Founder Stories from Founders House

Founder Stories from Founders House

Aaltoes and Founders House Helsinki are teaming up for one evening with the founders working out of Sähkötalo. Instead of one long interview, we're putting two to three founders on stage back to back: how they started, what they got wrong, and what they'd tell a student who's thinking about building something now.

Zechen Ma, Co-founder, ElvaElva uses AI to make cross-border hiring simple: work permits, registrations, housing and bank accounts in one workflow, for startups hiring international talent across Europe. The team raised a €1.3M pre-seed led by Lifeline Ventures, with Slack co-founder Cal Henderson and Wave Ventures on the cap table.

Aaro Angerpuro, Co-founder, ViranViran is the AI bid team for public-sector sales. It learns a company's references and capacity, screens 200,000+ public tenders a week across 90+ markets, and only brings the team the ones worth bidding on.Oona Linna, Co-Founder, Stealth StartupOona and her co-founder are building a family assistant to remove mental load from parents. Oona is a 2nd time founder and a growth marketer with experience from over 160 clients. This year she has spent over 3 months in San Francisco researching and building agentic systems.

4th November - 18.00Founders House Helsinki, Sähkötalo