Slush 2025
as the organisers put it
Slush is the world’s most founder-focused startup event, held annually in Helsinki. Join top founders, investors, and media at Slush 2026 on Nov 18–19.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Katie King, Co-founder & CEO, BioOrbit | Slush 2025 | Katie King | 10m |
BioOrbit claims it will mass-produce pharmaceutical-grade antibody crystals in microgravity to turn IV cancer immunotherapies into high-concentration… | ||
| Philip Johnston, Co-founder & CEO, Starcloud | Slush 2025 | Philip Johnston | 08m |
Company launches first AI data center grade chip to orbit: a NVIDIA H100 on a 60 kg small sat that will run commissioning, train a model and do high‑powered… | ||
| Pierre Desjardins, Co-founder & CEO at C12 | Slush 2025 | Pierre Desjardins | 11m |
C12 claims a shipping-ready compact quantum computer based on spin qubit devices built from carbon nanotubes, reporting qubit coherence ~10× better than… | ||
| Charles Maddock, Co-founder & CEO at Strawberry Browser | Slush 2025 | Charles Maddock | 10m |
Pivoted from an AI framework called Dendrite after a $2M raise and now raised $4M, the team builds a self-driving browser that runs AI companions to automate… | ||
| Johannes B Woehrstein, Co-founder & CEO, mbiomics | Slush 2025 | Johannes B Woehrstein | 09m |
mbiomics claims a reproducible, fermenter-grown synthetic microbiome that doubles immune checkpoint inhibitor response by delivering 150 selected bacterial… | ||
| Nicolas Wolikow, Co-founder & CEO, Cure51 | Slush 2025 | Nicolas Wolikow | 09m |
Cure51 collects the rare <1% “exceptional survivors” from 55+ countries and 100+ hospital partners, imports tumor tissue to a Paris biobank and runs advanced… | ||
| Joonas Jokela, Co-founder & CEO, Aavuus | Slush 2025 | Joonas Jokela | 09m |
Aavuus builds a global network of compact laser observation stations that detects debris down to 1 cm, provides 1 m accuracy localization and generates… | ||
| Jake Taylor-King, Co-founder & CIO, Relation Therapeutics | Slush 2025 | Jake Taylor-King | 11m |
Relation Therapeutics rebuilds a biotech around AI, claiming a ~100-person company that runs the largest multiomic bone study with 550 consented patients from… | ||
| Lauri Sippola, Co-founder & CEO at Gosta Labs | Slush 2025 | Lauri Sippola | 09m |
Gosta Labs builds an AI operating system for oncology teams that ingests fragmented records, auto-structures notes and supports tumor board workflows; models… | ||
| Dr. Gideon Schwich, Co-founder & Co-CEO, Cylib | Slush 2025 | Dr. Gideon Schwich | 09m |
Cylib claims a water-based hydrometallurgical process that recovers >90% of battery materials including lithium carbonate, nickel and cobalt, proven first in… | ||
| Sauraj Gambhir, Co-founder & CEO, Prior Labs | Slush 2025 | Sauraj Gambhir | 09m |
A pre-trained transformer called Tab PFN handles any row‑and‑column data (numbers, categories, text) instead of building separate models per use case, and it… | ||
| Noel Hurley, Co-founder & CEO, Literal Labs | Slush 2025 | Noel Hurley | 10m |
Literal Labs argues that rethinking algorithms rather than only expanding data‑center infrastructure yields massive savings, using logic‑based networks that… | ||
| Max Werner, Co-founder & CEO, Hades Mining | Slush 2025 | Max Werner | 07m |
Hades Mining builds a laser drilling system that replaces century‑old mechanical drills, targeting the biggest cost in mining — drilling at 50–70% of capex… | ||
| Rebekka Mikkola, Co-founder & CEO, Trismik | Slush 2025 | Rebekka Mikkola | 09m |
