March 2021
New annual awards released: EstBAN awarded as the Sister BAN of the Year – Guardian Angel of the Year award goes to the Steering Group for Domestic Ownership and the professorship in ownership
For close to a decade FiBAN has awarded The Finnish Business Angel of the Year and The Finnish Business Angel Exit of the Year. This spring, we introduce two new...
Montinutra closes 1Me round from Metsä Spring and business angels
Montinutra Ltd, a startup converting forest industry side streams into high-value bioactive products, closed a financing round of approximately 1M EUR from Metsä Group’s innovation company Metsä Spring and current...
Facilitating investments across the country – FiBAN Pitch Western Finland on May 4th
Finland is full of small but dynamic startup clusters where founders turn their ideas into new innovations and success stories. With its regional operations FiBAN brings together investors, founders and...
Norvestor acquires a majority stake of angel-accelerated water efficiency startup Envera
Finnish startup Envera Oy, known for its SaaS service Smartvatten (Fiksuvesi), was recently acquired by Norwegian private equity fund Norvestor, providing an exit to FiBAN angel investors.
Transmeri Group to join FiBAN Partners – opening future possibilities for startup-corporate cooperation
Transmeri is a Finnish family-owned company that has over 90 years of history in creating success stories for grocery and cosmetic brands. Nowadays the group works also in natural cosmetics,...
FiBAN Monthly: Strength in numbers: Angel networks
There are as many ways to be an angel investor as there are angel investors. According to our data over 80% prefer to invest in syndicates, so there is a...
Nordea: Enabling matchmaking between startups & Investors
During the strange year of 2020, Nordea Startup & Growth developed a successful online Investor speed date concept to help their startup and scaleup customers in raising equity from VCs....