TechChill 2022
Event Details
Why join and what to expect at TechChill 2022?
27-29 Apr 2022 | Riga, Latvia & Online
Physical events and real meetings – that is definitely the one reason why to attend TechChill 2022. And the other one is amazing content. And, of course, an opportunity to meet unicorns face to face. Here’s a sneak peek into this year’s agenda.
There are three main pillars that all the agenda is built on. The first one is sustainability where we will talk also about survivalists. The second pillar is neo humans and everything around human and technology interaction. This is where we also will focus on health tech, edtech, gaming. And the last but not least – outliers and everything around startups building their products, selling and growing as well as investors investing in them.
The hottest unicorns from the region
TechChill is a boutique event where you can meet and greet everyone – be it a startup, investor, speaker, or media representative. Or even a unicorn. By the way, we will have some of the hottest unicorn representatives taking part in the event this year.
The local startup scene is going to be represented by currently the one and only unicorn in Latvia Printful. We will welcome CEO of the company Davis Siksnans on the stage. The big Estonian unicorn family will be represented by Bolt, Veriff, and Pipedrive. Lithuanians – by their unicorn Vinted.
Bolt, Veriff and Vinted representatives will join the panel and will discuss the journey to 10 billion and beyond. The case study of Vinted is going to be explored in detail by two investors Julian von Eckartsberg and John Greger from Burda Principal Investments. They will try to identify what was important for the company in the process of becoming a unicorn.
Web3 and NFT
This is hot. And we are going to have local as well as international stars of the future talking about the topic. Meet Arturs Kirtovskis who is the co-founder of the company Sigle. He recently announced that he successfully raised 500 000 EUR for his startup via NFT. “I think that the best explanation of web3 is the internet that belongs to users and not tech companies. If existing web infrastructures are oriented toward creating profit for tech companies then web3 is going to be all about users and their ability to generate profit for themselves. It is not a utopia anymore. It is reality. And NFT is part of this reality. I’ll share our story in TechChill on how we raised money through NFT and how this model is different from other traditional investment models,” says Arturs.
TechChill 2022 organized an event on this topic at Twitter Spaces where Arturs was joined by Ethan Pierse and you will have an opportunity to meet him in person at TechChill 2022. He is the Founding Partner of Borderless Ventures, director of The CryptoAssets Institute, evangelizing the Business of Blockchain and the Tokenized Economy. Ethan is also the host of the Blockchain Economy newsletter and podcast at cryptoassets.substack.com with more than 20 000 subscribers.
Sustainability and diversity
These two topics have been on a startup agenda for some time now. We will dig deeper into them by discussing, for example, how to reduce the gender gap in VC funding, how not to forget about sustainability while investing, and what is impact investing.
One of the hottest startups fighting for sustainability in the region is Single.Earth from Estonia that last year raised $7.9 million seed round. Startup tokenizes the world’s nature to protect it. Single.Earth creates financial incentives for landowners to keep their forests growing and other natural resources intact. “At TechChill I am going to talk about building a nature-backed economy, and how our nature-backed currency will enable the transformation to a fully sustainable future. I’d love to meet other entrepreneurs tackling some of the biggest challenges humans are facing today – like climate change, biodiversity loss, health, and others. TechChill is a unique opportunity to meet with other entrepreneurs, investors, and players in the space, build new relationships and catch up with old friends,” says Co-founder and CEO Merit Valdsalu.
Both topics are relevant to the startup community as well as corporations so we have invited both parties to talk about it. Circle K Latvia, the service station chain, will share their experience in cooperation with the Latvian startup Koffeco. They together are recycling coffee waste to produce fuel in the form of coffee briquettes. Whereas Michael Haase Founder and CEO of Plant Jammer will share his experience while working with the retail store chain RIMI. Plant Jammer educates and inspires people to eat sustainably in their homes while helping food brands, retailers, veggie box players, and influencers activate their tribes.
One more speaker that we would like to emphasize under these topics is Sebastian Greiss. He has 8+ years of experience in innovation and corporate venturing in large organizations as well as experience in next47 – a global venture firm with $1bn funding. Based on that vast knowledge, he relaunched StationX at Siemens Mobility towards a venture collaboration service to bridge the world between entrepreneurs and corporates to create game-changing partnerships.
