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Best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools Companies in Finland

The 45 best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Finland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CurifyLabs.

45companies tracked
$51.3Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
16have raised
Sources & further reading
  • Precedence Research
  • ResearchAndMarkets.com
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · LIFE SCIENCES PLATFORMS AND TOOLS × FINLAND

Our analysis of 50 Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies

$4.8b in tracked funding; 68% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

50companies analysed
68%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
2unicorns
2013median founding year

Ranked: Best Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Finland

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingStageEmployeesFoundedFounderPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Aidian
Provider clinical diagnostic and hygiene monitoring tests
——Acquired3001974Juho Himberg
CEO
12 patents
Point‑of‑care blood collection devices and rapid strand‑invasion nucleic‑acid diagnostic assays.
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2Anygraaf
Provider of print & publishing services
——Unfunded801998Andy Hunn
CEO & President
9 patents
Image compression via raster segmentation techniques
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3Biohit Healthcare
Diagnostics products and servcies
——Public421988———
4Biomedicum Genomics
Provider of genomic services to life science research purpose
——Unfunded—2007Outi Monni
Co-Founder
——
5BioSiteHisto
CRO focused on tissue- and cell-based technologies
——Deadpooled—2012Yvonne Zar Berglund
CEO
——
6BN Products and Services
Products and Services for Genomics, Proteomics, Drug Discovery, Clinical Chemistry and Cell Biology
——Deadpooled—2008Stuart Webb
Co-Founder
98 patents
Electric power distribution hardware and fire suppression devices for industrial safety.
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7Bonalive Biomaterials
Developer of biomaterials for bone regeneration
——Unfunded472010—45 patents
Bioactive bone implant materials and paste for orthopedic infection treatment.
2 job openings
8CM Technologies
Developer of cell imaging products. The company's product Cell-IQ enables real-time monitoring of…
——Acquired502002———

Top 12 Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Finland

#1
Series A · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2021 · 16 employees
$11.5Mraised
▾

Provider of digital 3D printing solutions for personalized medicine. The company has developed a platform that enables sustainable, quality-controlled production of personalized medicine through its pharmaceutical printing technology. It is a smart drug formulation platform that incorporates cutting-edge technology to redefine the drug compounding process.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 11.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2025Conventional Debt$1.1M
  • May 2025Series A$7.6M
  • Apr 2023Grant (prize money)$2.7M
  • Jan 2023Grant (prize money)—
Founders & team
Niklas TopeliusCo-FounderCharlotta TopeliusChief Executive Officer
Investors
EIC Fund, Europa, Springvest, Finpro, Lifeline Ventures, Health Incubator Helsinki
Tech stack
CdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook LoginGodaddy
#2
Funding Raised · Kuopio, North Savo · founded 2017 · 8 employees
$1.7Mraised
▾

Afekta Technologies is a spin-off company based on metabolic profiling at the University of Eastern Finland. The company offers mass spectrometry-based comprehensive metabolomics services including food science, nutrition, colonic microbiota, in-vitro studies, and others. The company also offers consulting services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 381 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Glykeria Avgerinou) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2023Grant (prize money)$312.4K
  • Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$1.1M
  • Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$326.3K
Founders & team
Ville KoistinenCo-FounderKati HanhinevaFounderOlli KärkkäinenCo-Founder and CEO
Investors
Europa
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpYoast SeoNginxJquery Migrate
#3
Series A · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2019 · 11 employees
$10.6Mraised
▾

Rappta Therapeutics discovers and develop anticancer drugs using small molecule. The company's proprietary technology uses small molecule to activate protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), that is a tumour suppressor protein. The company's drug molecules bind to the subunits of PP2A complex to target oncogenic cells.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Series A$10.6M
  • Seed—
Founders & team
Sunjeet SawhneyChief Executive Officer; Board Member
Investors
Businessfinland, Novartis Venture Fund, Advent Life Sciences, Novo Holdings
#4
Seed · Tampere, Pirkanmaa · founded 2015 · 18 employees
$2.6Mraised
▾

Provider of cloud-based biosensors for diagnostic applications. It has developed a lab-on-chip platform for the detection of multiple analytes that uses a proprietary mass sensitive micro-array (MSMA) that is based on film-bulk acoustic resonance (FBAR) technology combined with application-specific integrated circuits. The platform is compatible with several sample types, including saliva, blood, and food, and is capable of detecting both proteins and nucleic acids.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2022Grant (prize money)$55.7K
  • Mar 2019Grant (prize money)$2.8M
  • Nov 2016Seed$2.6M
Investors
Siemens Technology Accelerator, Businessfinland, VTT Ventures, Europa, EIC Fund, Tesi
#5
Seed · Oulu, North Ostrobothnia · founded 2018
$1.9Mraised
▾

