13.12.2024

Voima Ventures Investment in Aisti Corporation

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Private Equity & Venture Capital

We represented Voima Ventures in the Series A funding round of Aisti Corporation.

Aisti’s EUR 29 million funding round will support the construction of its first commercial factory in Kitee, Finland, enabling the company to scale production. Other investors include Maki.vc and Valve Ventures Consortium among others.

Voima Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in top scientific deep tech ventures in the Nordics and Baltics.

Aisti Corporation is an acoustic tiles manufacturer with sustainability and functionality at heart. Aisti’s acoustic tiles are made from highly renewable wood fibres. With the factory in Kitee, the company plans to achieve a production capacity of 2.5 million square meters annually.

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