Oura has filed publicly for a Nasdaq listing in the United States and, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, intends to list during September. The Finnish smart ring maker submitted a confidential filing in May. The prospectus arrives with a board reshaped for US public markets, and a Nordic presence now outnumbered on it.

The prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shows revenue of $1.21 billion for the nine months ended 30 June 2026, the first three quarters of a fiscal year that ends 30 September, against $697.6 million in the same period a year earlier, a rise of 74%. Full-year FY2025 revenue was $907.9 million, against $406.8 million the year before. The net loss attributable to common shareholders over the same nine months was $924.3 million, compared with $182.8 million a year earlier.

Oura shipped 3.1 million rings in the nine-month period, against 1.8 million a year earlier. Membership revenue reached $240.5 million, up 121%, and paid members doubled to 5 million, the recurring line that will matter most to public-market investors, and the one that turns a hardware company into a subscription business.

The headline loss sits beneath a $985m deemed dividend

Before the deemed dividend attached to preferred shares, Oura's net result for the period was a profit of $60.8 million, against $1.6 million a year earlier. The $924.3 million figure emerges after a $985 million deemed dividend to holders of redeemable convertible preferred shares is deducted. The comparable deemed dividend a year earlier was $184.4 million.

Oura raised more than $1.2 billion privately before this filing. A Fidelity-led round in October 2025 valued the company at $11 billion. The listing could raise up to $3 billion for the company and some of its backers at a valuation exceeding $16 billion, Bloomberg reported on 24 August 2026, a repricing of roughly 45% in under a year. 

The new board adds Robinhood's IPO-era CFO and Wolt's founder

Oura said on 2 September that it will appoint Jason Warnick, Leslie Kilgore, Miki Kuusi and David Sze as directors.

Warnick spent seven years as chief financial officer of Robinhood, where he helped take the company public and through its subsequent life as a listed business. He retired from the role earlier this year and was succeeded by Shiv Verma. Before that he spent nearly two decades at Amazon across finance, investor relations, audit and enterprise risk, and began his career as a CPA at Deloitte & Touche.

Kilgore sits on the boards of Netflix and Pinterest, and has previously served on those of LinkedIn, Medallia and Nextdoor. She was chief marketing officer at Netflix, and held earlier positions at Amazon, Procter & Gamble and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Kuusi co-founded Wolt and led it as chief executive from 2014 until DoorDash acquired the company in 2022. He now oversees DoorDash's international business and serves as chief executive of London-based Deliveroo. 

Sze is a partner at Greylock Partners, where he led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Roblox and Pandora. He previously held senior operating roles at Excite and Excite@Home.

The four join Timo Ahopelto, Dennis Durkin, chief executive Tom Hale, Wen Hsieh, Eurie Kim and chairman David Shuman on the board.

"Adding Jason, Leslie, Miki, and David strengthens our board with leaders who know what it takes to build and scale category-defining global businesses," Hale said in the company's statement.

What the appointments say about where Oura's governance now sits

The appointments describe a specific destination. Warnick is a CFO who has already run a listing and the quarterly reporting cycle that follows it. Kilgore brings the consumer-brand seat that US public boards expect. Sze holds an investor seat. None of the three has a Nordic mandate.

That leaves a ten-person board on which Ahopelto and Kuusi are the Nordic voices, at a company founded in Oulu that will report as a US filer under SEC rules rather than the Finnish Corporate Governance Code. For Nordic investors, Oura is on the way to becoming a company you can read about but not vote on in Helsinki, the governance follows the listing venue, and the listing venue is Nasdaq.

Oura is not leaving Finland. The engineers stay, the product stays. What moves is the register, the governance regime and the venue where the company answers for itself. IQM proved that part is a choice, it took both listings. Oura’s prospectus takes one.

