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The list of Finnish Startups

Written on 7th October 2008 19 COMMENTS
Timo Paloheimo, Next Web Finland Webtipr

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

Dopplr – Share your business travel plans
Tripsay -Travel information organizer

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

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About the author: Timo is an advertising agency online creative/planner with marketing and business background. He focuses on digital marketing communications. He blog Startupbin is about the web and startups, from Finland.

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Oct 8, 2008: List of Finnish Startups | ArcticStartup
[...] Paloheimo has listed a good bunch of Finnish web startups in The Next Web using various sources, including his own blog [...]

By Nicolas Mertens on Oct 7, 2008

Great job Timo !!!
Next Web, why don’t you guys produce an pan-european startup list????

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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on October 7th, 2008:
sure! why not, want to help?

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 7th, 2008:
Yeah, a list would be good. but should we build our own list or use Crunchbase or some other existing service?

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By Timo Paloheimo on October 7th, 2008:
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.

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By Nicolas Mertens on October 7th, 2008:
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 ???

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By Gino Goossens on Oct 7, 2008

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.

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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on October 7th, 2008:
but you’re not from Finland, are you?;)

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By Gino Goossens on October 7th, 2008:
jawol ;-)

Oeps… :-S

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By Patrick de Laive on Oct 7, 2008

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…

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By Kristoffer Lawson on Oct 7, 2008

Oo… Patrick, that’d be a dangerous game to play! Not that I wouldn’t vote myself… ;-)

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By Ville Vesterinen on Oct 7, 2008

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.

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By Nicolas Mertens on Oct 7, 2008

Great job Ville!

Why do you guys limit yourselfs to Northern-Europe ?

Nicolas

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By Ville Vesterinen on Oct 7, 2008

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/

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By Matti Kojo on Oct 8, 2008

I’m not sure about the definition of a startup but I think you could list Snoobi under the category of business tools.

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By Tair on Oct 8, 2008

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!

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By Asmo Halinen on Oct 9, 2008

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.

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By Tuomas Maisala on Oct 9, 2008

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.

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By Mahesh Kumar on Jul 3, 2009

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.

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