Developer of microfluidics and microtechnology solutions for drug development. The company is developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biologies such as vascular, lung, and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability, and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Seed$1.3M
  • Apr 2022Grant (prize money)$317.5K
  • Apr 2020Seed$596.1K
  • Dec 2018Seed—
Founders & team
Prateek SinghFounder & CEO
Investors
Voima Ventures, Icebreaker, Athensmed, Takoa Invest, Europa, Health Incubator Helsinki
#6
Acquired · Tampere, Pirkanmaa · founded 2015 · 59 employees
$2.4Mraised
▾

Grundium provides a portable scanning microscope for medical researchers. It offers its flagship product Grundium Ocus for digital pathology and helps in telepathology also. The microscope is having an automated X and Y stage, Z-focus, high resolution, and others.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers — 18.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$56.2K
  • Jul 2018Grant (prize money)$2.3M
  • Dec 2017Series A$2.4M
Founders & team
Mika KuismaCEO
Investors
Ascend Capital Partners, Europa, EIC Fund
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerAzureBreakdanceCloudflare
#7
Series A · Turku, Varsinais-suomi · founded 2001
$6.2Mraised
▾

Vivoxid develops, manufactures, and markets biomaterial products for the medical device sector. Its products include FiberLive® that is used in the manufacturing of load bearing and resorbable device solutions for the trauma, spine, CMF and sports medicine markets and MetAlive® which provides safe and firm attachment to soft tissue; drastically reducing inflammatory reactions that speed up the healing response without scar tissue side effects. It sold its technologies FiberLive® to Purac and MetAlive® to ID Creations in August 2012.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2005Series A$6.2M
Founders & team
Tomi NumminenEx-CEO and President
Investors
Sentica
#8
Deadpooled · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2007
$4.2Mraised
▾

Plex Press is a spin-off from Finnish technology research center. It has developed a gene expression analysis platform called TRAC technology, originally developed for gene expression analysis in bioprocess applications. The company claims to have engaged in more than 50 projects using this TRAC technology in the field of Pharma and research.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2012Seed$1.4M
  • May 2009Seed$2.8M
Founders & team
Juhani LahdenperaFounder & CEO
Investors
Conor, Finnvera, University of Helsinki, VTT
#9
Acquired · Oulunsalo, Northern Ostrobothnia · founded 2010 · 90 employees
$2.4Mraised
▾

Ginolis is the developer of liquid handling robots for use in laboratories involved in research in the field of life sciences or healthcare. The product offerings can perform various lab activities such as micro assembly, lateral flow device assembly, quality control and design for automation. The Delilah robotic platform is a multi-functional automation platform for diagnostic test manufacturing and laboratory processes. It can be used both as a stand alone unit or a fully robotic automation solution.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 6.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$571.6K
  • Feb 2017Series A—
  • Sep 2016Seed$2.4M
  • May 2015Grant (prize money)$451.5K
Investors
Springvest, Europa, Almi Invest, Verso Capital, Innovestor, Innovestor Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotCore-JsDocusignElementor
#10
Acquired · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2007
$4.2Mraised
▾

High throughput gene expression analysis

Founders & team
Juhani LahdenperaCEO
Investors
Conor
#11
Acquired · Oulu, North Ostrobothnia · founded 2008
$1.8Mraised
▾

Sensapex has developed their own proprietary technology based on electrophysiology and wide field fluorescence imaging. The products include UM-scope and UMP micromanipulation system. UM-scope has its application in dual patch clamp and wide field fluorescence imaging, in vivo optogenetics, and 4-channel in vitro patch clamp experiments whereas UMP micromanipulation system has micromanipulator and a touchscreen controller, and rotary wheel remote interface.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 801 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2015Series A$1.8M
Founders & team
Mikko VahasoyrinkiCEO
Investors
Springvest
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpWp RocketYoast SeoApache Http Server
#12
Seed · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2009 · 12 employees
$1Mraised
▾