Trismic adapts computer-adaptive testing to evaluate LLMs, running MMLU Pro on Llama 3.2 in 26 seconds versus 25+ minutes for classical tests, a reported 98%… | ||
| Lucas Christel , Co-founder, Purpose Green | Slush 2025 | Lucas Christel | 10m |
Purpose Green digitizes and executes building retrofits, claiming to have digitized 4 million m2 into 3D twins, converted over €100M in asset value and… | ||
| Kristjan Lepik, Co-founder & CEO, Arbonics | Slush 2025 | Kristjan Lepik | 11m |
Company builds a high-resolution digital forest platform that generates digital forest reports in one minute for landowners, using satellites and drones to… | ||
| Sébastien Willems, Co-founder & CEO, Antfarm | Slush 2025 | Sébastien Willems | 08m |
Waste-sorting robot company demonstrates a TRL 4 alpha prototype built for $1,500 and claims a $10 per ton target down from $120 today, aiming to replace… | ||
| Nick Zumbühl, Co-founder & CEO, Nala Earth | Slush 2025 | Nick Zumbühl | 09m |
Nala Earth claims nature underpins 55 trillion USD of global economic value and finds that 45% of data centers sit in regions where water will run out, with… | ||
| Ryan Luke Johns Co-founder & CEO, Gravis Robotics | Slush 2025 | Ryan Luke Johns | 10m |
A retrofit system called Gravis Rack retrofit kit mounts on 6–40 ton excavators and wheel loaders, adding 360° cameras, 360° LIDAR, local compute and… | ||
| Crijn Bouman, Co-founder & CEO, Rocsys | Slush 2025 | Crijn Bouman | 11m |
Company builds an autonomous infrastructure stack that turns vehicle depots into lights-out service hubs, using a robotic arm on a gantry to plug chargers… | ||
| Suvi Haimi, Co-founder & CEO, Ovido | Slush 2025 | Suvi Haimi | 09m |
Predicts clothes in 2027 carrying QR-coded digital product passports that centralize lifecycle data; claims Ovido ingests scattered inputs — images, supplier… | ||
| Urho Konttori, Co-founder & CEO at Distance Technologies | Slush 2025 | Urho Konttori | 11m |
Distance is a 2‑year‑old deeptech startup (50 people) building computational light‑field head‑up displays that place per‑pixel depth beyond the windshield with… | ||
| Aymeric Zhuo & Osman Ramadan, Co-founders at Agemo | Slush 2025 | Aymeric Zhuo, Osman Ramadan | 09m |
Shows a product (Agemo) that lets nontechnical users describe a problem in plain language, then probes context, logs into ClassDojo or a site, scrapes and… | ||
| Ralf Gulde, Co-founder & CEO at Sereact | Slush 2025 | Ralf Gulde | 10m |
Sereact describes a deployed vision-language-action brain called Cortex that runs on humanoid, mobile and arm robots to automate pick‑and‑place and returns… | ||
| Anders Mayntzhusen, Co-founder & CEO at Humani | Slush 2025 | Anders Mayntzhusen | 08m |
Humani claims managers cause an $8 trillion problem and offers an AI product that combines personality + behavioral + contextual data to auto-generate agendas… | ||
| Jan Erik Solem, Co-founder & CEO, Staer | Slush 2025 | Jan Erik Solem | 07m |
Demo shows a software stack running on four robot types (lawn mower, ag bot, warehouse bot, simulated humanoid) that builds a continuously updating 3D voxel… | ||
| Lukas Saari, Co-founder & CEO at Tandem Health | Slush 2025 | Lukas Saari | 10m |
Tandem Health claims an AI native operating system for clinics that transcribes consultations, drafts medical notes, referrals and codes, and automates… | ||
| Max Henry Xie, Co-founder, Vetnio | Slush 2025 | Max Henry Xie | 08m |
Vetnio deploys an AI that records exam-room audio and flags diagnostic cues clinicians miss when overloaded, and it corrected a chain of misdiagnoses so a dog… | ||
