3.12.2021

Digital Workforce Services – Listing on First North

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We advised Digital Workforce Services Plc in its listing on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland.

The initial public offering consisted of public, institutional and personnel offerings and was oversubscribed multiple times. Based on the offering, the Company’s market capitalisation corresponded approximately to a total of EUR 72.5 million. Digital Workforce raised gross proceeds of approximately EUR 22.5 million from the IPO. The number of shareholders will increase to more than 5,600 after the IPO.

‘The listing enables investments in growth and helps us in executing our strategy. We will now continue our growth story together with all our new shareholders’, says CEO Mika Vainio-Mattila.

Trading in Digital Workforce’s shares began on First North on 3 December 2021.

Digital Workforce is a Finnish Intelligent Automation (IA) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) services provider. Digital Workforce helps its customers to automate knowledge work tasks and business processes with IA through its digital workers. Digital Workers are software robots that are in essence automated team members that execute business processes with no significant changes to the customer’s existing systems.

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