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Finnish Venture Capital Association Best Thesis Award 2021 to Henri Lencioni

Henri Lencioni's winning thesis was titled “Assessing Venture Capital Investor Performance Drivers – A Practical Application of Machine Learning”
Aalto Campus photo by Mikko Raskinen
Aalto campus by Mikko Raskinen

Finnish Venture Capital Association awarded two Department of Industrial Engineering and Management students theses:

Henri Lencioni's winning thesis was titled “Assessing Venture Capital Investor Performance Drivers – A Practical Application of Machine Learning” -  read more about the topic in Henri's recent blog on the topic: https://paaomasijoittajat.fi/assessing-venture-capital-investor-performance-drivers-with-machine-learning/

Nikke Mikkonen received an honorary award for his thesis "Effect of Fund Size Growth on Subsequent Fund Performance in European Buyout Funds”

Both theses were supervised by professor Markku Maula.

Congratulations!

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