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Business angel’s co-investment fund: FiBAN’s thoughts on goals and guiding principles
The Steering Group for Domestic Ownership, set by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, released its report on March 24th. As a basis for future work, FiBAN has set...
Juha Kurkisen opit enkelikuorolle
Juha Kurkisella oli merkittävä rooli Suomen bisnesenkelitoiminnan kehittäjänä ja sijoitustoiminnan profiilin nostamisessa merkittäväksi osaksi kansallista talouskeskustelua. Vuonna 2010 Talouselämä otsikoi uutisen, “Bisnesenkeli, liity kuoroon”, jossa “varakkaita ja viisaita” kannustettiin kokoamaan...
Introducing New Nordic Leads Batch 2 – Take a look at the numbers behind the startups!
The second startup batch of New Nordic Leads has kicked off with 34 innovative startups chosen from over 110 competitive applicants! The selected startups will go through a tailored 8-week...
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,...