Turning ideas into innovations
Start-up entrepreneur — we offer resources to begin developing your online service immediately, ensuring the implementation and allowing you to focus on your company’s business model, funding and team building.
Start-up entrepreneur — we offer resources to begin developing your online service immediately, ensuring the implementation and allowing you to focus on your company’s business model, funding and team building.
Portfolio Companies:
Social recruiting platform
Visual food journal
Interactive sales tools
New car sales process
Data refining services
Marketplace for social lending
Find your school friends
Markeplace for used cars
Senior Partner, CEO
Sakari has worked in Boston, Massachusetts and Munich, Germany as a member of TVM Capital’s ICT investment team. Sakari began his career at F-Secure where he led the creation of F-Secure’s new product lines and the transformation of the products into “security as a service”. Sakari was a member of the management team that led F-Secure’s IPO in 1999. Sakari came to Vendep from Efecte where he was responsible for the European Channel and Products.
Senior Partner, Founder and Chairman
Hannu worked for Reuters and Nokia in the Baltics and the Nordic region before starting as an entrepreneur in 2000. He's cofounded and run several startup companies, the most widely known of which is Nettiauto.com, a used cars classified site launched in 2001 and succesfully sold to a major Finnish media house, United Magazines Ltd, in 2006. Hannu is an angel investor with a portfolio of investments in the Nordics and the United States.
Senior Partner, Venture Development, Silicon Valley
Jupe has been an entrepreneur since 2002. He advices and assists our portfolio companies in the Silicon Valley. Jupe's core areas of expertise are web business models and social media. Jupe has launched more than ten online services, including an equipment rental service iRent and Koulukaverit.com, a website he founded to help old school friends keep in touch.
Partner, CTO
Juha Litola, Vendep's CTO, has been working for more than ten years in various software development roles developing business critical systems. Lately Litola has been focusing on Agile software development and Service-Oriented Architectures. Before joining Vendep Litola acted as Chief Architect at Itella Information.
ACCOUNT MANAGER, SALES WIZARD, NETWORKER
Henrik has been working with sales almost his whole career. Previously he was responsible for a successful product launch of the Formula F1 team Eddie Jordan’s Vodka V10 RTD to the Finnish market. Besides sales and marketing, Henrik has solid background in the academia and he has an ongoing PhD research on the impact of ownership structure on firm valuation and performance at Hanken School of Economics at the department of Economics. Henrik’s specialties are executing the sales plan, product launch, business development and multilingualism.
Vendep is a unique start-up accelerator. In exchange for equity, we provide the resources for creating a business model and carrying out software development for an acceleration period of 6 to 24 months. In addition, we assist our target companies in Finland and Silicon Valley in many ways, from recruiting an expert team to securing financing. Our aim is to work together in order to develop ideas in their initial phases into rapidly growing online services. We apply our model according to the needs and goals of our partner entrepreneurs.
Vigo is an accelerator program for dynamic startups. We grow high quality internationally-focused companies by connecting promising startups with experienced entrepreneurs and funding. Learn more.
Based in Houston, Texas, HireInfluence.com is the first-to-market social media platform designed for companies to identify, analyze and verify job candidates’ influence and networking value. The site also allows consumers using Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to leverage their expertise, reach and influence in order to connect with companies who can benefit from their capabilities.
Meontrust’s MePIN tool is a smart and secure multi-factor authentication and user verification service for the consumer web. The company’s patent pending technology solves username and password problems, enabling online service providers to verify or sign in users on any computer or mobile device without insecure usernames and passwords.
engajer, a company providing businesses with an interactive sales tool, has announced an integration with SugarCRM, the world’s fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company.
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