Midinvest

Midinvest Management Oy is a Finnish private equity and venture capital firm focused on buyouts and growth capital. Established in 2001 and based in Jyväskylä, the firm primarily invests in small and medium-sized enterprises across various sectors, with a particular emphasis on technology. Midinvest targets companies with annual revenues typically ranging from €1 million to €35 million, and it often seeks early-stage investment opportunities. The firm's investment strategy involves structuring funding through share capital, loan instruments, and convertible loans, and it aims to obtain board representation in its portfolio companies. Midinvest favors both majority and minority stakes and generally plans to exit its investments within three to seven years through trade sales or sales to other private equity investors. Its investment focus is primarily in Finland, particularly in the Central Finland, Päijät-Häme, Ylä-Pirkanmaa, and Keuruu regions.

Jarkko Danska

Investment Director

Risto Jämsén

Investment Director and Partner

Marja Kantonen

Investment Director

Jukka-Pekka Nikula Ph.D

Managing Director & Partner

Päivi Tuulimo

Investment Manager and Partner

24 past transactions

Howspace

Convertible Note in 2020
Howspace is a digital facilitation platform that helps you deliver powerful organizational change initiatives, learning programs, and workshops. Howspace adapts to your way of working. You can build the workspaces to match your tried and tested processes. Edit the looks of your workspace, manage the participants access levels, move content around, and add new pages as you go along.

Humap

Venture Round in 2017
Humap Software Oy, established in 2007 and located in Helsinki, Finland, specializes in developing software solutions aimed at digitalizing the consulting business. Drawing on two decades of expertise in change management consulting, the company's flagship product, REAL, is a web-based engagement and collaboration platform. REAL is designed to enhance productivity by replacing traditional in-person workshops, enabling distributed teams to engage effectively. The platform allows for rapid customization of processes and content to meet the specific needs of individual clients, facilitating seamless participation from large organizations on any device. Humap's solutions are currently utilized by over 100 organizations across ten countries, demonstrating their effectiveness in driving engagement and impact.

Ficote Oy

Venture Round in 2017
Ficote Oy, established in 1976 and located in Vihtavuori, Finland, specializes in the manufacture and sale of sewer cleaning vehicles and waste bin washers. The company produces a variety of equipment, including transfer pumps, street washing systems, combined and compact units, suction units, trailers, and demountable units, along with related services and spare parts. Ficote Oy's products are utilized in sewage maintenance, industrial cleaning, and ADR transport. With a strong reputation for reliability and innovative design, Ficote Oy has expanded its market presence beyond Finland, supplying its FICO sewage treatment equipment and washer systems to other Scandinavian countries and Central Europe. The company's extensive experience and expertise in the field position it as a competitive player in the international market.

Silenta Group

Acquisition in 2016
Silenta Group is specialized in the manufacture and development of high quality hoods for over 50 years. In addition to hearing protectors, we also manufacture face protectors and technical plastics.

Sleipner Group

Venture Round in 2016
Sleipner Group specializes in designing and developing innovative shipbuilding solutions tailored for the mining and quarrying industries. Founded in 1996 by Ossi Kortesalmi, an excavator operator, the company emerged from a need for effective solutions in challenging environments, initially addressing specific requirements for a chrome mine in the Finnish Arctic. Over the years, Sleipner has established itself as a key player in providing unique and efficient machinery that enhances operations in shipyards, particularly focused on the needs of the mining sector.

JyNet Oy

Venture Round in 2015
JyNet Oy is a contracting company specialized in electricity, security and telecommunication sectors. The company provides network construction, road lighting, and building and home security technologies. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Ficonic Solutions

Venture Round in 2015
Ficonic was founded in 2014 to develop software products for automotive and offer high-class software development services for its customers to reach true cost-efficiency for software solutions.

Suomen KotiData

Venture Round in 2014
Suomen KotiData is an IT support service company founded in 2008. It provides support and training services for computers and other entertainment electronics for households and small businesses.

Paytrail

Venture Round in 2014
Paytrail Oyj is a Finnish company specializing in online payment services designed to facilitate eCommerce. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Jyväskylä, with an additional office in Stockholm, the company offers a range of traditional payment methods, including online bank payments, card payments, invoicing, and installment options. Paytrail's solutions enable businesses to provide their customers with preferred payment options, thereby enhancing the online shopping experience. The company serves clients within SEPA countries and operates as a subsidiary of Nets Oy. Originally established as Suomen Verkkomaksut Oyj, Paytrail has positioned itself as a key player in the Finnish eCommerce landscape, addressing the challenges faced by online businesses in managing payment processes.

Valttori Oy

Acquisition in 2013
Valttori Oy, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Jyväskylä, Finland, specializes in the service and maintenance of heavy machinery, including tractors, forklifts, earth-moving equipment, and other industrial machines. The company offers comprehensive servicing solutions, including repairs for hydraulic systems, gears, and transmissions. In addition to maintenance, Valttori supplies a wide range of spare parts and accessories for heavy machinery and industrial equipment. This includes components like bearing units, seals, belts, and various hydraulic and pneumatic products. Valttori also provides pipe assembly and fitting services, along with inspection services to ensure operational efficiency. The company maintains contracts with multiple suppliers to enhance its service offerings in the heavy-duty and industrial sectors.

