Helsinki-based better-than-a-hotel hospitality platform Bob W has raised a total of €10 million in seed funding. The company raised €4 million in the first round of seed funding last year, and has closed and addition €6 million more as of today. The round was led by byFounders VC and private equity firm Finnish Industry Investment […]
Finnish open source software company Aiven has raised $100 million in a Series C round that values the firm at north of $800 million. The financing round was led by Atomico, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and World Innovation Lab as fresh investors. Prior backers Earlybird Venture Capital and IVP also ‘significantly increased their capital […]
Marketing optimisation platform Sellforte has raised €4 million after tripling growth over the last 12 months. The round was led by Sonae IM with Bonnier Ventures and Icebreaker VC also participating. Sellforte reports that the new funding will be used to hire new talent, scale R&D, and advance international expansion. Founded in 2017, Sellforte is […]
Finnish SaaS startup Cambri has recently raised €3.6 million in Series-A round led jointly by OpenOcean and Spintop Ventures. Founded by Dr. Heli Holttinen, Dr. Outi Somervuori, and Dani Kamras, Cambri enables brands to rapidly iterate, optimise, and validate early phase product and service concepts with the firm reporting a reduced failure rate of 80%. […]
Mobile advertising platform Vungle has recently announced the acquisition of GameRefinery. The primary target of the acquisition being GameRefinery’s Game Intelligence platform, a service which helps point developers to optimal user retention and monetisation through a series of insights. Previous GameRefinery clients include Zynga, King, Rovio, and Ubisoft, and the company has compiled contextual data […]
Helsinki-based AI startup Stealth Black has raised €1.1 million to continue developing its technology “that negotiates better than a human being.” The funding came from Finnish VC Inventure and Denmark’s byFounders, as well as angel investors Mikko Hyppönen and Ali Omar. Founded this year, the company has trained its AI technology to see routine negotiations, […]
Kodit.io, a Finnish real estate startup using tech to speed up sales in the housing market, has raised €100 million in a combination of equity and debt. The round, led by Nordic real estate investor NREP, will be used to purchase new homes for Kodit’s real estate portfolio. The company aims to scale in its […]