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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
Gabe Pereyra
Co-founder & President
Harvey
Alex Schultz
CMO & VP of Analytics
Meta
Qasar Younis
Co-founder & CEO
Applied Intuition
Vlad Tenev
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Robinhood Markets, Inc.
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
Tom Hale
CEO
ŌURA
Nina Achadjian
Partner
Index Ventures
Hanno Renner
Co-founder & CEO
Personio
Tim Zheng
Co-founder & CEO
Apollo.io
Cristóbal Valenzuela
Co-founder & CEO
Runway
Eileen O'Mara
Chief Revenue Officer
Stripe
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.
Laurent Sifre
Co-founder & CTO
H Company
Benedict Evans
Analyst
Independent
Merritt Hummer
Partner
Bain Capital Ventures
Timo Ahopelto
Founding Partner
Lifeline Ventures
Greg Jackson
Founder & CEO
Octopus Energy
Jeremy O'Brien
Co-Founder & CEO
PsiQuantum
Jane Alexander
Partner
CapitalG
Varun Anand
Co-founder & COO
Clay
Deann Evans
Managing Director, EMEA
Shopify
Amba Kak
Co-Executive Director
AI Now Institute
Staffan Helgesson
Founder & General Partner
Creandum
Taavet Hinrikus
Partner
Plural
Jarek Kutylowski
Co-founder & CEO
DeepL
Anne Sraders
Senior Reporter
Sifted
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder & Chief Science Officer
Hugging Face
John Thornhill
Founder & Tech Columnist
Financial Times; Sifted
Kaarel Kotkas
Founder & CEO
Veriff
Ott Kaukver
Investor, Independent Board Member & ex-CTO
Veriff, Checkout.com, Twilio, Skype
Jacomo Corbo
Co-founder & CEO
PhysicsX
Zhenya Loginov
Partner
Accel
Meera Clark
Partner
Redpoint
Gabriel Vasquez
Investment Partner
a16z
Arpan Shah
General Partner
Spark Capital
Andreas Klinger
Investor
Prototype & EU-INC
Robert Gentz
Co-founder & co-CEO
Zalando
Pieter Haeck
Senior Reporter
POLITICO
Julien Bek
Partner
Sequoia Capital
Gabriel Hubert
Co-founder & CEO
Dust
Ritu Narayan
Founder & CEO
Zum Services, Inc
Jacob Wallenberg
VP International
Ramp
S.Y. Lee
Co-founder & CEO
Story
Tommy Ricketts
Co-founder & CEO
BeZero Carbon
Filip Dames
Founding Partner
Cherry VC
Shensi Ding
Co-founder & CEO
Merge
AJ Tennant
Founder & GP
Tenacity Capital; Ex-Glean, Slack & Facebook
Théau Peronnin
Co-founder & CEO
Alice & Bob
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
David Reger
Founder & CEO
Neura Robotics
Philipp Schröder
Co-founder & CEO
1KOMMA5°
Lara Smith Weber
Chief Financial Officer
Inari
Marcus Räder
Founder & CEO
Hostaway
Leah Hodgson
Senior VC reporter
PitchBook News
Barney Hussey-Yeo
Founder & CEO
Cleo
Thomas von der Ohe
Co-founder & CEO
Vay
Rob Moffat
General Partner
Balderton Capital
Emma Burrows
Co-founder & CTO
Portia AI
Antoine Nussenbaum
Partner
Felix Capital
Oana Jinga
Chief Commercial & Product Officer
Dexory
Fabian Gruner
Partner
HV Capital
Moritz Baier-Lentz
Partner and Head of Gaming & Interactive Media
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Alexey Milovidov
Co-founder & CTO
Clickhouse
Courtney Fukuda
Co-founder & Chief Integration Officer
Metropolis
Franz Faerber
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Everest Systems
Tom Wehmeier
Partner & Head of Intelligence
Atomico
Sarah Guemouri
Principal
Atomico
Sanjot Malhi
Partner
Northzone
Francesco Simoneschi
Founder & CEO
TrueLayer
Avery Pennarun
Co-founder & CEO
Tailscale
Paul Müller
Partner
EWOR
Felicia von Reden
Co-founder & CEO
Ovom Care
Alexander Glätzle
Co-founder & CEO
PlanQC
Hakob Astabatsyan
Co-founder & CEO
Synthflow AI
Fanny Jaulin
Co-founder & CEO
Orakl Oncology
Sauraj Gambhir
Co-Founder
Prior Labs
Philip Johnston
Co-founder & CEO
Starcloud
Amir Bohnenkamp
Co-founder & CEO
Heyflow
Insiya Jafferjee
Co-founder & CEO
Shellworks
Ralf Gulde
Co-founder & CEO
Sereact
Valentin Neumann
Co-founder & CEO
Cortea AI
Rebekka Mikkola
Co-founder & CEO
Trismik
Pierre Desjardins
Co-founder & CEO
C12
Florian Hildebrand
Co-founder & CEO
Greenlyte Carbon Technologies GmbH
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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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