Takeoff Partners are experienced growth advisors and private investors. As entrepreneurs we have built pioneering businesses from the ground up into global leaders. We have routinely worked with Fortune 500 companies as customers, and we have completed many successful financing rounds with venture capital investors.
We provide advisory and coaching that leverages our experience in growing businesses in Americas, APAC and Europe.
Depending on the situation we may work on targeted development projects or serve as interim leaders of growth related initiatives.
We also invest in some of the companies we work with, and serve as members of the Board as needed.
Taking startups global is a trending topic around the world. Yet there is very little publicly available literature on structuring the phases of taking a business overseas. This White Paper discusses – through a framework approach - what successful internationalization typically requires from the team, product, business processes, positioning, and customer engagement.
Flying may feel magical, however getting up there is no magic but hard work and careful preparation. Similarly, growing a business into an international success is about systematic work rather than magic. We have summarized our experiences into a set of best practices for other 'born globals' to take advantage of.
Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA) introduced the idea of “market intelligence as a service” to the corporate world. During 15 years and with the support of CapMan, 3i Group and private investors, the Finnish startup grew into a 15 MEUR business with 11 offices around the world and 150 professionals as employees. M-Brain Group acquired GIA in 2014. Read more
Blancco is the world’s leading provider of data erasure software. Founded in 1997, Blancco is headquartered in Finland and operates from a network of 17 international offices and partners across Europe, North America, the Middle East, Russia, Asia and Australasia. Read more
Finnish Business Angel Network (FiBAN) has elected a new board of directors for 2019. Markko Vaarnas accompanies six other board members to lead FiBAN to another successful year of business angel investing.
Takeoff Partners was enthusiastic to host Takeoff Academy workshop in Helsinki on December 18th 2018. The event was packed with experts’ speeches and interesting topics about corporate culture, modern recruiting and how to stay healthy.
Our portfolio company Videoly allows online stores to easily add relevant videos to every product page. Videoly, the brainchild of Russian search expert Sergey Andryukhin, was founded in Finland in 2014 and has already expanded internationally.