Nexit Ventures

Nexit Ventures

Type	Corporation
Industry	Venture Capital
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Helsinki, Finland; Saratoga, California, United States; Stockholm, Sweden
Key people	Michel Wendell, Artturi Tarjanne, Pekka Salonoja, Michael Mandahl, Sami Karppinen, Risto Yli-Tainio
Products	Investments, private equity funds
Website	www.nexitventures.com

Nexit Ventures is a Nordic-US venture capital firm that invests in growth companies in the mobile and wireless segments.^[1]

Nexit Ventures was founded in 1999 and it has raised two investment funds totaling €152 Million.^[2] The firm has offices in Helsinki, Finland, Saratoga, CA, and Stockholm, Sweden. The general partners of the firm are Michel Wendell, Artturi Tarjanne, Pekka Salonoja, and Michael Mandahl.

Nexit invests primarily in the Nordic Countries and the US West Coast. Its investments include Aava Mobile,^[3] Bitfone (acquired by Hewlett-Packard),^[4] Ekahau,^[5] Futuremark,^[6] Hantro (acquired by On2 and subsequently by Google),^[7] Hybrid Graphics (acquired by nVidia),^[8] Mobile365 (acquired by Sybase),^[9] and Octoshape.^[10]

References

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10. "LightReading". LightReading. Retrieved January 17, 2012.

External links

• Nexit Ventures