1. Business

    In the future, businesses will succeed by adopting new operating models and networking with dynamic companies and organisations. Sitra promotes entrepreneurship through funding and networking opportunities for innovative companies.

  2. New markets

    Sitra invests in companies that help build the Finland of tomorrow by promoting well-being and positive change. We focus on creating and developing new areas of business through cross-sector collaboration.

  3. Better conditions

    Sitra encourages the government to support start-ups and the internationalisation of small and medium-sized businesses. Market-based experiments in early-stage companies must also be increased to identify and support viable businesses. More direct backing should be targeted at start-ups, and more mature enterprises should be boosted via tax incentives for research and development.

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Sitra boosts business

Sitra’s investment strategy combines social change with commercial investment operations. As a public capital investor, Sitra promotes well-being and entrepreneurship across the entire nation, aiming to make a lasting difference to the economy and society. It selects its investment areas on social grounds, but its investment operations are fully commercial.

In business funding, Sitra complements the Finnish capital market by focusing on new areas of business that private investors find unattractive due to high risks. As an owner, Sitra creates added value and helps companies succeed by contributing its extensive competence, experience and networks.

As a facilitator of change and an independent operator, Sitra creates prospects and networks for other investors and operators, encouraging them to develop new areas of business and tap into the growth potential in many marginal opportunities. It also promotes social enterprise by developing operating and funding models and by launching pilot projects.

As a capital fund investor, Sitra has played a key role in launching the Finnish capital investment market. Sitra works with specialists and innovative operators, which enables the sharing of expertise, best practices and new operating methods across the country.

Sitra is a member of the Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA) and the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association EVCA.

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Article Did you know?

Sitra's role in 2012 is very clear. Our mission statement sets out our goals for building the Finland of tomorrow. But our history dates back to 1967 and has seen many investments and much research in numerous different areas of life. For example, in the early years, Sitra funded several innovation projects involved in technology and the natural sciences.

3 days ago

Blog Could Finland survive shocks to its system?

What do Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago and the new Linux operating system have in common? Both are created as very complex systems in such a way that even if one of its parts were lost, the whole project would not collapse. Solzhenitsyn wrote and kept the manuscript in separate batches so that the KGB could never get a hold of the entire work. Linux developers, in turn,...

1 week ago by Timo Hämäläinen

Blog Find growth where the customer is

The talk of the day is all about customer-oriented operations and service design: a new understanding of sales as a necessary prerequisite of growth has emerged. All this means contacts with real customers, that is, with people. Businesses are no longer established to remain dormant. Instead, seeds of growth and customer insight are searched for in incubators, living labs, hubs, workshops and...

2 months ago by Jyri Arponen

Other site FVCA

The Finnish Venture Capital Association was established in 1990. The actual members of the association are entities acting in the Finnish private equity and venture capital markets. FVCA accepts as its associate members communities or private individuals who play a part in the development of the industry in Finland. The number of members at the moment is 40 full and 48 associate members.

4 months ago from site www.fvca.fi

Article Taneli Heikka: Helsinki Spring - a revolution of enterprise support

Steve Blank, a professor at Stanford University, and a retired serial entrepreneur, visited Finland in early September. Thousands of people attended Blank's talks, boosting the civic movement of growth entrepreneurship that has been gaining momentum in the decision-making process for a couple of years now.

7 months ago

Article Petri Räsänen: From idea to thriving business without the lengthy incubation

In creating growth companies, Finland cannot rely solely on slow incubation processes. Better identification of the most promising business ideas calls for faster progression and a larger number of ideas. Currently, only a few growth companies emerge in Finland each year. Because of Protomo, a next-generation business incubator, this number is expected to rise to dozens a year within the next decade.

10 months ago

Other site EVCA

The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA)

10 months ago from site www.evca.eu

Article Johannes Paloheimo: There is virtue in moderation

The outsourcing of manufacturing to low-cost production countries is no longer a trend, but more of a practice. Increasingly intensive price wars force manufacturers to find more cost-efficient alternatives. As the amount of know-how in low-cost production countries increases, more and more companies relocate their production there, particularly to China at the moment. How can Nordic companies continue to be competitive in the existing world economy?

1 year ago

Blog Eero Eloranta: What does the future hold for Finnish industry?

Can Finnish industry recover to the path of growth it was on in the early 21st century? Sitra’s book Teollinen Suomi, which deals with Finnish industry, aims to find answers to this question. Now, almost a year after the book was published, it is obvious that large and small-scale companies following the simple but challenging ideas really are going forward.

1 year ago

News A book published by Sitra and Technology Industries of Finland searches for the keys to success in the mechanical industry during difficult times

Major pressure for change is targeted at the subcontracting networks of mechanical and metal products industries in Finland. The main buyers are expanding across borders, and tightening competition requires an even more efficient supply chain. A new publication gives examples of success stories of how to develop mechanical industry in new innovative ways.

3 years ago

Article Veijo Meriläinen: Today’s challenges in the food industry

International markets are always a challenge for actors coming from small countries. For Finland, its greatest challenges are focused on Russia. The key to success in the market is reaching consumers, which continually creates new challenges.

3 years ago

Article Public sector creating added value for companies – fact or fiction?

Public-sector organisations offer a wide range of services for enterprises, but their benefits are under debate. The role of public-sector actors raises strong opinions for and against. Can they bring added value to private enterprises and contribute to their growth? “Yes, they can,” says Risto Kalske, Director of Sitra’s PreSeed service.

6 years ago

Article DIILI service provides sales expertise for SMEs

Early stage companies usually have plenty of technological competence and promising business ideas, but what they often lack is the final key to success – sales and marketing skills. Sitra’s DIILI service offers new entrepreneurs the help of senior sales professionals in international trade to provide know-how and to share some of the risks of entrepreneurship.

7 years ago

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