Edtech
At this year’s TechChill 2022 let’s talk more about our future – namely education technologies. Ayaz Karimov is a doctoral researcher and product manager in edtech. In his speech, he will talk about gamification elements in education. Martin Sjöstrand will represent his company Lexplore, which has developed the first fully objective reading assessment, which by combining the latest in AI and eye-tracking technology, can analyse a child’s skills across key reading components, determine their attainment, and highlight specific difficulties in a matter of minutes.
Despite the recent shocking events in Ukraine, the team of TechChill is working on the program. Every week new speakers approve that they are willing to attend so stay tuned and let’s meet in person very soon!
SPEAKERS
Dr. Melissa Sassi
Dr. Sassi is IBM Z’s Chief Penguin, heading up Student & Entrepreneur Experience worldwide within the Z division of IBM. Dr. Sassi is also the Founder of the IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator, an early-stage startup program helping founders to build & scale through business & technical enablement. She has 100 startups in her portfolio. Dr. Sassi is the Founder & CEO of MentorNations, a youth-led nonprofit venture that has enabled tens of thousands of young people to code in twelve countries. Her research for her doctorate focuses on the digital inclusion of underserved & underrepresented communities & its ties to enabling economic empowerment, quality education & healthcare outcomes.
Mantas Mikuckas
Co-founder and COO at Vinted, a social marketplace for pre-loved clothing, that has taken the spot as Lithuania’s first tech unicorn. He is an angel investor to many other Lithuanian tech startups like Trafi, Interactio, Pixevia and Qoorio, and has previously served as Founding Partner at Practica Capital.
Agate S. Freimane
Agate is a General Partner at Norrsken VC, Europe’s largest impact venture capital fund focused on investing in rapidly scaling early stage start-ups that use technology to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges while building highly profitable businesses. She started her career in finance working in investment banking and private equity at Citigroup and Morgan Stanley in London and New York. She then started her start-up journey and was one of the first employees at BrickVest, a London based fintech start-up. In her free time she is most passionate about education and co-founded Bright Mentors, an edtech charity in London.
Patricia Allen
Originally from Belfast and now based in Barcelona, Patricia has a real passion for how shared ideas across communities and cultures can bring new initiatives and innovations for the future.
Rytis Vitkauskas
Rytis is a partner at Lightspeed. Joining in 2019 to help build out the firm’s European presence and global platform. He’s been part of the European tech scene as either entrepreneur, venture or angel investor for over a decade.
Martin Tajur
Martin Tajur is an angel investor with B2B SaaS business experience. He cares about how products look, feel and talk. Form and function are equally important, one defines the other. He worked at Skype between 2005—2008 both as a designer and as web front-end engineer. In 2010, he co-founded Pipedrive and helped form its product design, then worked in development and software architecture on a senior level as the CTO. Since 2016, he has been doing angel investing and helping 30+ startups get off the ground and grow 🚀
Merit Valdsalu
Merit is the CEO & Co-Founder of Single.Earth, an Estonian startup tokenizing the world’s nature to save it. She was one of the early employees at Pipedrive as the Head of Localization and is now combining two of her biggest passions – innovative tech and the environment – at Single.Earth.
Dāvis Siksnāns
Davis Siksnans is the CEO and co-founder of Printful, one of the industry’s largest print-on-demand drop shipping businesses with more than 1,800 employees and ten in-house fulfillment centers around the world. The company has fulfilled more than 40 million items since it launched in 2013.
Rodrigo Sepulveda Schultz
Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded or co-founded 5 companies. Currently, he is a Founding Partner at Expon Capital (HQ in Luxembourg) and President at Sepulveda Capital (HQ in Paris), focused on impact investing at growth-stage. He’s been involved with 70+ transactions.
Ethan Pierse
Ethan wears many hats. Currently, he is the Director at The CryptoAssets Institute, Partner at Borderless Ventures as well as has his own $ETHAN social token on Rally.io. Ethan is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in digital marketing strategy, advising Coca-Cola, HP, BP, large banks, airlines, and governments.
Tuomas Kosonen
Tuomas has almost 15 years of experience in venture capital and a long career already before joining Inventure in its early days in 2007. He has a deep understanding of the legal and financial aspects of building a business. He’s a big picture thinker who’s determined and driven to win, and always available for his portfolio companies.
Daniel Tonsen
Daniel is the number one LinkedIn expert and the founder of Elite Advertising. Being one of the first Certified LinkedIn agencies in the world, Elite Advertising has become known for being the leading LinkedIn advertising agency in the Nordics. Daniel loves scaling B2B companies!
