KPMG Private Enterprise crowned the 2025 Global Tech Innovator competition winners

On November 12, 21 national winners delivered their final pitches to a panel of four distinguished judges at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Japan’s Rhinoflux was named the 2025 KPMG Global Tech Innovator winner, recognized for its breakthrough technology that unlocks biomass to generate clean energy at significantly reduced cost. Ireland’s Akara, developers of advanced AI sensors, robotics, and analytics for surgical applications, earned the first runner-up position and India’s StepOut, a pioneering sports performance and analytics startup, was awarded second runner-up.

Finland was represented by Flow Computing - its revolutionary patented Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) is optimized for scalable high-performance computing. PPU enables the next generation CPUs and extends the lifetime of Moore’s law.

Timo Valtonen, CEO and Co-Founder of Flow Computing, reflected on the experience of reaching the global finals:

Flow is a semiconductor/computing deep tech startup working with complex technology for demanding customer prospects like Arm, IBM, Intel, and Qualcomm. Historically, my pitches have often been too complicated for stakeholders to fully grasp our tech. The KPMG GTI program provided a perfect platform to practice and improve, first locally and then at Web Summit. Throughout this journey, there has been world-class coaching and mentoring to simply make better pitches. On top of that, Web Summit itself provided extremely valuable connections to potential future investors and customer prospects. And the icing on the cake was the chance to network with my fellow tech entrepreneurs from across the world. Big thanks to KPMG Finland, Johanna and Anni, as well as KPMG Global, Hazel, Lindsay and Richard.

Timo Valtonen

CEO and Co-Founder

Flow Computing

At KPMG, we want to empower growth companies to reach new heights. The Global Tech Innovator competition is our way of giving visionary businesses a platform to showcase their ideas and accelerate their growth. We believe these companies are shaping the future, and we’re proud to support them on that journey. A big thank you to Flow and Timo Valtonen for representing Finland with such an inspiring pitch. We look forward to seeing Flow achieve great things ahead.

Johanna Fagervik

Tax & Legal Partner

KPMG Finland