VC Per Capita: Finland $46, Sweden $45 (US $72, Europe $7)
Last week we published a post on venture capital per capita. In those figures, Europe was shown in a light not too respectable. Where as Israel received a whopping $142 of venture capital per capita, Europe was at mere $7. Last week some other interesting statistics came out regarding Finland's investment amounts for this year. Mikko Suonenlahti, in a Kauppalehti article, forecasts Finland to receive some 175 million euro of investments this year. If you divide this by the 5.37 million people Finland has, it turns out to some $46 per capita, only this year. Naturally we wanted to find out what the figure is for Sweden and it's pretty close: $45 per capita (overall investments 2.67 billion SEK and a population of 9.35 million people).
