Conor Announces New Early-Stage Venture Capital Fund
Helsinki, Finland – May 5, 2010 – Conor Venture Partners, a leading Finnish early-stage technology VC, today announced the 46.5 million euro first closing of its second early-stage venture capital fund. Operating from Finland and following in the footsteps of Conor’s first fund, the new fund will invest in early-stage technology centric companies rooted in the Nordics and Baltics.
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Conor and Sunstone Invest $2.5M in Neo Technology
NoSQL East Conference, Atlanta, GA and Malmö, Sweden – October 28, 2009 - Neo Technology, developer of Neo4j, the world’s leading open source graph database, today announced that it has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to boost Neo4j’s presence in the emerging graph database market. The funds will be used to accelerate product development and expand sales and marketing efforts. The investment round was co-led by Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners.
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Conor and Energy Future Invest to Invest $2.5M in Crystalsol
Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia, August 30, 2009 – Crystalsol, a Tallinn, Estonia and Vienna, Austria based photovoltaic start-up company, today announced that Conor Venture Partners and Energy Future Invest provide company with funding to accelerate the development of Crystalsol’s revolutionary powder based photovoltaic technology.
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Conor, Veraventure, Helsinki University Fund and VTT Invest $2.75M in PlexPress
Helsinki, Finland – May 12, 2009 – PlexPress announced today the closure of USD 2.75M seed funding from venture capital investors for introducing the game changing gene expression analysis solution to advance biological science, drug discovery, plant sciences and diagnostics.
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Conor, Index and NorthZone Invest $15M B-round to Imbera
Espoo, Finland and Melbourne, Florida – April 14, 2009 – Imbera Electronics, the developer of patented Integrated Module Board (IMB™) technology for 3-D semiconductor packaging, announced that it has secured USD 15 million in series B funding from NorthZone Ventures, Index Ventures and Conor Venture Partners.
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Conor, Ferd and Finnish Industry Investment Invest 5M Euro B-round to Eniram
Helsinki, Finland and Oslo, Norway - January 29, 2009 - Eniram Ltd., provider of dynamic decision support systems for the shipping industry, today announced the successful closing of its Series B venture funding round. The investment round totaling 5 Million Euros (USD 6,5 Million) will allow Eniram to increase the pace of expansion of its global sales, distribution and support operations. Stronger presence in key markets will help Eniram respond to the growing demand for the company’s flagship product Dynamic Trimming Assistant (DTA), introduced in July 2008 to the global maritime market.
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Conor and Northzone Co-Lead Investment in Supponor
Helsinki, Finland - August 26, 2008 - Supponor Ltd, a pioneering provider of digital billboard replacement (DBR) solutions, today announced the successful closing of its 6 million EUR Series A funding round. The funds will be used for international sales and marketing of Supponor DBRLive, a novel system for precise masking and replacement of on-event advertising content in live sports broadcasts. The system opens up a wide range of opportunities for targeted and localized sports marketing.
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Conor Invests in Eniram
Helsinki, Finland - March 7, 2008 - Eniram Ltd., the provider of next generation instrumental systems that improve vessel operations for the maritime industry, has secured a significant investment from Conor Venture Partners. The new capital allows the company to strengthen its marketing and sales operations to address the needs of the global shipping industry.
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Creandum Invests In Aito To Fuel International Growth
Helsinki, Finland – December 4, 2007 - Aito Technologies, the first company to provide Customer Experience Management software to mobile operator’s business management, today announced the completion of round-A funding. Creandum’s investment will be used to drive market expansion of Aito’s software.
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Conor Venture Partners Invests in Aito Technologies
Helsinki, Finland - August 21, 2007 - Aito Technologies announced today that it has raised a first round venture capital investment from Conor Venture Partners. Aito develops business management solutions for mobile operators and service providers. The investment will be used for further product development and market expansion.
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Conor Venture Partners Invites Jari Mieskonen to Join as Managing Partner
Espoo, Finland – August 15, 2007 - Conor Venture Partners has invited Mr Jari Mieskonen to become its new Managing Partner as of August 1st. Mr Mieskonen has previously been working as a founding partner of Eqvitec Partners Oy, Finnish venture firm advising five venture funds.
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Imbera Electronics Secures Series A Investment from Index Ventures, NorthZone Ventures and Conor Venture Partners
Helsinki, Finland – April 16, 2007 - Imbera Electronics Ltd., the innovator of the patented IMB technology that enables design and production of highly miniaturized electronic products, announced it has secured a Series A investment round from funds managed by Index Ventures, Northzone Ventures and Conor Venture Partners. Imbera will use the additional funding to expand its marketing and sales operations especially in Asia and the USA as well as to further strengthen its technology development.
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Conor Venture Partners and Finnish Industry Investment to Invest in Concilio Networks
Espoo, Finland – October 3, 2006 - Concilio Networks, a stealth mode start-up company aiming to enable VoIP benefits to every mobile handset, today announced an agreement with Conor Venture Partners and Finnish Industry Investment for completion of €1.0 million investment. The proceeds of the Conor led round will be used to finalize and to bring to market Concilio’s revolutionary mobile VoIP product.
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Helmi Technologies Secures € 2.0 Million in Funding
Helsinki, Finland – August 29, 2006 - Helmi Technologies, a provider of an Ajax-based development platform for building browser-independent rich Internet applications (RIAs), announced today that it has secured € 2.0 million in additional funding. The lead investor for the current round is Conor Venture Partners, a leading Finland-based early-stage technology venture capital firm.
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Significant Investment to Commercialize Technology for Virtual Advertising
Helsinki, Finland - March 22, 2006 - The funds managed by Conor Venture Partners and Finnish Industry Investment have made a significant capital investment into a finnish company Virtual Advertising Systems VAS Ltd developing cutting-edge technology enabling virtual ads in live TV –broadcasts. VC funding is used to launch the technology in global markets.
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New Technology Investor and Seed-Stage Venture Capital Fund Established in Finland
Helsinki, Finland - January 10, 2006 - Conor Venture Partners Oy, a new Finland-based venture capital firm, today announced the formation of a new venture capital fund for early-stage technology companies. At first closing, the Conor Technology Fund I Ky totals 16 million euros.
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