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title: "Funding Is Critical in the Early Stage | Anssi Uimonen"
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# Funding Is Critical in the Early Stage | Anssi Uimonen

## Summary

Anssi Uimonen: funding is critical in the early stage. A clip from "Deep Tech Investing | Uimonen | #neuvottelija 343." Investing in deep tech in Finland took a step forward with the founding of Nordic Science Investments (NSI) by Anssi Uimonen and Alexandra Gylfe, among others. How does the investment model work, and what goals do NSI's portfolio companies have? Lifting Finland up by commercializing technology. The episode does not give investment recommendations.

## Transcript

*English transcript derived from validated English subtitles ([WebVTT](https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/596-anssi-uimonen-rahoitus-on-kriittista-alkuvaiheessa/captions.en.vtt) · [SRT](https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/596-anssi-uimonen-rahoitus-on-kriittista-alkuvaiheessa/captions.en.srt)). Timestamps link to the original video.*

[**00:00**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KdsPDfqHgs&t=0s) In the Nordics, there's often seemed to be a lack of risk appetite among VCs at that early stage — when the team isn't fully in place yet, the company doesn't yet own its IP, there's no revenue of any kind, things like that. Those are usually the things that don't interest a traditional VC investor; they'd rather come in once you're past that stage and everything's already in order — that's when they get interested in the target. That's sometimes been a bit of a challenge, because often at that really early stage you'd manage to raise a small round, and that round maybe wasn't enough to carry the company far enough to make it investable. But if you can get a VC involved at a very early stage, that helps bring a bit more credibility to finding the right CEO. Yeah.

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Cite as: Sami Miettinen, Neuvottelija — Funding Is Critical in the Early Stage | Anssi Uimonen, https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/596-anssi-uimonen-rahoitus-on-kriittista-alkuvaiheessa/, 2025-07-14. For quotes include episode db-596 and timestamp.