The startup scene in Finland has given birth to companies such as Angry Birds, Supercell, Wolt, and many others.
Prior to 1995, one of the key influences was the Finnish demo scene which gathered together people interested in burgeoning technology.
The period starting in 2003 and ending, roughly, around 2006 was a post-dot-com recovery time for the Finnish start-up ecosystem.
Aula movement was one of the key events in 2006 gathering people from different backgrounds to talk about social software.
[3] This period is characterized by the rise of a grassroots student movement initiated by Aaltoes, the emergence of a new wave of start-up entrepreneurs as well as creation of ArcticStartup, a local media 100% dedicated to covering the start-up scene in the Nordic and Baltic region.
In 2009 Finland was second largest investor in early stage startups in Europe measured in venture capital as a percentage of GDP.