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AVANTO - Conversations on Finland's Global Ambition

Podcast von Geoffroy Van Humbeeck

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Finland has world-class engineers, trusted institutions, and a growing startup ecosystem. And yet it still struggles to build companies that shape the world on its own terms. AVANTO asks why — and what it would take to change that. Through long-form conversations with founders, investors, policymakers and international observers, it builds a structured, honest account of what Finland's ecosystem actually looks like from the inside.

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Episode Ari Tulla - On Scale, Focus and Finland’s AI Bet Cover

Ari Tulla - On Scale, Focus and Finland’s AI Bet

In this sixth episode of AVANTO, Ari Tulla speaks from San Francisco. Ari is Co-founder and CEO of Elo Health, formerly at Nokia in Silicon Valley, founder of BetterDoctor, early investor in Oura, Verda, Donut Lab, and Verge, and LP in Lifeline Ventures and ByFounders. He brings a perspective no previous guest in the series could: he left Finland, built in Silicon Valley, and invested back into the Nordic ecosystem. The conversation starts inside Nokia. For Ari, Nokia was not beaten by lack of intelligence. It had extraordinary engineers, deep talent, and global reach. What it lacked was focus. “If you don’t focus, you will never win.” From there, the episode moves to Silicon Valley, BetterDoctor, Oura, Finnish growth capital, scale-up leadership, visibility, Donut Lab, Linear, Singapore, the Finnish Long Drink, and Ari’s boldest idea: making every Finnish citizen native with AI. His diagnosis is direct, sometimes uncomfortable, but ultimately optimistic. Finland’s problem is not that nothing works. Much of the ecosystem now works far better than Finns often admit. Capital exists at the beginning. International capital can be reached later. The country has talent, examples, institutions, and technical credibility. The problem is what comes next. Finland must build more people capable of scaling companies globally. It must become more visible. It must focus. And it must make bold national choices before other countries do. Episode 6 — Ari Tulla On Scale, Focus and Finland’s AI Bet

7. Mai 2026 - 1 h 0 min
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Mikko Suonenlahti - On Capital, Governance and the Scaling Problem

In Episode 1, Pauli Heikkilä argued that Finland’s difficulty building globally dominant companies may be largely cultural. In this second conversation, venture capitalist Mikko Suonenlahti offers a different perspective. After five decades inside companies, venture funds and boardrooms, his diagnosis is more structural. Finland produces excellent engineers. Early-stage capital exists. But the system starts to break when companies try to scale. “When companies need a €10–20–50 million round, that capital is not available in Finland.” We discuss what happens at that moment, how capital shapes strategy, how companies evolve when international investors enter, and why some ecosystems scale more aggressively than others. The conversation moves from venture capital to boardroom dynamics, from M-Files to Estonia’s ecosystem, and even back to the 17th century, to understand how capital accumulation shaped Nordic economies.

17. März 2026 - 35 min
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