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Oura's board is being built for Nasdaq: prospectus reveals $1.21bn in nine-month revenue and four US-market directors

Oura's board is being built for Nasdaq: prospectus reveals $1.21bn in nine-month revenue and four US-market directors

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Credit: Oura

Credit: Oura

Oura has filed publicly for a Nasdaq listing in the United States and, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, intends to list during September. The Finnish smart ring maker submitted a confidential filing in May. The prospectus arrives with a board reshaped for US public markets, and a Nordic presence now outnumbered on it.

The prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shows revenue of $1.21 billion for the nine months ended 30 June 2026, the first three quarters of a fiscal year that ends 30 September, against $697.6 million in the same period a year earlier, a rise of 74%. Full-year FY2025 revenue was $907.9 million, against $406.8 million the year before. The net loss attributable to common shareholders over the same nine months was $924.3 million, compared with $182.8 million a year earlier.

Oura shipped 3.1 million rings in the nine-month period, against 1.8 million a year earlier. Membership revenue reached $240.5 million, up 121%, and paid members doubled to 5 million, the recurring line that will matter most to public-market investors, and the one that turns a hardware company into a subscription business.

The headline loss sits beneath a $985m deemed dividend

Before the deemed dividend attached to preferred shares, Oura's net result for the period was a profit of $60.8 million, against $1.6 million a year earlier. The $924.3 million figure emerges after a $985 million deemed dividend to holders of redeemable convertible preferred shares is deducted. The comparable deemed dividend a year earlier was $184.4 million.

Oura raised more than $1.2 billion privately before this filing. A Fidelity-led round in October 2025 valued the company at $11 billion. The listing could raise up to $3 billion for the company and some of its backers at a valuation exceeding $16 billion, Bloomberg reported on 24 August 2026, a repricing of roughly 45% in under a year. 

The new board adds Robinhood's IPO-era CFO and Wolt's founder

Oura said on 2 September that it will appoint Jason Warnick, Leslie Kilgore, Miki Kuusi and David Sze as directors.

Warnick spent seven years as chief financial officer of Robinhood, where he helped take the company public and through its subsequent life as a listed business. He retired from the role earlier this year and was succeeded by Shiv Verma. Before that he spent nearly two decades at Amazon across finance, investor relations, audit and enterprise risk, and began his career as a CPA at Deloitte & Touche.

Kilgore sits on the boards of Netflix and Pinterest, and has previously served on those of LinkedIn, Medallia and Nextdoor. She was chief marketing officer at Netflix, and held earlier positions at Amazon, Procter & Gamble and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Kuusi co-founded Wolt and led it as chief executive from 2014 until DoorDash acquired the company in 2022. He now oversees DoorDash's international business and serves as chief executive of London-based Deliveroo. 

Sze is a partner at Greylock Partners, where he led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Roblox and Pandora. He previously held senior operating roles at Excite and Excite@Home.

The four join Timo Ahopelto, Dennis Durkin, chief executive Tom Hale, Wen Hsieh, Eurie Kim and chairman David Shuman on the board.

"Adding Jason, Leslie, Miki, and David strengthens our board with leaders who know what it takes to build and scale category-defining global businesses," Hale said in the company's statement.

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What the appointments say about where Oura's governance now sits

The appointments describe a specific destination. Warnick is a CFO who has already run a listing and the quarterly reporting cycle that follows it. Kilgore brings the consumer-brand seat that US public boards expect. Sze holds an investor seat. None of the three has a Nordic mandate.

That leaves a ten-person board on which Ahopelto and Kuusi are the Nordic voices, at a company founded in Oulu that will report as a US filer under SEC rules rather than the Finnish Corporate Governance Code. For Nordic investors, Oura is on the way to becoming a company you can read about but not vote on in Helsinki, the governance follows the listing venue, and the listing venue is Nasdaq.

Oura is not leaving Finland. The engineers stay, the product stays. What moves is the register, the governance regime and the venue where the company answers for itself. IQM proved that part is a choice, it took both listings. Oura’s prospectus takes one.

