Best Security & Surveillance Technology Companies in Finland
The 58 best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Finland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: iLOQ.
Finland's Security & Surveillance Technology sector earns a proper look here: these 58 tracked companies have pulled in $114M in disclosed funding, ranked by equity raised and recent momentum. No unicorns yet, but the capital concentration tells you everything. iLOQ alone accounts for $77M of that total, leaving Quuppa at $24M and Louhe at $3M to fill out the upper tier. The [global security and surveillance market sat at roughly $284.7B in 2022, growing at a 4.8% CAGR](https://futuremarketinsights.com), driven by government initiatives and the steady push to integrate physical security with surveillance infrastructure. Privacy regulation is the structural friction worth watching, and it shapes product design choices across the Finnish cohort more than most founders will admit.
So what's actually moving? Median install growth across security and technology apps is running at roughly +15% YoY, which signals real end-user pull, not just B2B pipeline noise. As shown in 2015 research, video-based surveillance analysis has long demanded serious computational overhead, and the companies building smarter on-device processing are the ones I'd watch here. Investors like Lifeline Ventures, Tesi and Bocap are backing the Finnish names positioning for that shift. If you're mapping this space, the funding gap between iLOQ and the rest of the field is the most important number on this page.
- futuremarketinsights.com
Our analysis of 50 Security & Surveillance Technology companies
$4.8b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Finland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iLOQ Developer of programmable lock & key systems for homes | $77M | 77 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2003 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+32 | 278 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 2 | Quuppa Provider of reliable real-time indoor position tracking platform | $24M | 70 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+33 | — | 1 job opening · 2 partnerships |
| 3 | Louhe Provider of physical security solutions using artificial intelligence and data analysis | $3M | 20 mo ago | Seed | Jukka Laakso Co-Founder and CEO | 2020 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+16 | 2 patents Analyzing property usage data for real estate asset management | — |
| 4 | Valossa Provider of artificial intelligence-powered video recognition solutions | $3M | 106 mo ago | Seed | Mika Rautiainen Founder & CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — | 3 launchs |
| 5 | Iiwari Provider of UWB-based indoor positioning solutions for enterprises | $2M | 73 mo ago | Seed | Ville Kolehmainen Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — | — |
| 6 | Detection Technology Provider of X-Ray imaging services for security solutions | $2M | 58 mo ago | Public | Hannu Martola President and CEO | 2015 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Ruby+17 | 36 patents Imaging detector semiconductor devices and signal multiplexing for X‑ray/CT systems | — |
| 7 | ASAN Security Centralized video surveillance & management solution | $1M | — | Public | Antti Laine CEO | 2000 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Noccela Cloud-based software solutions for security management | $1M | 115 mo ago | Seed | Tapani Talvitie Co-Owner | 2014 | — | 15 patents Anti-theft RFID tags and surveillance systems for retail loss prevention | — |
| 9 | Karsa Advanced explosives trace detection systems | $626K | 69 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | — | 43 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 10 | UWIS Provider of a GPS-based underwater navigation solution for various industries | $513K | 55 mo ago | Funding Raised | Pertti Arvonen Chairman of the Board | 2014 | Django CMSPostgreSQLPython+8 | 13 patents Acoustic underwater tracking systems and buoy‑based positioning solutions for marine navigation. | — |
Top 12 Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Finland
#1
Seed · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2020$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of physical security solutions using artificial intelligence and data analysis. The company offers tools to detect security anomalies and audit physical security. It centralizes security data to provide insights and maximize the impact of security teams. The company’s solutions aim to uncover vulnerabilities and prevent data breaches.
- Oct 2024Seed$3.3M
#2
Acquired · Oulu, North Ostrobothnia · founded 2003 · 280 employees$77.2Mraised▾
Provides sustainable battery-free smart access management solutions. It offers enhanced security, flexibility, and convenience for residents and organizations. These solutions utilize smart keys or smartphones as both keys and power sources, eliminating the need for batteries or electricity. The systems are easily retrofitted into existing doors without compromising fire or security compliance. Cloud-based management provides real-time control over access points, and open APIs/SDKs allow for integration with other systems. The focus is on creating safe, effortless, and efficient access for end-users.
- Jan 2020Conventional Debt$77.2M
#3
Series A · Espoo, Uusimaa · founded 2012 · 50 employees$23.7Mraised▾
Provider of reliable real-time indoor position tracking platform. It provides users with uses a technology based on the signal processing method, and advanced positioning algorithms. It also provides a method for determining location which requires only one tag for 2D positioning and two for 3D positioning and can achieve sub-cm level accuracy depending on the number of tags and the distance between them.
