

From Inception to Category Winner with Linear
Operators & Friends x Inception Fund are gathering builders and founders for an evening with Karri Saarinen from Linear on August 12th.
Karri Saarinen, Jori Lallo & Tuomas Artman founded Linear in 2019 - focusing on quality as a winning strategy rather than relying on traditional “best practices”.
Today, Linear has evolved into a category defining company, used and loved by 10,000s of builders.
We'll dive into community-curated discussion on what it takes to build category winning companies - from Europe to the US and beyond.
This evening is made possible by our friends at Lifeline Ventures.
Agenda
18:00 – doors open
18:30 – fireside chat with Karri Saarinen / Linear
19:00-20:30 – food, drinks, and vibes
21:30 – goodbyes, doors close
Location upon approved application.
💙 Juhana, Oliver + Lifeline team
About Operators & Friends
Operators & Friends invests into the next generation of builders emerging from the Operator Layer and accelerates them with talent, distribution, and funding to win in Europe and beyond.
We've gathered 4,000 company builders and backed 12 teams alongside a16z, Google Ventures and Lightspeed and many more - our portfolio.
A new wave of founders are rewriting the rules on what it means to build and scale companies - we partner with those shaping the future of the European tech ecosystem like Legora, Framer, Huggingface and Lovable - our manifesto.
About Inception Fund
Backed by the top 1%. Investing in the top 1%.
We invest globally €100k - €500k at inception and pre-seed stages in the top 1% of technical founders with a New Nordic connection, no matter age.
We are well networked across Europe and the US, powered by a unique combination of deep global AI networks and strategic technology and research partnerships. We move fast. We keep it simple. Serving outlier founders to go from zero to one. No BS.
About Lifeline Ventures
Lifeline Ventures is a Helsinki-based early-stage VC. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, we work with early-stage companies in funding, sales, technology, strategy, and operations.
Lifeline Ventures invests in future category-leading companies with strong founders. To date, we have invested in over 100 companies.
Our investment ticket size ranges from 100 kEUR to 2 mEUR and we participate in angel, seed and series A rounds.