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Authors

Founder and ceo

Helene Auramo is a co-founder of Listeds and Nordic Listed Leaders. She has previously co-founded Slush, Indiedays, Zipipop, and Okimo Clinic, building ventures at the intersection of media, technology, and community. She holds board positions at the Finnish Business School Graduates (Suomen Ekonomit) and Finnvera, and serves as Chair of the Investment Committee at the Finnish Business School Graduates. Helene is also a columnist for Talouselämä, Finland’s leading business magazine, and Aamulehti, one of the country’s largest newspapers. Her work focuses on leadership, growth, and the structures that shape decision-making in Nordic companies. She was awarded Future Board Member of the Year in 2022 by Future Board.

Founder and ceo

Helene Auramo is a co-founder of Listeds and Nordic Listed Leaders. She has previously co-founded Slush, Indiedays, Zipipop, and Okimo Clinic, building ventures at the intersection of media, technology, and community. She holds board positions at the Finnish Business School Graduates (Suomen Ekonomit) and Finnvera, and serves as Chair of the Investment Committee at the Finnish Business School Graduates. Helene is also a columnist for Talouselämä, Finland’s leading business magazine, and Aamulehti, one of the country’s largest newspapers. Her work focuses on leadership, growth, and the structures that shape decision-making in Nordic companies. She was awarded Future Board Member of the Year in 2022 by Future Board.

Devdatta Temgire is a data and business analyst at Listeds. He contributes research, data analysis, and pattern detection to the publication’s coverage of Nordic-listed companies, with a focus on board composition, leadership transitions, and financials. He holds an honors degree in artificial intelligence and data science alongside a bachelor’s in computer engineering, and previously worked at KPMG.

Devdatta Temgire is a data and business analyst at Listeds. He contributes research, data analysis, and pattern detection to the publication’s coverage of Nordic-listed companies, with a focus on board composition, leadership transitions, and financials. He holds an honors degree in artificial intelligence and data science alongside a bachelor’s in computer engineering, and previously worked at KPMG.

Authors

Founder and ceo

Helene Auramo is a co-founder of Listeds and Nordic Listed Leaders. She has previously co-founded Slush, Indiedays, Zipipop, and Okimo Clinic, building ventures at the intersection of media, technology, and community. She holds board positions at the Finnish Business School Graduates (Suomen Ekonomit) and Finnvera, and serves as Chair of the Investment Committee at the Finnish Business School Graduates. Helene is also a columnist for Talouselämä, Finland’s leading business magazine, and Aamulehti, one of the country’s largest newspapers. Her work focuses on leadership, growth, and the structures that shape decision-making in Nordic companies. She was awarded Future Board Member of the Year in 2022 by Future Board.

Devdatta Temgire is a data and business analyst at Listeds. He contributes research, data analysis, and pattern detection to the publication’s coverage of Nordic-listed companies, with a focus on board composition, leadership transitions, and financials. He holds an honors degree in artificial intelligence and data science alongside a bachelor’s in computer engineering, and previously worked at KPMG.

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Market Signals

Two Helsinki demergers are locked in, a third is under review

Sep 4, 2026

UPM's shareholders approved the WISA Group separation on 31 August. Aspo votes on 7 December. Valmet has not yet approved a plan.

UPM-Kymmene's extraordinary general meeting approved the demerger of its Plywood business on 31 August 2026, seating the board of the new company at the same meeting. WISA Group Plc is expected to complete on or about 31 October and start trading on Nasdaq Helsinki on 2 November. UPM shareholders receive one WISA share for each UPM share held; the Finnish Tax Administration has ruled the demerger tax-neutral, and the Financial Supervisory Authority approved the listing prospectus in July and a supplement in August.

