Press releases
An active year for angel investors in Finland despite the global pandemic – 36M€ investments into 321 startup companies – a record year for exits: In total 171 exits, up 68 %
Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) and The Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA) have published their annual statistics of investments into Finnish startups and early-stage growth companies in 2020.
A Record Year for Finnish Startups: The Amount of Funding Raised Nearly Doubled In a Year and Is Already Approaching the Billion-Euro Mark
Domestic startups have raised a record amount of growth funding. The half-billion mark, which was reached in the two prior years, was already a record, but now the total has...
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...
FiBAN 10 years – launching the Data Compass and our 10-year chronicle
FiBAN is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, and therefore, we are launching a data tool to kickstart our journey to the new data-driven decade as well as an online chronicle...
For every 1 M€ invested, 15 new jobs are created – Could this be true? FiBAN Research Task Force finds out!
FiBAN conducts an annual investment statistics study, collecting information on business angel investing such as investment sizes, equity received, and sector preferences of investors. Moving forward, we aspire to be...
New record of angel investments in Finland – 54M€ investments into 415 startup companies
FiBAN has published the annual angel investing statistics in Finland. In total, business angels invested 54 million euros into 415 startups during 2019. Read a summary of FiBAN’s statistics and...
Finnish startup funding reached a new high in 2019
Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) and The Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA) have published their annual statistics of investments into Finnish startups and early-stage growth companies in 2019. In 2019,...
A record-breaking number of investments – 479M€ into Finnish startups
Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) and Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA) have collected their annual statistics of investments into startups and early stage growth companies in Finland. In 2018, the total amount...