Slush 2022
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Break of Dawn | 01m | |
Slush 2022 convenes 4,200 startups and 2,200 investors in Helsinki November 17-18, promising curated matchmaking, panels and networking designed to connect… | ||
| Creators Or Viewers First? | Emmett Shear, Ryan Browne | 27m |
Platform evolved from Justin.tv into Twitch by pivoting to gaming and becoming focused on streamers rather than viewers, and the team talked to ~100 creators… | ||
| Making a U-turn: Road to Net-zero | David de Picciotto, Marta Sjögren, Michelle You, Mia Diawara | 30m |
Companies get a practical roadmap: automate emissions measurement for asset‑light firms, measure full scope 1‑3, and favor engineered carbon removal over… | ||
| Next Gen VC: Looking Into the Future | Josh Coyne, Lisa Xu, Ashley Paston, Matias Van Thienen, Mikko Mäntylä | 32m |
US VCs without European offices say they lead series A to accelerate US go-to-market for European startups, offering hiring, customers and operating-model… | ||
| Pioneering Decentralized Social Media | Stani Kulechov, Hannah Miller | 26m |
Aave reports about a billion dollars locked in its protocol and Lens is live on Polygon for months, offering decentralized profiles on Polygon where profiles… | ||
| Ovary-ecstatic: Gameto’s Mission to Revive Reproduction | Dina Radenkovic, Sara Kemppainen | 22m |
Company builds a stem-cell-derived organoid of the human reproductive system and uses that platform to derive therapeutics; first program, Fertilo… | ||
| Redesigning a Category: Einride’s Take On Transportation | Linnéa Kornehed, Tove Larsson | 25m |
Claims a commercial path to replace diesel freight by pairing an electric vehicle design with a software operating system for electric and autonomous freight… | ||
| 25 Years of Building Out the Internet | Max Levchin, Mika Salmi | 26m |
Co-founds a payments company after multiple failed startups, recruits demo‑scene engineers, throws away early product iterations and lands on a winner; later… | ||
| Rocket Science 101: Creating Low-Cost Access to Space | Daniel Metzler | 17m |
Isar Aerospace builds a private European orbital launcher that uses highly clean propane fuel, heavy use of metal 3D printing and carbon‑fibre winding, and… | ||
| Founding Story of Robocorp | Antti Karjalainen, Blake Robbins | 26m |
Company builds an open source RPA stack around Robot Framework and Python tooling and runs an open core SaaS layer for deployment, governance, monitoring and… | ||
| How Focus Can Make All The Difference | Garima Kapoor, Quentin Clark | 25m |
MinIO presents a specific claim: a high-performance, cloud-native object store that aims to be AWS S3 for the rest of the world. The project is fully… | ||
| Past, Present, Future of Web3 | Nicolas Cary, Kia Kokalitcheva | 23m |
A 10‑year company built the original blockchain.info explorer and a self‑custodial wallet that records 85 million installs and 40 million verified users across… | ||
| Helping to Build a Better Internet | Matthew Prince, Scott Sandell | 24m |
Cloudflare claims it blocks billions of online threats every day and now powers about 20 percent of all websites, growing from a 2009 startup by using a free… | ||
| Engineering the Engineering Team | Julianna Lamb, Otto Hilska | 26m |
Stytch is a Series B developer platform with about 70 people, $125M raised, and thousands of developers using a dozen authentication methods. Hiring focuses on… | ||
| Product and Markets | Bill Magnuson, Matt Jacobson | 25m |
Company bets on smartphones in 2011 and waits — product-market fit shows up after about three to four years, and the company IPOs 366 days ago. Built a… | ||
| Building Global Category Leaders Out of Europe | Markus Villig, Eléonore Crespo, Jochen Engert, Robert Lacher | 31m |
Europe now matches US early-stage deal count, and founders describe how they turned that momentum into scale: a mobility network launched from Germany grows… | ||
| Reaching Innovation Velocity | Eric Glyman, Sarah Cannon | 26m |
