Lifeline Ventures, first backer of ŌURA, Wolt, Supercell, and ICEYE raised a new €400 million early-stage fund—among the largest in Europe. It reflects the growth of the Finnish ecosystem, which has 20x’d since my partners Petteri Koponen & Timo Ahopelto founded Lifeline in 2009 🚀🇫🇮https://lnkd.in/dZTbkSKY
Terrific! Many future centaurs and unicorns will emerge as a result.
CatWalkCraft AI
19h
Huge congratulations to the Lifeline Ventures team! It’s inspiring to see such a strong commitment to early-stage innovation. I’d love to connect and learn more about your vision for the next wave of creative startups in Europe.
Finland needs a booster shot into the private sector. What would be a better way to achieve that than building a vibrant ecosystem of amazing startups. Well done and good luck!
WOW! This is some good news for the ecosystem.
Arto Käyhkö
2d
Great job Jyri Engeström & co. 🙌🏻
Congrats Jyri and the crew, this is huge! So today we raise a glass not only to celebrate the Finnish startup scene but also to birth of new decacorns, several centaurs, perhaps some unicorns and above all, to building what matters.
Marc Seitz
1d
This is incredible! From building essentially an index fund of the Finnish startup ecosystem to a €400M fund for Europe! Hel(l) yeah!
Very cool! This is how Finland will become wealthy and prosperous over the next 100 years.
Huge congrats! No doubt grounded in not just great team/company selection but also the great educational work you've done especially with Timo.
Investing in pre-seed tech. I don’t have a budget to buy services.
2dGreat news and work. Looking forward for more upside staying in Finland. If the data is public, Í´d love to see a breakdown of ownership (Finland / Foreign) & value development in Oura (for example) to illustrate the need of this fund.