Start-ups
What do you need to apply:
You have to have an established company that is registered. Your business model needs to be in a startup mindset, scalable, have international potential, and have a unique idea. You need to be able to pitch it to live audience and investors in Dream Event. You also need to have a pitch deck to visualize your idea to everybody.
The application period has ended. (26.7.-26.8.2024)
When you get into Dream:
After the message from StartHub team that you / your team is accepted to Dream event. You will have a meeting with us and we’ll go through the specific details of what needs to be done before the event.
Mandatory dates for chosen ones:
Before You fill out the application form, please check that these dates are fine with Your calendar: Wed 11.9. Pitching training day + Fri 4.10. The event
Pitch:
The pitch language is English. You will have 8 min time for your pitch and Q&A’s. It is up to you how you use it.
Event site:
The stage that start-ups are pitching is located in Lahti City Hall
Prize:
Our main goal is that You will get investments in Your business, BUT the grand prize for the judge´s choice is 10,000 €!
Audience choice will also be awarded in the event.
JURY
A panel of investors evaluates the companies. Dream the event for open conversation with investors about a possible continuation, e.g. investments, mentoring, and sparring. The event is looking for pre-seed, seed, and A-stage investors.
Principal at identity.vc, the first VC in Europe investing in early-stage startups with LGBTQ+ leadership. Ex-growth operator (idea to Series A). Founder of a non-profit creating tech jobs for international talent Herizon.io. Investor of the Year in Nordic Women in Tech Awards 2022 and Diversity Role Model of the Year in Nordic Startup Awards 2023.
Johan is a startup investing professional with background in heavy industry and digital businesses both in Finland and globally. Currently Johan is CEO for Startup Lions.
In 2001 I founded a SaaS service company, Labyrintti Media Ltd, focused on SMS services together with my businesspartner. We built up our company and became the market leader in our niche sector in Finland. We made an exit in the end of the year 2016. Nowadays I work as an investor, angel investor, advisor & mentor.
Jaakko Salminen is an angel investor, startup advisor and board professional. Over the last 10+ years, he’s made dozens of investments, organised funding, and coached hundreds of startups. Prior to this, he was a partner at two software companies and made succesful exits. He’s also managed business units at IBM and Sun Microsystems in Finland, Germany and US.
Tor is an Investment Director at Stephen Industries, the family office of Kustaa Poutiainen which focuses on DeepTech, HealthTech, and GreenTech investments. Tor oversees daily investment activities and has played a key role in successfully developing the family office into its current form over the last 18 months. Stephen Industries has completed over 15 direct investments and several fund investments in the last two years.
Kalle is a professional growth investor with 20 years of experience in making health-, wellbeing-, leisure and tourism service investments for Nordia Management Ltd.
Tarun is Dream keynote speaker and an experienced venture leader currently working as a Partner & CCO at Nokia Ventures. He is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in venture building, innovation, growth, and developing technology-based businesses.
Sharma is widely recognized as a leading expert in the field, having successfully launched and scaled numerous ventures & accelerators across various industries.
Antonia is an investor at Wave Ventures, Europe’s largest student-run VC firm, which focuses on investing in the most exceptional Gen Z founders at the earliest stage across the Nordics and Baltics. Prior to joining Wave, Antonia was already actively involved in the startup ecosystem through Slush, where she led their financial operations.
Jari is an angel investor and board professional in several early stage startup companies. He is also partner in Startup Lions.
Passion for Jari comes from creating something new – ideas or businesses – mainly new ideas with software and SaaS focus. Nowadays Jari is also FiBAN’s Regional Angel in Lahti area.
Arttu Laasonen works at Green Campus Innovations Ltd, a cleantech seed investment firm focused on startups and corporate spin-offs utilizing research from LUT University.
Tuomas is an entrepreneur and executive with a track record of successful exits in medical and software sectors. With experience as a CFO across multiple companies, Tuomas recently achieved an exit from the pioneering space industry company Space Systems Finland, Tuomas serves as a board member and advisor to a few technology companies and has been actively involved with the Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) since its early days. Focus on strategy, finance, team work and growth
Dream Jury 2024 is now selected.
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Contact Tanja Keskitalo
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