Takeoff Partners

Takeoff Partners are experienced growth advisors and private investors that focuses on internationalizing B2B software and services. Takeoff Partners provide advisory and coaching services that leverages their experiences in growing businesses. The portfolio businesses of the company are Meetingpackage.com, LATO Tools, Tellybean, Enbrite.ly, Cuckoo Workout, and Havusport. Takeoff Partners is located in Finland and the company was founded in 2014 by Markko Vaarnas.

Jouko Virtanen

Senior Partner and Chairman of the Board

18 past transactions

MeetingPackage

Seed Round in 2017
MeetingPackage.com lets you book meeting rooms & packages just like you book hotel rooms from your favourite travel website. Over 250 000 meeting rooms that include 3,4 and 5 star hotels and also unique venues. MeetingPackage.com saves time & money from the booking process of organising offsite meetings & events. Within the same tool you can also communicate directly with the venue, keep track on expenses and get real-time reporting to your management. MeetingPackage.com can be used for the standard half a day and day meetings as well as more complicated events. For Meeting Venues (Hotels, Conference Centers, Unique Venues etc.) we offer access to corporate clientele without eRFP spam! Seasonal pricing, multi-user functionality, reporting and full management of incoming bookings. Everything is in one place. Our API makes integrations possible for Sales & Catering softwares. ** MeetingPackage.com is the only marketplace globally to be integrated with Oracle Opera Sales & Catering. This gives access to the live availability and pricing for the majority of the meeting rooms in hotels around the world.

Miradore

Private Equity Round in 2018
Miradore Ltd. provides Web-based IT lifecycle management systems. The company offers cloud-based management solutions that consist of integrated asset management, configuration management, and lifecycle management tools. Its solutions allow remote access to IT devices and software, as well as support IT lifecycle, including purchasing, installation, maintenance, replacement, and retiring devices. The company’s solutions offer multi customer support, real-time asset management, integrated configuration management, automating software and configuration changes, operating system installation and hardware replacement, self-service portal with approval workflow, and key performance indicators and reporting. It also offers training services. The company’s software solutions are used by IT service providers, enterprises, healthcare, government and the Finnish military. Miradore Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is based in Lappeenranta, Finland with additional offices in Helsinki and Lappeenranta.

CollectiveCrunch

Seed Round in 2017
CollectiveCrunch is an AI leader in the forestry industry. We collect climate, geo and process data and crunch this information into AI models for better prediction of forest inventories and forest management parameters. Several of the top forestry players the Nordics and Baltics are our customers. Our product is called Linda Forest and is delivered via a SaaS platform. Using Linda Forest our customers make better buying and selling decisions, use wood-based raw material more efficiently, and overall reduce their costs. Currently focussed on Nordic and Baltic countries we are adopting the solution to Northern America, Russia and other forestry markets. Moreover, the solution can be adopted to new opportunities such as prediction of forest risk and modelling of CO2 sequestration.

CareCare

Venture Round in 2013
CareCare Oy manufactures ergonomic and single use products for moving patients in hospitals and nursery homes. It products includes grip sock, socks that minimize the risk of slipping while walking on floors and wet surfaces; slide film, a film that helps to transfer patient from one place to another; transfer slid film, a film that used to transfer patient from wheelchair; transfer mitt, a mitt that used for correcting the patient's position; rolling rack, film dispensing machine; and daily store, storage bag for the patients. The company also offers its products through online. CareCare Oy was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Joensuu, Finland.

Cuckoo Workout

Private Equity Round in 2015
Cuckoo Workout is a work wellness startup company that offers its customers a web-based activity game. It offers Cuckoo, a corporate wellness tool that increase employees’ physical activity during the workday and helps avoid the risks of sedentary work.

Fourdeg

Funding Round in 2015
Fourdeg develops a product that ensures energy savings and temperature control for water radiators heated buildings. Its team has cumulative 90 years of global consumer and infrastructure business background covering business development and management; product management, marketing, and sales; industrial, graphic, service, interaction, and user interface design; product development related to electronics, mechanics, software, wireless, internet, servers, and more; and energy and control technology collaboration with Aalto University. With its systems solution it has the ability to reduce the carbon foot print from one room, to building to town and all the way to city level. Its algorithms can secure high level of performance to the overall system with advanced diagnostic capabilities and predictive service solutions. Fourdeg was founded in 2013 and is based in Esbo, Finland.

