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Lifeline Ventures
Lifeline Ventures was founded in 2009 in Helsinki by Petteri Koponen and Timo Ahopelto and has grown into Finland's largest VC focused on unlisted growth companies, raising its €400 million Fund VI in 2025. The firm invests at the angel and seed stage with tickets of €100,000–€2 million, backing sector-agnostic founders from day one across Europe. Lifeline has seeded most of Finland's best-known unicorns, including Supercell (acquired by Tencent for $8.6B), Wolt (acquired by DoorDash for $8.1B), Oura, ICEYE, and Aiven. With over 115 portfolio companies and more than a dozen exits, it is the benchmark early-stage firm in the Finnish ecosystem.
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Luovi Productions
Founded in Helsinki in 1995 by Kari Korkman, Luovi Productions is a cultural event production company specializing in curation, production, and communication for the design field. The company organizes Helsinki Design Week, the largest design and architecture festival in the Nordic region, held annually in late August and early September. Luovi Productions also produces the Fiskars Village Art and Design Biennale and PechaKucha events in Finland, and publishes Helsinki Design Weekly, a media outlet covering Finnish design culture.
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Maki.vc
Maki.vc was founded in 2018 in Helsinki by serial entrepreneur and Slush Chairman Ilkka Kivimäki and former F-Secure executive Pirkka Palomäki, and now manages €260 million across three funds. Its November 2024 Fund III of €100 million targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies across the Nordics and Northern Europe, with tickets of €300,000–€3 million, focusing on deep tech, AI-native, quantum computing, green tech, and brand-driven consumer startups. The fund is backed by LPs including founders of Skype, Wise, RELEX Solutions, Aiven, and Supercell. Portfolio includes IQM Quantum Computers (unicorn 2025) and Enfuce.
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Neural DSP
Neural DSP (Neural DSP Technologies Oy) is a Helsinki-based music technology company that builds guitar and bass amp-modeling software plugins, such as its Archetype series developed with artists like Gojira and Plini, alongside hardware including the Quad Cortex and Nano Cortex floorboard modelers. The company assembles its hardware at a factory near its Helsinki headquarters, where more than half of its 150+ person team is based. Neural DSP's plugins and devices are used by guitarists and bassists to recreate iconic amp and pedal tones digitally.
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NGP Capital
NGP Capital is a global venture capital firm that originated from Nokia's venture investment program and now operates independently, investing in technology startups across Europe, the United States, and Asia. The firm focuses on software, deep tech, and digital infrastructure investments and has maintained a strong presence in the Nordic startup ecosystem since its founding. NGP Capital has offices in Helsinki, Menlo Park, and Beijing, making it one of the Nordic region's most internationally active VC funds.
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Nightingale Health
Nightingale Health is the global leader in NMR-based metabolomics, quantifying 250 blood biomarkers from a single sample to enable large-scale disease risk detection and prevention. Founded in Helsinki, it completed the analysis of all 500,000 UK Biobank samples, creating the world's largest blood biomarker database. Listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Main Market since March 2025, the company is deploying its technology into Finnish public healthcare in 2026 through wellbeing services counties. It also partnered with Alamar Biosciences to expand into brain health proteomics.
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Nordic Business Forum 2026
Europe's leading business and leadership conference with 7,500+ attendees and world-class speakers (past speakers include Barack Obama, Brene Brown, and Reid Hoffman). Focuses on leadership, strategy, and scaling. Premium pricing from EUR 2,000+ but unmatched networking with Nordic business elite.
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Pekka Laurila
Pekka Laurila is the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of ICEYE, the Finnish company that pioneered commercial SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite technology for earth observation. ICEYE has grown to operate one of the world's largest commercial SAR satellite constellations, serving customers in insurance, government, and disaster response globally. Laurila is a well-known figure in the Nordic space technology and deep tech ecosystems and is a keynote speaker at NORDEEP 2026.
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PG Connects Nordics 2026
An international games-industry B2B conference within Finnish Games Week, connecting Nordic indies, developers, publishers, and investors, with indie pitch competitions and investor matchmaking.
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RELEX Solutions
RELEX Solutions delivers a unified AI-native platform for retail and consumer goods supply chain planning, covering demand forecasting, inventory replenishment, space & assortment planning, pricing, and workforce management. Founded in 2005 by three supply chain scientists from Helsinki University of Technology, the company has grown to over 2,400 employees in 21 countries and raised more than $816 million in total funding, reaching a $5.7 billion valuation. Its customers include major European and North American retailers and manufacturers.