- Aug 2020Series A$23.7M
#4
Public · Oulu, North Ostrobothnia · founded 2015 · 479 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of X-Ray imaging services for security solutions. It provides users with a platform that provide X-ray imaging subsystems and components for medical, security and industrial application. Its product is X-ray detector subsystems, X-ray detectors, X-ray detector components and Photodiodes.
- Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$719.7K
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$926K
#5
Seed · Vuokatti, Kainuu · founded 2018 · 11 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of UWB-based indoor positioning solutions for enterprises. It offers hardware and software for indoor positioning and mapping using ultra-wideband radio technology. It can be attached to any tags and devices for sending or receiving positioning signals from or to the positioning network. Its software enables users to analyze movement and manage data. It caters to retail and healthcare industries.
- Jun 2020Seed$1.7M
#6
Funding Raised · Littoinen, Southwest Finland · founded 2014$512.9Kraised▾
Provider of a GPS-based underwater navigation solution for various industries. It enables users to track, locate, route, communicate, manage, and control underwater locations. Its offering includes tracking equipment and accessories. It also offers location monitor, directions, alarms, and location insights. It caters to government, research, commercial, military, and life science industries.
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$512.9K
#7
Seed · Oulu, North Ostrobothnia · founded 2015 · 16 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Provider of artificial intelligence-powered video recognition solutions. Offers video voice search technology that enables voice to search engines that power queries on TVs, mobile devices, and PCs. Its product allows users to analyze videos, manage video search solutions, and help in content moderation. It recognizes the content of video files through a combination of text and pattern recognition and can reach into the video to identify the context through metadata, making it searchable. Also offers an auto preview that enables users to automate video preview production for content marketing, promotional campaigns and create targeted previews for video-on-demand services and online videos.
- Sep 2017Seed$2M
- Dec 2015Seed$650K
#8
Seed · Helsinki, Uusimaa · founded 2016 · 19 employees$625.6Kraised▾
Karsa Ltd. is a spin-off from a project on the adaptation of technology know-hows to detect explosives at the University of Helsinki. It developed highly sensitive detectors which take perform conitnuous sampling on existing conveyor systems. They perform simultaneous detection of all species, minimize false positives and increase the rate of detection. The system can be fitted in airport terminals, railway stations, luggage and parcel sorters, etc. It claims to have achieved 1 part per quadrillion detection threshold for RDX and PETN.
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$512.6K
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)$55.7K
- Apr 2019Seed—
- Feb 2019Grant (prize money)$57.3K
#9
Seed · Turku, Varsinais-suomi · founded 2014 · 11 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Noccela provides cloud-based software solutions for security management of offline retail stores. The company provides tags that can be fastened with the products. These tags can be monitored on a cloud-based platform which can detect the location of objects and customers within the retail stores. Its mobile application is able to detect and provides alert for even advanced tricks used by shoplifters including wire cutting, magnetic detachers and foils.
- Dec 2016Seed$1.3M
#10
Public · Espoo, Uusimaa · founded 2000$1.3Mraised▾
ASAN Security provides web based IP video surveillance solution for physical security and management. Product UVP Corporate Center is a monitoring, operations and management solution for centralized video surveillance; and UVP Viewer is a functional software program for watching capturing video footage or monitoring live video streams through a browser on the computer or mobile device. Claims to integrate with various corporate video systems and cameras and is a major supplier of video surveillance centers in the Nordic countries. Current solutions has evolved from its initial wired and wireless telemetric solutions for real-time collaboration.
#11
Public · Littoinen, Southwest Finland · founded 1954 · 863 employees—raised▾
Provider of video and broadband solutions. It provides users with a platform that consists of cable and telecom operators. It creates a broadband network, video headend, and video security information products. The broadband products support fibre and coax cable networks and comprise amplifiers, repeaters, attenuators, equalizers, connectors, and filters for indoor and outdoor usage.
#12
Acquired · Mikkeli, South Savo · founded 1987 · 60 employees—raised▾
Manufacturer of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection devices designed to cater to the needs of personal safety and national security. The company's devices are used for the identification and detection of chemical and radiological materials, enabling people to defeat the constantly evolving chemical, biological, nuclear and radiation (CBRN) threat and to safeguard the industrial environment.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Security & Surveillance Technology coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cybersecurity is moving in Finland
A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 123 Finland-affiliated papers.
- University of Oulu33
- Aalto University25
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland13
- University of Jyväskylä12
- Nokia10
- Intrusion detection system2→16
- Anomaly detection3→8
- Denial-of-service attack2→6
- Testbed1→4
- Network security5→7
- Intrusion detection system4→9
- Computer security5→9
- Computer security12
- Network security11
- Security service4
- Intrusion detection system4
- Software-defined networking3
Where cybersecurity 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.
Common questions
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