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Investor & Board member
Jan 2021
Heavyweight Rex Ltd. is a privately held games company based in Espoo (Helsinki Area), Finland. We are focused on creating pocket-sized game experiences for people around the world.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2020
Proof is the only AI-native GTM performance platform that enables you to plan, predict, prove & pivot your go-to-market investments in real time.
Investor & Advisor
Aug 2019
We increase cycling by providing the most impactful, cost-effective and convenient zero-emission benefit bike service to employers.
Cycling has clear health benefits that contribute to happiness and well-being in the workplace. We strive to make as many as possible move and feel better every day and want to enable and promote sustainable mobility.
#työsuhdepyörä 🚲
#precycled ♻️
#impact 🥰
Founded at the beginning of 2018
More information
https://linktr.ee/vapaus
Contact
https://www.vapaus.io/en/contact-information
Founder & Investor
Oct 2018
SOFTWARE - IoT - FULL STACK
VVDN Europe is helping Nordic and Baltic technology companies with their product development in area of SW and HW as well as cloud & manufacturing. We have strategic partnership with VVDN Technology to offer their services. We are providing to our customers a true e2e solution - from idea to shop shelve - or just a part of development project.
You can find us from the social media > www.vvdntech.eu and Facebook: Love Corporation Oy
Learn more about VVDN Global @ www.vvdntech.com
Founder & Board member
Sep 2018
Co-created by Stora Enso and Trä Group, HEAL is an initiative with the aim to shape a future of healthy affordable living.
Together with partners, our purpose is to co-create how buildings are designed, built and maintained, to enable healthy and sustainable living for all.
Our manifesto:
Many would say the building industry is broken – we believe it can be healed.
From siloed processes to wasted resources and low efficiency, there is a need for lifestyle thinking: where the structures we build are as kind to the environment as they are healthy and affordable for the people who inhabit them.
Change is needed, and it’s needed now.
As experts in the field and advocates for better building, we understand that it can’t be done alone. That’s why we’re building bridges for smart and meaningful collaboration. From siloed processes to wasted resources and low efficiency, there is a need for lifestyle thinking.
Bringing together our shared know-how in design, business, and technology, we unlock opportunities across the building circle, innovating and optimising for greater efficiency and joint value.
We are on a mission to champion transparency, promote new perspectives and showcase what’s possible – to make healthy affordable living the new standard.
Our commitments:
Challenging the status quo
Looking for better ways of working and building, while breaking traditional siloes
Showing by doing
Delivering initiatives that showcase what can be achieved in practice
Partnering for impact
Unlocking opportunities through sharing and co-creation
Accelerating process
Using digital solutions as a key facilitator in creating transparency and efficiency in the value chain.
Founding investor
Sep 2017
Grapho Group is an educational game company that develops scientifically validated literacy tools for home and school.
We bring together world-class universities, educators and game developers to bring you fun and evidence-based educational games for early literacy.
AVAILABLE GRAPHOGAME APPLICATION LANGUAGES
- GraphoGame: Kids Learn to Read (English)
- GraphoGame Français (French)
- GraphoGame Norsk (Norwegian - only in Norway)
- GraphoGame Pinyin (Romanized Chinese)
- GraphoGame Nederlands (Dutch)
- GraphoGame Brasil (Brazilian Portuguese)
- GraphoGame Español (Spanish)
Advisor & Investor
May 2017
Yepzon is IoT solution company for Logistics and Personal Safety, providing location and business critical data to end-users and other actors.
The Yepzon App is a leading platform that serves any locating need and, on top of that, provides a wide range of data about the device’s environment. Consumers, industry players, and other companies in the sector who license the platform use it to create their own new product innovations and solutions.
Welcome to Yepzon. #LocatingLife
Board member
Jan 2015
iCentrex offers award-winning enterprise communication services to companies and organizations in the Nordic region. Our service portfolio includes all aspects of "Unified Communications" such as integrated cloud-based PBX features, intelligent messaging, mobile and fixed convergence, video and screen sharing, as well as conferencing and web-based administration.
To enhance your user experience and to simplify your communications, iCentrex offers its customers in Scandinavia one single agreement for all services, one invoice, one customer care center and one truly unified solution for all sized or organizations. Please give us a call today.
Founding member & Board member
2014
By bringing together some of the worlds brightest researchers and engineers, Candela has redefined what a boat is. The globes only electrical boat with speed & range as a fossil boat. And a behavior in rough sea second to none. Simply the future of boating.
Founder & Investor
2013
Learning Intelligence Group is a leading education technology (edtech) pioneer in the Nordic region. We select, fund and grow edtech innovations from the Nordic region into profitable global brands. Born from decades of combined experience in building and funding edtech companies, LIG consists of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who leverage their resources, networks and funds to other entrepreneurs looking to aggressively innovate the undisrupted global education market.
The LIG story begins in 2013 in Helsinki, when entrepreneurs Vesa Perälä and Mervi Palander, first founded CLANED, a revolutionary cloud-based social learning environment. Their 4-year journey in making CLANED a success story revealed how edtech companies in the Nordic region lack the funding, business development support and networks to enable their success.
The next major step in LIG story took place this year when LIG acquired GraphoGame, a research-driven literacy game and learning environment, to leverage the founders’ experience and networks in building Nordic edtech phenomena. So the LIG journey is moving forward with carefully selected companies and partners.