Gultan Asgarli
Gultan is a Business Analyst at Financial Crime Intelligence, Investigation & Analytics department at Nordea, the largest financial services group in the Nordic region and one of the biggest banks in Europe. Also, she is the co-founder of Inskillz, a community that supports game-based learning in various areas, and creates educational board games on different topics, starting from gender equality and ending with very niche games for product managers, marketers, UX/UI designers, etc.
Nina Shariati
Nina Shariati is a sustainability strategist, UN expert in transparency and circular economy and lecturer.
She has over 17 years of work experience within retail, and has held leading global positions in production and manufacturing, strategic buying and assortment development, corporate sustainability, business development, innovation and startup scouting and implementation, new venture development, always with a focus on growth and operation optimization.
Nina Shariati has lived and worked in countries such as Bangladesh, China and South Korea – an exciting blend of industry knowledge and experience of living and working in different parts of the world.
A common thread during her career has been her ability to identify, anchor and implement new strategic business areas with strong links to sustainability in complex organizations.
One of her most recent contributions was the transparency layer on all H&M and H&M Homes own products. Today you can see on H&M’s site where a garment has been manufactured, right down to which factory and its address. This and other transparency initiatives that she has led have put the H&M group in a leading position in the industry. Her work on these issues has received considerable attention, including by the New York Times.
She has also worked on getting the company to implement strategies linked to recycled materials, which resulted in H&M 2016 being the world’s second largest buyer of recycled polyester.
Nina Shariati is currently working with business development and acceleration of strategic areas at the intersection of sustainability, technology and the business itself.
One of such areas are Smart & Connected Products with purpose of enabling Circular Economy.
Timmu Toke
Timmu Tõke is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ready Player Me. The company is building a cross-game avatar platform for the metaverse, used by 1500+ companies.
Lubomila Jordanova
She is also the co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of 1000+ startups which are connected to over 500+ advisors from VC, media and business.
Prior to Plan A, she worked in investment banking, venture capital and fintech in Asia and Europe. She was recently announced as Marshall Fund Fellow for 2021, 100 Top Women in Germany 2020 (Focus Magazin), Top 50 Women in Tech in Germany 2021 (Handelsblatt).
Artūrs Kirtovskis
Arturs is a professional poker player turned software engineer turned startup founder.
Jose Iglesias
Jose leads Community at Techstars, a globally distributed team, supporting grassroots community and ecosystem engagement in over 130 countries, helping to deliver entrepreneurial education and awareness in every corner of the world.
Mirella Yordanova
Mirella joined Seedcamp in November 2021 as Network & Community Manager. Her role is to support Seedcamp’s founders post investment by understanding their needs and how best to support them; and to further accelerate the power of the Seedcamp Nation through their mentor network. Before Seedcamp, Mirella spent two years building the Platform offering post-investment support for LAUNCHub Ventures, working hands-on with founders from Central Eastern Europe. Her career started as the Community Engagement Manager at Google for Startups in London.
Ahana Banerjee
Ahana Banerjee is the co-founder and CEO of Clear, which she recently took through Y Combinator. Having been accepted to Y Combinator during the final year of her Physics degree at Imperial College London, Ahana decided to turn down her graduate jobs in finance, leave her degree, and work to innovate in the skincare space with her startup, Clear. Clear is the integrated social commerce app for skincare.
William Jilltoft
Will joined Northzone three years ago as Chief of Staff to one of the Partners, PJ Parson. He is now a VP in the investment team and invests across Consumer, Gaming, Web3, and Fintech.
Kristine Nagle
Kristine Nagle is the Founder and Sustainability advisor of Impact House. Impact House is helping fast-growing tech companies launch and scale sustainability. Her experience includes managing accelerator programs at Startup Wise Guys, gaining a global network as the CEO of TechChill, and recently building a sustainability strategy for the first Latvian unicorn, Printful.
Arnis Jēkabsons
Arnis has 11+ years in the digital marketing industry. For the past 7 years as a managing director, he’s been leading teams who strive to guide brands to digital excellence through any type of digital solutions while mainly focusing on the added value for the business.
Ernests Štāls
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Liva Echwald
Liva Echwald is the co-founder of Intentional. Intentional is designing for diversity in financial organisations. Liva Echwald is also the co-founder of Diversity Commitment among investors, the accelerator program LEAP FORWARD and the NGO Found Diverse.
