Introducing Crush Stage Host and MC

Maija Ilmoniemi will be the stage host of the Founders Stage. The Founders Stage is sponsored by Ukko.fi. 

Maija Ilmoniemi, a dynamic communications and media professional, serves as a versatile presenter, journalist, author, and coach. 

Maija believes in the transformative power of smiles and laughter, aiming to be a catalyst for improved interactions and meaningful connections between people, addressing concerns about societal loneliness.

With a background in communication studies from the University of Helsinki, Maija has seamlessly integrated perform...

New this year: Crush Eve events

Could Crush be a two-day event? It already will be this year! At least in a small way, and highlighting some special interests. 

Crush Eve is the evening before Crush, and we will actually host two separate events on the evening. Stay tuned for the other announcement, but Crush Eve by Shevestments is a separate investor event with a theme Invest in Her. 

Invest in Her - Investor Meet Up

Introducing Crush Event Speaker

Meri-Tuuli Laaksonen is one of the founders of Gubbe elderly care service.

Gubbe is the most impressive service for the elderly in Finland, offering regular care services for the elderly throughout Finland. Elderly people receive unhurried care from a Gubbe assistant, at home or in assisted living facilities. The help can be, for example, going outside, cooking, doing crafts together. Gubbe already operates in Sweden and the UK, but the rest of Europe and the United States are also on the horizon.

Last year, Gubbe raised a four-million-euro funding, a rare su...

Naistenpäivää vietetään 8.3. ja sen kunniaksi Crush Movementin yhteistyökumppani
UKKO.fi nostaa esille naisyrittäjyyttä sekä nais- ja miesyrittäjien välisiä palkkioeroja.

Lukuisat keskustelut ja kohtaamiset naisyrittäjien kanssa ovat viitoittaneet, että yrittäjyys
tuo kaivattua vapautta ja mahdollistaa työ- ja vapaa-ajan mutkattoman yhdistämisen.
Tämä näkyy myös hiljattain valmistuneen Pienyrittäjyyskyselymme vastauksissa, jossa
naisyrittäjät kertoivat, että mahdollisuus päättää omista aikatauluista ja asiakkaista on ollut
suurin motivaattori yrittäjyyteen. Parhaimmillaan yrittäjyys tuokin joustav...

Introducing Crush Speaker

Krista Pohjanlehto has over a decade of experience working with digital marketing, B2B sales and sales leadership from startups to tech companies and consulting. Currently positioned at Google, Krista plays a pivotal role in assisting global brands from Finland to excel in the competitive global market. Serving as the local Head of Digital Marketing Transformation Program, she is deeply invested in driving excellence in the digital landscape.

Before joining Google, Krista achieved success by launching and scaling an ad tech startup in the Finnish market, demonstrati...

Introducing Crush Speaker

Nordic Beauty Inc., which specializes in introducing premium international brands to the Nordics and Europe, recently launched NOBE™, a new Finnish natural skincare line. Recognized by Fashion Snoops from New York as a top Nordic beauty trend, the focus is on products designed to bring together Nordic innovation and nature to provide the health benefits of Nordic nature to urban people even during the long winter.

"Forest Spa in a Bottle" brings healing microbes to the skin, while cooling care products offer the benefits of a Nordic breeze and Nordic superfoods l...

Introducing Crush Keynote Speaker

We are so excited to announce Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström  as the keynote speaker at Crush 2024.

International bestselling author, keynote speaker, and award-winning travel photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström has photographed and dispatched from 80+ countries for various publications.

Her work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Travel + Leisure, Slate, Travel Channel, Adventure.com Magazine, AFAR, Lonely Planet, and many more. She has collaborated with high profile commercial brands from Mercedes-Benz and Dove to Intrepid Travel and Natio...

Shevestments Spark -the pitching competition where female entrepreneurs meet female capital

Captivate your investors and deliver an engaging pitch that is impossible to ignore and
hard to forget. 
 
Shevestments Spark at Crush is a pitching competition you don’t want to miss! 
 

Female founder, this is your opportunity to attract the attention of investors and demonstrate
why your company is worth investing in. Make a compelling pitch to win over the panel of
investors - and the audience at Crush. 
 
Are you a female investor, or an aspiring future investor?

We invite you to Shevestments Spark to b...

Introducing Crush Speaker

Senia brings a unique blend of digital marketing sales expertise, a deep understanding of behavioural economics, Gen Z insight and an international mindset. She is currently working in Ireland, in the Large Customer Sales department of Google. Holding a Master’s degree with distinction in Behavioural Economics from the University of Bath, Senia’s academic background informs her insights into consumer decision-making processes.

Senia is especially passionate about how to combine her academic knowledge of behavioural economics in a digital ecosystem from a Gen Z persp...

Introducing Crush Speaker

Erica Terranova is a senior Marketing expert, a writer, and the first foreigner ever hired at Moomins. 

After completing her PhD in Cultural Sociology, Erica has found her place in Finland as a marketer, a public speaker, and a LinkedIn content creator. In her free time, she helps international jobseekers, mentors female founders, and writes fiction. 

Introducing Crush Speaker

Hanna Nyholm in an entrepreneur and investor by heritage with extensive experience in startups and company development, a business angel with a passion for empowering women to step up as founders, investors, and leaders; executive and mindset coach on a mission to create impact and lasting change. 

A firm believer in multi-cultural, cross-border, and human interaction, Hanna has lived and worked internationally her entire life, with a dream to see more girls educated, more female founders given the possibility to create solutions, and more women seated at every tabl...