Venture capital investments in Finland
Finland: Venture capital investments was 0.1036 Percentage of GDP in 2025. ▲ Rising
Venture capital investments in Finland, 2007–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of GDP.
Analysis
Finland recorded 0.1036 Percentage of GDP for venture capital investments in 2025.
The figure is down 1.3% on the previous year and up 99.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, venture capital investments in Finland peaked at 0.1842 Percentage of GDP in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.0405 Percentage of GDP, in 2012.
Finland ranks 9th of 28 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 19 years of available data.
Venture capital investments in Finland, year by year
| Year | Percentage of GDP | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 0.0714 Percentage of GDP | — |
| 2008 | 0.0764 Percentage of GDP | +7.1% |
| 2009 | 0.0511 Percentage of GDP | -33.2% |
| 2010 | 0.0549 Percentage of GDP | +7.5% |
| 2011 | 0.0442 Percentage of GDP | -19.5% |
| 2012 | 0.0405 Percentage of GDP | -8.4% |
| 2013 | 0.0587 Percentage of GDP | +45.0% |
| 2014 | 0.0578 Percentage of GDP | -1.5% |
| 2015 | 0.052 Percentage of GDP | -9.9% |
| 2016 | 0.0584 Percentage of GDP | +12.2% |
| 2017 | 0.0668 Percentage of GDP | +14.4% |
| 2018 | 0.0945 Percentage of GDP | +41.4% |
| 2019 | 0.1111 Percentage of GDP | +17.6% |
| 2020 | 0.1842 Percentage of GDP | +65.8% |
| 2021 | 0.1505 Percentage of GDP | -18.3% |
| 2022 | 0.1263 Percentage of GDP | -16.1% |
| 2023 | 0.0675 Percentage of GDP | -46.5% |
| 2024 | 0.1049 Percentage of GDP | +55.4% |
| 2025 | 0.1036 Percentage of GDP | -1.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.0663 Percentage of GDP | 0.0511 Percentage of GDP | 0.0764 Percentage of GDP | 3 |
| 2010s | 0.0639 Percentage of GDP | 0.0405 Percentage of GDP | 0.1111 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.1228 Percentage of GDP | 0.0675 Percentage of GDP | 0.1842 Percentage of GDP | 6 |
Countries ranked near Finland
- 6 Latvia 0.0166 Percentage of GDP compare
- 6 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.1624 Percentage of GDP compare
- 7 New Zealand 0.1527 Percentage of GDP compare
- 8 Denmark 0.1299 Percentage of GDP compare
- 10 Spain 0.0894 Percentage of GDP compare
- 11 France 0.0781 Percentage of GDP compare
- 12 Ireland 0.057 Percentage of GDP compare
More economy & growth data for Finland
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 1.48 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 1.51 Percent per annum (2029)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant LCU), per capita 5,685 constant LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), annual 4.93 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 0.2252 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current US$), per 12,647 current US$ per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), annual 0.5073 % change on previous year (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 0.1993 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (current LCU), per 11,192 current LCU per person (2025)
- Industry (including construction), value added (constant 2015 US$) 0.8346 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is venture capital investments in Finland?
- Venture capital investments in Finland was 0.1036 Percentage of GDP in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest venture capital investments recorded in Finland?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1842 Percentage of GDP in 2020.
- What is the lowest venture capital investments recorded in Finland?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0405 Percentage of GDP in 2012.
- How does Finland rank for venture capital investments?
- Finland ranks 9th out of 28 countries with data for 2025.
- Is venture capital investments rising or falling in Finland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 99.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Finland data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Venture capital investments (market statistics). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
In the OECD Entrepreneurship Financing Database, venture capital is made up of the sum of early stage (including pre-seed, seed, start-up and other early stage) and later stage venture capital. As there are no harmonised definitions of venture capital stages across venture capital associations and other data providers, original data have been re-aggregated to fit the OECD classification of venture capital by stages. Korea, New Zealand, the Russian Federation and South Africa do not provide breakdowns of venture capital by stage that would allow meaningful international comparisons. The attached table shows the correspondences between original data and OECD harmonised data for venture capital investments by stage. https://webfs-sdd.oecd.org/files/.Stat/VC_INV/VC_OECD_HarmonisedStages.xlsx Venture capital is a form of equity financing particularly relevant for young companies with innovation and growth potential but untested business models and no track record; it replaces or complements traditional bank finance. The development of the venture capital industry is considered an important framework condition to stimulate innovative entrepreneurship. Aggregate data on venture capital provide useful information on trends in the venture capital industry. These data are typically compiled by national or regional Private Equity and Venture Capital Associations, often with the support of commercial data providers. The quality and availability of aggregate data on venture capital have improved considerably in recent years; international comparisons, however, remain complicated because of two main problems. The first difficulty comes from the lack of a standard international definition of venture capital. While there is a general understanding, the definition of the types of investments included in venture capital varies across countries and regions. In some cases, differences are purely linguistic; in others, they are more substantive. The second problem relates to the diverse methodologies employed by data compilers. The completeness and representativeness of venture capital statistics with respect to the venture capital industry of a country will differ depending on how data were collected. The units used are : Millions of US Dollars and share of GDP. OECD statistics contact: stat.contact@oecd.org