Ieva Treija
Ieva helps companies to create their stories and share them worldwide.
Andrea Orlando
Andrea had 10+ years in Corporate Strategy before becoming an investor & entrepreneur. Invested in 20+ B2B Digital start-ups both as angel investor and Fund GP. Lived 10+ years in Scandinavia, now based in Milan. INSEAD MBA.
Liene Briede
Liene Briede is the director of the Science and Innovation Center of Riga Technical University, a researcher, and a member of the Board of the European Innovation Council and Board Member at Startin.LV.
Annie Lindmark
Annie Lindmark is a Program Director at Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova and works with innovation funding of especially deep tech companies and emerging technologies that enable sustainable growth. She is also the Swedish representative in the Nordic Innovation Task Force for Diversity.
Marija Rucevska
Over the years Marija has left an indelible handprint on the local and regional startup scene in Latvia and the Baltics. As a co-founder of Helve, a company that designs open innovation concepts for both state and private scetor, she works with ambitious organisations committed to creating the future, instead of being disrupted by it. She is also behind the Baltic tech and startup event TechChill and has been instrumental in driving the growth of the non-profit organization going by the same name. TechChill is now the leading platform in the Baltics for matching startup entrepreneurs, disruptors, investors, and others with an interest in the sector.
Valeria Kast
Valeria Kast is the Head of Merchant Support at Latvian print-on-demand company Printify. She has been working in the tech field for over 5 years now, having previously lead to success different customer support teams at Scandinavian Airlines and Wise. Valeria believes that the best way to build an amazing product or service in today’s world, is by having a very good understanding of who your customer is and what they want/need. And the best way to do that is through a strong relationship with customer facing teams.
Andreas Helbig
Andreas joined Atomico in 2020 and focuses on SaaS (specifically SMB SaaS, AI-based SaaS, and procurement) and B2B marketplaces. Andreas helped lead Atomico’s investments and ongoing work in Katana and Pactum. Prior to Atomico, Andreas was with Project A, where he invested in companies including Sennder, Kry, Dixa, and Voi. He started his career as an Industrial Engineer.
Johannes Steger
Johannes Steger is a journalist at Berlin’s leading daily “Der Tagesspiegel”. He is managing editor for “Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity”, a daily publication on IT-security for German decision makers in business, politics and academia. Previously, he worked as a consultant in technology and a communications . Prior to that Johannes was a reporter for Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading business and financial dialy and wrote about the start-up and technology scene in Germany and Israel. He is an alumni of the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists
Rolands Mesters
Rolands Mesters is the CEO and co-founder of Nordigen, the only freemium open banking API that connects to more than 2,200 banks, making it the largest network of bank connections in Europe. Rolands is a sales and growth hacker who is passionate about fintech and alternative lending.
Benjamin Bathke
Benjamin Bathke is a Berlin-based entrepreneurial freelance journalist covering technology, media innovation and global issues like migration for Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster, and other global media outlets. In 2018, Ben was a Google News Initiative fellow. During his five years in North America, he was a Global Journalism Fellow and worked for both a tech startup and Washington University in St. Louis.
Ayaz Karimov
Ayaz is a doctoral researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. As a part of HUMBLE (Human and Machine based Intelligence in Learning) research group, he investigates the gamification and learning analytics. Ayaz is also the co-founder of Inskillz, a community that supports game-based learning in various areas, and creates educational board games on different topics, starting from gender equality and ending with very niche games for product managers, marketers, UX/UI designers, etc.
Jaïr Halevi
Jaïr has a founder’s mindset with a passion for innovation, technology, and start-up culture. In the Netherlands and internationally (Nordics and South America), he worked with leading brands, governments, and NGOs. Jaïr started as a social entrepreneur, has led an incubator, worked for Airbnb, and currently for Miro. He has coached over 150 startups on laying their cultural foundation.
Dr Clare Kambamettu
Dr Clare Kambamettu is a clinical psychologist and in 2010 was selected as the International Rose of Tralee, something she remains very proud of. Despite currently living and working in Galway, Clare still calls Kildare ‘home’. Clare now works as a clinical psychologist in the HSE Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and in 2015 she founded her own business providing psychological assessment and intervention to adults.
Clare’s work as a psychologist has been featured on the RTE documentary ‘Bressie’s Ironmind’ and on the website alustforlife.com
Judith Dada
Judith is Partner at La Famiglia, a European seed stage venture capital fund investing into B2B technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries. She focuses on the future of work, as well as data and ML-driven business models.
