Finnish start-up Agileday aims to modernise how consulting and professional services firms plan, deliver and scale their operations. Recently announced Series A funding will definitely help.
Voiko digitaalinen koontisäädös olla ratkaisu EU:n sääntelytulvaan? Komission ehdotus lupaa helpotusta yrityksille, mutta samalla se herättää kysymyksiä siitä, kuka hyötyy eniten ja pääsevätkö pk-yritykset mukaan digitaalitalouden kilpajuoksuun.
Voiko digitaalinen koontisäädös olla ratkaisu EU:n sääntelytulvaan? Komission ehdotus lupaa helpotusta yrityksille, mutta samalla se herättää kysymyksiä siitä, kuka hyötyy eniten ja pääsevätkö pk-yritykset mukaan digitaalitalouden kilpajuoksuun.
Finnish deep tech companies raised a record €1.6 billion in funding last year. The figure is impressive, until you understand its true meaning. Take away three giant companies and the year was quieter than usual. So the real question isn’t whether Finland can produce industry titans, but whether we can replicate the recipe for success.
Tampere University has won backing from Business Finland for a €20 million initiative that aims to deploy 100 AI agents to tackle chronic productivity problems in building services engineering, marking one of Finland’s largest data economy pilot schemes.
AI can make us more efficient, but research warns of a price tag. When working with AI, we overestimate our abilities, our brain activity weakens, and our critical thinking diminishes. The solution is hardly to avoid new technologies, but rather to use them more wisely.
Birthday poems. Cake recipes. AI memes. Europeans are using artificial intelligence, just not at work. The technology that promised to transform productivity has become a pastime instead of a tool. And whilst the Nordics integrate AI into their workplaces, southern Europe watches from behind.
Tesi’s December study reveals a paradox in Finnish deep tech: while the sector celebrated a €1.6 billion investment milestone, the headline figure obscures a worrying decline in early-stage funding and ongoing commercialisation struggles.
Finnish AI Region (FAIR) EDIH has been selected to continue operations for a second term with excellent ratings. European Union continuation funding enables service expansion from the beginning of 2026.
Nordic and Baltic countries dominate AI adoption rankings with usage rates approaching 50%, whilst Eastern European nations lag significantly behind with less than a quarter of their populations using the technology.
