Version: November 4, 2014

Total: 5114 established companies

28 ICT start-ups (2 gaming companies, 2 other start-ups)

5 other companies / organizations

4 U.S. companies founded by Finns having operations in Finland

U.S. start-ups founded by Finns: 12

Exits of Finnish companies in SF Bay Area: 20+

VC investments from SV VCs in Finnish companies: 10+

Note: Only 12 Finnish companies had presence in SF Bay Area in the end of 2010

Biotie Therapies (http://www.biotie.com/)

Bitbar (http://www.bitbar.com/)

BLSTream (www.blstream.com)

Conformiq (www.conformiq.com)

Digia (www.digia.com)

F-Secure (www.f-secure.com)

Idean (www.idean.com)

Ixonos (www.ixonos.com)

JOT Automation (www.jotautomation.com)

Nokia (www.nokia.com)

Rapal (www.rapal.fi)

SSH Communications (www.ssh.com)

Symbio (www.symbio.com)

Tieto (www.tieto.com)

Ambronite (www.ambronite.com)

AndersInno (www.andersinno.com)

AppGyver (www.appgyver.com)

AudioDraft (www.audiodraft.com)

BaseN (www.basen.com)

Beddit (www.beddit.com)

BiiSafe (www.biisafe.com)

Codenomicon (www.codenomicon.com)

Cresense (www.cresense.com)

Ekahau (www.ekahau.com)

Haltian (www.haltian.com)

IndoorAtlas (www.indooratlas.com)

Joberate (www.joberate.com)

Modulight (www.modulight.com)

Movial (www.movial.com)

MultiTouch (www.multitaction.com)

Optofidelity (www.optofidelity.com)

Rightware (www.rightware.com)

Senso Solutions (www.sensosolutions.com)

Shark Punch (www.sharkpunch.com)

SuperCell (www.supercell.com)

Surveypal (www.surveypay.com)

Thinglink (www.thinglink.com)

Transfluent (www.transfluent.com)

Tuxera (www.tuxera.com)

Vaadin (www.vaadin.com)

VividWorks (www.vividworks.com)

Zonesco. (www.zonesco.io)

Finpro (www.finpro.com) Internalization consultancy for Finnish companies

Nexit Ventures (www.nexit.com)Finnish-American VC fund

Tekes (www.tekes.com/en) The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation

Vendep (www.vendep.com) Start-up accelerator and seed investor

VTT (www.vtt.fi) Multitechnological applied research organization

Airstone Labs (www.airstonelabs.com) Supercomputing as a service

AlphaSense (www.alpha-sense.com/) -also operations in Finland

Search engine for financial professionals

Appington (www.appington.com)Adding voice to mobile apps

Beatroot (www.beatroot.co), was Hacklog (at Matter.VC)

Analytics for journalists

BetterDoctor (www.betterdoctor.com) -also operations in Finland

Find the right doctor in minutes

Crowd Valley Inc. (www.crowdvalley.com/)

Linko (www.linko.io) - also operations in Finland

Lost in Translations (www.lostintranslations.com) - also operations in Finland

Pilot Network services (www.pilot.net) -listed in NASDAQ

Skydom (www.skydom.io) Build rich data services in the cloud

Trulia (www.trulia.com) - listed in NASDAQ – being acquired by Zillow

Real-estate search tool

Vuact (www.vuact.com) A smarter way to watch and share video.

Animoi – acquired by Macromedia in 2004

Applifier / EveryPlay – acquired by Unity in 2014

Bitboys – acquired by ATI / AMD in 2007

Bitdeli – acquired by AdRoll in 2013

Continuent – acquired by Vmware in 2014

Ditto – acquired by Groupon in 2012

drawElements – acquired by Google in 2014

Flowdock – acquired by Rally Software in 2013

Hantro – acquired by Google in 2010 through Hantro’s acquisition by On2 Technologies in 2007

Hybrid Graphics – acquired by Nvidia in 2006

Innobase – acquired by Oracle in 2005

Jaiku – acquired by Google in 2007

Kippt – acquired by Coinbase in 2014

Mr. Goodliving – acquired by Real Networks in 2005

MySQL (Swedish company with Finnish co-founder and Finnish CEO) – acquired by Sun (now part of Oracle) for $1 billion in 2008

Protogeo / Moves – acquired by Facebook in 2014

Pryte – acquired by Facebook in 2014

RedLynx – acquired by Ubisoft in 2011

Smartner – acquired by Seven Networks in 2005

Solid Information Technology – acquired by IBM in 2007

Stonesoft – acquired by McAfee (part of Intel) in 2013

Sumea – acquired by Digital Chocolate in 2004

AppGyver from Initial Capital in 2014

AudioDraft from 500 Startups in 2013

BetterDoctor from NEA (New Enterprise Associates) in 2014

Continuent from Trident Capital in 2005

G-cluster from Intel Capital (Asia)

MySQL (Swedish company with Finnish co-founder and Finnish CEO) from Benchmark Capital in 2003

Next Games from IDG Ventures and Lowercase Capital in 2014

Ovelin from True Ventures in 2012

Rovio Entertainment from Accel Partners & Felicis Ventures in 2011

SuperCell from Accel Partners & Initial Capital in 2011 and from Index Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners in 2013

Alcom

Basware (now on East Coast)

Capslock

Common Tribes

Cybelius Software

Design Power

Documill

FogScreen

Futuremark (acquired by UL in 2014)

Gearshift Group

Hantro

Helmi

Inreality

Innopinion

LinkoTec

Luxus (www.luxus.fi) US HQ now in Texas

MadOnion (now Futuremark)

Mobile BackstageClosed, part of IP in Common Tribes

Modera Point

Play My Song

QPR Software

Sonera (+ SoneraZed & SmartTrust)

Star-Arcade

Stonesoft

Sumo

Tekla

Terapixel

TinkerCADClosed, founders started Airstone Labs

Vaisala

VDSL Systems

Nonstop Games – founded by Finns in Singapore, have office in SF

Heptagon – started as Finnish company but no ties to Finland anymore

Denmark: ScaleIT – www.scaleit.us

Enterprise Estonia – www.eas.ee

German Silicon Valley Accelerator –www.germanaccelerator.com

Innovation Norway / Innovation House -innovationhousesf.wordpress.com

Business Sweden – www.business-sweden.se/en/

Switzerland: Swissnex – www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org

Silicon Vikings – www.siliconvikings.comNot officially a country organization

Nordic Innovation House – www.nordicinnovationhouse.com

Company Web sites

Direct communication with companies

Silicon Valley Journey, Tekes(http://www.tekes.fi/Julkaisut/silicon_valley_journey.pdf)

Updates and corrections can be sent to Hartti Suomela