News - Finnish Business Angels Network

FeelingStream feeling the stream of 400 000€ investment - Here’s the best company of the Nordic Angel Program at Slush

11/30/2018

NEWS BY FIBAN

An international angel syndicate, 19 angels strong, together with Gorilla Capital, has chosen FeelingStream out of a batch of 96 companies to receive an investment of 400 000€. FeelingStream is developing speech-to-text tool to help contact center automate their processes with intelligence, so an AI based real-time customer conversational analytics platform for sales potential discovery or lost opportunity detection.

This is FiBAN's new board of directors in 2019

11/21/2018

FiBAN’s new board was elected during the fall meeting on the 20th of November 2018. Seven experienced and enthusiastic business angels will join forces to lead the organization and shape its future towards increasingly successful business angel investing.

FiBAN Follow - introducing a new investment model for business angels which is unique in the world!

11/21/2018

NEWS BY FiBAN

We are getting ready to launch something which hasn't been done before and we can’t wait! The new model enables FiBAN angels to have a smoother way to make bigger, faster and more straightforward investments in growth companies together. The idea is to match active angels with followers. Any FiBAN member can sign up as an active angel (one to follow) and as a follower (one following an active angel). Each investment decision is made by the follower, not the active angel.

Two super angels honored for their exceptional work for the startup ecosystem

11/20/2018

Business angels Riku Asikainen and Ari Korhonen have received recognitions as FiBAN honorary members for their excellent work for the business angel community. The honours were given during the FiBAN Angel Day & Fall meeting on the 20th November 2018 at KPMG.

Shaping a sustainable future through food sector investments

11/16/2018

In the world of climate change, population growth and resource scarcity, there is a huge need for new, sustainable solutions. Business angel Saga Forss sees food sector as an opportunity for investments with real impact.

four companies, four female founders - this is the nordic angel program by fiban

11/15/2018

VIEWS BY FIBAN

Nordic Angel Program by FiBAN has been more diverse than ever. Both the syndicate and the startups applying consists of people from different backgrounds, countries, ethnicity, and genders. Most striking aspect is that all of the companies, which were in the top4, have female co-founders and CEOs.

Adesante funding round gains super interest from investors, marked 140%, and closed in only 3 months

11/9/2018

NEWS BY FiBAN

Adesante is a company with a brilliant goal and a commendable vision. Their goal is to increase the safety of surgery and their vision: Zero failures in Surgery. Adesante’s top-of-the-line product SurgeryVision™ gained significant investor interest and their funding round closed with 485,000 euros in only three month’s time.

NEW NORDIC COLLABORATION BETWEEN ANGEL NETWORKS DEEPENS - BOARD MEMBER EXCHANGE PROGRAM

11/8/2018

NEWS BY FIBAN

Nordic and Baltic angel network collaboration takes a huge leap forward. From November 2018 onwards, the board members of FiBAN, DanBAN, EstBAN, LitBAN and LatBAN can get a membership to each other's organizations. This further deepens the collaboration, as now board members have a full access to cross-border deal flow, news and events. One small step for an angel, one giant leap for New Nordic collaboration!

HELSINKI BRINGS TOGETHER KEY STARTUP ECOSYSTEM INFLUENCERS IN JUNE 2019

11/5/2018

Three investor and startup events during the 3-6th of June 2019 will bring over 600 investors and thousands of startup ecosystem influencers to Helsinki.

Nordic angel program at slush - here are the top15 startups

11/1/2018

NEWS BY FIBAN

NAP investors did it again! From over a hundred companies that applied for Nordic Angel Program at Slush, investors have evaluated the best companies ready for investing.