Finnish startup Skipperi, a shared-use boating subscription service and peer-to-peer boat rental platform, has raised €7M in series A funding. The round was led by Yamaha Motor, with Baltiska Handels Sverige, Matu Capital, and HP Capital also participating. The company will use the money to fund its international expansion to Brisbane, Australia, and several locations around the US …
Finnish fintech company Membrane Finance has today launched EUROe – Europe’s first and only EU-regulated full-reserve stablecoin and payment network. EUROe transforms a fiat Euro into a 1:1 pegged digital currency transactable on Ethereum, with planned support for an increasing number of blockchains. One EUROe is always one Euro. For each EUROe issued, at least one fiat Euro exists …
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Talent acquisition scaleup Jobilla and its partner Jobilla Nederland announced their official merger today, creating a new business unit called Jobilla Benelux BV. The new subsidiary joins Jobilla Finland and Jobilla DACH GmbH to become the third fundamental pillar of the Jobilla Group. The merger provides more resources for Jobilla Benelux BV to disrupt traditional recruitment in …
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Trind VC, a seed-stage venture fund based in Tallinn with team members in Helsinki and Munich, has announced the closing of its €55M second fund. Trind VC aims to invest in 30–40 startups with proven traction in four years. The fund is backed by institutional investors such as European Investment Fund, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment), …
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Hintsa Performance, a global leader in high-performance coaching and wellbeing services, has raised €5.1M in new funding from notable investors, including ex-Unilever CEO Paul Polman, K5 Global, The Late Late Show host James Corden, and Charles Plowden, former joint senior partner of Baillie Gifford & Co, who will be the incoming Chair of the Board at Hintsa. In addition to fuelling …
Finnish startup Innomost has raised €5M to bring their birch bark innovation into new markets as a sustainable alternative for environmentally harmful ingredients in consumer products. The funding round was led by Metsä Spring Ltd. with Innovestor and angel investors joining the round. The round was completed with grants and loans from Business Finland as well as other public financing sources. The …
Tesseract, the leading institutional digital asset lending company in Europe and emerging markets, has raised USD 25 million in its Series A funding round. The first funding round in Europe focusing on the sector is led by Augmentum Fintech, a London-based leader in FinTech investments. Other participants in the round include global venture capital firms BlackFin Capital …
Finnish startup Contract Mill has announced the successful closure of a funding round of over €1M. The round was co-led by Swiss investment company Actium AG and Veenay Shah, founder of HighQ, together with multiple distinguished international investors from the UK and Sweden. The funding will be used to further expand its operations in the UK and Europe, and prepare …
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Insect proteins can significantly reduce the environmental load of animal feed, pet food and cosmetics industries. A new spinoff startup from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Volare, aims to do just this. Volare uses food production side streams, such as non-edible parts of grains, to produce high-quality proteins and oils in order to replace other animal proteins, …
Turku-based bioprinting startup Brinter has today announced the successful closure of a €1.2M seed funding round led by early-stage VC Innovestor. The company will use the capital to further expand its operations internationally in Europe and the US. Brinter aims to put bioprinting within reach of every pharmaceutical company, hospital, university, and research center. Medical research facilities and …