Welcome to the Business with Impact online seminar, where you’ll hear insightful impact product and investing talks and get a chance to network with Helsinki’s impact ecosystem’s finest representatives.

During this compact 2,5 hrs online seminar, you will have a unique chance to dive deep into how ventures and investors are combining Impact and Business opportunities to create meaningful sustainable solutions for a better society.

• 5 accelerated Impact Startups presenting their impact & business models
• 2 Product Talks on how changing legislation opens up new opportunities
• 3 Impact Investor lightning talks on impact investing & fueling societal impact
• Facilitated discussion
• Ecosystem networking

Limited attendance – Apply for a seat, before they run out!

Business with Impact -seminar in a nutshell

What?

Business with Impact: A compact virtual seminar focused on Impact Startups & Investing.

A unique look into how impact start-ups and investors combine growth and societal impact by innovating products that create measurable positive change.

Who is it for?

Start-ups and ventures with impact-business focus, investors seeking for visibility on this sector and developing their deal flow and corporations and organizations aiming to catalyse an emerging innovation ecosystem. Whether you are looking into tap into innovation opportunities in healthcare, food, social impact, climate change or other impact topic, this event is for you. Both local Finnish and Scandinavian wide participants with aim for global audiences after successful impact measurement cases in Finland/neighboring countries.

Key content areas:

Product and service track aiming to yield insights on how measurable growth can be created in impact business and investor track bringing forth the impact investment focus on growing and scaling sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow & society.

Agenda on Thu 10.12. 14:00–16:30 (EET)

14:00 Welcome friends of Impact Club


Kimmo Timonen, Global CEO, Adventure Club

14:10 Impact venture pitches

How to impact the food environment of low income families?

Emilia & Tuulia Järvinen, Venner

Proven impact on eating habits 


Tuomas Teinilä, Via Esca


How to end a global mental health crisis?

Niklas Zilliacus, Oyama

How to save 40% of care cost by transforming healthcare systems for the better?

Kaisa Nyberg & Helen Chambers, LivingSkills

How busy professionals create social impact by volunteering meetings?

Chad Hickey, Givsly


15:00 How changes in legislation open opportunities for ventures to create new business & impact?

Suvi Uski, Founder & CEO, SomeTurva


Mikko Ampuja, Founder & CEO, vapaus.io

15:20 Impact Investing Lightning Talks

Impact-driven investing: Social Impact Bonds

Jani Kempas, Managing Director, FIM Private Equity Funds

Venture Capitalist view


Wilhelm Lindholm, Managing Partner, Innovestor Ltd

European-wide viewpoint on Impact Investing

Jaime Vera Calonje, 
 Investment Manager, European Investment Fund

Corporate Venture Capital viewpoint on Impact Investing


Erik Kolehmainen, Investment Manager, Metsä Spring

16:00 Summary discussion + Q&A: Creating business with impact

Our mission is to accelerate business opportunities that create a positive impact. We help purpose-led companies execute, partner and win in the marketplace. Join us in creating a better society through impact venturing.

Adventure Club is a design and innovation studio based in Helsinki, Berlin, Amsterdam and Turku. We create measurable positive change through concrete actions.

Supported by ITLA & SITRA