La Famiglia is backed by a selection of world-leading entrepreneurs from various industries that provide precious early market access, impactful partnerships and deep expertise for portfolio companies.
Laura Nuhaan
Passionate about innovation and the opportunities of tech. Outside the box thinker. Challenger of status quo. Helping companies, start ups and executives take full advantage of digital opportunities. Executive digital advisor and non executive board member. Drive change and empower sales teams. Ten year Silicon Valley and start up experience. Helping our customer in Retail, Consumer Goods, Telco and Media to excel through digital transformation and out of the box thinking.
Keynote speaker on digital selling and innovation. Author of several books, the latest on Social Selling.
John Greger
Experienced CPO with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry.
Strong product management professional skilled in Digital Strategy, Mobile Applications, Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Acquisition Integration.
Felix Hentzen
Over the past 14 years Felix has held several positions in the IT / internet industry ranging from Business Development and Sales through marketing and investment banking / venture capital.
Specialties: Channel Development, Partner Development, Online Marketing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Business Transformation, B2B Sales, Modular Software Engineering, SaaS (Software as a Service), cloud services, SEM/SEO, web services, hosting, product sales, client relation building, EU and US market expertise in software development, cloud services and SaaS.
He is currently responsible for Venture Capital relationships to facilitate the best level of cloud adoption for start-ups and scale-ups
Julian von Eckartsberg
As MD at BPI Julian invest in user-centric services, platforms and marketplaces all over Europe: technology products that make a difference in individuals’ personal or professional lives and have the potential to reach millions of people over time // previously He was CEO at Stylight, headed the Group Strategy department at ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, founded Shotnote, and was strategy consultant for internet, media, and telco corporates and TMT investors // TUM and HEC graduate // raised in Colombia, USA, Spain, Mexico & Germany
Mimi Billing
Mimi Billing is a founding senior reporter at Sifted, a media site covering European tech innovation backed by Financial Times. Apart from writing about the new innovation of European healthtech, she is responsible for covering the fast-paced startup scene in the Nordics. In addition, she moderates events and talks for a number of external organisations, that are aligned with her work at Sifted.
Prior to joining Sifted in early 2019, she worked Dagens Industri (the biggest business newspaper in the Nordics), TT News Agency and Swedish Radio (Ekot). Before turning to journalism in 2012, she worked as a management consultant at Accenture in London.
In addition to her studies in journalism, Billing holds a MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from SOAS, University of London and a BA in Business.
Sebastian Greiss
Sebastian is unlocking technology to create top and bottom level growth. He has an entrepreneurial mindset to design, build and execute an organization to spur business growth. Sebastian has 8+ years in innovation and corporate venturing in large organizations as well as next47, a global venture firm with $1bn funding. At next47, he was part of the initial team to identify investments and to determine the value add towards the core organization. Based on that vast experience, he relaunched StationX at Siemens Mobility towards a venture collaboration service to bridge the world between entrepreneurs and corporates to create game-changing partnerships.
Specialization: New ventures, Innovation labs, startups, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, business development.
Orson Francescone
Orson leads B2B media companies by launching and growing their events businesses. He has delivered growth in various environments, from global publishing and trade media companies to pure play conference and exhibition businesses.
He has developed and launched hundreds of B2B events in all formats from seminars to conferences to some of the world’s largest exhibitions and trade shows.
He is focusing on developing content at the heart of each exhibition; growing b2b communities and driving paid delegate, exhibition stand and sponsorship revenues and across a huge array of industry sectors.
He has led and run global B2B businesses and P&Ls with multifunctional teams and multiple office locations including: conference content production, sponsorship sales, delegate sales, marketing, operations & logistics.
Orson has an extensive experience of international B2B business development and sales having launched exhibitions and conferences globally via multiple formats: single ventures, commercial joint ventures, partnerships with governments and government agencies, PCO bids, managing events for professional associations.
His international exhibition expertise has led him to set up multiple B2B advisory boards, conferences, ministerial and prime ministerial delegations across the world including: Europe, USA & Canada, Asia, Middle East, South America, Africa.
He has worked with some of the world’s leading international exhibition centres, conference venues and hotel chains worldwide, MICE experts and DMCs.
