HELSINKI, UUSIMAA, FINLAND, October 9, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — In a market where traditional virtual data rooms are struggling to keep pace with modern dealmaking demands, BSUM (Biotech Start-Up Management Oy Ltd) is flipping the script with a new product that promises to change how sensitive documents are handled during investment rounds and M&A negotiations. The company today announced the launch of “Haihtuva,” an AI-native due-diligence room, and opened its first paid pilots immediately.
The current landscape is dominated by legacy virtual data rooms (VDRs) that bolted AI features onto document-indexing systems built years ago. Haihtuva takes the opposite approach: it was engineered from scratch as an AI-native VDR, delivering a genuinely AI-driven experience for both parties in a deal — not just enhanced search or summarization tools. Sellers get readiness checks and gap analysis run against their own data, while buyers benefit from automated document-level risk flagging and streamlined question-and-answer workflows.
What truly distinguishes Haihtuva, however, are two confidentiality-first innovations. First, documents never leave the seller’s or target company’s repository: the platform reads them on demand, in read-only mode, directly from their original source. Second, the buyer or investor selects which AI model and training data are used to process those documents. All computation happens in the volatile memory of confidential, attested computing environments, and everything is erased the instant the task is complete — a design that inspired the product’s name, as “haihtuva” is Finnish for volatile or vanishing. BSUM has filed patent applications covering this processing method.
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“We wanted to make transactions possible without the client’s files ever being uploaded outside their own organization. Files are only read when needed and instantly vaporized from the volatile memory of the server after use. The buyer also gets to choose which AI they run against those files. Most data rooms today look like someone built them with duct tape and a bit of wire — we wanted AI built into the room from day one, not taped onto a twenty-year-old document index,” said Juhani Lahdenperä, co-founder of BSUM.
Beyond its novel architecture, Haihtuva still includes every standard VDR function that deal teams have come to expect — granular read-permission settings, usage reporting, and the option to fall back on traditional human review for teams that prefer it.
The product was developed by the BSUM team, which draws on more than 25 years of hands-on life science due-diligence experience. Haihtuva is now open for its first paid pilots at www.haihtuva.com.
About BSUM
Biotech Start-Up Management Ltd (BSUM) is a life science due-diligence and advisory firm supporting start-ups, investors and companies through the biotech business lifecycle. Business ID 2574531-6.
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Why it matters: By eliminating the need to upload files and giving buyers control over the AI that processes them, Haihtuva tackles two of the most persistent trust barriers in digital M&A due diligence. If the model gains traction, it could push the broader VDR industry to rethink how data privacy and AI are integrated into deal workflows.
