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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, …

Finnish startup Volare raises EUR 0.7 million from Maki.VC to radically reduce environmental burden of food chain with high-quality insect proteins Read More »

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 …

Brinter raises €1.2M in seed funding to accelerate 3D printing bioscience research and manufacturing for uses that range from personalized drugs to human spare parts Read More »

Kodit.io, the real estate startup with the mission to make buying and selling homes fast, simple and safe, has raised €100M in a combination of equity and debt, led by leading Nordic real estate investor NREP, to finance new home purchasing for its real estate portfolio. With NREP backing its growth, Kodit.io seeks to scale its …

European real estate startup Kodit.io announces €100M additional funding led by NREP to finance new home purchases Read More »

Helsinki-based HappySignals, an Employee Experience Management Platform provider, has announced the successful closure of a €4.7M series A funding round led by Nauta Capital with Vendep Capital also in participation. HappySignals will further its mission of helping enterprise IT leaders identify what needs to change so they can build happy, productive cultures that drive digital transformation by scaling operations in …

HappySignals closes €4.7M series A funding round to help enterprises put employee experience at the core of digital transformation Read More »

AppGyver, a Finnish software scaleup committed to democratizing professional app development with visual programming tools, has raised €2M in additional funding jointly-led by Karma Ventures and OpenOcean, with participation from numerous angel investors. The company will use the capital to accelerate the development of its visual app builder platform, Composer Pro, and scale up its …

AppGyver raises an additional €2M in funding to transform app development with visual programming Read More »

Transformation Program offers coaching and professional social selling software to support US franchise owners as they pivot to online business channels

After quietly developing and battle-testing the fully visual programming platform for 4 years with enterprises around the world, the company is finally unveiling its new platform to the public for free.