The deal team

Decades of relationships. Hundreds of millions closed.

Tyrion is led by partners who have built companies, sat on boards and written cheques — not career intermediaries. The proof is in the deals.

€0M+
Capital transactions
0
IPOs
0
Unicorn built
0+
Lead-investor deals

Collectively, the partners hold 100+ board positions globally and mentor at the EIC Scaling Club, TechTour, PhotonHUB, WomenTech EU and Founder Institute.

Partners

The people on your side of the table.

Mikko Suonenlahti

Partner. Decades across venture and growth investing, with deep ties to Europe's leading funds and corporate investors.

Ari Wegter

Partner. Hands-on operator and investor experience, bringing founder-aligned judgement to every mandate and negotiation.

Kati Nikopensius

Partner. Capital raising and deal execution, connecting founders with the right investors across the European ecosystem.

Hands-on experience across 3i, Bregal Milestone, Draper Esprit, Icebreaker, Ambient Sound Investments, Amazon, LoveFilm and Prototron — the kind of background that lets us speak as builders, not bankers.

Representative mandates

What a Tyrion process looks like.

Anonymised to protect client confidentiality — each reflects the kind of situation we're built to solve.

Cybersecurity — Series C

From a stalled soft circle to a closed round

A deep-tech founder held €2.5M in partial commitments but no lead, and a round losing momentum. We rebuilt the equity story and ran a focused process into our network.

€22M
Round closed
11
Weeks to term sheet
1
New lead secured

Defence & Deep Tech — Growth

Growth capital from strategic investors

A scaling deep-tech company needed expansion capital and credibility with senior investors. We positioned the raise and opened doors to corporate and strategic backers.

€45M
Growth round
3
Strategic investors
100%
Founder-aligned terms

SaaS — Exit

Majority sale to a strategic buyer

Founders ready for an exit wanted maximum value with minimum disruption. We ran a discreet sell-side process and negotiated competing offers to the close.

€80M
Enterprise value
Majority
Stake sold
4
Bidders engaged

Energy & Cleantech — Secondary

Liquidity without losing momentum

Founders and early team sought partial liquidity while the company kept scaling. We matched the secondary discreetly with buyers in our network, on clean terms.

€18M
Secondary value
Clean
Cap table
Discreet
Off-market

The network

Coverage you can't build alone.

Our network covers 90% of the most active deep-tech investors in Europe, with preferential access to the 50 largest global PE funds — across every stage.

90%

Deep-tech coverage

Of the most active European deep-tech investors, from pre-seed to Series C+.

50

Largest PE funds

Preferential access to the 50 largest global private equity funds by AUM.

1000s

Investors in reach

VCs, corporate VCs, family offices, secondary buyers, PE firms and HNWIs.

3

European hubs

Offices across Finland, the Netherlands and Spain, with global reach.

Relationships span dedicated deep-tech European funds, sector-agnostic European funds, corporate investors and global investors active in Europe — many dating back several decades with senior-level partners.

“We are committed to discretion and value maximization.”

The Tyrion Partners principle