Summary of Finnish companies related to San Francisco Bay Area (companies currently here, VC investments, exits, past companies)

1. Version: June 24, 2014

2. Total: 47
11 established companies
25 ICT start-ups (2 gaming companies)
3 other start-ups
5 other companies / organizations
3 U.S. companies founded by Finns having operations in Finland
U.S. Companies founded by Finns: 9
Exits of Finnish companies in SF Bay Area: 16+
VC investments from SV VCs in Finnish companies: 8+
Note: Only 12 Finnish companies had presence in SF Bay Area in the end
of 2010

3. 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)
Nokia (www.nokia.com)
SSH Communications (www.ssh.com)
Symbio (www.symbio.com)
Tieto (www.tieto.com)

4. 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)
Continuent (www.continuent.com)
Cresense (www.cresense.com)
Ekahau (www.ekahau.com)
Futuremark (www.futuremark.com)
IndoorAtlas (www.indooratlas.com)
Joberate (www.joberate.com)
Modulight (www.modulight.com)
Movial (www.movial.com)
MultiTouch (www.multitouch.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)
Tuxera (www.tuxera.com)
Vaadin (www.vaadin.com)
Zonesco. (www.zonesco.io)

5. Ambro (www.theambro.com)
Common Tribes
Transfluent (www.transfluent.com)

6. 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 organisation

7. 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
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
Real-estate search tool
Vuact (www.vuact.com)
A smarter way to watch and share video.

8. 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
Ditto – acquired by Groupon in 2012
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
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

9. AppGyver from Initial Capital in 2014
AudioDraft from 500 Startups in 2013
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

10. Alcom
Basware (now on East Coast)
Capslock
Cybelius Software
Design Power
Documill
FogScreen
Gearshift Group
Hantro
Helmi
Inreality
LinkoTec
Luxus (www.luxus.fi)
US HQ now in Texas
MadOnion (now Futuremark)
Mobile Backstage
Closed, part of IP in Common Tribes
Modera Point
Play My Song
QPR Software
Sonera (+ SoneraZed & SmartTrust)
Star-Arcade
Stonesoft
Sumo
Tekla
Terapixel
TinkerCAD
Closed, founders started Airstone Labs
Vaisala

11. Nonstop Games – founded by Finns in
Singapore, have office in SF
Sensinode – acquired by ARM in 2013, had
activities in SF Bay Area earlier?
Heptagon – started as Finnish company but no
ties to Finland anymore

12. 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.com
Not officially a country organization

13. Bootstrap Labs – www.bootstraplabs.com
US MAC – www.usmarketaccess.com

14. Company Web sites
Direct communication with companies
Silicon Valley Journey, Tekes
(http://www.tekes.fi/Julkaisut/silicon_valley_jo
urney.pdf)