فنلندا تدعو رأس المال القطري إلى منظومتها التقنية 🇫🇮🇶🇦

Finland courts Qatari capital for its €250bn tech goal 🇫🇮🇶🇦

At a Finnish trade delegation hosted by Qatar Chamber, Samuel Wendelin, director at Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment), pitched Qatari business leaders a co-investment strategy. The state-owned VC and PE investor manages about €4bn across nearly 140 funds and is indirectly invested in close to 1,500 companies, always as a minority owner alongside private investors.

Three doors in: ▫️ Direct co-investment in growth-stage scale-ups ▫️ Venture funds, which raised a record €700M last year, including Finland's first fund over €400M ▫️ Industrial-scale projects: data centres, hydrogen, batteries and sustainable aviation fuel

Finland has 18 unicorns. Its startups raised a record €1.9bn last year, about 75% from international investors, and ICEYE's €1bn+ raise at a €10.5bn valuation made it the third decacorn after Supercell and Wolt. Tesi targets €250bn for the ecosystem by 2035.

"Our job is to bring in capital, not to compete with it," Wendelin said.