Verso Capital

Verso Capital, founded in 2012 and based in Helsinki, Finland, is a private equity and venture capital firm that focuses on growth investments in technology-enabled companies. The firm primarily targets startups and emerging growth companies, particularly those that have been spun off from larger corporations that are underperforming. Verso Capital emphasizes investments in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector while selectively exploring opportunities in the forest, metal, energy, and chemical industries, especially where ICT can be applied. The firm typically seeks to invest in businesses with annual sales values ranging from €1 million to €30 million. Verso Capital predominantly focuses on investments in Europe, with a particular interest in companies headquartered or with significant R&D operations in Finland, the Nordics, Israel, and selectively in Germany.

Vesa Jormakka

Venture Partner

Jukka Rauhala

Partner

8 past transactions

Ginolis

Venture Round in 2017
Ginolis specializes in providing high-quality automation and liquid handling solutions for the production and processing of healthcare consumables. The company is privately owned and headquartered in Oulu, Finland, with offices in Uppsala, Sweden, San Diego, USA and Suzhou, China.

CloudStreet

Series A in 2016
CloudStreet Ltd. is a Finnish company that operates a marketplace for buying and selling prioritized mobile network capacity, specifically focusing on LTE. Founded in 2012 and based in Espoo, the company offers a cloud-based capacity exchange technology known as CloudStreet-service. This platform connects mobile network operators looking to sell their LTE capacity with broadcasters and internet distribution companies interested in purchasing it for high-definition live TV reporting. Additionally, CloudStreet enables carriers to commercialize the delivery of context-specific bandwidth on demand, allowing for the provision of highly personalized services based on dynamic application profiles. Through its innovative approach, CloudStreet effectively balances network traffic and data demand.

Emberion Oy

Seed Round in 2016
Emberion develops and produces graphene photonics and electronics that will revolutionise infrared photodetectors and thermal sensors in applications ranging from hyperspectral and thermal imaging to night vision and X-ray detection. We deliver tailored, high-quality solutions for those in need of superior technical performance and improved return-on-investment in R&D. Our passion is to take imaging and sensing quality to a new level.

Everon Oy

Venture Round in 2016
Everon system devices are being operated and monitored by a wide variety of care professionals. Everon devices are very simple to deploy and provide a secure vehicle to locating wearers and delivering alerts. We have built an infrastructure to give you the best functionality available and if you are interested to find out more about tools at your disposal, additional equipment, tips and tricks, and of course, customer support, we have provided you with more information. Dementia is the single most important reason for nursing home admission. The location aware Vega solution can significantly delay nursing home admission for wearers. The health impacts may be significant and can help to reduce private and public spending. The Vega solution is a good replacement for facility resources. In many countries, facility care is crumbling with full capacity already. With the location aware Vega solution wearers can keep active instead of being locked in. Everon Lyra is widely used in assisted living communities, retirement facilities and special care units. Thousands of Everon Lyra users live in facilities run by local authorities, private housing and care providers and charitable institutions. Working with parties who develop, build and maintain high quality service and facilities for different levels of care is our specialty. Flexible and fast planning, installation and deployment have created long-lasting partnerships with key players in the care operations. Thanks to the fully wire-free system and use of remote server structure that is monitored 24/7 Everon Lyra is the secure and future-proof solution for care providers. Everon Lyra is the perfect solution to deploy also in rented facilities and temporary locations where change is normal and efficient use of facilities is a must. The cable-free installation gives care teams the adaptive and efficient use of the solution and its devices.

CloudStreet

Seed Round in 2015
CloudStreet Ltd. is a Finnish company that operates a marketplace for buying and selling prioritized mobile network capacity, specifically focusing on LTE. Founded in 2012 and based in Espoo, the company offers a cloud-based capacity exchange technology known as CloudStreet-service. This platform connects mobile network operators looking to sell their LTE capacity with broadcasters and internet distribution companies interested in purchasing it for high-definition live TV reporting. Additionally, CloudStreet enables carriers to commercialize the delivery of context-specific bandwidth on demand, allowing for the provision of highly personalized services based on dynamic application profiles. Through its innovative approach, CloudStreet effectively balances network traffic and data demand.

Atrinet

Venture Round in 2014
Atrinet is a software vendor and services company that specializes in network migrations and multi-vendor SDN enablement in the telecommunication industry. The company is driven by its mission is to help communication services provides in its network virtualization transformations by enabling the transition between traditional and new network, in the most reliable, efficient and fastest way. Atrinet was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Israel.

Cumulocity

Private Equity Round in 2013
It all began in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, CA in 2010. At this time Nokia Siemens Networks started to innovate software solutions based on cloud technology for the M2M (Machine to Machine) market. An experienced team of senior managers and engineers created award winning software products which were named Cumulocity. Cumulocity stands for fast cloud solutions: Cumulocity - a compound word of ‘Cumulus’ (“Cloud”) and ‘Velocity’.

Dedicated Network Partners

Seed Round in 2013
Dedicated Network Partners is develops and produces critical communications networks for utilities, corporations, and enterprises. DNWP is a Finnish high-tech brand driven by the product philosophy to design devices that beat records in value. DNWP devices provide true multiservice capabilities to support a wide range of voice and data interfaces and a variety of connectivity scenarios making them one of the most reliable and sustainable critical communications solutions on the market. DNWP’s key device Connection Master offers high availability, service quality, and security – the ‘must’ features of a modern network. Connection Master combines the leading critical communications technologies into one device. It supports a variety of existing communications means (TDM) while taking you simultaneously towards the next generation networks (MPLS-TP).