Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation

Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation is an independent non-profit private foundation based in Helsinki, Finland. Established in 1942, the mission of the foundation is to support cultural and economic development in Finland. The foundation fulfills its purpose by distributing grants and prizes in the fields of science, art, and other societal activity, funding the Wihuri Research Institute, which specialized in the basic research of cardiovascular diseases, to ensure the continuation of research and making art acquisitions to the Wihuri Art Collection in Rovaniemi Art Museum and maintaining scholarship and residency programs. The assets of the foundation are managed by themore

Tapani Välä

Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Member of the Financial Committee

1 past transactions

Rokote Laboratories

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of nasal spray vaccine designed to protect people against the COVID-19 virus. The company's vaccine is based on gene transfer technology which uses a safe adenovirus carrier that contains a cloned Deoxyribonucleic acid strand, that causes nasopharyngeal cells to produce the virus protein which, in turn, produces a response to the vaccine, thereby enabling patients to get a immune response.
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