Vivi Avikainen is Investment Manager at Nefco, the Nordic Green Bank. With a keen eye for innovation and a passion for environmental impact, she collaborates closely with Nordic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that specialise in green technologies. She actively seeks out new companies in the scale-up phase for Nefco to finance.

Nefco is a Nordic-owned international financial institution headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Nefco focuses on financing the global scale-up of Nordic SMEs and currently has over 200 in its portfolio. Nefco 's mission is to accelerate the green transition by financing Nordic green solutions that have the potential to be scaled up on global markets—and to help them attract additional finance from other sources. Since its establishment in 1990, Nefco has financed and implemented over 1,700 projects in energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean water and sanitation, waste management, circular economy, and cleaner industrial processes, among others.

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