Inven has been ranked #3 on the 2026 Sifted 100: Nordics, recognizing the fastest-growing startups in the region.
Inven has been ranked #3 on the 2026 Sifted 100: Nordics, recognizing the fastest-growing startups in the region.
The ranking follows Inven’s #10 placement on Sifted’s Future 50 in 2025, alongside continued international growth and an expansion of Inven’s role across the M&A workflow.
Over the past year, Inven has expanded beyond company discovery to support a broader range of M&A work. M&A, finance, and consulting teams use Inven to analyze entire markets, find the targets others miss, and produce client-ready deliverables backed by verifiable data.
“When we started Inven, we focused on solving one of the hardest problems in M&A research: finding the right companies. Today, our customers are using Inven across much more of the work that follows,” says Niilo Pirttijärvi, Co-Founder and CEO of Inven.
“When we started Inven, we focused on solving one of the hardest problems in M&A research: finding the right companies. Today, our customers are using Inven across much more of the work that follows."
“We’re building Inven to be the AI where M&A work happens. That means helping teams analyze entire markets, find the targets others miss, and turn that analysis into work they can actually use and defend.”
Inven’s recent product development has focused on making recurring M&A workflows repeatable across teams, combining market-scale analysis with traceable data and decision-ready outputs.
The recognition comes as more than 1,000 investment banks, private equity firms, consultancies, and corporate development teams use Inven for M&A research and analysis.
Being ranked #3 on the Sifted 100: Nordics marks another milestone in Inven’s growth since the company was founded in Helsinki in 2022.
Thank you to our team, customers, and investors for making it possible.
View the 2026 Sifted 100: Nordics ranking
About Inven
Inven makes private markets visible. Purpose-built for M&A, Inven helps the world's top dealmakers map entire sectors across 28M+ companies, find the targets others miss, and deliver decision-ready outputs — in minutes. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Helsinki, Inven is the default AI for M&A research.
Inven is trusted by more than 1,000 investment banks, private equity firms, consultancies, and corporate development teams.
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