Aspo's board approved its own demerger plan on 3 August 2026. ESL Shipping moves into ESL Shipping Group Plc and the continuing company was renamed Telko Group Plc, on the same one-for-one basis. The extraordinary general meeting is set for 7 December, completion for 31 December, and trading in ESL Shipping Group shares for on or about 4 January 2027. A separate share exchange folds Lighthouse HoldCo's 21.4% direct stake in ESL Shipping into the new company, after which OP Finland Infrastructure LP (about 14.3%) and Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company (about 10.7%) are expected to be its two largest shareholders.

Valmet is furthest from a vote. Its board announced on 24 July 2026 that it would review separating Biomaterial Solutions and Services from Process Performance Solutions into two listed companies. No plan has been approved. An update is due no later than the full-year 2026 results. 

Where the three stand


UPM → WISA Group

Aspo → ESL Shipping Group / Telko Group

Valmet

Stage

Approved by EGM, 31 Aug 2026

Plan approved by board, 3 Aug 2026

Strategic review only

Shareholder vote

Done

7 Dec 2026

None scheduled

Completion

On or about 31 Oct 2026

31 Dec 2026

Not set

First trading day

2 Nov 2026

On or about 4 Jan 2027

Not set

CEO of new company

Tuija Suur-Hamari

Matti-Mikael Koskinen (ESL Shipping Group); Telko Group not disclosed

Not disclosed

Chair

Tapio Korpeinen

Rolf Jansson (ESL Shipping Group, intended)

Not disclosed

Net sales

EUR 409M plywood sales, 2025

EUR 178.4M (ESL Shipping Group) and EUR 294.6M (Telko Group), 12 months to June 2026

EUR 1.7B (Process Performance Solutions), annualised

2030 target

EUR 550M+ sales, 13% comparable EBIT margin

EUR 40M+ comparable EBIT

Not set

Tax-neutral ruling

Confirmed

Confirmed

n/a

The numbers behind WISA

WISA will operate seven production units across five locations in Finland and Estonia, with capacity of around 785,000 cubic metres a year. Plywood sales were EUR 409 million in 2025 on EUR 55 million of comparable EBITDA, against a 2030 target of more than EUR 550 million in sales and a 13% comparable EBIT margin, with a dividend policy of roughly half of annual profit.

The 31 August meeting also elected WISA's board — Tapio Korpeinen as chair, Mats Nordlander as deputy chair, and Sakari Ahdekivi, Frank Herrmann, Nina Kiviranta and Emmanuelle Picard, each serving until WISA's first annual general meeting. 

Valmet itself demerged from Metso in 2013.

The leadership consequences of these three transactions are covered separately by Listeds in  Two new listed CEOs, no search, no external hire: two new listed-CEO seats created without a search, filled from inside the parent, against a Large Cap tier that recorded no CEO change in the first half of 2026.

Market Signals

Nordea expects hiring to turn this winter. Danske sees one vacancy for every nine jobseekers.

Sep 3, 2026

Nordea raised its 2026 growth forecast to 1.7 per cent on 2 September. Danske, forecasting in June, has 1.1 per cent. Both keep unemployment above 10 per cent this year, and sit a percentage point apart on the 2027 ECB rate.

Nordea's upgrade took 2026 up from 1.0% and added 2.0% in both 2027 and 2028. Danske has 0.8% for next year, having cut both years from 1.5 and 1.9% on an energy price shock. 

Some of the gap is just timing. Danske's editorial deadline was 2 June, before Statistics Finland's Q2 flash and before the summer run of data that prompted Nordea's upgrade. The energy-driven downgrade Danske made in June has not so far shown up in the output figures.

What has not moved with the data is the labour market call. Both houses put unemployment above 10% this year, and Danske has it still above 10% in 2027.

