Apart from having a booth where startups may exhibit their products and/or services, Slush Tokyo 2019 will be opening 30 stage slots for demo booth holders for a chance to pitch to customers. Showtech Time will allow chosen startups to pitch to customers for 3 minutes and receive valuable feedback from a Customer Panel thereafter. […]

The computing industry has a problem. Christina Sass, the Co-founder & President of Andela, discussed on the Founder’s stage the issues behind tech-talent recruitment. Andela is a software engineer and developer recruitment organization, mostly recruiting from Africa.  On the stage, Christina shared how can a tech company utilize the tech talent available globally and the importance […]

First there was 100. Then there was 15. Then three continued. And today those three finally became one.  Meeshkan was announced the winner of Slush 100 on the Founder Stage this evening. Meeshkan is developing a framework for interactive machine learning. The main purpose is to help teams train machine learning models faster. All of […]

On Evergreen stage today, Alex Bangash, the managing director and CEO of Trusted Insight and Jyri Engeström, Co-founder and general partner at Yes VC had a fireside chat about the trends in the VC scene at the Evergreen stage. Let’s take a look at the trends that stood out. Entrepreneurs can have portfolio too The […]

Brian Halligan, the Founder & CEO of Hubspot opened up the Founder stage on Day 2, at Slush18 by saying – “Dictionary.com named the word of the year – Misinformation.” Brian explained, that there is a huge trust issue between buyers and sellers, which companies need to react to. This is where, Brian states, customer […]

Slush Global Impact Accelerator (GIA) is a program created in collaboration with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and other global partners to support startups in emerging markets offering sustainable and social impact solutions. 35 startups flew to Helsinki on Dec 28 for the Slush GIA bootcamp with inspiring trainings, workshops and sessions. Ten […]

Today on Founder Stage we got the privilege to listen to four successful VCs discuss the current trends and innovations in the funding landscape. Hosted by the Managing Director at Sapphire Ventures Beezer Clarkson, the insights were shared by Alice Bentinck, Co-founder and General Partner at Entrepreneur First; Rebecca Lynn, Founder and Partner at Canvas […]

Growth and profitability don’t necessarily rule each other out. Inevitably, at one point or another, founders are forced to prioritize between the two. Having made this difficult decision himself, Oisin Hanrahan took the Pink stage at Slush to tell us how Handy, the platform for booking household services, shifted focus from growth to profitability and how […]

The world of tomorrow is written with code. New solutions are desperately needed to produce skilled coders – from all walks of life. Ilkka Paananen, alongside an impressive lineup of big names of Finnish tech, introduced Hive, School for Coders which will open for applications on January 15th.  Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen started the conversation […]

Food has taken the hot seat in the battle for climate change. The more we know about the net impact of the food we grow, eat and waste, the more we realize how much room there is for improvement. Luckily for us, the new food tech companies are tackling some of the most pressing challenges […]

Andras Forgacs, the Co-founder and CEO of Modern Meadow took the Founder stage this year at Slush to share his story of creating the materials of the future. The company has created a material called Zoa™ – leather grown in a lab. Modern Meadow aims to change the material tech-industry by creating flexible and sustainable […]

After a fireside chat with Eventbrite Founder and CEO Julia Hartz, Founder Stage was taken over by PayPal COO Bill Ready and iZettle founder Jacob De Geer. Earlier this year the two companies formed what was the biggest tech acquisition in Europe since Supercell (2016), when PayPal acquired iZettle for a record-breaking $2.2B. Now we […]

ICEYE is a young, but hungry microsatellite company from Finland. Earlier, this November the company has launched their latest satellite ICEYE-X2 upon SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. This year on Founder’s stage, Pekka Laurila, the Co-founder & CSO together with Jyri Engeström, Co-Founder and General Partner at Yes VC and an investor in ICEYE, shared their […]

Whether you’re convincing a potential customer or a potential investor you need to be able to talk about your service or product. Pitching is fundamental, both on a business level and in life in general. Any conversation from the big to the small is about convincing the person you have in front of you. Jillian […]

Yesterday a whole day of pitching culminated in 15 startups being chosen out of the initial 100. Today the pitching continued and on Pink Stage the 15 startups pitched their hearts out to become one of the three final startups. So who are the final three? A big congratulations to: Aerones Lifemote Networks Meeshkan Join […]

There are more and more companies creating business models that aren’t only about profit but also about positive impact. Andre Heinz, Venture Partner at Obvious Ventures, Anna Ryott, Chair of Board at Summa Equity and member of the board of Norrsken Foundation, and Zachariah George, Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Startupbootcamp Africa sat down […]

How can cities be frontrunners in solving some of our biggest problems? This was the main topic of the conversation between Jan Vapaavuori, the mayor of Helsinki, and David Wallerstein, Chief Exploration Officer at Tencent.  The solution is functional cities and Jan Vapaavuori’s goal is that Helsinki will be the most functional city in the […]

An international angel syndicate of 19 angels, together with Gorilla Capital, has chosen FeelingStream out of a batch of 96 companies to receive an investment of 400 000€. FeelingStream is developing a speech-to-text tool to help contact centers automate their processes with intelligence – an AI based real-time customer conversational analytics platform for sales potential […]

As technology has developed from something that is a fairly integral part of our lives to something that is present in everything, the significance of keeping the tech playground fair to everybody becomes more and more essential. Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, took the Pink stage to share her insight on what kinds of […]

NYC-based CTRL-labs produces neural interface technology that could finally enable us to control the machine with our intentions. Today on the first day of Slush, their Co-founder & CEO Thomas Reardon took the Founder Stage right after Estonian unicorn Taxify. Reardon started his show with a video of a hand moving with a wristband in […]

Whether you’re an early stage startup or further in your journey, branding is one of the most crucial factors in a business. The brand defines your business and your customers identify you through your brand. Here are some tips from top brand creators shared on Pink Stage. Sophia Bendz (EIR at Atomico, first CMO of […]

Straight after opening Slush 2018, the Founder Stage was taken over by Julia Hartz, the Co-founder and CEO of the ticketing and event platform Eventbrite. Interviewed by Harry Stebbings, founder of The Twenty Minute VC and Stride.VC, Julia shared her story about how Eventbrite has created its culture and kept the talent after 9 acquisitions, […]