Our vision is to become the world’s leading edtech business development group, enabling global success for the top entrepreneurs and technologies from the Nordic region. The LIG mission is to provide our portfolio businesses with an integrated support system through funding, mentoring and partner network exposure, while simultaneously fostering the nascent edtech ecosystem.
The Learning Intelligence team is a diverse mix of highly experienced entrepreneurs, executives, advisors and investors. Collectively they boast:
+10 exits
+900M€ raised in funding
+100 years of entrepreneurial experience
+50 years of corporate experience
Board members in 30 companies
C-level positions at world leading companies, such as IKEA, Stora Enso, GN Netcom, Coloplast
Board members of multinationals, such as Amer Sports, Novo Nordisk, Neste and Citi Group
We are currently running an investment round together with Invesdor. More information at https://www.invesdor.com/fi/pitches/843 or contact Vesa Perälä, CEO LIG (vesa@claned.com)
Board member
2010
Ubisecure is a Europe-based Identity Services specialist and offers a comprehensive CIAM (Customer Identity & Access Management) & LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) platform to manage the digital identities of customers, citizens, workforce and organisations.
Through our RapidLEI service, the company is the largest accredited LEI issuer globally and has issued verified organisation identities to over 200k organisations.
Ubisecure works with enterprises, banks, fintech/regtech, and Government for internal and client use of digital identity in digital identity management, KYC/KYB, and legal entity regulatory requirements, and delivering on its unique “true B2B Identity Management” proposition. True B2B identity management is only made possible by combining strongly authenticated individuals with highly assured organisation identities to allow them to express who they are, who they represent and the rights they have when doing so. The hybrid approach to Identity Management allows Ubisecure to uniquely achieve this proposition.
Ubisecure’s global mission is to help enterprises embrace the global digital identity ecosystem, improve operational effectiveness and build trusted business relationships.
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Founder, CEO & Board member
Sep 2003
Telepo was an innovative software vendor enabling any type of Service Provider to offer Business Communication as a Service, ideal for the SME market. We can help you, in your own cloud, get a fully branded business communication service up and running in just a few months.
You will also, in addition to growing you market share in the SME space, be able to drive up to five times more revenue from related services such as data, fixed and mobile subscriptions & call center services. The unique advantages of the Telepo solution are
• a multi-tenant cloud enabled platform
• superior mobility supporting any mobile device
• Rapid Time to Market (services launched from 4 weeks to 4 months depending on Service Provider type)
• easy to scale ranging from 10 to 5000+ users
• independency of underlying infrastructure, geographical boundaries and legacy hardware and devices
Telepo was aquired by Mitel in 2014. www.mitel.com.
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CFO, Investor & Board member
Apr 2001
Acquired by Oracle.
On February 15th 2006, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sweden-based HotSip AB, a leading provider of communications infrastructure software.
HotSip is a provider of telecommunications infrastructure software and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) enabled applications for IP telephony, presence, messaging and conferencing on new converged networks. With the addition of HotSip's technology, Oracle will be better able to build on its leadership in middleware and in carrier-grade communications infrastructures.
If you have any questions, please send them to acquisition-inquiries_ww@oracle.com.
Co-founder, CEO & Board member
Jan 1988
HansaWorld is a leading software house providing a full suite of Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management products that delivers the flexibility required by today’s businesses.
The group employs more than 300 staff with a strong network of subsidiary companies and distribution partners on all continents. This network enables us to offer international implementation in over 30 languages with country specific localizations. The products are easy to use and available on all smartphones, tablets and desktops including Mac, iPhone and iPad.
HansaWorld continually invests in Research and Development to provide innovative and future proof products to our customers. As recognized innovators for over 25 years, HansaWorld shows continued technological leadership in the international business software industry.
More than 550,000 companies trust us with their business critical information.
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Founder & Chairman
Aug 2022
Buildbite - The best way to improve customer satisfaction in construction projects. All with one app. In real-time.
2021
Investor & Board member
Jan 2021
Heavyweight Rex Ltd. is a privately held games company based in Espoo (Helsinki Area), Finland. We are focused on creating pocket-sized game experiences for people around the world.
2020
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2020
Proof is the only AI-native GTM performance platform that enables you to plan, predict, prove & pivot your go-to-market investments in real time.
2019
Investor & Advisor
Aug 2019
We increase cycling by providing the most impactful, cost-effective and convenient zero-emission benefit bike service to employers.
Cycling has clear health benefits that contribute to happiness and well-being in the workplace. We strive to make as many as possible move and feel better every day and want to enable and promote sustainable mobility.
#työsuhdepyörä 🚲
#precycled ♻️
#impact 🥰
Founded at the beginning of 2018
More information
https://linktr.ee/vapaus
Contact
https://www.vapaus.io/en/contact-information
Member
May 2019
FiBAN is a Finnish non-profit association of private investors and one of the largest and most active business angel networks in Europe with 600+ investor members in 12 countries. A matchmaker of growth-ready early-stage startups and private investors.
Our three main activities are:
👉 Matchmaking startups and private investors
👉 Sharing and developing angel investing best practices via certified investor training.
👉 Representing private investors interest in societal matters and through producing data from the early-stage investment landscape.
FiBANs Data: www.fiban.org/data
For Startups: www.fiban.org/apply
For Members: www.fiban.org/join
In all FiBAN events and contexts, we expect our members and partners to follow our Code of Conduct. Please find it here:
https://fiban.org/code-of-conduct/
FiBAN Notification Channel for reporting inappropriate behavior:
https://fiban.ilmoituskanava.fi/ and on the footer of our website.
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