The Slush conference in Helsinki is certainly living up to its slushy reputation but it's a good place anyhow for networking and doing deals within Europe. And with the Nordic region accounting for half of the billion-dollar tech exits in Europe, it's a fast-growing startup hub that can't be ignored.
The connections between Finland with tech powers Silicon Valley and Asia are still limited but growing. In one effort to diversify, a chartered plane from the Valley to Helsinki was loaded with venture capitalists making the 14-hour trip to check out what's going on in tech in the Nordic region. Some 111 million Euros was invested in Finnish startups in 2016, most of it coming from nearby countries or within Finland.
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