Finnish food delivery service Wolt has just gobbled up a $130 million funding round led by ICONIQ Capital, with participation from existing investors 83North, EQT Ventures, Highland Europe, and Lifeline Ventures. Founded in 2014 in the Finnish capital, Wolt is a service that facilitates the delivery of food from local restaurants to customers in the […]
Two Nordics-based public companies working on digital services and software, EVRY and Tieto, has announced a merger into a new company, TietoEVRY. The new entity will have combined revenue of some €3 billion and a team of 24,000 people. Both EVRY and Tieto serve customers across the world but have the strongest presence in the […]
New Finland-headquartered VC firm Voima Ventures has announced a multi-stage fund to invest in deep-tech startups across the Nordics and Baltics. The founders, Inka Mero and Mikko Kumpulainen, say that the fund has €40 million committed and target a final closing of €50 million. Voima Ventures plans to make 25 to 30 investments from the […]
Finnish B2B lead generation startup Leadfeeder has landed €3.1 million in a Series A funding round led by Dutch growth capital firm Endeit Capital, with Finland’s Superhero Capital and Vendep Capital also participating. Leadfeeder analyses the information from Google Analytics to figure out people from which companies visited the customer’s website. This data is subsequently […]
Helsinki-headquartered micro-influencer startup Boksi has landed $1 million in a funding round led by Trind Ventures, with participation from Nordic VC Wave Ventures, Business Finland, and angel investors. Boksi, which launched in the summer of 2018, claims to be one of the fastest growing influencer marketing platforms in Europe, where it’s present in Finland, Sweden, […]
Copenhagen-based VC firm The Nordic Web Ventures has raised its second fund to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across the Nordics. The exact size of the fund has not been disclosed, but the firm plans to make some 20 investments from it over the next 1.5–2 years, with an average check of $50,000 to […]
NordicNinja VC has launched a €100 million VC fund in partnership with Panasonic, Honda, Omron, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), to invest in scale-ups in the Nordics and Baltics. The fund will also focus on helping the startups to enter the ecosystems in Japan and across Asia. The new fund will write […]