Day 2: STRIVE Fellowship – Summer Bootcamp (June 6)
Day 2 - Friday 6.6
The Fellowship Bootcamp brings together the most promising first-year students in Finland — all selected for their ambition, curiosity, and appetite to build. The day is all about setting expectations, building momentum, and connecting with the operators and investors shaping the next decade.
We’re joined by some of the sharpest founders and investors in the country and beyond:
Speakers:
Prateek Singh – Serial Founder, Angel Investor, Co-Founder & CEO @Finnadvance
Jan Goetz - Co-Founder & CEO @IQM Quantum Computers
Sam Sihvonen – Co-Founder & CEO @Solu
Tommi Bergström – Co-Founder & CEO @Ambio
Diogenes Caseres – Thiel Fellow, Serial Founder (blockchain and algo trading)
Ira Haltia - VC @Wave Ventures (What makes young founders fundable)
Ned Koh – Co-Founder @Aaru (Harvard dropout literally predicting the future, Z-Fellow, Prod.so)
The goal: to spark a new generation of high-agency builders and create a long-term founder/investor ecosystem, starting early.
Schedule:
9:00–10:15 Prateek Singh
10:15–11:30 Sam Sihvonen - 5 most important questions to determine about your culture
11:30–12:30 Lunch
12:30–1:45 Tommi Bergström
1:45–2:30 Break
2:30–3:15 Diogenes Casares
3:30–4:30 Ira Haltia
4:30–5:30 Ned Koh
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STRIVE Fellowship is a highly curated program that places 12 of Finland’s most driven first-year university students into some of the country’s fastest-growing startups — like Paebbl, Sensofusion, Basemark, and In Parallel.