Buyout and Growth in Finland H1 2025
Finnish growth companies received €161m (-55% YoY) across 30 (-23% YoY) deals from domestic and foreign investors.
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Finnish growth companies received €161m (-55% YoY) across 30 (-23% YoY) deals from domestic and foreign investors.
A total of 787 VC and PE mid-market fund managers contributed their insights to the Q4 2025 barometer survey.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang estimates that $2T worth of data centers will power software globally over the next four to five years [p.4].
Major South Korean banks demonstrate foreign exchange markups that are typically less than 1% over mid-market rates.
Over 53% of SMEs believe economic conditions will deteriorate over the next 12 months.
The total number of financing rounds decreased by 10.1% to 124 rounds.
54% of SMEs expect economic conditions to deteriorate over the next 12 months.
The total number of financing rounds fell by 10.1% year-on-year to 124 rounds.
Globally, 48% of women are active in labour markets compared to 73% of men, with the global gender labour gap falling by only 1 percentage point annually over the past three decades.
Spanish startups raised €1.9B in VC investment in 2024.
In 2024, a total of CHF 550.2 million was raised via crowdfunding platforms in Switzerland, representing a minor decrease of 1.5% compared to 2023.
FiBAN members invested €31.5 million in startups in 2024, representing a 19% increase compared to the previous year.
The US venture capital market deployed $215.4 billion across 14,320 deals in 2024.
Between 2010 and 2025, US, Japanese, and UAE investors participated in over 19k deals, representing approximately €380b raised in equity by European companies (excluding exits).
In 2025, Enterprise Ireland made its first allocations under the €250 million Seed & Venture Capital Scheme (SVC) 2025-2029, approving up to €120 million for venture capital funds.
Spanish private capital funds generated an aggregate net IRR of 11.1% and a TVPI multiple of 1.6x over the 2006–2024 period.
Venture Capital & Private Equity investment in Spain reached €6.292M across 785 investments in 2024.
Enterprise Ireland has invested over €90 million in over 200 Irish-born fintech, financial, or related business services companies.
Total VC investments in Swedish portfolio companies dropped sharply in 2023 to SEK 4.4 billion from SEK 9.6 billion in 2022.
Swiss fund managers oversaw around CHF 360 billion in private market investments by the end of 2024.
Swiss VC funds allocate an average of 30% of invested capital and 50% of their total number of investments to Swiss start-ups.
Pangaea Ventures released its inaugural Hard Tech Report on its 25th anniversary to map out investment trends and breakthrough technologies.
The study evaluates 905 higher education institutions across 35 European countries with a combined annual budget of nearly €250 billion creating over 14.000 startups annually.
A total of 409 FiBAN members participated in the annual investment survey for 2025.
Danish real GDP rebounded to 3.5 percent in 2024, with expectations to reach 3.0 percent growth in 2025.
Swiss venture capital invested capital recorded a 23.9% increase after two consecutive years of decline.
Aggregate venture debt deal value in 2024 surged past $53 billion despite transaction volume falling below 1,400 completed deals.
Total capital deployed in the Baltic startup ecosystem reached €1606 million in 2025, up from €546 million in 2024.
The survey received 76 answers from 488 targeted employees of Finnish private equity and venture capital companies.
Israeli cybersecurity total funding reached $5.1 billion across 136 rounds in 2025.