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Sensofusion seeks a €1.3 billion Helsinki listing with its founder keeping control

Sep 24, 2026

Drone countermeasures company Sensofusion plans to list on Nasdaq Helsinki in October at a pre-money valuation of up to €1.3 billion. That would make it the first growth company to join the Helsinki exchange valued above €1 billion. The company aims to raise about €300 million in new shares, and four Finnish institutions have already committed €170 million of that.

The anchor investors are Elo, Ilmarinen, Varma and funds managed by OP Fund Management . The offering will include a public offering in Finland and an institutional offering in Finland and internationally, including in the US. The majority shareholder, Haave Oy, and some other shareholders will also sell existing shares.

A 60.8% operating margin carries the valuation

Sensofusion's revenue rose almost 90% in 2025 to €35 million, with profit of more than €23 million. In the first half of 2026, revenue grew another 122%. In the 12 months to the end of June 2026, the operating margin was 60.8%. Revenue grew at an average annual rate of 91.1% between the 2024 financial year and that 12-month period. Earlier this decade, annual revenue was around €700,000.

The company's main product, Airfence, detects hostile drones and can disable them by radio jamming. Customers include Ukraine, NASA, the Finnish Defence Forces and the Finnish Border Guard. "A large number of our customers are operational in some way, involved in war," said founder and CEO Tuomas Rasila.

The company says most of its revenue already comes from outside conflict zones. Rasila expects demand to grow whether or not the war in Ukraine continues, pointing to NATO members' commitment to spend 3.5 to 5% of GDP on defence. "There is nothing we hope for more than the end of war," he said. Chairman Timo Ahopelto put the market's annual growth at about 30%. "By 2030, the market will increase approximately fivefold," he said.

The proceeds will fund research and development in software, detection and countermeasure technologies, artificial intelligence and satellite capabilities. They will also pay for more production and testing capacity and strengthen the balance sheet.

Rasila will remain the controlling owner

Rasila owns up to 82% of the company, according to Helsingin Sanomat. He says the listing is not an exit. "I want Sensofusion to grow bigger than its founder. At the same time, I intend to continue as CEO," he said. He also plans to sell only a small part of his holding: "I am selling maybe about one percent of my own share and I am committing to not selling the 99 percent"

Suppose the issue raises the full €300 million at the maximum valuation. The dividend policy puts reinvestment first, and any future payouts will depend on the company's financing needs for growth. New shareholders are paying for growth, not for influence. The board and management already include familiar names: Ahopelto as chairman, and Mikko Hyppönen, formerly of F-Secure, as research director.

Business

Steady Energy takes its nuclear plans to First North

Sep 16, 2026

A reverse listing into 3North Partners puts a pre-revenue reactor developer on First North. The board, not the order book, is what investors are pricing.

Steady Energy, the Finnish developer of heat-only small modular reactors, is coming to First North through a share exchange in which investment company 3North Partners acquires all of its shares. Counting the investment commitments and a retail offering of up to €5 million, the company would open at a market value of roughly €345 million, against a share capital valued at about €270 million at listing after dilution from staff options.

The company has not signed a single binding delivery agreement.

Pension capital commits ahead of the first commercial milestone

3NP has secured irrevocable commitments of about €69.8 million in a directed issue. Elo, Ilmarinen and Varma are among the investors, alongside Suomen Teollisuussijoitus (Tesi) and Fortum Energy Holding B.V. The European Investment Bank has added a convertible loan of up to €40 million, its first financing for a small modular reactor project.

The participation of three major Finnish pension insurers adds institutional backing to the transaction, alongside the €115 million financing package.

The board is the instrument doing the de-risking

Pekka Lundmark, former chief executive of Fortum and Nokia, will chair the combined company. Chirayu Batra, Juha Juntunen, Petteri Tenhunen and Timo Ahopelto join him. Behind 3NP are Ahopelto and Lundmark, alongside Juha Hulkko, one of the creators of Bittium, Ilkka Paananen of Supercell and Tero Ojanperä. 3NP's chief executive Tuomo Vähäpassi was involved in taking Canatu to market through a SPAC.

The structure resembles a reverse listing: 3NP acquires Steady Energy and brings the combined company to First North. The transaction also puts a prominent group of technology and business figures around a company that remains in the product-development phase and has yet to sign a binding delivery agreement.

Founders lock up for three years and still take €850,000 each at closing

Tommi Nyman, Hannes Haapalahti and Petteri Tenhunen accept a three-year transfer restriction. They also sell shares to 3NP for €850,000 each in connection with closing, and may release a further €750,000 each once the company announces its first appointment as first-priority plant supplier.

The second release is well built. It pays only on a commercial milestone, which is where alignment should sit. The €850,000 at closing is the part worth naming plainly: founder liquidity ahead of a single signed contract, inside a lock-up structured to signal the opposite.

Retail investors are offered up to €5 million of a €115 million package, under five per cent. Nyman frames the public tranche as access and share liquidity rather than funding, which is accurate.

2028 is the date to hold the company to

The €20 million test reactor in Salmisaari should be running at the end of next year. Kuopio is the furthest-advanced project, with environmental assessment and zoning under way and Kuopion Energia as counterparty. Kerava, Jyväskylä and Helsinki follow. Nyman expects first-priority supplier selection before the end of 2028 and a first plant operating in the early 2030s.

Helsinki's tender is worth watching for a narrower reason. It examines both heat-only reactors and reactors producing heat and electricity. The LDR-50 does heat alone, which is the source of its cost advantage and also the limit of where it can compete.

The targets assume everything lands: revenue above €500 million by 2035 and €1 billion by 2040, at an adjusted operating margin of 25 to 30 per cent, across a priority market in Finland, Sweden, Poland and Czechia the company sizes at €30 billion and 230 to 300 reactors by 2050. A single unit is priced at €75 to €150 million. The French-founded Calogena is already circling the same Finnish demand.

Between here and there sit a licensing process, a construction decision and a first customer. The 2028 appointment is what converts this from a financing story into an operating one.

Business

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

Sep 4, 2026

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.

Business

IQM jumps in Helsinki after dual market debut

Jul 3, 2026

IQM Quantum Computers shares climbed 21.3% to €18.20 in early trading on Nasdaq Helsinki today, extending momentum after the Finnish quantum computing company began trading in the US a day earlier.

The company's American depositary shares closed their first session on Nasdaq at USD 13.03, up 2.1% from the previous close, before easing to USD 12.90 in after-hours trading. The US listing became effective on July 2 under the ticker IQMX, marking the company's arrival on public markets through a dual listing in Helsinki and New York.

The strong opening in Helsinki suggests investors are placing a premium on direct access to Europe's first publicly traded pure-play quantum computing company. Trading volume reached roughly €6.3 million during the morning session, with the stock touching an intraday high of €19.00.

As Listeds reported earlier this week, IQM completed its public market debut through its merger with Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition company Real Asset Acquisition Corp. Rather than raising fresh capital through a traditional IPO, the transaction brought the Espoo-based company to market using capital already secured through the SPAC structure.

Earlier Listeds reporting also noted that the transaction valued IQM at around USD 1.8 billion and left the combined company with more than USD 450 million in cash to fund technology development and international expansion. In March, the company further strengthened its balance sheet with a €50 million financing package from funds managed by BlackRock.

The market reaction gives IQM a strong start as one of Europe's few listed quantum computing specialists, although attention will now turn to whether the company can convert investor enthusiasm into commercial growth.

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