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Meet our Speakers for Slush 2025. More speaker announcements coming weekly.

Anton Osika
Founder & CEO
Lovable
Lucy Liu
Co-founder & President
Airwallex
Qasar Younis
Co-founder & CEO
Applied Intuition
Gabe Pereyra
Co-founder & President
Harvey
Hélène Huby
Founder & CEO
The Exploration Company
Max Junestrand
Co-founder & CEO
Legora
Luciana Lixandru
General Partner
Sequoia Capital
Markus Villig
Founder & CEO
Bolt
Ekaterina Zaharieva
European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation
EU Commission
Ilya Fushman
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins
Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
Managing Director & Head of Europe
General Catalyst
Tom Hale
CEO
ŌURA
Hemant Taneja
CEO
General Catalyst
Hanno Renner
Co-founder & CEO
Personio
Tim Zheng
Co-founder & CEO
Apollo.io
Cristóbal Valenzuela
Co-founder & CEO
Runway
Christopher Sacca
Founder & Managing Director
Lowercarbon Capital
Eileen O'Mara
Chief Revenue Officer
Stripe
Neil Rimer
Partner
Index Ventures
Cal Henderson
Co-founder & CTO
Slack
Alexandre Prot
Co-founder & CEO
Qonto
Chetan Puttagunta
General Partner
Benchmark
Taavet Hinrikus
Partner
Plural
James Hawkins
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Posthog
Harry Nelis
Partner
Accel
Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
European Commission
John Hanke
Founder & CEO
Niantic Spatial Inc.
Laura Modiano
Laurent Sifre
Co-founder & CTO
H Company
Benedict Evans
Analyst
Independent
Ilkka Paananen
Co-founder & CEO
Supercell
Merritt Hummer
Partner
Bain Capital Ventures
Timo Ahopelto
Founding Partner
Lifeline Ventures
Moritz Baier-Lentz
Partner and Head of Gaming & Interactive Media
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Greg Jackson
Founder & CEO
Octopus Energy
Jeremy O'Brien
Co-Founder & CEO
PsiQuantum
Jane Alexander
Partner
CapitalG
Pim de Witte
CEO
General Intuition
Jennifer Li
General Partner
Andreessen Horowitz
Varun Anand
Co-founder & COO
Clay
Deann Evans
Managing Director, EMEA
Shopify
Miki Kuusi
CEO of Deliveroo & Head of DoorDash International
DoorDash
Alex Schmitt
Partner
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Pieter van der Does
Co-founder & co-CEO
Adyen
Ahti Heinla
Co-founder & CEO
Starship Technologies
Staffan Helgesson
Founder & General Partner
Creandum
Jarek Kutylowski
Co-founder & CEO
DeepL
Jan Oberhauser
Founder & CEO
n8n
Anne Sraders
Senior Reporter
Sifted
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder & Chief Science Officer
Hugging Face
John Thornhill
Founder & Tech Columnist
Financial Times; Sifted
Manny Medina
Co-founder & CEO
Paid
Kaarel Kotkas
Founder & CEO
Veriff
Ott Kaukver
Investor, Independent Board Member & ex-CTO
Veriff, Checkout.com, Twilio, Skype
Carl Pei
Co-founder & CEO
Nothing
Jacomo Corbo
Co-founder & CEO
PhysicsX
Zhenya Loginov
Partner
Accel
Meera Clark
Partner
Redpoint
Gabriel Vasquez
Investment Partner
a16z
Jan Goetz
Co-CEO & Co-Founder
IQM Quantum Computers
Arpan Shah
General Partner
Spark Capital
Andreas Klinger
Investor
Prototype & EU-INC
Robert Gentz
Co-founder & co-CEO
Zalando
Pepe Agell
Partner
Pear VC
Seth Bannon
Founding Partner
FIfty Years
Julien Bek
Partner
Sequoia Capital
Gabriel Hubert
Co-founder & CEO
Dust
Tom Hulme
Managing Partner & Head of Europe
Google Ventures
Jacob Wallenberg
VP International
Ramp
S.Y. Lee
Co-founder & CEO
Story
Munjal Shah
Co-founder & CEO
Hippocratic AI
Gorkem Yurtseven
Co-founder & CTO
fal
Fabian Hedin
Co-founder
Lovable
Filip Dames
Founding Partner
Cherry VC
Irina Haivas
Shensi Ding
Co-founder & CEO
Merge
AJ Tennant
Founder & GP
Tenacity Capital; Ex-Glean, Slack & Facebook
Georgia Stevenson
Partner
Index Ventures
Justine Palefsky
Co-founder & CEO
Kindred
Théau Peronnin
Co-founder & CEO
Alice & Bob
Avery Klemmer
Investor
Thrive Capital
Musa Tariq
Former Marketing Leader
Airbnb, Apple & Nike
Charlotte Jee
News editor
MIT Technology Review
Nicolas Kopp
Co-founder & CEO
Rillet
Seth Pierrepont
General Partner
ICONIQ
Rob Snyder
Founder
Waffle
Iain Martin
Senior Editor
Forbes
Thomas Ohr
Founder & CEO
EU-Startups
Marianne Vikkula
Head of Wolt
Wolt
Jason Karaian
Deputy Business Editor
The New York Times
Mirko Novakovic
Founder & CEO
Dash0
Robin Rombach
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Black Forest Labs
Alex Ferrara
Managing Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners
Dianne Na Penn
Head of Research Product Management
Anthropic
David Reger
Founder & CEO
Neura Robotics
Philipp Schröder
Co-founder & CEO
1KOMMA5°
Lara Smith Weber
Chief Financial Officer
Inari
Stanley Tang
Co-Founder & Head of DoorDash Labs
DoorDash
Thomas von der Ohe
Co-founder & CEO
Vay
Marcus Räder
Founder & CEO
Hostaway
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Stage Program FAqs

What is Slush's philosphy for curating stage program ?

Through our stage programs, we support our mission to help and create founders to change the world. Our stages primarily feature the most accomplished founders and operators, sharing candid, no-nonsense insights on building high-growth, enduring companies.

Each stage has a distinct purpose—whether it’s spotlighting early-stage founders, unpacking the startup and tech landscape, sharing company-building advice, or diving into raw founder journeys.

As a not-for-profit, we don’t pay speakers, and they don’t pay us.

How do I suggest a speaker for Slush 2025?

Suggest a speaker using the following link.

Our selection process centers on one question: What aspect of company-building is this person uniquely qualified to speak on?

We feature experienced founders—often behind unicorns—who share real stories and offer candid, practical advice.

Got any questions?

Reach out to speakers@slush.org

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