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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....
Exit by FiBAN angels – Whiteboard.fi acquired by EdTech platform Kahoot! with 6M USD
The global learning platform company, Kahoot! has acquired Whiteboard.fi, a Finnish online whiteboard tool for teachers and classrooms with 6M USD. Whiteboard.fi launched commercially only last year and over the...
Kolster: Intangible property is an investment
Intellectual property represents an important part of the company’s value. For investors, the more solid plan the startup has for their intellectual property, the more attractive that investment target becomes....
Raising the next planet-friendly generation with angel investors onboard – Green Planet Astronauts
Plant-based kids’ food company Green Planet Astronauts closed its first round with fast speed: the startup raised 300k in just two weeks from a group of renowned business angels. Next,...