News and updates

Pauliina is well-known for her excellent job as Head of Program at Kiuas -accelerator. She has helped close to a hundred startups from idea to first revenue… and beyond. Now she takes personally and professionally a step further by joining Evli Growth Partners. She is hoping to see many of these Kiuas companies again in her new position.

We are strengthing our investment team, by bringing onboard Juuso Koskinen. Read below to get to know him.

As part of our trainee blog series, our most recent trainee Maiju Aspegren writes about her experience at our fund – and how VCs bring additional value to the table after the investment.

Are you a VC investor looking to strengthen your sustainability capabilities? Or perhaps a startup eager for growth support around sustainability? Here are some key insights on our approach to building long-term sustainable businesses.

As one of our key climate-initiatives in 2021 we are happy to announce our partnership with Compensate. With this partnership we aim to actively support our portfolio companies in systematically tracking, reducing and ultimately offsetting their carbon emissions. As an active owner, we are committed to carbon neutrality by offsetting our share of the portfolio’s carbon emissions in full. Read more from Compensate’s partnership blog below.

Som en del av vår traineebloggserie skriver vår senaste trainee Jere om hans erfarenheter och lärdomar över venture capital.

Kicking off our Impact Stories -blog series with the story of Tylko – paving the way towards a new era of furniture design. Across the industry, fast furniture has dominated the way we live and consume. Tylko is a great example of driving the push towards conscious consumption by designing products that will last a lifetime. In doing so Tylko aims to set new standards with the way furniture is designed, sourced, produced and delivered. We at Evli Growth Partners are proud to partner with Tylko in supporting their highly impact-driven vision.

As part of our Founder Stories -blog series we are happy to kick off with a great piece by Kirill Bigai, Founder and CEO of Preply. In his blog Kirill provides valuable advice on fundraising and key do’s and don’ts when it comes to pitching to investors. Kirill speaks from experience – having recently raised a $ 35M Series B from a group of international investors including US-based Owl Ventures, Full in Partners and Evli Growth Partners.

Growth Partnerimme ja Euroopan parhaana työpaikkana palkitun ohjelmistotalo Vincitin perustaja ja toimitusjohtaja Mikko Kuitunen tarjoaa parhaita oppejaan etätöiden johtamiseen. Blogissaan Mikko avaa näkemyksiään varmasti monen kontikonttorilta toimivan polttavaan pulmaan: miten toimia etänä läsnä?

Ari Korhonen is an entrepreneur and recognized as one of the 40 most influential European angel investors by EU Startups. With a portfolio of +40 companies, he is a go-to person for anything SaaS. We interviewed Ari on the most efficient growth engines of rapidly growing SaaS companies and what makes him excited about them.