Zero Keyboard

Seed Round in 2015
Zero Keyboard makes data entry into Salesforce fast and easy. It enables users to log calls, create leads, scan business cards, collect information, manage tasks, calendar events, and more on the go, even offline, without typing. Zero Keyboard is the perfect companion for Salesforce users.

Humap

Venture Round in 2017
Humap Software is based on 20 years of change management consulting experience. Our product, REAL, is a web-based engagement and collaboration platform designed to replace in-person workshops across distributed teams and drive productivity. REAL helps you to quickly and efficiently tailor processes and content to individual clients, and engage large organizations through seamless one-click participation on any device. REAL is already trusted to drive engagement and impact in 100+ organizations across 10 countries.

Videoly

Private Equity Round in 2015
Videoly is an automated video discovery and management tool for e-commerce. With Videoly online stores can get product videos (brand videos, reviews, unboxings, etc.) flowing automatically to their product pages without any manual work. Having videos on product pages have been A/B test proven to increase conversions, order value and time spent on site.

UPGRD

Venture Round in 2018
UPGRD Photos turns the traditional portrait-style photos into vibrant pieces of artwork with professional graphic design and photo editing possibilities.

Futures Platform

Private Placement in 2019
Futures Platform Oy operates a web-based tool that helps organizations to build a holistic view of their own future and make choices in a changing world. The company operates Futures Platform, a radar on trends and changes that allows users to map out future trends in a visual fashion; and provides access to a trends map with inspirational articles and videos produced by future foresight experts. Its tool also inspires the users in companies and public organizations alike to think about the likely future developments and form their own educated views; and allows users to discuss the phenomena inside the platform, and vote to prioritize which forces of changes are the most critical ones to discuss and prepare for. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Tellybean

Equity Crowdfunding in 2017
Tellybean Ltd. provides video calling solutions through its television and Web applications. Its applications enable users to connect with their families and friends through life-sized video calling on Android TVs and on the Web. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Futures Platform

Venture Round in 2016
Futures Platform Oy operates a web-based tool that helps organizations to build a holistic view of their own future and make choices in a changing world. The company operates Futures Platform, a radar on trends and changes that allows users to map out future trends in a visual fashion; and provides access to a trends map with inspirational articles and videos produced by future foresight experts. Its tool also inspires the users in companies and public organizations alike to think about the likely future developments and form their own educated views; and allows users to discuss the phenomena inside the platform, and vote to prioritize which forces of changes are the most critical ones to discuss and prepare for. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Framery

Private Equity Round in 2015
Framery Oy manufactures and develops soundproof private spaces and pods that enable and reinforce happiness in workplaces. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Tampere, Finland.

Pilvi Cloud Company

Private Equity Round in 2016
Pilvi accelerates cloud commerce by offering eCommerce solutions for hosting providers and cloud brokers. Pilvi Cloud Shop is an online store that we fully rebrand to suit your company and provide to you as a service. In addition to selling your own hosting services online, Pilvi enables a shortcut to cloud reselling with ready-to-broker integrations to the most sought after cloud services. We help our customers scale their sales both with new customers and services. Unlike the current eCommerce platforms available, Pilvi Cloud Shop has been designed specifically for selling hosting and cloud services. Our solution includes a Cloud Manager for your customers to manage all their cloud services in a single place.

LATO Tools

Venture Round in 2015
LATO Leadership Automation Tools Ltd. develops a software enabling its clients to cascade strategy with focus, empower employees to common goals, and provide organizations with capability to reach goals. The application enables its users to plan strategies, execute strategies, and following up on the implemented strategies. The software enables the users to have freedom and control to plan, have a common understanding about goals and progress, empower teams, and implement excellence. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Buildie

Seed Round in 2017
Buildie is a software company that develops and sells software products for building documentation and quality management.

Enbritely

Seed Round in 2015
Enbrite.ly provides tools for the assessment and enhancement of online advertisement/marketing performance. It provides marketing source analysis and reporting for eliminating fraudulent behavior, preventing fraud of marketing channels, and enabling safe marketing for customers in Europe. The company offers its services to Webshops, advertising networks, and traffic brokers. Enbrite.ly was founded in 2014 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.