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Venture Architect & Optimist • CEO at Springvest Plc • Serial Entrepreneur, eg. Naava • Startup Scientist • Writes for Forbes & Hosts #Cofounderi Podcast • Board, angel, advisor

AMD acquires Finnish Silo AI for $665M in all cash! Congratulations to team Silo.AI, a private Finnish AI lab, for the achievement! Excellent, persistent, and fearless work, Tero Ojanperä, Peter Sarlin, Ville Hulkko, et al. And good luck with the next steps with AMD! Link in the comments! #exit

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Aki Soudunsaari

Venture Architect & Optimist • CEO at Springvest Plc • Serial Entrepreneur, eg. Naava • Startup Scientist • Writes for Forbes & Hosts #Cofounderi Podcast • Board, angel, advisor

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Sorry Aki - but is this a good price? Obviously, I am not privy to the details of the deal and I don't want to come across as an armchair critic but this feels like a low price. Now don't get me wrong I wouldn't mind 665M in cash in my back pocket and I don't want to take anything away from the team's efforts. Scaling a business towards a successful exit is exceptionally hard work. Therefore my point is this is a case of another Finnish company selling "too soon" where they could have gone on to be a great enduring company and strengthened the ecosystem that way. I don't know hence my genuine question.

Ville Kari

IP & commercialization | Mentor for research projects, startups and Defense Innovation Accelerator

2w

Awesome! More to come from Finland ecosystem hopefully.

Jaana Pylvänen

Strategy, growth, operations

2w

Wow!

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Päivi Vuolle

Spreading the word for growth companies I Communications I Marketing I Sales I AI

2w

Wow! Congratulations to the whole team!💥

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