| Mikko Mäntylä, Co-founder & CEO at Realm | Slush 2025 | Mikko Mäntylä | 09m |
Realm connects CRM, product docs, Slack and Gong and centralizes context so agents find detailed answers within 15 seconds, automate up to 80% of RFP responses… | ||
| Niilo Pirttijärvi, Co-founder & CEO at Inven | Slush 2025 | Niilo Pirttijärvi | 07m |
Inven builds an AI platform for M&A teams that pulls company data from Google Maps, LinkedIn, Crunchbase and internal CRM into a single interface and uses… | ||
| Emilė Radytė, Co-founder & CEO of Samphire Neuroscience | Slush 2025 | Emilė Radytė | 06m |
Neurotechnology company presents a brain‑stimulation solution called Nettle wearable headband, a CE‑marked medical device on the market for 12 months that… | ||
| Patrycja Kucharczyk, Co-founder & CEO at Treeless | Slush 2025 | Patrycja Kucharczyk | 10m |
Treeless grows bacterial nanocellulose from local food and beverage sidestreams, claiming 70% higher yield than existing strains and up to 80% CO2 savings… | ||
| Lars Langhout, Co-founder & CEO at NoPalm Ingredients | Slush 2025 | Lars Langhout | 10m |
Produces commodity-grade palm oil analog using engineered yeast and industrial fermentation of food side streams (potato peels) with 48-hour cycles, cell… | ||
| Susanna Partanen, Co-founder & CEO at Woamy | Slush 2025 | Susanna Partanen | 10m |
Woamy presents a fiber‑based biopfoam that performs like plastic but is recyclable with paper and contains no microplastics, proven in pilots that pass drop… | ||
| Insiya Jafferjee, Co-founder & CEO at Shellworks | Slush 2025 | Insiya Jafferjee | 10m |
Company makes Vivr, a fermentation‑derived plastic alternative made by fermenting soil microbes, melted into spaghetti, pelletized and run on standard plastic… | ||
| Joana Cartocci, Co-founder & COO, Robeauté | Slush 2025 | Joana Cartocci | 09m |
Claims a soft micro-robot that propels via a tiny micropropeller, a steering unit and onboard tracking to move nonlinearly through brain tissue and carry… | ||
| Felicia von Reden, Co-founder & CEO, Ovom Care | Slush 2025 | Felicia von Reden | 10m |
Built an autonomous intelligence system called Vaia that ingests clinic and wearable data, recommends the exact IVF trigger timing, auto-schedules appointments… | ||
| Max Schertel, Co-founder at Finmid | Slush 2025 | Max Schertel | 10m |
Finmid is building the infrastructure that embeds lending inside business software so platforms can offer capital without banks. The system exposes one API… | ||
| Jonathan Sanders, Co-founder & CEO at Light | Slush 2025 | Jonathan Sanders | 11m |
Light builds an end-to-end accounting platform that removes manual data entry by ingesting CRM, bank and HR feeds and turning receipts into filed VAT and… | ||
| Anh-Tho Chuong, Co-founder & CEO at Lago | Slush 2025 | Anh-Tho Chuong | 09m |
Lago open-sources a billing API that aims to replace fragile homegrown systems; launched 18 months ago, it claims the top open-source billing repo and the… | ||
| Diane-Laure Pagès, Co-founder & COO, Orakl Oncology | Slush 2025 | Diane-Laure Pagès | 08m |
Claims an AI+wet‑lab engine that predicts patient drug response with 88% accuracy, trained on a proprietary mix of clinical records and lab‑grown organoids to… | ||
| Chris Sidlauskas Co-founder & CEO, Sintra | Slush 2025 | Chris Sidlauskas | 07m |
Sintra builds a suite of 12 AI assistants that share a single context layer and can take actions for small businesses — social calendars, posting, lead… | ||
| Rihab Lajmi, Co-founder & CEO, Asendia AI | Slush 2025 | Rihab Lajmi | 12m |
