Introducing Crush Speaker
Dr. Aura Pyykönen, a mother of three, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and a serial entrepreneur has mission is to tackle the underestimated challenges in women’s health.
Aura’s background lies in clinical work complemented by academic research, focusing on healthcare quality, and she is a strong advocate for equitable health care access.
Her entrepreneurial journey has lead her to found two startups focused on women's health within just two years of transitioning from hospital work.
In 2022, Aura founded Isla, an online women's health...
Crush Speaker Introduction
Rasheka Scott is a distinguished multilingual Jamaican-Finnish lawyer with 15 years of experience in private practice, specializing in intellectual property, commercial contracts, data protection, and immigration law. Renowned for a business-focused approach, a pedagogical style and approachability, Rasheka ensures tailored solutions for both Finnish and international startup and scaleup companies.
Ms. Rasheka Scott, previously the head of intellectual property practice in a tech law firm, brings years of expertise in the same...
Introducing Crush Speaker
We welcome Janiina Lammi, investment director of Vendep Capital to speak at Crush 2024.
From a marketing and communications agency background to being a SaaS Co-Founder, CMO, and marketing team lead, Janiina has gained wide-ranging experiences that cover everything from listed companies to startup life. With a specialization in leading international marketing and communications, Janiina brings a wealth of experience to Vendep’s investment team.
Janiina is also a mountain climber, blogger, and author, whose autobiographical book ‘Suuri huiputus’...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Vibha Deshpande is a Partner Manager at Microsoft and has previously been in various roles in Identity and Security.
She also leads the Women Employee Resource Group at Microsoft Finland and partners with various organizations to support women’s causes. She has been mentoring women aspiring to join the tech industry and was the finalist at Nordic Women Tech 2022 in the Mentor of the Year category.
She believes that diversity is a fact, but inclusion is a choice! D&I programs must enable this conscious choice!
Introducing Crush Speaker
Katri Johansson is a speaker, coach, and diving instructor who has researched the ways of leadership and how to create psychological safety of the best diving instructors around the world. She inspires and influences both with her presence, but also by implementing the things she teaches while diving and leading people under the surface in Finland and abroad.
Katri has courageously embarked on an extraordinary career and, with the help of concrete lessons from the diving world, influences the leadership and the way of communicating in work communities. She...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Elena Fadul is an intuition researcher from Aalto University.
With over 10 years of experience in entrepreneurship as a founder, mentor and researcher, Elena studies the factors conducive to the successful formation of a founding team in early stage, high-growth start-ups.
Her research focuses on understanding how as founders we can leverage both our intuitive and rational minds to find, select and form a founding team.
The Expo area turns into a BAZAAR!
It started as an Expo, and then we got ideas, found new partners, discovered the stunning Stock Exchange Building space... and now Crush also includes a Bazaar, a shopping experience.
We recommend coming early for the ticket registration so you will be among the first to check out the Bazaar, and staying after the conference to see more during the Afterwork Party.
Here are just a few of Bazaar experiences what you can expect. We will save the rest as a surprise.
CRUSH x SHIFT VIDEO BOOTH
You be the star at the CRUSH x...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Jenni Kynnös is a serial Entrepreneur, an angel investor and currently serves as the CEO of Moretime.
Jenni Kynnös was seen as an investor at the Finnish Shark Tank TV Show, the Leijonan Luola, in the last season, where she invested into several companies.
Jenni founded the social media company MySome when she was 24 years old, grew it to a million turnover in a few years, and made an exit in 2021 becoming a millionaire before turning thirty.
Jenni thought she would take a little sabbatical, but instead, she started a new company with her husband in a...
Introducing Crush Keynote Speaker
Monika Liikamaa is a Co-CEO, and Co-Founder of Enfuce.
Under Monika’s leadership, Enfuce has rapidly become a leading fintech in Europe, serving over 16 million end-users. Established in 2016, Enfuce is a renowned issuer processing powerhouse, pioneering cloud-based payment processing. Enfuce’s innovative, secure, and modular payment solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including FinTechs, banks, and non-financial brands.
Enfuce’s success journey includes a recent €8.5M follow-on investment led by Vitruvian Partners, alongside...
Introducing Crush Stage Host and MC
Maija Ilmoniemi will be the stage host of the Founders Stage. The Founders Stage is sponsored by Ukko.fi.
Maija Ilmoniemi, a dynamic communications and media professional, serves as a versatile presenter, journalist, author, and coach.
Maija believes in the transformative power of smiles and laughter, aiming to be a catalyst for improved interactions and meaningful connections between people, addressing concerns about societal loneliness.
With a background in communication studies from the University of Helsinki, Maija has seamlessly...
New this year: Crush Eve events
Could Crush be a two-day event? It already will be this year! At least in a small way, and highlighting some special interests.
Crush Eve is the evening before Crush, and we will actually host two separate events on the evening. Stay tuned for the other announcement, but Crush Eve by Shevestments is a separate investor event with a theme Invest in Her.
Invest in Her - Investor Meet Up
Are you interested in becoming an investor, and to...
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Meri-Tuuli Laaksonen is one of the founders of Gubbe elderly care service.
Gubbe is the most impressive service for the elderly in Finland, offering regular care services for the elderly throughout Finland. Elderly people receive unhurried care from a Gubbe assistant, at home or in assisted living facilities. The help can be, for example, going outside, cooking, doing crafts together. Gubbe already operates in Sweden and the UK, but the rest of Europe and the United States are also on the horizon.
Last year, Gubbe raised a four-million-euro funding,...
