Press releases
Aija Bärlund appointed as Interim Managing Director of FiBAN starting September 2021
Aija will replace Amel Gaily during her family leave and bring the FiBAN community her extensive experience on business development, board and management work, and lobbying.
FiBAN and Tesi study: The healthcare industry attracts angel investors – Biotechnology is the fastest-growing trend
Healthcare is for the first time the most attractive sector for Finnish angel investors, shows a new study by FiBAN and Tesi. The study includes 1178 startups that received angel...
Study by FiBAN and Aalto University: Lower valuations correlate with higher returns
A study by FiBAN and Aalto University demonstrates that for optimal financial benefit, angels should adopt a portfolio-oriented approach to investing and invest at low valuations.
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...