SLUSH 2025 | Messuaukio 1, 00520 Helsinki, Finland

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Slush 2025 is one of the world’s most founder-focused startup tech events, happening November 19-20, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together founders, investors, media, and ecosystem builders from around the world for two intense days of inspiration, learning, and deal-making. Expect keynotes from high-profile founders, stage talks with practical company-building advice, a curated crowd (VCs, early-stage startups, operators), and thousands of meetings facilitated via their built-in networking tools. They also run lots of side-events alongside, so the energy and opportunities continue beyond the main stage.

What sets Slush apart is its mission: it’s non-profit, deeply community-driven, organized largely by students and young professionals, with a strong emphasis on helping founders to change the world. It isn’t just a show — it’s about real connection, practical support, ecosystem building. Through its startup database, investor matchmaking, mentor hours and “Founders Day,” Slush offers paths for learning, pitching, funding, and partnership that are typically hard to come by all in one place.

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Anton Osika

Founder & CEO at Lovable Lovable

Lucy Liu

Co-founder & President at Airwallex Airwallex

Qasar Younis

Co-founder & CEO at Applied Intuition Applied Intuition

Gabe Pereyra

Co-founder & President at Harvey Harvey

Hélène Huby

Founder & CEO at The Exploration Company The Exploration Company

Max Junestrand

Co-founder & CEO at Legora Legora

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Luciana Lixandru

General Partner at Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital

Markus Villig

Founder & CEO at Bolt Bolt

Ilya Fushman

General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Kleiner Perkins

Jeannette zu Fürstenberg

Managing Director & Head of Europe at General Catalyst General Catalyst

Tom Hale

CEO at ŌURA Oura Health

Hemant Taneja

CEO at General Catalyst General Catalyst

Hanno Renner

Co-founder & CEO at Personio Personio Germany

Tim Zheng

Co-founder & CEO at Apollo.io Apollo.io

Cristóbal Valenzuela

Co-founder & CEO at Runway Runway

Christopher Sacca

Founder & Managing Director at Lowercarbon Capital Lowercarbon Capital

Eileen O'Mara

Chief Revenue Officer at Stripe Stripe

Neil Rimer

Partner at Index Ventures Index Ventures

Cal Henderson

Co-founder & CTO at Slack Slack

Alexandre Prot

Co-founder & CEO at Qonto Qonto

Chetan Puttagunta

General Partner at Benchmark Benchmark

Taavet Hinrikus

Partner at Plural Plural

James Hawkins

Co-founder & Co-CEO at Posthog PostHog

Harry Nelis

Partner at Accel Accel

Henna Virkkunen

Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy at European Commission European Commission

John Hanke

Founder & CEO at Niantic Spatial Inc. Niantic Spatial

Laura Modiano

Startups Lead EMEA at OpenAI OpenAI

Laurent Sifre

Co-founder & CTO at H Company H Company

Benedict Evans

Independent Analyst

Ilkka Paananen

Co-founder & CEO at Supercell Supercell

Merritt Hummer

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures Bain Capital Ventures

Timo Ahopelto

Founding Partner at Lifeline Ventures Lifeline Ventures

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming & Interactive Media at Lightspeed Venture Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners

GREG JACKSON

Founder & CEO at Octopus Energy Octopus Energy

Mark Thompson

Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of PsiQuantum PsiQuantum

Jane Alexander

Partner at CapitalG CapitalG

Pim de Witte

CEO at General Intuition General Intuition

Jennifer Li

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz

Varun Anand

Co-founder & COO at Clay Clay

DEANN EVANS

Managing Director, EMEA at Shopify Shopify

Miki Kuusi

CEO of Deliveroo and Head of DoorDash International DoorDash

Alex Schmitt

Partner at Lightspeed Lightspeed

Pieter van der Does

Co-founder & co-CEO at Adyen Adyen

Ahti Heinla

Co-founder & CEO at Starship Technologies Starship Technologies

Staffan Helgesson

Founder & General Partner at Creandum Creandum

Jarek Kutylowski

Co-founder & CEO at DeepL DeepL

Jan Oberhauser

Founder & CEO at n8n n8n

Anne Sraders

Senior Reporter at Sifted Sifted

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face Hugging Face

John Thornhill

Founder & Tech Columnist at Financial Times; Sifted Sifted

Manny Medina

Co-founder & CEO at Paid Paid

KAAREL KOTKAS

Founder & CEO at Veriff Veriff

Ott Kaukver

Investor, Board Member at Arcjet & ex-CTO at Veriff, Checkout.com, Twilio, Skype Arcjet

Gabriel Vasquez

Investment Partner at a16z a16z

Carl Pei

Co-founder & CEO at Nothing Nothing

Jan Goetz

Co-CEO & Co-Founder at IQM Quantum Computers IQM Quantum Computers

Jacomo Corbo

CEO and Co-Founder of PhysicsX PhysicsX

Arpan Shah

General Partner at Spark Capital Spark Capital

Zhenya Loginov

Partner at Accel Accel

Andreas Klinger

Investor at Prototype & EU INC EU INC

Meera Clark

Partner at Redpoint Redpoint Ventures

Robert Gentz

Co-founder & co-CEO at Zalando Zalando AG

Pepe Agell

Partner at Pear VC Pear VC

Seth Bannon

Founding Partner at FIfty Years FIfty Years

Julien Bek

Partner at Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital

GABRIEL HUBERT

Co-founder & CEO at Dust Dust

Tom Hulme

Managing Partner & Head of Europe at Google Ventures GV (Google Ventures)

Jacob Wallenberg

VP International at Ramp Ramp

Munjal Shah

Co-founder & CEO at Hippocratic AI Hippocratic AI

Gorkem Yurtseven

Co-founder & CTO at fal Features and Labels

Fabian Hedin

Co-founder at Lovable Lovable

Filip Dames

Founding Partner at Cherry VC Cherry Ventures

Irina Haivas

Angel Investor, Venture Partner at Kindred Capital VC, Collective Partner at Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company

Shensi Ding

Co-founder & CEO at Merge Merge

AJ Tennant

Founder & GP at Tenacity Capital; Ex-Glean, Slack & Facebook, Venture Partner at Accel Accel

Georgia Stevenson

Partner at Index Ventures Index Ventures