Corporate card and payments platform claims to make companies spend less, not more, and backs it with metrics: $100M ARR in three years, 10 million receipts… | ||
| Athletes Turned Founders | Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mathieu Flamini, Mike Butcher | 30m |
Claims that only 6% female-only studies exist and that athletic discipline maps to startup resilience lead to concrete work: a subscription app that tracks… | ||
| Pursuit of Product and Company Transformation | Mark Kornfilt, Aggi Cantrill | 25m |
Clear claim: Vimeo deliberately shifts from a consumer content platform into a B2B video SaaS, executed as a 5–10 year journey of staged milestones and product… | ||
| From Open Source to a Global Business | Jay Kreps, Matt Miller | 23m |
Built Apache Kafka as an open-source messaging system that companies like Netflix, Uber and Pinterest adopt, then founded Confluent in 2014 to productize and… | ||
| The Secrets to Using Buzz to Build Your Company | Rahul Vohra, Harry Stebbings | 27m |
Explains how Superhuman deliberately positions as a premium, productivity-first email product, charges $30/month because it can reach the ~300,000 subscribers… | ||
| Fantastic Unicorns and Where to Find Them | Mar Hershenson, Pepe Agell | 30m |
Pear VC runs an accelerator of 10–15 startups and says 40% of portfolio companies pivot, citing Branch’s consumer-to-SDK pivot that found product‑market fit… | ||
| Miro's Wild Growth Through Wild Times | Andrey Khusid, Harry Nelis | 26m |
Company launches first product in 2012 and scales from ~240 to ~1,800 employees while monthly users climb to about 50 million, driven by deliberate product-led… | ||
| Think Different: Rohlik’s Approach to Grocery Delivery | Tomáš Čupr, Sofia Dolfe | 25m |
A grocery service built since 2014 that trades 15‑minute frenzy for two-hour delivery with 15‑minute slots, a curated assortment of 20,000 SKUs, and… | ||
| Taking on Goliath | Max Rhodes, Ravi Gupta | 25m |
Faire claims it moves the wholesale leg online by removing buying risk with free returns and net-60 terms, using POS integrations and data from 600,000… | ||
| Founders on Building a People-Centric Startup DNA | Vanessa Stock, Sofia Nunes, Katelin Holloway | 30m |
Founders describe concrete practices: a people leader on the founding team from Day 0, Mambu as cloud core banking and Pitch as the presentation tool used for… | ||
| What you always wanted to ask the VCs | Huey Lin, Judith Dada, Ted Persson, Oscar Höglund | 31m |
Four VCs from GGV (20 years), La Famiglia (70-company portfolio) and EQT (just announcing a third fund) plus a founder from Epidemic Sound discuss what… | ||
| Around the World in 80 Days | Matti Niebelschuetz, Christoph Hornung | 26m |
CoachHub scales a digital coaching product to enterprises by following global clients and proving measurable impact: 90 countries across six continents and… | ||
| Strapped in Tight: Nord Security’s Journey to Unicorn Status | Tom Okman, Iain Martin | 25m |
Company raises $100M at $1.6B valuation after about a decade of bootstrapping, keeping control while adding institutional partners; core product is NordVPN… | ||
| Bouncing Back: Klarna’s Path to Stronger Growth | Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Jessica Schultz | 25m |
Klarna reports concrete shifts: after raising one of Europe’s largest rounds this year the company narrows US expansion, tightens underwriting in January and… | ||
| Tech Reset: A Stronger Europe | Niklas Zennström | 18m |
Europe claims over $100bn in startup funding in 2021 yet faces a sharp reset: tech investment drops about 30% in Q3, Q4 valuations fall as much as 62% from… | ||
| Keeping Small Retailers Afloat: Scaling a Marketplace Business | Nicolas D’Audiffret, Thomas Cuvelier | 25m |
B2B marketplace Ankorstore connects 30,000 brands with 100,000 retailers across 24 countries, adds logistics and negotiated financing, and enforces a cash flow… | ||
| Two Peas in a Pod: Making Co-CEOs Work | Monika Liikamaa, Denise Johansson, Amy Lewin | 30m |
