What’s your excuse not shipping the product faster? Roadtripping today with the SILTA crew!

What’s a better way to start the week than enjoying a dinner with your fellow founders and sharing learnings from the last week!

Some insights from a session with Jyri Engeström; - follow the market demand — you shouldn’t care too much about whether you actually like the product or not. Just build a product that has the best opportunities for success - humanoid robots actually make sense

Today had the pleasure of hosting Marc Tarpenning, co-founder of Tesla, at the SILTA House. Thanks Marc Tarpenning for the visit!

How to launch successfully? brryant today at the SILTA House sharing how Webflow mastered their launching and getting the first customers

How to run pilots? Kristian Ranta pointed that before delivering the pilot it’s essential to set visible success metrics for the product and throw a ballpark price point to the customer.

Founder-led sales is a great concept but hiring a Head of Sales from the beginning can also work out pretty well. Thanks Aaron Levie for the session!

Great Vappu party yesterday at the house! Thank you all for coming by!

Awesome to host Nick Damiano today! We talked about optimizing med tech companies’ hiring pace and establishing a base of elite ambassadors.

🚀 Once again, We’re back! S25-Batch is gearing up for the start of the program in March. Out of 50+ impressive applications, 7 ambitious founders are heading to SF for three months. We’ll introduce the participants one by one in the coming weeks, starting Friday 24th!

Big dreams and bold moves: Welcome Anssi Rantanen, Founding CGO of DeepScan Diagnostics! DeepScan is transforming the veterinary diagnostic market. In an unregulated industry full of questionable alternatives, they’re setting a new standard of scientific rigor!

Next stop: SF! ✈️ Shoutout to Mark Szucs of Clarvo, turning job hunting into a data-driven marketplace. From day one, Mark’s been all about teamwork. Proud to have him in the SILTA batch, pushing us all to grow together when we touch ground in SF!

🚀 Meet a definite changemaker: Kasper Karimaa, Co-founder & CEO of @TreeProtocol_ ♻️ Their blockchain-based product data network empowers brands to protect, commercialize, and share product data IP across the entire lifecycle. Follow his journey and watch the impact unfold!

🚀 Meet Alexander Silén, Co-Founder & CEO of Mobal, the platform that makes business location data accurate & easy to manage. 📍 Wrong details on Google & Apple Maps cost customers. Mobal fixes that. 🔜 Alexander is off to San Francisco to onboard clients, and meet investors!

📢 MedTech on a mission! Tanja Tervonen, Co-Founder & COO of Otos, is headed to SF to bring hearing loss detection into the future. 👂 With hearing loss set to affect 25% of the world by 2050, early diagnosis is critical. Otos empowers primary care to act fast.

🚀 Welcome Martin Kangasniemi! Co-founder of Comparables.ai. 💡 M&A research, but 95% faster. With 360M+ companies analyzed, Comparables.ai delivers smarter deal insights. 🌍 Martin’s goal: Scale globally, forge partnerships & secure funding.

👀 Small businesses shouldn’t juggle 20+ tools. Superify is changing that. Led by Otto Mäenpää, the AI-driven assistant unifies workflows & automates the rest, so entrepreneurs can focus on growth. Proud to have them join the S25 Batch!

SILTA F25 Cohort is on their way. See you in San Francisco! Aaro Isosaari /Flow AI Marko Voutilainen /Stealth Lauha Ahonen /Leida Emil Bulut /TaruTech Hai Ta /Userlens Anastasiia Glebova /Datu Laura Bermudez /Onco Care Jacky Loo /Colorific Noah Petermann /Aniva Health

Phew time flies in SF! We’ve learnt a ton from Mårten Mickos, Holly Liu, Annika Lundström, Nune Zadoyan, Kristian Elset Bo, Jari Salomaa, Matias Varjonen, Andy Le Roux, Roland Greene, and many more during the first month of F25. Who’s the absolute must-meet for month two?

"Stay true to your core ambition" and other great learnings from Ari Tulla today. Thanks for visiting us Ari Tulla! #silta #foundertalk #healthtech #ai