Finnish startup Maire raises €450k in funding
Summary
Helsinki-based online demand analytics startup, Maire has announced the raising a 450,000. The investment was backed by Finlands investors such as Leena Niemist\xf6, Tuomo Riekki, and Tikura Ventures. Maire develops an online demand analytics platform to provide its customers with predictive insights about their product offering.Billion dollar B2C companies excel at analysing their historical sales figures. This means that missing product lines or categories are almost always a real mystery. In addition, without market demand data its hard to validate if growth in a specific category is happening because of the company, or the market, Maires funding round includes a group of investors, such as a Korpun Siemen, a Finnish joint investment company of private entrepreneurs, family companies and investors, which co-invests in local pre-seed & seed companies, and Tikura Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Lappeenranta, investing in companies operating in business to government, business to business to consumer sectors.The funding round will be used to further develop the predictive capabilities and expand internationally.