Taking place just before the start of Summer on June 2nd – 3rd in Helsinki, ArcticStartup , the media and events company behind the event, hopes to showcase the next stars of the Nordic startup scene.
Arctic15 is the largest startup event in the Nordics, and claims to be the most exciting startup event in Northern Europe. Highlights of the event this year
This year’s focus is on health, food technology, cloud services, virtual reality and fintech.
Dmitri Sarle of ArcticStartup says to Forbes : “Most events are pushed to become bigger, because the bigger you are, the more money you make. We want to create a place where people can network and meet anybody they want. What that means is an interesting balance.” Arctic15 will be held at the Cable Factory in Helsinki on June 2–3. Alongside 2000+ attendees, there will 75 speakers, 200+ investors, 400+ startups, and 100+ corporations participating in the event, as well as 3500+ one-on-one meetings between investors and startups taking place.
Among the first speakers announced are investors like "King of AngelList," Gil Penchina, who has over 3000 angel investor networks, as well as Marcos Battisti, managing director of Intel Capital.
The speakers also include Vice President of the European Commission, Andrus Ansip, and CTO of Cisco, Monique Morrow. Tim Draper among the speakers Speakers in the FinTech space at the event include Tim Draper, founder of the venture capital firms, Draper Associates and Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), the former of which invested in startups including Twitch.TV, YeePay, IndieGogo, Docusign, Parametric Technology, and AngelList, and the latter in Skype, Hotmail, Tesla, Baidu, Theranos, and Overture, among many others.
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