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Northern Light accelerator mentors

Our accelerator participants have had the chance to learn from a lineup of truly inspiring speakers and coaches — sharing insights, sparking new ideas, and creating experiences they’ll remember long after the programme ends.

MENTORS

Each batch will have its own group of mentors. Here, you can meet all the mentors who have joined us along the way.

Riikka Rajaviita
Advisor, investor, startup realist & mentor, member of FiBAN, and co-founder at Wellbeing Capital
Pirkka Palomäki
Founding Partner at Maki.vc
Monika Liikamaa
Co-CEO and Co-Founder at Enfuce
Sanni Nummi
Country Manager, Finland at Uber
Aape Pohjavirta
Co-Founder & Lead of Dragon Guild
Wilson Tukiainen
Investment Analyst & ESG at Maki.vc
Joonatan Lintala
CEO & Co-Founder at Shook Digital
Szabi (Szabolcs) Bako
Founder of the Fygë Group, buiding Peron – autopilot for workplace services
Katariina Korhonen
Chief Strategy Officer (Global) & Chair of Finland at Smartly.io
Ozan Sonmez
Co-Founder of the Brutally Honest Mentor
Tuukka Järvenpää
Creative and strategic product leader with experience from Oura, Google, Nokia, Tonies, Gorilla Capital
Olga Balakina
VP at Leo Capital
Johana Kuncova-Kallio
CEO at Axamitum
Tarun Sharma
Partner & COO at Nokia Ventures
Riikka Söderlund
COO at Katana Cloud Inventory
Shalini Sharma
Chief Business Officer at XSTRYV
Reima Linnanvirta
Partner at Trind.vc.,
former entrepreneur and angel investor
Johanna Kalli
Head of Product
and Customer Operations at Kapacity.io,
Co-Founder of UseLess Company
and Climate Business Cast, Advisor at Treebuddy.Earth
Pasi Ilola
Founder and CEO of Starcart
Mari Granström
CEO of Origin by Ocean
Jussi Kiviniemi
Founder and CEO
of Hamina Wireless
Erica Terranova
Head of Growth at Moomin Characters
Lauri Oikari
EngOps Senior Manager at ŌURA
Juho Eräste
Co-Founder and CTO at Taito.ai
Ruben Bryon
Founder of Verda (former DataCrunch)
The country’s equal and trust-based culture — and its strong give-back mentality — even gave us the chance to meet open-source legends like Mårten Mickos and Linus Torvalds.
Allan Tan · Better-ed

speakers

Meet some of the inspiring speakers who have joined the programme so far, sharing their experience and coaching our founders.

Otto Hilska, Founder & CEO of Swarmia
Tuomas Artman, Co-Founder of Linear
Mårten Mickos, former CEO of Oracle MySQL – and so much more
Jack Parker, Founder & CEO of AIATELLA
Anssi Rusi, CEO of Supermetrics & Maria 01 Board Member
Mikael “Micki” Honkavaara, Managing Director of NVIDIA Helsinki
Clarisse Berggårdh, CEO of Helsinki Partners
Iida Lähdemäki, COO of AI Finland
Peter Kelly, Connector at Aalto University
Diana Costea, Psychologist & Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Lauri Hynynen, Leading product & engineering at startups
Adam Stevenson, Senior Product Manager in AI at HubSpot