Sectors he has launched and grown B2B events in include: banking, finance, capital markets, project finance, trade finance, aircraft finance, insurance & reinsurance, energy, energy finance, oil & gas, renewables, commodities, logistics and transportation, fund management & asset management, technology, cyber security, media, marketing, pr, third sector, medical & pharmaceutical, architecture & the built environment, people management and development and procurement.
Nora Bavey
Nora is a marketing and business-driven professional with a vast experience in both global companies and startups focusing on branding and creating segmented strategies for a variety of audiences. Nora is also a award-winning serial entrepreneur who knows how innovation and new technologies must be linked to democracy and inclusion if we want to go forward. Nora founded UniTech with the aim to democratize technology and enable people in marginalised groups to succeed.
Chris O’Brien
Chris has been a professional journalist since 1992. He moved to Toulouse, France in 2014 where now he is an European Correspondent for VentureBeat, a technology blog based in Silicon Valley.
Prior to that, he was a technology reporter at the Los Angeles Times, covering Apple and Silicon Valley.
Chris began his time in Silicon Valley at the Mercury News, working there from 1999 to 2012. In May 2008, he became a business columnist for the Mercury News writing about business and technology in Silicon Valley.
Starting in 2007, he has also focused on trying to help reinvent the newsroom, at both the professional and the college level.
He is available to speak on trends in Silicon Valley as well as the transformation of newsrooms for the digital age.
Specialties: Reporting, writing, social media, blogging, speaking on newsroom transformation.
Victor Krishyanson
Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the deep-tech startup’s industry. Victor is a tech geek and environmentally conscious entrepreneur who develops and promote a circular business economy for the sake of our future.
Skilled in Strategy, Negotiations, Business Planning, Sales, International Business, and Market Research. Strong operations professional with a Professional Bachelor’s degree focused on European Business Studies from RISEBA University.
Thomas Bacon
An operator turned investor, Tom came most recently from London’s Founders Factory and has a passion for any company able to have a significant impact on tomorrow, be that through vaccines, food or gaming.
Martin Sjöstrand
Experienced Executive with a demonstrated history of having managed large and smaller entities in a truly international environment. Creates financial growth as well as strategic results by developing strong common visions and strategies, by building customer focused cultures, and by attracting and developing top talents. Has led a number of transformations, applying a solid communicative leadership style. Holds vast experience from M&A’s and post-M&A integration processes. Makes use of a broad international experience from Complex Sales and Account Management as well as from R&D, Portfolio and Executive Management when identifying and implementing change programs and building winning company cultures. Is often referred to as being inspirational and driven, and believes in the power of uniting organizations around a common journey.
Yoram Wijngaarde
Yoram Wijngaarde, CEO & Founder Dealroom.co, a global provider of data and intelligence on start-ups and tech ecosystems, comments on the booming health-tech start-up sector, and his company’s role and story to date. Before founding Dealroom, Yoram was a media investment banker in New York and London.
Michael Haase
At his startup Plant Jammer, Michael manufacture “green kitchen confidence”.
How? They create tasty AI-based recipes that give an unfair advantage to sustainable Food brands, Retailers, and Veggie box players.
They have the IBM Watson AI Prize in 2018, the Creative Business Cup 2018, and Green Entrepreneur of the Year award by Veggie World 2019, Foodtech500 in 2020, Bloomer by COOP Sweden 2020, Techfounders by Aldi in 2020, and Good Food Makers by Barilla in 2020.
Michael is father of one, and lover of litterature, science, and swimming in ice cold water.
Rodrigo Mallo
Sneakerhead, Kanye West Stan and recovering founder of four companies. One hit and three failures. Rodrigo is an outsider that invested in over fifty companies at the intersection of biology and engineering during his time as a Partner at IndieBio/SOSV. He believes that the best thing a venture investor can do for a company is give them money and get out of their way. Rodrigo holds executive education qualifications in venture capital from UC Berkeley and is a Kauffman Fellow.
Jan Ameri
Entrepreneur-by-heart – and by actions since 1998. Being an expert in spotting new opportunities and creating new concepts, Jan has been a partner or co-founder in seven different companies in various industries. In the early 2000’s he was pioneering some of the very first WAP, SMS, and interactive TV based wireless games and fantasy sports games in the Nordic countries. Jan loves to watch Shark Tank and The Profit in his free time. And he is an FC Barcelona fan.
Hannes Sapiens Sjoblad
Hannes Sapiens is an internationally recognised thought leader, speaker, media commentator, innovator, investor and professional advisor on biohacking, human augmentation and the impact of exponential technologies on the human condition
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