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Finnfund is a Finnish development financier and impact investor. We build a sustainable future and generate lasting impact by investing in businesses that solve global development challenges. We invest 200–250…

January 27, 2022

Markus Pietikäinen has accepted a position outside of Finnfund

…an origination hub in Nairobi, we have launched the first Finnish Global Impact fund with private investors and continue to have the same size investment team as in 2017. I…

September 29, 2023

Finnfund’s 15 million USD investment in Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV provides growth equity capital to Ukrainian technology and export-oriented companies

…key theme in Finnfund’s strategy. Kangasniemi added: “Horizon Capital has extensive experience from both the sector and the country, and we are anticipating significant development impacts.” U.S., EU and global…

April 28, 2023

CFO’s insight into Q1: Active start for the year

Olli Sinnemaa

…be increasingly challenging if the global travel restrictions are kept in place. We are seeing an increasing amount of COVID-19 infections in our target countries, and unfortunately vaccinations are only…

May 10, 2021

Finnfund opens its first regional office in Nairobi, Kenya

…in May 2022. Finnfund seeks to build a sustainable future and generate lasting impact by investing in businesses in developing countries that solve global development challenges. The opening of the…

February 9, 2022

BII and Finnfund continue their support to women-led micro-enterprises in Pakistan through Kashf Foundation

…system, according to World Bank’s Global Findex Database. Only 13% of Pakistani women have bank accounts, compared to 28% of men. Most low-income households in Pakistan lack access to formal…

March 14, 2024

SDG 5: A telecommunications operator’s best practices for promoting gender equality

June Hossel Delfaud

…world around us. Technology is continuously expanding into every aspect of our lives. Engineering is the basic design of roads and bridges but also tackles the challenges of changing global…

February 10, 2022

Regardless of the dark clouds over Kenyan economy, the banking sector is performing relatively well

Nea Tiililä

…to Ukraine, supply chain bottlenecks, global inflation and tightening financing conditions created the next major shock to the economy. Year 2022 was also an election year in Kenya which further…

August 14, 2023

Discovering outcomes in gender-lens investing

…Global Institute (www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/gender-equality/the-power-of-parity-advancing-womens-equality-in-africa). Muzari, W. (2016) ‘Gender disparities and the role of women in smallholder agriculture’ International Journal of Science and Research 5(1): 1869–1873 (www.ijsr.net/search_index_results_paperid.php?id=SUB159112). World Bank (n.d.) ‘Access to…

August 13, 2021

Finnfund invests in Metier Capital Growth Fund III to foster growth companies and job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa

…its investment portfolio and within its own organisation hence for Finnfund, the commitment is classified as a 2X Challenge investment. 2X Challenge is a global gender finance initiative seeking to…

October 4, 2023