Aboa Advest at The Shift Business Festival 29-30th August

The SHIFT Business Festival is attracting a record number of participants this year. The venue for SHIFT 2019 is the Ruissalo Shipyard in the picturesque archipelago of Turku, Finland.  Jenny and Ville are representing Aboa Advest at the event with Timo, who will be a member of the Investor Pit panel on Thursday 29th August at 7 pm.

On Thursday 29th August at 5 pm we are organising the roundtable for Nordic collaboration in Tech industries, initiated by Markus Blomquist and Anna-Karin Tötterman, the co-founders of Nordic Enterprise Network. Timo will be moderating the roundtable discussion with exciting participants from different fields of business and with different perspectives on collaboration:

• Piia Maaranen, CEO, Avanto Ventures (collaboration between startups and big companies)
• Johan Slotte, Deputy CEO, Teleste (Smart, Safe and Smooth cities in Finland and internationally)
• Mika Paananen, Chief Customer Officer, Veritas Pension Insurance Company (collaboration for wellbeing at work)
• Mikael Lönnroth, Founding Partner, Saari Parners (digital business models for SME’s)
• Pekka Siivonen-Uotila, Partner, Nordic FoodTech VC (the need for new food and FoodTech)
• Toni Perämäki, COO, Valohai (ai infrastructure and collaboration in Tech industries in an international perspective)
• Timo Ketonen, Entpreneur and angel investor as moderator (entrepreneurship and impact investing in startups and growth companies)

Welcome to join us at The Shift  

Successful crowdfunding brings Oceanvolt 2M€

Aboa Advest participated in the crowdfunding campaign arranged by Invesdor and Timo acted as an advisor to Oceanvolt management.

Below is Oceanvolt’s message to the new shareholders following the successful round.

The Oceanvolt crowdfunding campaign on Invesdor’s site closed on 27th June 6 hours before the deadline when the maximum 2 million € was reached. We are overwhelmed about the fantastic interest in investing in Oceanvolt from people and organisations from 37 counties. To our more than 500 new shareholders we say welcome and thank you for believing in Oceanvolt!

A record-breaking number of investments – 479M€ into Finnish Startups

Amazing statistics of startup investments in Finland! It shows we’re a real power nation in startups. Thank you for sharing the news to Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) and FVCA – Pääomasijoittajat.

Aboa Advest contributed with investments in CosmEthics, Entis, Plantui, theotherdanishguy and Sharetribe. In 2018 we also committed to invest in Saari Partners – starting a Venture Capital fund focusing on growth companies in Finland.  Thank you to all the co-investors and founders who have participated with us in the funding rounds over the years.

Please refer to the press release by FiBAN and FVCA.