Two founders run Enfuce as co-CEOs and credit 110% trust plus constant messaging (dozens of WhatsApps during investor days) for speed: they doubled investor… | ||
| 20VC: Live at Slush with Miki Kuusi | Miki Kuusi | 26m |
Founding moment traces to university in 2009 and a 2011–2014 build that turns the thesis “take local city services online” into Wolt scaling from a handful to… | ||
| Once In A Blue Moon: Moonpay’s Web3 Revelation | Zeeshan Feroz, Ophelia Brown | 25m |
Moonpay describes an end-to-end Web3 infrastructure: a regulatory, payments, banking and fraud stack plus smart-contract tooling that cuts go‑to‑market from… | ||
| People People: Leading People Functions | Nadia Singer, Danny Rimer | 25m |
Company scales from ~150 to 975 employees while staying aggressively hiring and avoiding layoffs; recruiting shifts to Zoom with tactics like hiding self view… | ||
| Relevance as a Habit: Founding Story of Highsnobiety | David Fischer, Frédéric Court | 26m |
Relevance as a Habit: Founding Story of Highsnobiety - David Fischer (Highsnobiety) & Frederic Court (Felix Capital) | Slush 2022
Staying relevant in the… | ||
| Founding Story of wefox | Julian Teicke | 13m |
wefox grows from a 2015 startup to >$600M revenue and ~1,300 employees, raising $650M Series C in 2021 and $400M Series D valuing the company at $4.5B. Core… | ||
| Circular Economy and Changing Consumer Behavior | Maximilian Bittner, Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Joy Tuffield | 31m |
Vestiaire Collective scales a resale marketplace in 70 markets (unicorn since 2021) and estimates unworn one trillion items sit idle in wardrobes; fast fashion… | ||
| Seatbelt Sign is On: Scaling in Times of Turbulence | Christian Facey, Rachael Palmer | 23m |
Company describes non-intrusive audio ads for mobile games that play like in-game radio and claim a 1000% increase in engagement and ~600% uplift in developer… | ||
| Navigating Public Opinion: Running an Edgy Business | Amrapali Gan, Keily Blair | 31m |
OnlyFans says it hosts 3 million creators and 220 million fans, has paid out over $10 billion, and runs an 80/20 revenue split where creators keep 80%. The… | ||
| Product-led Growth: Founder 1-on-1 with Datadog and Aiven | Olivier Pomel, Oskari Saarenmaa | 25m |
Datadog describes how it grows by making the product do the selling and scales to an IPO with >$1B revenue, while Aiven reaches product-market fit and hits… | ||
| How Do You Sell The Future? Lessons From Apple, Airbnb, Snap and Beyond | James Vincent | 19m |
Sees how iconic launches actually work: Apple sells a touchscreen by shipping an iPod that pairs hardware and software and creates the click‑wheel moment… | ||
| It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Metaverse | Sebastien Borget, Timmu Tõke | 26m |
Ready Player Me describes a pivot from hardware scanners to a cross‑platform avatar service now used by 4,000 companies to import consistent avatars into games… | ||
| Remote(ly) Better Than Before | Alex Bouaziz, Quinn Slack, Katie Roof | 29m |
Claims that remote isn't one-size-fits-all and a 40/40/20 split of preferences drives concrete practices: hiring without time-zone limits, measuring work by… | ||
| From 2 to 5000: Revolut's Road to Global Expansion | Nikolay Storonsky, John Doran | 24m |
Company claims 25 million customers across 39 countries and hundreds of thousands of business accounts, scaling with a modular, multi-currency backend so new… | ||
| Growth For Food: Fighting Food Waste at Scale | Mette Lykke | 17m |
Too Good To Go is a marketplace that connects surplus food from 128,000 stores to 67 million users, claiming to have saved +170 million meals (425 million kg… | ||
| Nordic Leadership: Learnings from Spotify, Supercell and Kry | Ilkka Paananen, Josefin Landgård, Sophia Bendz, Benjamin Begley | 27m |
Nordic startups claim concrete advantages: Spotify hits 1 million paying users in the US by 2012 and Supercell ships global hits like Clash of Clans and treats… | ||
| Europe, Governments, Entrepreneurs: Where Should We Start? | Sanna Marin | 25m |
