google acquired the startup in October 2007, and moved to San Francisco, CA to work at Google Headquarter in Mountainvie, CA, in the United States. Jyri left his work at Google in October 2009 to return to Finland with his family. Before founding Jaiku, Jyri worked at Nokia Corporation where he co-headed the design of Nokia.com He also, together with a group of friends co-founded Aula (Finnish for "lobby"), a nonprofit cooperative to advance the vision of a creative society. 4 14 true Blog http://www.zengestrom.com/ Jyri's Jaiku http://jyri.jaiku.com/ Jaiku http://jaiku.com/ Aula http://www.aula.org/ Jyri Engeström 5 image/png jyri.png 32088 2008-11-22T15:58:18Z jyri-engestrom 2009-12-21T12:12:48Z 5 2008-10-20T10:58:43Z Street smarts false Bringing fun and business sense back to software development. 1 1 true Twitter http://twitter.com/anttiakonniemi Blog http://anttiakonniemi.com Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/anttiakonniemi Keho.net http://keho.net Antti Akonniemi 5 image/jpeg kisko-antti.jpg 24217 2008-11-02T10:25:50Z antti-akonniemi 2010-01-27T14:54:16Z 10