MediSapiens is a bioinformatics company, based in Helsinki, Finland and Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a background in pharmaceutical research and translational genomics. The company provides pharmaceutical and biomedical research organizations with tools that help them design more effective personalized drugs against life-threatening diseases. MediSapiens creates powerful and intuitive software platforms to manage, integrate, and visualize complex multi-dimensional datasets, such as genomic sequencing data. The company's goal is to drive medicine forward by developing tools that provide scientists with a way to quickly analyze and visualize vast amounts of data and turn it into knowledge that fuels innovation.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2010Seed$1M
Investors
Finnvera, Eqvitec Partners, VTT Ventures, Lifeline Ventures, Verdane, Innovestor
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapWebfactory Under ConstructionNginx

Funding & investor landscape

$51.3Mtotal disclosed funding
15companies funded
28disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa8 rounds
EIC Fund5 rounds
Springvest4 rounds
Businessfinland3 rounds
Finnvera3 rounds
Health Incubator Helsinki3 rounds
Voima Ventures3 rounds
Conor2 rounds
Innovestor2 rounds
Lifeline Ventures2 rounds

Notable founders

Niklas Topelius
Co-Founder · CurifyLabs
Charlotta Topelius
Chief Executive Officer · CurifyLabs
Ville Koistinen
Co-Founder · AfektaTechnologies
Kati Hanhineva
Founder · AfektaTechnologies
Sunjeet Sawhney
Chief Executive Officer; Board Member · Rappta Therapeutics
Prateek Singh
Founder & CEO · Finnadvance
Mika Kuisma
CEO · Grundium
Tomi Numminen
Ex-CEO and President · Vivoxid
Juhani Lahdenpera
Founder & CEO · PlexPress
Mikko Vahasoyrinki
CEO · Sensapex
Katja Karelina
CEO · Neurotar
Marco Hautalahti
CEO · FINBB
Prism market signals · Finland · country-scoped Prism corpus, 231,271 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Life Sciences Platforms and Tools coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Finland

How research on Bioinformatics is moving in Finland

A read on the academic research around Bioinformatics — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 276 Finland-affiliated papers.

top research entities
  • University of Helsinki77
  • Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland31
  • University of Turku29
  • Helsinki University Hospital26
  • Tampere University22
leading researchers
Maria Francesca Di Feo · Martin Rees · Victoria Lillback · Ay Lin Kho · Angelina Meybatova · Ehsan Pashay Ahi · Ville Mustonen · Matej Orešič
▲ Breakthroughs96 · 35%
▲ 0%→36% share
0 median citations90% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→36% of field), led by Genome.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Genome1→14
  • Drug1→6
  • Annotation1→4
  • Transcriptome1→4
Newly emergingIdentification (biology) 0→7 · Genomics 0→6 · Proteomics 0→5
Landmark SIRIUS 4: a rapid tool for turning tandem mass spectra into metabolite structure information · 1,926 cites
◆ Advancements83 · 30%
▲ 0%→31% share
0 median citations87% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (0%→31% of field), led by Gene.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Gene1→8
Newly emergingDisease 0→12
Landmark Gut microbiota are related to Parkinson's disease and clinical phenotype · 1,948 cites
▼ Concerns39 · 14%
▲ 0%→14% share
0 median citations85% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→14% of field), led by Microbiome.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Microbiome5
  • Gene4
  • Computational biology3
  • Gut microbiome3
  • Gut flora3
Landmark EDC-2: The Endocrine Society's Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals · 2,260 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Finland

Where bioinformatics is researched across Finland

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Helsinki126 · +0.46
Hot · GeneAdvancing · DrugOpportunity · DiseaseConcern · Microbiome
Turku44 · +0.45
Hot · AnnotationAdvancing · PopulationOpportunity · Genome
Espoo28 · +0.68
Hot · Computational biologyAdvancing · Sequence (biology)Opportunity · Function (biology)
Oulu27 · +0.39
Hot · GenomeAdvancing · EpidemiologyOpportunity · Identification (biology)
Tampere26 · +0.40
Opportunity · Enzyme
Joensuu20 · +0.33
Hot · GeneOpportunity · Biomarker
Kuopio12 · +0.27
Opportunity · Biomarker

Common questions

How many Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies are there in Finland?
Radar tracks 45 indexable Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies headquartered in Finland that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Finland?
The Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Finland on this list have raised a combined $51.3M in disclosed equity funding across 15 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Life Sciences Platforms and Tools company in Finland?
CurifyLabs is the highest-funded Life Sciences Platforms and Tools company in Finland, with $11.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Finland are funded?
15 of the 45 Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Finland on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Life Sciences Platforms and Tools unicorns are there in Finland?
None of the Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies in Finland on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Finland Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies?
The most active investors in Finland Life Sciences Platforms and Tools companies on this list include Europa, EIC Fund, Springvest, Businessfinland, Finnvera.
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