NEWS
Inventure and business angels invest 1,3M€ in IPTune
Helsinki, Finland – 23rd August 2010. Iptune, a pioneer in mobile service...August 23, 2010
Freespee connects Clicks with Calls through AdXSearch
adX Search AB (adX), an industry leading technology solutions provider for the search engine marketing industry, today announced that its search advertising platform will now empower search engine mar...August 13, 2010
Freespee call analytics in Finland with Dagmar & Snoobi
Freespee AB launches a new call analytics tool for advertisers in Finland. Partners during the trial phase have been media agency Dagmar and web analytics company Snoobi. "Freespee...June 22, 2010
Ms Yiwen Wu joins Inventure
Ms Yiwen Wu joins Inventure for an international research project. The topic of Yiwen's research project is The Market Entry Strategies of Finnish Early-stage Companies in the Chinese Market....June 22, 2010
Blocket offers Freespee numbers
Blocket is offering all its users temporary Freespee numbers. Blocket is the largest online buy/sell classified site in Sweden with over 3.5 million unique visitors a week, ...May 31, 2010
Rightware launches BrowserMark
Rightware extends its benchmarking software coverage to mobile and embedded device web browsers by today’s launch of BrowserMark™. Rightware offers two versions of the product. Consu...April 14, 2010
Whitevector launches SiteMetrics
Whitevector launches a new social media analytics service at: www.whitevector.com/sitemetrics. ...March 17, 2010
Rightware Debuts Kanzi at Mobile World Congress
Rightware will demonstrate ‘Mobile App Store’ application running in various mobile devices at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 15th through February 18th. Mobile App Store...February 02, 2010
Inventure invests in Conmio
Inventure has secured A-round financing totaling 2 million USD into Finnish mobile publishing platform firm Conmio. The financing will be used to support Conmio’s international growth and produc...January 26, 2010
Scannano received a 1.2 MEUR investment for nano-semiconductors development from Inventure
Inventure has announced a significant agreement with Scannano, a private nano-semiconductors company. The investment amounting to 1.2MEUR will be used to nanotechnology semiconductors development and ...January 19, 2010
Inventure invests in Rightware Oy acquiring Futuremark’s mobile and embedded business unit
Rightware Oy announced today that it has acquired Futuremark Corporation’s Mobile and Embedded Business Unit, and announced EUR 3 million venture capital investment from Inventure Oy and Nexit V...January 07, 2010
Inventure invests in Freespee
Freespee AB, a Nordic call tracking technology provider, expands in Europe with venture capital funding from Inventure. Freespee revolutionizes the performance tracking of print & o...October 15, 2009
Panipol attracts investment from Dou Yee International
Panipol, a supplier of conductive polymers, expands its ownership and attracts an investment from Dou Yee International, Singapore. Dou Yee is the premier total industrial solutions provider in the As...September 30, 2009
Jorma Vakkala joins Scannano
Jorma Vakkala joins Scannano as Director, Sales & Marketing. Mr. Vakkala has a long experience from management positions with multinational technology companies such as Agilent Technologies and He...September 22, 2009
First wafers to surface Silex' 8 inch fab
Silex Microsystems has shipped the first wafers from the new 8-inch wafer MEMS fab to its foundry customers. Chips produced on 8-inch wafers will be made using the most advanced 0.5 mic...July 08, 2009
Beneq has been nominated as one of the most promising Cleantech Companies
Beneq has been nominated as one of the 50 most promising Cleantech Companies in the Nordic market by the Cleantech Group, LLC and Cleantech Scandinavia, the leading Nordic network of investors in clea...June 09, 2009
Inventure invests in ICT service company Protie
Inventure has invested a significant sum in Protie, a rapidly growing Finnish ICT service company. The annual turnover of Protie has increased by nearly 400% in three years, to ap...March 01, 2009
Whitevector grows with Inventure’s investment
Inventure has made an early-stage investment in Whitevector Oy, a Finnish technology company in the field of social media analytics and research. The consumer activ...February 24, 2009
Hannu Vaajoensuu joins the Board of Directors of Inventure Oy
Since 2004, Mr. Vaajoensuu is Chairman of Basware Oyj, after serving the company as CEO from 1999 to 2004. He is also vice chairman of the Board of Directors of Comptel Oyj, and chairman of the Board ...February 23, 2009
Inventure invests EUR 500,000 in ScanNanoTek
Inventure has made a EUR 500,000 venture capital investment in ScanNanoTek Oy. The company will use the funds to strengthen its sales and marketing organization, and speed up its R&D activities....February 17, 2009
Trackway exited to Stora Enso
The fund under Inventure management has sold its stake in Trackway Oy to Stora Enso Oyj. Stora Enso acquired a majority of the company as a result of a merger of Trackway and Stora Enso’s PackAg...December 15, 2008
Pancomp exited
Pancomp Electronics Oy entered into a liquidation process in July 2008, and the fund under Inventure management withdrew from the investment. ...October 31, 2008
Silex Raises SEK 150 Million for Continued Growth
MEMS-foundry Silex Microsystems AB is issuing new shares worth SEK 150 million (EUR 16 million) to expand manufacturing capacity. The new issue is being subscribed to by Priveq Investment and Northzon...July 10, 2008
2nd closing at EUR 40 million
Inventure has increased its early-stage fund to EUR 40 million, enabling significant resources to be invested in Finnish innovations and high-tech companies. Inventure team is led by Sami Lampinen, ma...June 17, 2008
Inventure establishes Venture board
Inventure expands its operations and invites venture capital and high-tech industry professionals Peter Buch Lund, Guus Keder, Mikko Puhakka, and Pekka Töytäri...June 16, 2008
Strong spring for Beneq Oy
Beneq's strong growth has continued during spring 2008. Beneq opened on March 6th its sales and service office in Shanghai, China. Beneq's Shanghai Representative Office is conveniently locate...April 29, 2008
Inventure launches a EUR 35 million early-stage technology fund
Inventure has completed the first closing of Inventure Fund Ky, a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage high-tech innovations in the Nordic countries, primarily Finland. Investors investing in ...February 06, 2008
Arve Lukander joins Inventure
Inventure has invited Arve Lukander to join the Inventure team as an Investment Director. Arve will mainly work with new investments and portfolio value creation. Before Inventure, Arve worked as Dire...January 24, 2008
Sun to Acquire MySQL
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) announced an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases. This acquisition acc...January 16, 2008
Beneq: Future growth company in Finland
Beneq was awarded the 1st prize in Future Growth Company competition arranged by Helsingin Sanomat, the largest Finnish daily newspaper. 10 Companies were chosen from all Finnish early-stage technolog...January 09, 2008
Trackway and Stora Enso PackAgent business merge
Trackway Oy has been merged with Stora Enso Consumer Board’s PackAgent software business. PackAgent is a software solution jointly developed by Stora Enso and Trackway for authentication, tracki...January 08, 2008
