November 17, 2025 — Helsinki, Finland.
Inven has been awarded AI Startup of the Year at the AI Finland Gala 2025, recognizing the company’s leadership in applying AI to how private companies are found, understood, and evaluated. The award highlights Inven as one of the most impactful AI companies working today and acknowledges its role in reshaping how M&A professionals discover opportunities in the private market.
Setting a new standard for modern dealmaking
“In just three years, the company has already disrupted the market and traditional players, in a way rarely seen in the industry.
– AI Finland Awards 2025
Inven is an AI-native deal sourcing platform used by investment banks, private equity firms, VCs, and corporate development teams to identify and analyze private companies globally. The platform brings intelligent search, data, and collaboration into one workflow, helping teams move faster and make better decisions.
Inven’s proprietary technology analyzes millions of company sources across languages and markets, combining ownership data, financial insight, behavioral signals, and AI-powered search to surface companies that traditional databases miss. This gives dealmakers visibility into niche, emerging, and cross-border markets that are difficult to map manually.
Today, over 950 M&A teams worldwide use Inven to find relevant companies faster, collaborate more smoothly, and build deal pipelines with far less manual work. Teams report up to 10x faster sourcing, 10x more relevant targets, and 5x faster list-building, making Inven a new standard for early-stage discovery and pipeline creation.
Customer results include:
- 10× faster deal sourcing
- 10× more relevant targets found
- 5× faster list-building
A milestone moment for AI in M&A
“AI is becoming core to M&A work, and every dealmaker now needs an intelligent tool they can rely on every day. This award is great validation that we’re building exactly that – a tool that genuinely improves how teams source and understand companies. As we continue to grow, we’re excited to welcome new talent – and proud to offer one of the best tech teams to join.”
– Niilo Pirttijärvi, Co-Founder of Inven
About the AI Finland Gala
The AI Finland Gala highlights the most promising AI-driven companies and initiatives across industries. The event brings together leaders in technology, business, and research to showcase the country’s growing influence in applied AI.
See the full list of winners →
About Inven
Inven helps M&A professionals spot 80% of the deals they’d otherwise miss.
Founded in 2022 by Niilo Pirttijärvi, Tommi Kupiainen, and Ekku Jokinen, Inven is the first AI-native deal sourcing platform designed to uncover opportunities across the global private market. With proprietary data on 21 million companies and advanced algorithms, the platform helps M&A teams find, analyze, and connect with the right opportunities 10x faster.
Trusted by 950+ private equity firms, investment banks, consulting firms, and VCs, Inven ensures that no opportunity goes unnoticed.