Finland, %

Nordea 2026

2027

Danske 2026

2027

GDP

1.7

2.0

1.1

0.8

Unemployment rate

10.4

9.0

10.5

10.1

Government deficit, % of GDP

3.30

2.88

5.0

4.8

Government debt, % of GDP

90.80

92.26

90.9

93.3

ECB deposit rate, end of period

2.75

3.00

2.50

2.00

Nordea forecasts a further year at 2.0% growth in 2028 and unemployment down to 8.0%; Danske's horizon stops at 2027. The 2025 base figures differ slightly, EUR 281.7bn against EUR 280.6bn, so the rates are not measured off the same base.

The rate path is the one split the calendar does not explain

Both houses expect the ECB to raise rates again. They then point in opposite directions.

Nordea forecasts three further 25 basis point moves, taking the deposit rate to 2.75% by year-end and 3.00% in 2027, and says the timing looks wrong for Finland, where consumer price inflation was 2.1% in July with services at 1.7% and goods at 1.1%. Danske forecasts two hikes to 2.50% and then cuts, potentially from spring 2027, back to 2.00% by the end of that year, on the view that the hiking cycle will be much shorter than the last one.

The reasoning behind the shorter cycle is a comparison with 2022. Heidi Schauman, Danske's head of research, argues the starting point is not the same: "This time, the major economies are more balanced". On that reading, price and wage increases are harder to push through than they were four years ago, second-round effects stay modest, and the ECB has less work to do.

That is a full percentage point of difference on the policy rate in eighteen months, and it lands on anyone financing capacity into the recovery. It is also the one line where a June forecast and a September forecast are looking at broadly the same question, because both are calls on what the ECB does next rather than on what Finland did last quarter.

The high unemployment rate is partly a participation story

Listeds flagged the underlying divergence on 3 August: GDP grew 0.9% quarter-on-quarter in Q2 while employed persons fell 1.1% year-on-year and hours worked fell 1.4%, on Statistics Finland's flash data. The revised accounts on 28 August cut that quarterly figure to 0.4%, so the gap between output and hours is narrower than the flash implied, but it has not closed.

Both houses now read that combination as something other than a weak economy, from different directions. Nordea points to output per hour worked rising 2.8% year-on-year in the second quarter, roughly what the previous 18 years delivered combined, and names R&D investment rising since 2018, cheap electricity and moderate wage settlements as durable drivers rather than cyclical ones. Danske points at the denominator: trend unemployment at 10.6% is the highest since 1999, but participation has risen above 69%, a level not seen since the early 1990s, so the rate reflects a growing labour force as much as weak hiring.

Danske is blunter about how thin demand for labour still is, with roughly one job vacancy for every nine unemployed jobseekers, and its Finland economist is explicit that a broader consumption recovery requires employment to improve first. Nordea expects that turn sooner. Its economist Juho Kostiainen dates it: "A positive turn in the labor market is expected next winter", on the back of hiring intentions that have improved clearly this year.

Neither is describing a labour market that has turned yet. Housing tells a similar story: prices for old dwellings fell 3.9% year-on-year in Q2 and Nordea has residential starts down to 15,000, with Danske expecting a fall of 2.8% in prices this year before a 1.0% recovery next.

What it means for boards

Two forecasts, three months apart, agreeing that output is growing and that hiring has not followed. The question for a board is which lever moves first when it does.

If Nordea is right, hiring turns this winter and the market for experienced operators tightens before the Labour Force Survey shows it. If Danske's slower read holds, headcount stays a usable lever well into 2027 and the financing cost of waiting falls rather than rises.

Boards do not have to wait for the quarterly accounts to find out which. Hiring intentions and workforce negotiations move first, and executive appointments move ahead of both. Listeds tracks workforce change negotiations and leadership appointments across Nasdaq Helsinki and First North for exactly this reason. A recovery that shows up in productivity before payroll shows up in mandates before it shows up in the statistics.

One thing to keep in mind. Danske's June numbers predate both the Q2 flash and the revised accounts, and Statistics Finland updates the quarter again on 18 September.

Nordea is a partner in Nordic Listed Leaders which is part of Listeds. They also are a partner in the investor event defence. We retain full editorial control over our coverage.

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