Arctic15

Kicking the summer off with one last celebration to remember! 🥂 We're thrilled to co-host another great LP Summit with Beyond The Billion® (launched as The Billion Dollar Fund for Women®) ; with the support of our wonderful partners: Anthemis Group, Helsinki Partners, Tesi, Family Office Alliance, Samla Capital Oy, and The Hotel Maria. Thank you, everyone, for joining us in Helsinki to share the latest VC insights over good food, drinks, and new connections! We appreciate your ongoing support and look forward to continuing our collaboration in driving growth and innovation. Enjoy your summer! ☀️ 📷 by Valorama – Aerials & Photographic Media

Did you miss Arctic15 this year? 🤧 Heres what happened: - With over 1200+ people, we had 500+ startups and 300+ investors - Over 15,600+ meetings took place - Over 73% of attendees successfully achieved their goals - Over 88% of attendees found relevant people  - Customer Service: 9.4 - NPS score: 7.8  - Food satisfaction score: 8.8  - 2,400 pizza slices, 1,500 tacos, 6,000 food portions eaten and 3000+ cups of coffee Thank you all for your feedback as its crucial for us to know where we need to improve but to also know what we do well and how to aim higher for next year! ⭐ We would love to thank once again our hard working team of 100+ volunteers for keeping the event running throughout the 2 days and our 100+ speakers for travelling near and far to Helsinki to share their expertise to our ecosystem! We appreciate your time more than you know. 🤝 We also wouldnt have any of these photos without Valorama – Aerials & Photographic Media! Thank you for capturing great memories. 👏 And lastly, a huge thank you to our very supportive partners: Aalto University Startup Center, Business Helsinki, VTT, Business Finland, Ventech, Fizza, Tesi, Tech Nordic Advocates, Anthemis Group, Riihimäen kaupunki - City of Riihimäki, Strawberry, Helsinki Incubators, Urban Tech Helsinki, METIC - Business Immigration & Relocation Services , Sinebrychoff, and Lexofon. Your collaboration made our event a success! Want to already join in for Arctic15 2025? June 4-5th 🎟 Tickets - https://lnkd.in/gXXFSTZu

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of our #pitchingcompetition iiiss…. *drumroll please* 🥁🥁🥁 nooon!!🏅🏅🏅 Congratulations Nooah R. for winning the main prize of €150K investment from the syndicate of Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) angels and VCs! Huge thank you to Miikka Miettinen & Steve Havas for presenting us with this win🥂 Orijin placed 2nd, and Ecocan secured the 3rd place. #arctic15 #arctic15helsinki #pitching #startups #startupevent

Last batch of pitches in our #pitchingcompetition was once again full of fascinating companies, who are all tackling with very different, but important challenges 🔥 Meet the startups, who were pitching in the 3rd batch: - Green Factory AI ➡️ They are building an AI product that helps industries optimize their processes to drive the transition to net zero emissions - nooon ➡ They are a B2B company, which connects the high-end hotels and influencers, enabling the hotels to do direct sales - Orijin ➡ They are a B2B SaaS company that solves digitalization challenges within the first mile of coffee and cocoa production - Uspacy ➡ They are all-in-one platform of business management tools for SMB - WasteLocker ➡ They offer a location-specific, realtime and verifiable waste fill level and contamination data service for industries, governments and businesses. Remember, that the pitching final starts at 16:20! - Be there or be square! 😎 #arctic15 #arctic15helsinki #pitching #actionmatters #startups #startupevent

Batch 2 of our #pitchingcompetition was full of interesting startups presenting their business ideas! 🤩 Second round of pitches included these awesome companies: - EKOTEKT ➡️ They are aiming to change the construction industry towards more sustainable - Infine ➡️ They are a company, which focuses on sustainability technology by offering a sustainability data service - Virtual Dawn ➡️ They are all-in-one virtual reality creation house - Chargetronic ➡️ Their company provides a cloud operating system for residential ev charging - EcoCan ➡️ Their company provides a digital platform, that connects beverage producers, recyclers & consumers The pitching finals will start at 16:20, so be there to see, who’ll win the competition! 😎 #arctic15 #arctic15helsinki #pitching #startups #startupevent