Europe faces concrete vulnerabilities: reliance on Chinese medical imports and Russian energy, weak defense capacity, and fragile semiconductor supply chains… | ||
| A Rapyd Pivot: From E-wallet to Fintech Pioneer | Arik Shtilman, Mike Lobanov | 25m |
Company pivots from a failed consumer e-wallet into a B2B platform that brands itself fintech-as-a-service, raising about $800M after the pivot. Built a global… | ||
| Founding Story of Maven Clinic | Kate Ryder, Juliet Bailin | 24m |
Company launches a virtual clinic with 24/7 care navigation, the largest telehealth network in women’s and family health, and patient communities, then pivots… | ||
| Lessons From a Lifetime in Venture | Doug Leone, Luciana Lixandru | 26m |
Sequoia frames today as a deeper, global shock than 2000 or 2008 with the NASDAQ down ~30% and a forecast of no quick recovery before 2024, so expect prolonged… | ||
| Launch by EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel | Mariya Gabriel | 11m |
European Commission launches the New European Innovation Agenda with concrete targets and instruments: 45 billion euros to mobilize private and institutional… | ||
| Launch by Algorithmiq | Sabrina Maniscalco | 11m |
Algorithmiq announces Aurora, a drug‑discovery platform that combines conventional algorithms with proprietary quantum software to predict… | ||
| Launch by Veri | Anttoni Aniebonam | 09m |
Veri pairs a continuous glucose monitor with an app and launches two concrete features: an enhanced meal tracker using image and voice recognition tied to a 1… | ||
| Launch by Reface | Dima Shvets | 11m |
Reface claims an end-to-end pipeline called Metahead that turns a few 2D selfies into a hyperreal 3D head with extracted skin detail and 8k textures generated… | ||
| Launch by FNDR | James Vincent | 10m |
FNDR launches a VC that backs founders it already works with, claiming investment in the equity of Storytelling. The firm spends about 12 hours with each… | ||
| The New Gatekeepers | Benedict Evans | 29m |
Overview of concrete shifts: ad revenue and hiring slow after a low‑rate boom, with Meta cutting 11,000 roles and Amazon building an ad business that does… | ||
| The Power of Partnerships in Building a Global Company | Elizabeth Rossiello, Victoria Turk | 25m |
AZA Finance positions itself as a market leader for foreign exchange and B2B payments in Africa, beginning by trading Kenyan shillings and now trading fiat and… | ||
| Setting the Benchmark: Fireside Chat with Peter Fenton | Peter Fenton, Jeannette zu Fürstenberg | 25m |
Argues Twitter has untapped upside — calls it a larger genotype vs phenotype gap (mentions a $100–$500B “genotype” vs ~ $30B realized) and places a bet Twitter… | ||
| Building a Future We Wish Existed | Ev Williams, Andrew Beebe | 25m |
A career map from building Blogger to inventing Twitter to launching Medium and founding Obvious Ventures, claiming the next 30 years move from digitizing the… | ||
| Gaming in Frontier Markets | Cordel Robbin-Coker, Jon Lai | 25m |
Africa has 1.4 billion people, over 90% of internet access on mobile and ~300 million unique gamers in a roughly $1B mobile market that is doubling soon; game… | ||
| The Tortoise and The Hare: RELEX’s Sustainable Strategy | Johanna Småros, Eleanor Warnock | 25m |
Starts as research and pivots from a “black box” idea to building a full SaaS stack: automated store replenishment with a forecast engine and supply-chain… | ||
| Rules, Rules Rules: Scaling Through Regulation | Johannes Schildt, Sabina Wizander | 25m |
Kry is a digital‑first healthcare clinic app that has helped more than 7 million patients across Sweden, Norway, the UK and France, combining video visits with… | ||
| Building Direct-to-Consumer Businesses | Marcia Kilgore, Daniel Waterhouse | 26m |
Club sells beauty and wellness made by 50 vetted labs direct to consumers at deeply lower prices using a membership model that shows both retail and member… | ||
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