Company claims AI agents named Sarah run sourcing, screening and live interviews with their own phone number and email, letting staffing firms scale placements… | ||
| Hakob Astabatsyan, Co-founder & CEO, SynthFlow AI | Slush 2025 | Hakob Astabatsyan | 10m |
Claims a practical path to production for voice AI using the build, evaluate, launch, learn framework: a visual conversational flow builder that pairs flow… | ||
| Valentin Neumann, Co-founder & CEO, Cortea AI | Slush 2025 | Valentin Neumann | 10m |
Automates audit workflows by ingesting policies, ledgers and screenshots, classifying documents, and executing checklists with traceable reasoning; a deployed… | ||
| Maija Itkonen, Co-founder & CEO, Onego Bio | Slush 2025 | Maija Itkonen | 09m |
Onego Bio makes identical egg protein via precision fermentation using a secreting fungus, claiming precision fermentation yields a plug‑in replacement with… | ||
| Bernhard Kratzwald, Co-founder & CEO, EthonAI | Slush 2025 | Bernhard Kratzwald | 07m |
Claims a platform called EthonAI builds the factory “brain” by tapping IoT, vision and context into a real‑time knowledge graph and ontology, using a vision… | ||
| Elin Mårtensson, Co-founder & CEO, AI Bob | Slush 2025 | Elin Mårtensson | 10m |
Claims an AI platform that parses thousands of requirements, converts them into automated tests inside Revit and flags real build issues like tiny bathrooms… | ||
| Gleb Chuvpilo, Co-founder & CEO, Thor Dynamics | Slush 2025 | Gleb Chuvpilo | 07m |
Claims a laser armor defeats a quadcopter at 1 km in under one second for under $0.01 per shot and already generates early revenue and government traction… | ||
| Julien Launay, Co-founder & CEO, Adaptive ML | Slush 2025 | Julien Launay | 10m |
Adaptive ML provides an on‑prem/cloud platform that uses reinforcement learning with synthetic data to specialize open LLMs for agentic tasks, then runs… | ||
| Ruben Bryon, Co-founder & CEO, Verda | Slush 2025 | Ruben Bryon | 09m |
Verda (formerly DataCrunch) pitches a European AI cloud built for modern models, claiming 30M USD run rate and profitability for five years with $85M raised… | ||
| Siddharth Khullar, Co-founder & CEO at Aris Machina | Slush 2025 | Siddharth Khullar | 12m |
Company presents a three‑layer stack: a unified ontology, agentic workflows, and industrial UIs that link R&D, lab tests, machines and business systems. Two… | ||
| Johannes Tervo, Growth at Intergrid | Slush 2025 | Johannes Tervo | 06m |
After 150 operator interviews the team builds a live demo plant in northern Finland and ships a production control stack: an autopilot for factory energy… | ||
| Luke Tan, Co-founder & CEO at Supercritical | Slush 2025 | Luke Tan | 11m |
Supercritical presents a claim that a membraneless electrolyser running at 230 bar and 350° C cuts green hydrogen cost and emissions; cells demonstrate ~95%… | ||
| David Budde, Co-founder & CEO at trawa | Slush 2025 | David Budde | 11m |
trawa presents a B2B energy platform that replaces incumbent tariffs with wholesale and direct-from-renewables supply, bundles an energy management software… | ||
| Joe McDonald, Co-founder & CEO at tem | Slush 2025 | Joe McDonald | 10m |
tem builds an automated transaction layer for electricity using machine learning and operational research and a new probabilistic pricing engine to displace… | ||
| Francesco Volpe, Co-founder & CTO at Renaissance Fusion | Slush 2025 | Francesco Volpe | 09m |
Company reimagines the stellarator by depositing wide HTS on cylinders then using a laser-engraved superconducting circuits process to create ready-to-assemble… | ||
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