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The company has introduced a device named Mendor Discreet, a self-contained blood glucose meter. [2] [3] It allows users to upload and analyze results online using software known as Balance.
Mendor was a Finnish health technology company from Helsinki specialising in diabetes care solutions. The company's headquarters was located in the business district of Keilaniemi in Espoo, Finland. Mendor filed for bankruptcy in January 2017. [1]
The company has introduced a device named Mendor Discreet, a self-contained blood glucose meter. [2] [3] It allows users to upload and analyze results online using software known as Balance.
Mendor was founded in December 2005 [4] by Jukka Planman, Tuomas Planman, Henri Andell, Juho Konsti and Kristian Ranta, [2] [3] [5] after a successful entry in the national business plan competition Venture Cup. It was a portfolio company of Finnish early stage venture capital fund Veraventure and was voted as the most attractive company for venture capital investment amongst Finnish start-up companies. [6]
Tech Tour, a European wide, independent non-profit organization committed to the development of emerging technology companies, selected Mendor as one of the top 30 most promising high growth Nordic technology companies. [7] Mendor was also granted the Innosuomi / Uusimaa award in 2010. [8]
In 2011, Red Herring, an international technology publication, selected Mendor for the TOP 100 list of European growth companies. [9]
In 2012, Mendor announced an international partnership in Great Britain with Merck Serono. [10] TiE50, a US-based global organization that tracks technology growth companies, awarded Mendor with the Technology Award for Innovation.
In 2017 the company filed for bankruptcy. [11]
Valmet Oyj, a Finnish company, is a developer and supplier of process technologies, automation systems and services for the pulp, paper, energy industries. Flow control serves a wider base of process industries.
Red Herring is a media company that at different times has published a magazine about tech innovation, an online daily technology news service, and technology newsletters, and has hosted events for technology leaders.
Alma Media Oyj is a Finnish media and digital service business company. Its best known products are Iltalehti, Kauppalehti, Talouselämä, Ampparit, Monster.fi and Etuovi.com.
The Merck Group, branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and a presence in 66 countries. The group includes around 250 companies; the main company is Merck KGaA in Germany. The company is divided into three business lines: Healthcare, Life Sciences and Electronics. Merck was founded in 1668 and is the world's oldest operating chemical and pharmaceutical company, as well as one of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally.
Serono was a biotechnology company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It was acquired by the German pharmaceutical company Merck in 2006. The company was founded as the Serono Pharmacological Institute by Cesare Serono in 1906 in Rome, Italy. A key step in its development was the discovery of a method of extracting urinary gonadotropins by Dr. Piero Donini. Serono was incorporated in 1987 and the holding company, Ares-Serono S.A., changed its name to Serono S.A. in May 2000.
Elisa Corporation is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882. It was called HPY until July 2000. The mobile operations of Elisa were previously known as Radiolinja.
Kristian Ranta, also known as Kride, was the guitarist of the Finnish melodic death metal band Norther, until their break up in 2012. Kristian has composed most of Norther's best known songs including Frozen Angel, and is also credited for renaming the band. Ranta has played the guitar on all the band's full-length albums, the most recent being Circle Regenerated (2011) and N (2008), and contributed clean vocals to the Solution 7 EP, Till Death Unites Us, the No Way Back EP and N. He has formed an experimental side project named Gashouse Garden with Children of Bodom drummer Jaska Raatikainen.
DNA Plc is a Finnish telecommunications company. It was founded in 2000, and refounded in 2007 after a merger.
Uponor Oyj is a Finnish company that sells products for drinking water delivery, radiant heating and cooling. With approximately 3,700 employees, its head office is located in Helsinki, Finland.
Corporate venture capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. CVC is defined by the Business Dictionary as the "practice where a large firm takes an equity stake in a small but innovative or specialist firm, to which it may also provide management and marketing expertise; the objective is to gain a specific competitive advantage." Examples of CVCs include GV and Intel Capital.
Taneli Tikka is a Finnish technology serial entrepreneur, and a keynote speaker in Finnish and International events.
The startup scene in Finland has given birth to companies such as Angry Birds, Supercell, Wolt, and many others.
Aaltoes, also known as Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, is a non-profit organization run by students, based in Helsinki, Finland. Founded in 2009, Aaltoes has helped the rapid emergence of a startup culture in Finland in 2008-2011.
Foodie.fm was an online shopping service that incorporated grocery shopping and recipe discovery into a social context. The service was available on the web and for a mobile device and could be downloaded for IPhone, Nokia, Android or as a Facebook application. Foodie.fm was referred to as the Facebook for groceries, and described as enabling smart grocery shopping since users personalize their information to receive product and recipe recommendations. Referred to as 'social eatworking' and forecasted as a trend for 2012, users posted and shared shopping ideas, recipes and recommendations with other users on the service.
M-Brain Group is a Finland-based competitive and market intelligence SaaS company. M-Brain’s services are based on a combination of proprietary technology and human intelligence, providing market and competitor monitoring, market analysis, research & advisory services as well as technology and software solutions to support decision-making and strategic planning.
Enevo is a company that works in data analytics, container asset management, and logistics software for the waste and recycling industry. Enevo was originally founded in Finland in 2010 by Fredrik Kekäläinen and Johan Engström.
Harvia Plc is a Finnish heater, sauna, spa and sauna interiors manufacturer. The company's product offering covers all three sauna types: traditional sauna, steam sauna and infrared sauna. Harvia is headquartered in Muurame, Central Finland. The company's products are distributed globally through a network of dealers. Harvia shares (“HARVIA”) are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd and are registered in the Finnish Book-Entry Register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd.
Evelyn Mora is a Finnish entrepreneur and the founder of Helsinki Fashion Week, managed by the Nordic Fashion Week Association. In 2021, Nordic Fashion Week filed for bankruptcy, and Mora founded Digital Village, an internet company in Paris. Mora was also the founder of Studio Eneas, which faced criticism from others in the fashion industry for charging aspiring models and their parents for "paid folders" and thousands of euros for overseas trips. In response, Studio Eneas ceased operations and rebranded as the Evelyn Mora Corporation.
Molok Oy is a Finnish company that manufactures and markets deep waste collection containers. In the deep collection system developed by Molok, more than half of the waste containers are underground. Molok is also a registered trademark.