27.3. 16-20.00 at Parkki Business Park
A Gettogether for startup founders, angels, students and wannabes in the Hämeenlinna region.
The Agenda
16.00 Welcome and forewords – Janne Maksimainen and Juho Jokinen
The Pitches
16.15 Mirrorapp.io – Mika Hämäläinen
A disrupting AI-driven productivity suite that will transform the way we work. Raising 500 ke pre-seed funding.
16.30 CodeAnanas – Tekla Wannas and Jasmin Heikkilä
An AI-driven app that will save you hundreds, and the world millions of euros in food waste. Raising pre-seed funding
16.45 Soberisti – Ira koivu
SOBERISTI® is an online and mobile solution that helps to get free from alcohol truly anonymously, with ease & joy.
The Info
17.15 The Angel Effect – Fiban/Ilkka Kaikuvuo
With fresh data from the annual angel investor study conducted by Finnish Business Angels (FiBAN), Ilkka will provide us with insigths to both angel investing and raising money from angel investors
17.50 The Student Connection – David Hlabangana and Sean Sanders
The Entrepreneurship Society at Häme University of Applied Sciences has just been founded. David and Sean call on all Hämeenlinna Students to join in, and share what is in the plans..
18.00 In our Defence – DEFINE/Jyri Leinonen
Introducing the Defence Innovation Network Finland, and what possibilities and opportunities it presents to startups.
18.10 The Hämeenlinna Multiplier – Linnan Kehitys Oy/Riku Heino
How the City of Hämeenlinna and Linna Business Ltd. are investing in a vivid businesslife and startups as a vital part of it.
18.20 The Money in the Bank – Nordea Startup & Growth /Vesa Riihimäki
Sharing the story and experience of how Nordea’s specialized Startup & Growth unit can serve startups throughout their lifecycle.
The stories
18.45 From Hämeenlinna to Silicon Valley: Whatamap – Matti Saarinen
There are only a few startups in the world, that have had the fortune of being acquired by Apple, and of course Hämeenlinna boasts one of them. Let’s get the story out.
19.05 The Full Monty – Iiro Kormi
Running a startup is a complex world, and sometimes it holds surprises that you could never have anticipated. Iiro has been featured in Forbes’ 30 under 30 -list as his startup Zadaa was reaching for the stars. Let’s hear what happened then.
19.25 The Founders’ Tale – Henri Yoki
Henri is a Hämeenlinna-based founder of Exaum. The Startup has already secured well over 1M in funding, and Henri is living the founder-life here in the City, and has promised to share what it’s like to be a founder in today’s Hämeenlinna.
Hämeenlinna region is home to brilliant minds, great ideas, and it’s the perfect location to start your worldwide expansion.
The goal for this event is to gather the startup-minded people (students, founders, angels, fans) in the Hämeenlinna region together to form connections, share knowledge and experiences, and just meet other great minds.
Whether you’re a founder, employee, investor, or just interested in (some day) founding or investing in a startup, welcome! Please sign-up below, registration required.
Meet the speakers
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The Pitch
Ira Koivu
Founder – SoberistiIra is (soon) a Shark Tank -featured founder. She will pitch her Startup Soberisti at the MeetUp.
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The Founder's Tale
Henri Yoki
Founder – ExaumHenry is Hämeenlinna-based 3-times founder, and will share his story of founding and growing his latest StartUp Exaum.
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The Full Monty
Iiro Kormi
Founder – ZadaaFrom idea to €10M funding to an exit - how to navigate through it?
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The Angel Effect
Ilkka Kaikuvuo
Vice-Chairman FibanHow the Finnish Business Angels Investors’ network Fiban helps startups, and what are the fresh numbers on fund-raising
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In Our Defence
Jyri Leinonen
Startup- and innovation specialist – DefineJyri will share how the Defence Innovation Network Finland is inviting StartUps in the defence and dual use -sectors.
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Where Is The Money?
Vesa Riihimäki
Head of Startup & Growth Business Nordea
Vesa has been running Nordea special startup task force in Finland since its birth, and shares how Nordea can help startups win. -
Your host
Juho Jokinen
Chairman – GravitoJuho is an angel investor in 8 startups, chairman in one, and has raised funds and/or crashed 3/4 startup-ideas of his own.
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Your host
Janne Maksimainen
Enabler – AdvisorJanne is a post-exit CEO of a 10-million euro business, and is looking for next growth opportunities.
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The HAMK ES
Sean Sanders
Founder – HAMK ES
Studying at HAMK, and a proud founding member of the HAMK Entrepreneurship society. -
The HAMK ES
David Hlabangana
Founder – HAMK ESA student at HAMK and a proud founding member of the HAMK Entrepreneurship society.
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The Success Story
Matti Saarinen
Founder – DashDocs.ai
Matti is a fresh founder, but also has two successful exits under his belt. -
The New Way to Work
Mika Hämäläinen
Founder – mirrorapp.ioMika is a serial SaaS - entrepreneur with 1 exit. He is building a next generation Productivity Suite at Mirror.
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Waste to Wow
Jasmin Heikkilä
Founder – CodeAnanas
Jasmin and Tekla will be raising funds for their ai-powered food waste app CodeAnanas. -
Waste to Wow
Tekla Wannas
Founder – CodeAnanas
Tekla and Jasmin will be raising funds for their ai-powered food waste app CodeAnanas.
Please let us know you are coming.
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