Finland and Business inSan Francisco Bay Area

Status: May 12, 2014

Finnish Companies in the Bay AreaTotal: 43

11 established companies24 ICT start-ups (2 gaming companies)3 other start-ups5 other companies / organizations

U.S. Companies founded by Finns: 9Exits of Finnish companies in SF Bay Area: 16+VC investments from SV VCs in Finnish companies: 6

Note: Only 12 Finnish companies had presence in SF Bay Area in the end of 2010

Finnish Established Companies in Bay Area(Founded before year 2000) - 11

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)

Finnish ICT Start-Ups in Bay Area - 24

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)

Other Finnish Start-Ups in the Bay Area - 3

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

Other Finnish Companies & Organizations in the Bay Area - 5

Finpro (www.finpro.com) Internalization consultancy for Finnish companies

Nexit Ventures (www.nexit.com)Finnish-American VC fund

Tekes (www.tekes.com)Technology Agency of Finland

Vendep (www.vendep.com) Start-up accelerator and seed investor

VTT (www.vtt.fi) Multitechnological applied research organisation

Bay Area Companies Founded by FinnsAirstone Labs (www.airstonelabs.com)

Supercomputing as a serviceAlphaSense (www.alpha-sense.com/)

Search engine for financial professionalsAppington (www.appington.com)

Adding voice to mobile appsBeatroot (www.beatroot.co), was Hacklog (at Matter.VC)

Analytics for journalistsBetterDoctor (www.betterdoctor.com)

Find the right doctor in minutesLost in Translations (www.lostintranslations.com) Skydom (www.skydom.io)

Build rich data services in the cloudTrulia (www.trulia.com)

Real-estate search toolVuact (www.vuact.com)

A smarter way to watch and share video.

Exits of Finnish Companies in the (Bay Area) U.S.

Applifier / EveryPlay – acquired by Unity in 2014Bitboys – acquired by ATI / AMD in 2007Bitdeli – acquired by AdRoll in 2013Ditto – acquired by Groupon in 2012Flowdock – acquired by Rally Software in 2013Hybrid Graphics – acquired by Nvidia in 2007Jaiku – acquired by Google in 2007Kippt – acquired by Coinbase in 2014Mr. Goodliving – acquired by Real Networks in 2005MySQL – acquired by Sun (now part of Oracle) for $1 billion in 2008Protogeo / Moves – acquired by Facebook in 2014RedLynx – acquired by Ubisoft in 2011Smartner – acquired by Seven Networks in 2005Solid – acquired by IBM in 2007Stonesoft – acquired by McAfee (part of Intel) in 2013Sumea – acquired by Digital Chocolate in 2004

Silicon Valley VC & Angel Investments in Finnish Companies

AppGyver from Initial Capital in 2014G-cluster from Intel Capital (Asia)Next Games from IDG Ventures and Lowercase Capital in 2014Ovelin from True Ventures in 2012Rovio Entertainment from Accel Partners & Felicis Ventures in 2011SuperCell from Accel Partners & Initial Capital in 2011 and from Index Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners in 2013

Finnish Companies Not Anymore in the Bay Area

HelmiLuxus (www.luxus.fi)

US HQ now in TexasMobile Backstage

Closed, part of IP in Common TribesStar-ArcadeSumoTinkerCAD

Closed, founders started Airstone Labs

Borderline Cases

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

Other CountriesExamples of Country Organizations in SF Bay Area

Denmark: ScaleIT – www.scaleit.us Enterprise Estonia – www.eas.ee German Silicon Valley Accelerator – www.germanaccelerator.com Innovation Norway / Innovation House - innovationhousesf.wordpress.comBusiness Sweden – www.business-sweden.se/en/ Switzerland: Swissnex –swissnexsanfrancisco.orgSilicon Vikings – www.siliconvikings.com

Not officially a country organization

Business Development for International Companies

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