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ReOrbit
ReOrbit is a Helsinki-based satellite manufacturer founded in 2019, building advanced satellites for GEO-based critical communications and next-generation LEO direct-to-device connectivity. Its products include Silta, a sovereign communication satellite, and OrbitCloud, which provides private D2D connectivity and orbital AI inference, both built on a software-defined architecture designed for a flexible manufacturing supply chain. The company, which has more than 100 employees and targets a first launch in 2026, received a EUR 4.6 million grant from Business Finland for its OrbitCloud R&D programme.
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Risto Siilasmaa
Risto Siilasmaa is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and corporate board leader, best known as the founder of WithSecure (formerly F-Secure), one of the most recognized cybersecurity companies to emerge from the Nordic region. He served as Chairman of Nokia from 2012 to 2020, steering the company through its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent and its transformation into a major 5G infrastructure provider. Siilasmaa is a frequent keynote speaker on technology leadership and board governance and is a confirmed speaker at NORDEEP 2026.
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Sabrina Manisalco
Sabrina Manisalco is the CEO and Co-founder of Algorithmiq, a Helsinki-based quantum computing startup developing quantum algorithms for pharmaceutical and life sciences applications. She is also a Professor of Quantum Information at the University of Helsinki, making her a prominent academic-entrepreneur bridging fundamental research and commercial deep tech. Manisalco is a recognized figure in the European quantum ecosystem and a confirmed speaker at NORDEEP 2026.
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Slush
One of the world's leading startup and tech events, connecting founders and investors. Slush is an event organiser based in Helsinki, Finland. Organising events in the Events, Startup Ecosystem space.
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Slush 2026
One of the world's largest and most iconic startup and investor events, held at Messukeskus Helsinki. Attracts 13,000+ attendees, 4,000+ startups, and 2,500+ investors for curated matchmaking, founder stages, and side events. A must-attend for any European founder seeking Series A-B funding. Tickets from EUR 500.
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Smartly
Smartly is an AI-powered advertising platform that enables brands and agencies to automate and optimise paid social and cross-channel ad campaigns at scale. Founded in Helsinki in 2013, the platform handles creative automation, campaign management and performance analytics across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, Amazon DSP and connected TV. The company serves over 700 enterprise advertisers globally and reported $221 million in annual revenue in 2026. Its AI Studio has generated nearly two million creative assets, delivering an average 27% performance lift versus static creatives.
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Solar Foods
Solar Foods produces Solein, a single-cell protein made via gas fermentation using CO2, hydrogen and electricity — entirely decoupled from agriculture. Founded in 2017 as a VTT and LUT University spin-off, the company opened the world's first commercial-scale air-protein facility in Vantaa in 2024. In 2026 it is advancing its EFSA novel food approval and finalising the investment decision for Factory 02 in Lappeenranta, which will scale annual capacity from 160 to 6,400 tonnes. Fortum is a key investor and strategic partner for district heating integration.
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Steady Energy
Steady Energy develops the LDR-50, a simplified small modular reactor (SMR) delivering 50 MW of thermal output for zero-carbon district heating. Founded in 2023 as a spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the company raised €32 million and in February 2026 poured first concrete for a full-scale non-nuclear pilot plant inside Helsinki's former Salmisaari coal power station. Fortum and Finnish energy utility Helen are strategic partners. Steady Energy is also expanding to Sweden, targeting district heating decarbonisation across the Nordic region.
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Stina Wallmark
Stina Wallmark is Investment Director for Life Sciences at Voima Ventures, a leading Finnish venture capital firm investing in deep technology and life sciences startups. She focuses on early-stage science-based companies in the Nordic and Baltic region. Voima Ventures is recognized as one of Finland's most active investors in transformative science-based innovation across health, biology, and materials.
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Supercell
Supercell is a Helsinki-based mobile games studio founded in 2010 by Ilkka Paananen (CEO), Mikko Kodisoja, Petri Styrman, Lassi Leppinen, Visa Forstén and Niko Derome. It publishes some of the highest-grossing mobile games ever made — Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars — reaching around 290 million monthly active players and €2.65bn in 2025 revenue. Its 'cell' model gives small autonomous teams of 5–7 full authority to greenlight and kill games, treating cancelled prototypes as learning rather than failure. Supercell was backed early by European VCs Lifeline Ventures (Helsinki), Accel and Atomico (London) and Index Ventures, raising a $130M Series B in 2013. SoftBank and GungHo acquired 51% that year; in 2016 a Tencent-led consortium paid $8.6bn for ~84% at a ~$10.2bn valuation, with Tencent consolidating majority control by 2019. Tencent has kept Supercell operationally independent in Helsinki, with remaining shares held by employees.
