Angel Investor
High energy multitasker in the world of growth companies, worked in Finland, Holland (94), UK (97-00), and in the USA Silicon Valley (01-05) developing international business opportunities for technology growth companies.
Angel Investor
Senior Vice President, Development
Dr Miimu Airaksinen works as Senior Vice President for development in SRV Group Plc. In her responsibility is the SRV’s sustainability and lifecycle-wise construction strategy. Before she was the CEO and Managing Director at RIL Finnish Association of Civil Engineers. She is also currently a member of the EU Mission Board Assembly on Climate Neutral and Smart Cities. Before she joined RIL she worked for over 10 years as a research professor in the Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT.
System Manager
At DIMECC, Doris’ role as System Manager includes program planning and facilitation as well as finance management. Doris is also responsible for DIMECC’s Demobooster service that aims to boost innovation by providing a match-making platform for appliers and producers.
Business Development Director
Timo is in charge of the business development of the city of Tampere. He is in charge of economic and innovation policy issues, company relations of the city and startup ecosystem development.
COO
Alexandra Santos is COO at Platform6 | Co-Founder Stream Startup Festival | Ecosystem Builder at Tampere startup community (she/her).
Angel Investor
I’m an enthusiastic storyteller with 10+ years of experience as a leader in fast-growing startups and two exits. My most recent startup is at home, and I’ve spent 1,5 years nursing our little ones. In between the company startups and the real-life startups, I spent a couple of years in Sealed Air Corporation / Diversey Inc leading Global Digital Development for the Food & Beverage division.
Partner
Andreas Schwarzenbrunner, Andy, found his way into Venture via politics – and is always up for a debate! As a former economic policy advisor, he not only developed an insatiable passion for politics, but also profound expertise with different economic and technological affairs. This gave him an exceptionally good eye for promising ideas and trends.
Co-Founder, CEO
Vishal is the co-founder and CEO at QuantrolOx, an Anglo-Finnish spinout from Oxford University using machine learning for automated characterisation and tuning of qubits. Vishal is a serial deep-tech entrepreneur. Previously he was the CEO and co-founder of Secondmind an AI company. Vishal’s work experience spans fundamental research, manufacturing, operations, R&D, product management, corporate strategy and business development. Vishal was previously Head of Automotive at Nokia, Founder of Chleon Automotive and Chief Business Officer of VocalIQ, which was acquired by Apple in 2015. Vishal acts as an advisor to Silo AI, PolyAI, Alpha Diagnostics and BioInception Labs. He has immigrated 11 times, lived in 15 cities from the Equator to the Arctic across six countries.
Director
Smriti Mishra has been nominated one of the finalists at the Nordic Women in Tech Awards in the Rising Star of the Year for exceptional creativity or ability within the industry. Smriti Mishra is a technologist, AI speaker, mentor and AI & Data Science Leader. With a background in artificial intelligence, signal processing, startups and leadership, her career expands over several industries including green tech, healthcare, and finance. Smriti is currently a director at AI4Diversity which is the world’s largest nonprofit initiative that engages and educates diverse communities about AI. She also contributes to community learning through her blogs, LinkedIn, mentoring and speaking events. She also contributes towards removing gender parity in technology through Google Developers Women Tech Makers and Female tech makers magazine.