Ever since I started blogging about Finnish startups about a year ago, I’ve wanted to get my hands on a list of all of them. That obviously didn’t exist, so I had to compile it myself. I’ve compiled the list from various sources, mainly my own blog and Arctic Startup. At this point the list should contain most of the Finnish web startups, but I must have missed a few. Should you know a company missing from the list, please let me know in the comments.
It was quite hard to categorize all of the startups as many seem to fall into several categories. As you can see from the list, there are a lot of startups in the Social media, gaming and mobile categories. There is a nice variety in the startups and it’s great that they have managed to find some unique ideas.
The List of Finnish Web Startups
Social Networking
- ConnectedDay -communities for daycare centers
- ENCA -Coin collecting social network
- Muxlim -Muslim Online Community
- Petsie -Social Networking for pets
- Xiha Life -Multilingual social network
- White Vector -Social media monitoring
Social Networking, Travel
Social recommendation services
- Eat.fi -Find and rate open restaurants near you
- RunToShop -Social recommendation service
- These Are My Brands -In stealth. By Kisko Labs
Creating and sharing media
- Comex.com -Create & share funny picture messages in web or using your mobile phone
- Floobs -Build you own online tv-channel
- Innofile -Online file transfer service
- Mahshelf -YouTube for comics/books
- Moogo -Easy creation of web sites. By Ideakone
- MySites -Online desktop for multimedia
E-commmerce
- Fruugo -Trusted 3rd party of E-Business
- Leads House -Sales leads community
- MyCashFlow -Easy to use web shop software
- Norfello -E-invoicing (laskulle.fi) and web-based sending of letters (postita.fi)
- Timalaya -Social shopping space. By Gemilo
Gaming
- Apprix -Edugaming
- CMAX.gg -Online Game Server Exchange
- EveryPlay -Stealth social Gaming startup
- HappyWise -Educational and serious games
- Ironstar Helsinki -Developer of cross-platform social games, such as MoiPal
- Mobile Advertising Solutions, MAS -Advertising on mobile games
- Tweehouse – social gaming solutions for large brands
Mobile
- Blyk -free mobile phone network
- HappyWakeUp -Smart alarm clock on mobile phone
- JoikuSpot -Turns your phone to a mobile WLAN HotSpot
- Kuneri -Mobile software based on Flash Lite
- Senseg -Touch interface technology
- Whatamap -Mobilize your maps
Personal tools
- NewsToScreen -News and ads delivered via a screensaver
- One did it -Test your consumption of natural resources, share the results and reduce it with simple, easy actions
- Scred -Community-oriented cost balancing tool
- SoftColor -Online image processing
- WOT -Free web security browser add-on
Business tools
- Lumo Flow -Social Workspaces
- Numcore -Online monitoring and controlling instruments for the process industry
- Oindex -Public listing of web sites’ analytics data
- Rate Cards -Helps online and print publishers and advertisers find each other
Development services
- HammerKit -Web-based development platform
- nCore -Embedded localisation and user interface products
- VerticeTree -Innovative platforms and applications for the internet and mobile devices
- Zipipop -Develops web-based services for making everyday life easier.
Crowdsrourcing
- Wreck A Movie -The future of film
Great job Timo !!!
Next Web, why don’t you guys produce an pan-european startup list????
but you’re not from Finland, are you?;)
Soon Trip Essentials will be part of the ‘social’ Travel start-up list. We will be presenting the private BETA during LeWeb08 in Paris. TripEss.com is coming soon.
jawol ;-)
Oeps… :-S
Great list. Seems like a lot is happening in Finland. It would also be cool if The Next Web could give it a grade based on the possibility of success.
The grade should be adjustable over time though…
Oo… Patrick, that’d be a dangerous game to play! Not that I wouldn’t vote myself… ;-)
You’ll be happy to know that ArcticStartup is already hard at work on a Nordic and Baltic wide ‘CrunchBase’ and it should come out very soon.
We’ve been trying to get an understanding of all the startups across the Baltic and Nordic countries ourselves and felt that a common directory could help out everybody.
Will let you guys know as soon as we get it out.
Ville.
Great job Ville!
Why do you guys limit yourselfs to Northern-Europe ?
Nicolas
Nicolas,
Good question!
We don’t necessarily want to limit it to Northern-Europe, but will focus our resources to those startups because we follow Northern-European startups at ArcticStartup itself. Thus, by focusing on Northern Europe in everything we do we aim to provide more value for our readers.
At the end of the day the choice goes back to why we started blogging in the first place:
“We at ArcticStartup aim to encourage entrepreneurship and to help create a radically optimistic entrepreneurial culture here in the Nordics and Baltics by writing about the startups, the stories behind them and the events that influence them.”
See more at http://www.arcticstartup.com/about/
I’m not sure about the definition of a startup but I think you could list Snoobi under the category of business tools.
http://www.fraced.com – a really “green” startup released in July… the substance is not there yet and we try to get initial user base… Stay tuned!
Excellent list, Timo. Great work! I guess you might find some additional companies from this list of Finnish gaming companies: http://asmunder.net/peliyhtiot/ — I hope it helps to develop your list further.
Hi,
you’ll find quite good coverage of Finnish high-tech start-ups from our web site. Web 2.0 companies are not a separate category, but would mainly be listed under category ICT – Software. Bear with me – the engine is awful – but we are working on a tenfold improvement over this listing.
http://www.technopolisventures.fi/index.php?568
N.B. Pre-incubation cases and graduated clients are not listed here, so there’s several interesting Web2.0 companies that will later appear on the public radar or have already gone though our development programs.
Hi, Thanks for some good coverage. I am writing on behalf of SIME Awards that recognizes, awards promising young start up companies during our 2 day conference in Stockholm in November. So if you find companies that you think are interesting, do send me an email at mahesh(at)sime(dot)nu.
sure! why not, want to help?
Yeah, a list would be good. but should we build our own list or use Crunchbase or some other existing service?
I’ll be glad to help… maybe an extra feature besides the blog… like a european guide for startups… Something to discuss at the salon the 17th ???
For my list of Finnish startups I first considered using CrunchBase or Tradevibes, but there are only about a dozen Finnish companies in each site. I suspect that this would be the same for most European startups.
If you can get all the European startups to join Crunchbase then that would be better of course.