Buyout and Growth in Finland H1 2025
Finnish growth companies received €161m (-55% YoY) across 30 (-23% YoY) deals from domestic and foreign investors.
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Finnish growth companies received €161m (-55% YoY) across 30 (-23% YoY) deals from domestic and foreign investors.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang estimates that $2T worth of data centers will power software globally over the next four to five years [p.4].
Spanish startups raised €1.9B in VC investment in 2024.
Swiss venture capital invested capital recorded a 23.9% increase after two consecutive years of decline.
Swiss fund managers oversaw around CHF 360 billion in private market investments by the end of 2024.
Total VC investments in Swedish portfolio companies dropped sharply in 2023 to SEK 4.4 billion from SEK 9.6 billion in 2022.
Venture Capital & Private Equity investment in Spain reached €6.292M across 785 investments in 2024.
Enterprise Ireland has invested over €90 million in over 200 Irish-born fintech, financial, or related business services companies.
Spanish private capital funds generated an aggregate net IRR of 11.1% and a TVPI multiple of 1.6x over the 2006–2024 period.
Danish real GDP rebounded to 3.5 percent in 2024, with expectations to reach 3.0 percent growth in 2025.
Capital raised by European PE and VC funds reached €54 billion in the first half of 2025, representing a 20% decline compared to the same period in 2024.
The survey received 76 answers from 488 targeted employees of Finnish private equity and venture capital companies.
The Nasdaq Composite Index grew 38% over the last twelve months, adding $8.4 trillion in market capitalisation.
The combined enterprise value of Spanish startups surpassed €100B in 2023.
Private equity-backed European companies employed 10.9 million people in 2022, representing 5% of Europe's total workforce of 236 million.
Private equity portfolio companies directly and indirectly employ approximately 250 000 people, representing 4.8% of total employment in Sweden.
Private equity and venture capital backed companies accounted for 4% of Belgium's total 4.9 million workforce.
Global private market total assets under management reached US$ 13.1 trillion mid 2023, following 20% annual growth over the prior five years.
Since 2007, a total of 25.7 billion euros has been invested in Belgian companies through venture capital and private equity.
The Swiss venture capital market recorded a 35% decrease in overall capital invested during its first downturn since the financial crisis.
Europe's tech workforce reached 3.5M employees in 2024, expanding at a 24% compounded annual growth rate since 2015.
Venture Capital and Private Equity invested a total of €6,709M across 844 investments in Spain in 2023, returning to pre-pandemic levels.
The aggregate net IRR for Spanish private equity and venture capital funds reached 11.3% for the 2006–2022 period, with a TVPI of 1.5X.
European venture capital firms receive an average of 851 investment proposals per year, with 6% leading to closed deals.
Combining 2021 and 2022 accounted for one third of all VC volumes invested since 2007.
SECA represents more than 500 members including investment companies, banks, corporate finance advisors, auditing firms, lawyers, and private investors in Switzerland.
ICT/Fintech surpassed CHF 2 billion, with ICT invested capital growing by 72%.
Invest Europe's preliminary data shows European private equity funds raised €33 billion in the first half of 2023, representing a 63% decline compared to the prior six months.
European tech ecosystem value bounced back to $3 trillion, recovering the $400 billion that was wiped out in 2022.
Mean FTE employment growth among SVCA member portfolio companies reached 21% in 2022, up from 9% in FY 2020.