Summarizing the Climate & Sustainability Track Today we got to hear about a very relevant and popular topic right now - innovations in climate and sustainability🤩 ⚡️First we got to hear about the topic "What Will Power The Future? Key Innovations For The Energy Transition" moderated by Caritta Seppä – COO & Co-founder, Tespack. Panelists included Daniel Niemi – Partner, Atlantic Labs
René Savelsberg - SET Ventures
Adam Chirkowski – Investment Director, Albion VC.
 The panel focused on the opportunities within energy transition to more decentralized energy. Some key takeaways were: - The importance of educating the end customers about the energy transition to decentralized energy to alleviate the fear towards the complex process - Using resources as well as possible, both when it comes to resource optimization but also recycling - The emphasis on innovation in energy transition 🌱The second panel "Tech innovations for environmental impact: changing lives through innovation" was moderated by Petra Koivuvaara Koivuvaara, Investment Manager, Greencode Ventures The panelists were Magnus Bergman – General Partner, Luminar Ventures
Ewelina Kuna – Principal, Icos Capital
Stine Mølgaard Sørensen – Partner, Alliance VC. The panel discussed in innovations for positive environmental impact. Some key takeaways include: - The essence of diversity, if they can complement each other's skills and backgrounds it creates a strong combination - Investors are particularly interested in startups that look for larger scale solutions for problems - Climate tech startups in the Nordics grow very fast which is good for the whole ecosystem 🙌🏼Finally, we got to hear the panel discussion "Investing in impact: navigating the landscape of socially responsible investing" moderated by Moderator: Anna Lundin – Investment Manager, Norrsken VC The panelists were Cristina Almeida – Partner, maze impact
Antti Tormanen – Partner, Antler Linn-Cecilie Linnemann – Impact Investor, ex-CEO Katapult Group The panel focused on socially responsible investing. Some key takeaways from the panel were: - A mission to tackle social and environmental issues is a strong ingredient for a strong and motivated team - Venture capital is a tool to tackle different dimensions of social issues - There is an increasing interest in climate change, meanwhile there are more reservations when it comes to social issues since they are more difficult to tackle with venture capital

Day 2 has officially started with the opening words and introduction of the #pitchingcompetition with 15 promising startups🤩 Batch 1 of the pitching competition includes 5 exciting startups telling us about their innovative work: BeeSpeaker Caidio Dashboa Orbit8 SAKURA Be sure to check out patch 2 of the pitching competition today at 12!

Day 2 is here! Which means its pitch competition day, we hope the top 15 are ready to take the stage for the €150k. 😎 Lets keep the momentum going with our great panel discussions, networking and enjoying some great food! Doors open at 8.30. More importantly, join us at the afterparty 🥂 : 📍 Maxine, Urho Kekkosen katu 1, 00100 Helsinki ⏰ : 19.00 #arctic15 #actionmatters #networking #startups

Summarizing the AI + Data Track 🤖 – Of course we had to cover maybe the hottest topic of today, AI. ➡️ Why is AI such an important topic? - Well that’s because AI touches every industry in one way or another. First, we heard Teemu Vidgren from Microsoft tell us, how AI is currently used in working life and what kind of possibilities it brings for the companies. Did you know, that # nro. 1 thing, that is holding companies back from using AI more efficiently in their work, is lack of skilled workers? 🤔 ➡️ You can access the Annual Work Trend Index created by Microsoft and LinkedIn from this link: https://lnkd.in/gB2ETaDc After the general coverage of the AI-topic, we took a brief look into the future of AI startups through a panel discussion, ’The Future of AI Startups: Navigating Investments in Emerging AI Companies’. Panelists included Luke Pappas from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Herman Kienhuis from Curiosity VC and Kart Siilats from Superangel. 💡 Some observations from the discussion: - There’s a lot of hype around the topic and wannabes all around, but at the end of the day AI is about learning from the past. - We need to create an environment, which is more favourable for the startups, where the real innovations and magic happen. 🕷️But as Spider-Man said, ”with great power comes great responsibility” and AI is no stranger to that, because it has a great risk for being misused. There’s also worry about data security & etchical side of AI, which should be taken into considerstion. 🔥 We closed the track with a fireside chat ’Responsible and Transparent AI in 2024’, featuring Karoliina Partanen from AI Finland and Loubna Bouarfa from Envision Pharma Group. Their discussion dived into the benefits of AI and also the fact, how AI helps to change business models. Because AI is trained by data, it’s no wonder that it’s use faces all kinds of critique and regulation. (Especially for us in the EU). – Instead of treating the regulations as a problem, we should rather turn them into assets. ➡️ We should focus on creating a more startup-friendly environment, where companies and shift our mindset from volume-driven economy more towards the outcome-driven. What are your thoughts on AI? #arctic15helsinki #startupevent #arcticstartup #startups #ai #paneldiscussion #firesidechat #actionmatters

What a day! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us and to our incredible speakers for sharing their insights. Your enthusiasm and expertise made the first day unforgettable. Also would love to take time to appreciate that the matchmaking area was full all day, we love to see everyone eager to connect. 🤝 More to share and unlock! #actionmatters With that being said, Day 2 is coming and we hope the top 15 startups are pitch ready! 😎 Lets keep the momentum going, see you all tomorrow!