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There are many different ways of funding your company. We’ve tried to collect the most used ones and give you some insight into them. Often times many of these are used at the same time or consecutively.
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Starttiraha/Start-up grants
Starttiraha is a grant that you can apply for to support you in the very early stages. You need to apply before registering your company and the support is for your first operational year.
https://tem.fi/en/start-up-grants
Angel investors
Many companies have angel investors as the first external lines on their cap table.
https://foundersfactory.com/articles/angel-investing/
Grants
Grants can be very useful when you need more funding to grow. Many of the funding instruments are paired with external funding.
https://www.businessfinland.fi/en/for-finnish-customers/services/funding
Bootstrapping
Bootstrapping means that you don’t raise external funding, but rather grow with the resources you have ie. revenue.
VC funding