Speakers

Johan Bergqvist joined Bolt from Spotify where he spent the last six years within the finance team. As VP of Corporate Finance and Treasury, Johan helped the company scale from €435M to €5Bn in revenue, launched its product in more than 60 markets, and scaled the organization from 600 to 4500 employees. He was part of the core team that listed Spotify on the New York Stock Exchange at a $30 billion valuation, making it the highest-valued European tech startup.
https://bolt.eu/











Matias Kaila has been heading the fund investments team at Tesi - the PE & VC arm of the State of Finland - since 2017. His 15+ years’ PE/VC industry experience includes leveraged and structured finance at Danske Bank, private equity and debt investments at pension fund Elo and M&A advisory at MCF Corporate Finance. Matias is a passionate people person and a strong believer of both true impact-driven businesses able to deliver superb financial returns and the benefits of creating a more integrated Nordic & Baltic ecosystem.
https://www.tesi.fi

Jurate Azelionyte has over 12 years’ experience in structuring and managing various developmental mandates at the European Investment Fund (EIF). Starting with the early-stage equity and debt programmes like JEREMIE Lithuania in 2008, SME Initiative in Finland, she is now managing VC & PE focused fund-of-funds in the Baltics and Poland.
EIF, being part of the EIB group, is a specialist provider of risk finance to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) across Europe. In 2020 EIF has deployed €12.9 billion in commitments to the market.
Sami Lampinen is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Inventure. Sami has 20 years of hands-on venture capital experience in building Nordic high-tech companies. With a wide network of serial entrepreneurs, industry experts and VC colleagues, Sami guides entrepreneurs every day in building international management teams and securing add-on funding across global markets. At Inventure, Sami leads the investments in Canatu, Freespee, Wirepas, KNL Networks, Mekitec and Upcloud. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA - Pääomasijoittajat).
http://inventure.fi
https://paaomasijoittajat.fi/en/

Margus Uudam is the founder and partner at Karma Ventures - an early-stage venture capital firm, specialised in late seed and A round investments in Europe's most promising tech startups. He is the Chairman of the Estonian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EstVCA). Previously head of venture capital investments at Ambient Sound Investments, CEO at Estonian Energy Distribution Network and Fontes. Excited about strategy, growth, HR and business models.
https://www.karma.vc
https://estvca.ee

Emma Honkanen has been a part of eQ Asset Management’s private equity team since 2016. During the past five years, she has gained comprehensive experience in private equity fund investing across Europe with a special focus on the lower mid-market buyout funds in Northern Europe. eQ Asset Management is the largest independent asset manager in Finland with a total AUM of €9.0bn of which €4.2bn is private equity. eQ’s private equity team is managing in total 27 private equity funds-of-funds and mandates.
https://www.eq.fi

Rasmus Thomsen is the Strategy & Business Development Team Lead at Vaekstfonden, the Danish State's investment fund. The fund provides loans, guarantees and venture capital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in collaboration with private partners and Danish financial institutions.
https://vaekstfonden.com


Monalotte Theorell Christofferson has obtained M.Sc. in Business Studies and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. Previously chartered accountant at KPMG. Worked at the finance department and as Risk and Compliance Manager at Investor AB, and as CFO and admin partner at private equity-fund Scope. Chairwoman of the Board of SVCA (Swedish Private Equity and Venture Capital Association).
https://stenasessan.se
https://www.svca.se/

Kristīne Bērziņa is one of the founders of Livonia Partners. After over a decade in roles around the world at PwC and IBM, she returned to Latvia as head of corporate development for the country’s main telecom. In 2013 she co-founded Livonia Partners, investing in successful companies in the Baltic region and beyond with strong growth potential. Livonia provides buy-out and growth equity capital to companies and entrepreneurs with resolve and ambition. Kristīne is currently Chairwoman of the Latvian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LVCA).
https://www.livoniapartners.com
http://www.lvca.lv













Tanya Marvin-Horowitz is a Partner at Butterfly Ventures, the leading seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics. A seasoned asset manager and M&A investment banker from NYC, Tanya followed her passion in 2013 to work with tech startups and entrepreneurs and co-founded her first VC fund, CAP A, based between the USA and the Nordics. Based now in Stockholm, she is perfectly positioned to help budding startup teams gear up for the international market. In addition to being a collegiate tennis player and athletic enthusiast, Tanya has a dual Mathematics and Marketing degree from Georgia State University and has served on several private equity-related boards, such as ACG New York. She is a consummate networker and her rolodex spans the globe where it is helpful to startups for business development, strategic partnerships, additional capital, and eventually as they look to an exit. Tanya is also the Deputy Board member for the Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA - Pääomasijoittajat). 
https://butterfly.vc
https://paaomasijoittajat.fi/en/

Rokas Peciulaitis is a Founder and Managing Partner at Contrarian Ventures an early-stage (Seed to Series A) venture capital firm focusing on investments in emerging technologies tackling the sustainable energy transition in Europe and Israel. Rokas founded Contrarian Ventures at the age of 26 and is one of the youngest GP‘s in Europe. Before Contrarian Ventures he was an inflation and exotic derivatives trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch based in London. He is also a Chairman of the Lithuanian Venture Capital Association (LTVCA) and a board member of the non-profit organization Vilnius Marathon. His alma matter are: University of Glasgow (M.A. in Economics), University California Santa Barbara and he also completed PE and VC executive programme at Harvard Business School. He is a Kauffman Fellow (Class 25). Rokas is also a founder of Energy Tech Summit - the biggest energy tech gathering in Nordics and broader Europe and Climate 50 - an annual list that aims to recognize the most impactful global climate investors globally.
Chris Wade is the Co-Founder & Partner of Isomer Capital. He is an experienced founder, advisor, startup mentor, and technology executive. Prior to Isomer he was the founding director of the Venture Capital Unit for the UK government where he cultivated over $1bn invested from the US and Asia into fund and direct company opportunities. As a venture partner at Octopus Ventures and Entrepreneur First he is an active value-add non-executive director and has mentored 15 companies to successful seed funding. Chris co-founded Cambridge Positioning Systems which was sold to a global semiconductor firm in 2007, prior to which he worked for 15 years in technology operations at US-based DSC, where he assisted in its $4bn sale to Alcatel, and at Nortel. Chris holds a BSc in Physics and Chemistry from Leeds University.
https://isomercapital.com