Topicsfounder investor matchmaking, deep tech pitches, climate and energy, side event week, dark stage keynotes, growth stage scaling
Slush is the founder focused startup event that takes over Helsinki for two dark November days. It draws around thirteen thousand attendees, including hundreds of venture capital firms managing trillions in assets, so the ratio of investors to founders is unusually high for an event this size. Sessions lean into AI, deep tech, and climate, and the whole thing runs on a famously theatrical dark stage production.