Comments on: The list of Finnish Startups

By: Mahesh Kumar

Mahesh Kumar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:27:12 +0000

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.

By: Tuomas Maisala

Tuomas Maisala — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:11:59 +0000

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.

By: Asmo Halinen

Asmo Halinen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:38:19 +0000

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.

By: Tair

Tair — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:34:35 +0000

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!

By: Matti Kojo

Matti Kojo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:42:56 +0000

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

By: List of Finnish Startups | ArcticStartup

List of Finnish Startups | ArcticStartup — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:02:10 +0000

[...] Paloheimo has listed a good bunch of Finnish web startups in The Next Web using various sources, including his own blog [...]

By: Ville Vesterinen

Ville Vesterinen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:02:32 +0000

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/

By: Nicolas Mertens

Nicolas Mertens — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:41:27 +0000

Great job Ville!

Why do you guys limit yourselfs to Northern-Europe ?

Nicolas

By: Ville Vesterinen

Ville Vesterinen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:18:46 +0000

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.

By: Gino Goossens

Gino Goossens — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:48:48 +0000

jawol ;-)

Oeps… :-S

By: Kristoffer Lawson

Kristoffer Lawson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:53:51 +0000

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

By: Patrick de Laive

Patrick de Laive — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:11:00 +0000

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…

By: Timo Paloheimo

Timo Paloheimo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:01:35 +0000

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.

By: Nicolas Mertens

Nicolas Mertens — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:00:57 +0000

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 ???

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:51:44 +0000

Yeah, a list would be good. but should we build our own list or use Crunchbase or some other existing service?

By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Ernst-Jan Pfauth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:23:33 +0000

sure! why not, want to help?

By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Ernst-Jan Pfauth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:23:12 +0000

but you’re not from Finland, are you?;)

By: Gino Goossens

Gino Goossens — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:55:49 +0000

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.

By: Nicolas Mertens

Nicolas Mertens — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:38:25 +0000

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