Taivassalon Kunta - Municipality of Taivassalo

What Taivassalon Kunta - Municipality of Taivassalo does

Taivassalon Kunta is a Finnish municipality (kunta) located in the Southwest Finland region that delivers mandated local public services to approximately 1,700 residents. The municipality provides a standard suite of statutory services — water and wastewater, waste management, road and infrastructure maintenance, social services, healthcare coordination, early-childhood and basic education, and municipal housing — to a residential population that is supplemented by a small business base and an agricultural community focused on the Baltic Sea coastline.

Operations are delivered through a combination of internal municipal departments and two wholly-owned subsidiaries: Taivassalon Vesi Oy, which provides water and wastewater utilities, and Taivassalon Vuokratalot Oy, which manages municipal rental housing. The municipality has built a digital service ecosystem on a concrete5 CMS foundation, integrating Ktweb/Triplan for council decision-making and document management, Webropol for resident surveys, eDaisy for content accessibility, and ReadSpeaker for text-to-speech. National integrations include Lupapiste for electronic building and environmental permits. Financial administration is outsourced to Sarastia Oy, with payroll handled by Laskentavakka, and employment services are shared regionally with the City of Uusikaupunki.

The business model is purely public-sector: revenue is generated through Finnish state grants, municipal income tax, property tax, and modest operating contributions from the water and rental-housing subsidiaries. The 2025 budget disclosed a vuosikate (annual accrual) of 575,722 EUR and an accumulated surplus of approximately 8.5M EUR, while the 2025 investment budget of 454,067 EUR represents a sizable contraction from the 716,587 EUR budgeted in 2024. The municipality is not a commercial enterprise and does not raise outside capital.

Name

Taivassalon Kunta - Municipality of Taivassalo

Legal name

Taivassalon kunta

Website

https://taivassalo.fi

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Taivassalon Kunta is a Finnish municipality in Southwest Finland delivering statutory public services — water, waste, housing, education, and social services — to roughly 1,700 residents, financed by taxation and operated through internal departments and two wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Government Services

NAICS

Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (22131), Other Residential Care Facilities (62399), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120), Health Care and Social Assistance (62), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241)

SIC

Water Supply (4941), Sanitary Services (4950), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services (BPAIACAI)

Keywords

• Municipal services
• Local government administration
• Public sector services
• Welfare and education
• Water and waste utilities

Headquarters

HQ city

Taivassalo, Southwest Finland

HQ country

Finland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Taivassalon kunta is a Finnish municipality delivering statutory local government services to approximately 1,700 residents in the Varsinais-Suomi archipelago. Its core offerings cover housing and environment (water supply via subsidiary Taivassalon Vesi Oy, waste management, building permits, spatial planning), social and health services (elderly care, social welfare, healthcare coordination), education (comprehensive school, early childhood education, music and civic institutes), business and employment support, fishing and agriculture services, and leisure/cultural facilities. Services are delivered through the municipal office, the taivassalo.fi digital platform, online forms, and an electronic permit service.

Product overview

Taivassalon kunta operates a multi-channel digital service ecosystem. The central hub is the taivassalo.fi municipal website built on the concrete5 CMS, which aggregates all municipal information and services. Interoperating with it are the verkkokauppa online store for payments and reservations, the Lomakkeet e-forms platform (using Webropol and ePalvelu) covering all service domains, and the Ktweb decision management system (via Triplan) for official announcements and governance documents. The website additionally incorporates ReadSpeaker text-to-speech for accessibility compliance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Kustavin kunta: Small archipelago municipality in Southwest Finland with similarly tiny population, local-government service mandate, and reliance on traditional maritime industries — the most direct demographic and operational peer to Taivassalo.

Regional players

• Maskun kunta: Adjacent Finnish municipality in Southwest Finland providing the same suite of local-government services (housing, social, education, permits) to a similar small-town population and sharing the Turku commuting area.
• Nousiaisten kunta: Neighbouring Finnish municipality in the Turku region offering comparable municipal services, building-permit processes, and shared regional employment services — directly comparable operating model and catchment.
• Liedon kunta: Nearby municipality in the Turku region offering directly comparable municipal services, social and healthcare coordination, and education services to a small-to-medium population base.
• Naantalin kaupunki: Nearby larger municipality in the same Varsinais-Suomi region that has absorbed smaller archipelago municipalities (e.g., Rymättylä, Velkua) — comparable service mandate, regional labour market, and digital service infrastructure, but at materially larger scale.
• Mynämäen kunta: Finnish municipality in Southwest Finland adjacent to Taivassalo, with comparable small-town governance footprint, education and social services, and access to Turku labour market via regional cooperation.

Broad incumbents

• Turun kaupunki: The regional capital and the dominant municipal actor in Varsinais-Suomi; Taivassalo's economic catchment is essentially the Turku labour market, and Turku sets the benchmark for digital public services in the region.
• Raision kaupunki: Larger city municipality adjacent to Turku with a broader service portfolio and the same public-sector mandate; useful for benchmarking how a larger-budget peer scales digital services and subsidiary structures.

Others

• Kuntien Tiera Oy: Finland's municipal ICT services cooperative, providing shared digital infrastructure to small municipalities like Taivassalo — directly comparable in the technology/customer dimension and a likely counterpart for any large-scale digital-service roadmap.
• Sarastia Oy: Shared financial-management and payroll services company owned by Finnish municipalities (and named as Taivassalo's financial management provider) — comparable business model and customer base in the municipal sector, though operating as a service vendor rather than a peer government entity.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/taivassalonk
• Facebookfi-fi.facebook.com/TaivassalonKunta
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/taivassalon-kunta

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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