Kaski2023

AgriVenture Finland proudly presents the Kaski2023 pitching competition! Are you an innovative startup dedicated to the food and agribusiness and sustainable food chain, starving to meet business leaders and angels, investors and like-minded professionals? Then this is your chance to pitch your way to the top! On day 1 you will present a 5-minute pitch to the jury. The 10 best pitches will be selected for the finals on day 2, where you will impress the jury with a shorter, concise 3-minute pitch! The winner of the competition will receive the grand cash prize of 5,000€! If you don’t go, you won’t know!

Announcing the Winner and Honorable Mention Awards

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The first AgriVenture Finland event ever in June 7-8, 2023 brought together more than 260 participants from ten countries.

Kaski2023 Competition Winning Pitch: Soil Scout

Kaski2023 Pitching Competition Winner Interview

KASKI2023 Pitching competition Final

Schedule for Thursday 8th of June 2023

11:15 Welcoming words, Instructions + Quick introduction of the Jury
11:20 3 min pitches + time for couple of questions after each pitch
11:20   Agronnect
11:25   Anicare Oy
11:30   BeeSage SIA
11:35   Carbon Balance Finland
11:40   EOD Europe
11:45   Gaiago
11:50   Manna Insect
11:55   Quanturi
12:00   Soil Scout
12:05   Squee-Natural Resources Institute Finland
12:10 WeedBot
12:15   Questions/Comments
12:20   End of session, Jury convenes to select the winner

Members of the Jury

Annukka Mickelsson

Annukka Mickelsson, President Emerita at Finnish Business Angels Network FiBAN, is an active investor and seasoned CEO and leader with experience in finance, sustainability and lobbying. She has been a member of FiBAN board since 2019. Her fields of expertise are data and analysis. She has also served as an investor advisor for Fashion Finland growth project for textile industry.

Annukka Mickelsson on LinkedIn

Riku Asikainen

Managing Partner
Founder and Managing Partner of Evli Growth Partners
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor
Founder and investor in nearly 50 companies, 10 of which have been successfully sold
EBAN Vice President of the Board, FiBAN Co-Founder, Startup Sauna Accelerator Head Coach, Slush Co-Founder
Being one of the first e-commerce entrepreneurs in Europe, Riku’s entrepreneurial career started already in 1988. Having sold his first company in Finland and second in France, he became one of the first professional angel investors in Finland. In the meantime, Riku has actively participated in building the startup ecosystem of the region through angel networks and Startup Sauna Accelerator.
With 30 years and almost 50 companies of experience, Riku is the go-to guy to help your beautiful company to grow.

Riku Asikainen on LinkedIn

Jussi Muurikainen

Jussi Muurikainen is a startup-veteran and evangelist, a founder, investor and advisor in 20+ Finnish startup companies. He is currently a founder of Liquido.vc. Jussi often describes working as a startup architect: helping the founders to design the company structure & strategies right.
Jussi also represents Almaral, a private equity company that focuses on the development and funding of early-stage biotechnology startups across Europe. Almaral and Liquido have teamed up to create a unique combination of insight and knowledge in startup growth architecture and funding.

liquido.vc almaral.eu

Tuija Kallio

An Innovation Coach at the Rural Network of Finland, providing innovation support services and building linkages for agrifood R&D actors, EIP-AGRI Operational Groups, rural entrepreneurs and developers. Background in applied R&D in agriculture and health & wellbeing.

Tuija Kallio on LinkedIn

Petri Hannukainen

Petri Hannukainen is a Senior Manager of Research and Advanced Engineering for volume tractors at AGCO Corporation. Dr. Hannukainen holds a PhD in Mechanical and Virtual Engineering from the Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology.

Petri Hannukainen on LinkedIn

Johan Grotell

Johan Grotell is a Technology Product Specialist for Valtra EME. Mr. Grotell holds a Master of Science degree in International Marketing from Hanken School of Economics and has previously worked on a large farm in southern Finland. He is responsible for product marketing of Valtra’s precision farming and telemetry systems.

Johan Grotell on LinkedIn

Companies Participating in the Pitching Competition

Carbon Balance Finland Oy: Technological solution for the circular carbon economy
Boxhunt: Boosted food production and transparent data
Squee-Natural Resources Institute Finland: Squee mycoprotein – The second wave alternative protein technology
Vacuum Wood. Tech: Vacuum Wood Tech - The Future of sustainable Urban farming
Manna Insect: Manna Insect is democratizing food production using insects and standalone intelligent mobile solution to enable anyone anywhere in the world upcycle biowaste to value
Anicare Oy: Anicare - Rancher of tomorrow
FarmLEAP: Digitalize relationship with farmers to create value
GAIAGO: Accelerating Soil revitalization thanks to Carbon Credits
WeedBot: Laser weeding technology to replace herbicide use and manual labor
Applied Physics Instruments API Oy: The Best for Earth
Soil Scout Oy: Soil Scout - Underground Weather for Farmers
Optea AB: AR through HUDs in digitalized farming
FFBS-Fashion For Biodiversity Solutions GmbH: Controlling, monitoring & certifying organic agriculture, using spaceTech & AI
OKP4: How Pollen Data Platform values your data?
3E Energy Oy: 3E Opti nutrient recycling
SIA RoBaltic: Precision water-based weeding in automating plant care
Quanturi: Quanturi – Ensuring food security in the Agtech space
EOD Europe: Gain extra kilos by supporting healthy growth
BeeSage SIA: Data-driven Beekeeping for Productivity and Sustainability
fhink.ai: Multiplying agriculture profitability by driving transformation of farmer communities, farm-animal linkages, rural-urban linkages and nutrition awareness
Agronnect: Agronnect-Agricultural consultancy from top experts available online
DataSpace Europe Oy: Farmers' data strategy
Robust Seed Technology A&F AB: Sustainable food production by Seed Vitalization