Soikea

Venture Round in 2013
Soikea Solutions Oy, established in 2012 and headquartered in Jyvaskyla, Finland, specializes in developing a multi-channel online commerce platform and providing product information management solutions as a service. The company focuses on enhancing online commerce capabilities for businesses, enabling them to manage product information efficiently across various sales channels. As of April 2016, Soikea operates as a subsidiary of Etteplan Oyj.

Energiakolmio Oy

Acquisition in 2012
Energiakolmio Oy is an independent company providing expert services on the energy management. We offer services related to the procurement, sale and efficient use of energy to companies and organisations.

Flaaming Oy

Acquisition in 2008
Flaaming Oy is a company focused on sales and marketing of waste and environmental products. Its range includes garbage trucks, garbage containers, pallets, presses and property maintenance products.

Produal

Acquisition in 2008
Produal Oy develops and manufactures measurement and control devices for the HVAC sector. It offers frost protection and fire alarm thermostats; air velocity, concentration, differential pressure, humidity, illumination, and water pressure transmitters, as well as smoke detectors; and electric power controllers.

C2 SmartLight

Venture Round in 2008
C2 SmartLight is a company that specializes in smart outdoor lighting solutions, designed to enhance visibility in various challenging environments. Based in Finland, the company manufactures lighting systems suitable for diverse applications, including streets, sports areas, parks, courtyards, ports, industrial zones, and railway yards. C2 SmartLight provides comprehensive lighting control systems, which incorporate electrical and lighting design, software, sensors, and switches. These technologies enable clients to create smarter environments through advanced electricity control, ensuring effective illumination for both small spaces and larger areas.

Stafix Oy

Venture Round in 2008
Stafix Oy is a Finnish company based in Vaajakoski that specializes in developing and manufacturing high-tech printing materials for advertising solutions. Founded in 2007, the company produces a unique electrically charged polypropylene film that adheres to dry surfaces without the need for adhesives. This innovative product is primarily used in retail advertising applications, including point of purchase displays, magazine inserts, direct mail, street marketing, temporary labels, and order free samples. Stafix Oy collaborates with printing houses, advertising agencies, and brands, providing not only its glue-free materials but also expertise in campaign planning, printing advice, and consultancy for point-of-sale advertising campaigns. The company's products are mainly distributed in German-speaking countries and France.

Polarmatic Oy

Acquisition in 2007
Polarmatic Oy is a developer and supplier of innovative heating, curing, cooling, control and information management solutions specifically developed for the concrete industry. Polarmatic provides optimum solutions for producers of ready-mix concrete in central-mix and dry batch batching plants as well as for producers of precast concrete, pipes, blocks and pavers.

Quosis

Seed Round in 2007
As of March 18, 2008, Quosis Oy was acquired by Proactum Oy. Quosis Oy operates as an open source software service company. It offers open-source based solutions and services, including portal solution for managing organization’s information and services; content management for gathering, sharing, saving, and producing information; business process management for automating, monitoring, managing, and improving key processes; integration of information systems; and instant messaging for improving the organizational information exchange. The company also offers open source consultation and software development services. It serves the paper industry. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Jyvaskyla, Finland.

Magnasense

Seed Round in 2006
Magnasense, Ltd. develops method and instrumentation for lateral flow tests to measure substances for human health, environmental analysis, and veterinary testing in Finland. It offers Pilot Feasibility test using magnetic labelling technique. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Jyvaskyla, Finland. As of November 24, 2015, Magnasense Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of LifeAssays AB (publ).

TTP-Yhtiöt Oy

Venture Round in 2005
TTP-Yhtiöt Oy manufactures welded steel structures for the needs of land, water, transport, power and frame construction. TTP-Yhtiöt Oy offers surface coating procedures and hot dip galvanizing products.

Inka Oy

Acquisition in 2005
Inka Oy is a manufacturer and supplier of textile webbing. For more than 100 years, starting in 1898, Inka has produced high quality woven and braided narrow fabrics and cords. The Inka trademark is a respected and well known brand in the industry worldwide and known as a guarantee for high quality and efficient service. Inka manufactures, processes and sells woven and braided high quality webbing products for industrial use. Our products suite many technically demanding applications and among our customers are leading companies in many different industries.

Pisla Oy

Acquisition in 2004
Pisla Oy supplies hardware and furnishing products for hardware stores and warehouses in Finland, Scandinavian and Baltic countries, the Russian Federation, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Germany. The company offers blinds, awnings, curtain rods and accessories, bathroom products, sauna products, fireplace products, grills, cast iron products, fittings, boat accessories, small hardware, ventilation equipment, decorating products, and other hardware products. It sells its products through sales representatives and subsidiaries in Finland and internationally. Pisla Oy also sells products online. The company was founded in 1976 and is based in Viitasaari, Finland.

Aidon

Acquisition in 2004
Aidon Oy, a technology company, provides open architecture-based energy service devices, data communication and system solutions, and related services for energy and service companies worldwide. It offers remote reading systems and modular smart meters, which provide smart grid functionalities, such as daily collection of hourly values, automatic remote software updating, and real-time management of the low voltage network data. The company also provides project planning and execution, and logistics services. Aidon Oy was founded in 2004 and is based in Jyvaskyla, Finland. Aidon Oy has additional offices in Sweden and Norway.

Komas

Acquisition in 2002
Komas Oy is a Finnish company that specializes in the manufacturing and sale of precision machining parts. Founded in 1925 and based in Jyvaskyla, it produces a variety of components, including hydraulic tubes and assemblies, plate components, as well as rings, discs, and die forgings. As of August 2019, Komas operates as a subsidiary of Componenta Corporation.