Boost Turku is happy to announce Anssi Kiviranta and Matias Mäenpää as the new head coaches of our Startup Journey accelerator. As head coaches Kiviranta and Mäenpää will be highly involved with the coaching of the teams starting in our new 2018 batch.

Anssi Kiviranta

Anssi has been founding several successful journeys since 2000. He came up with an idea of a new kind of online tv-guide Telkku.com and lead the company from a zero to 1 million user online service. Telkku.com was acquired by Alma Media Oyj in 2008. Currently Anssi is involved in Bo LKV, a disruptive real estate company and a lifestyle brand he co-founded in 2015. In just a few years Bo LKV has grown from zero to an estimated 14 000 000€ (2018) in revenue with over 100 professionals.

Matias Mäenpää

Matias is a strongly business focused professional, who has built a B2B service company from 800 000€ to 17 000 000€ in revenue. Until 2017, Matias was one of the owners before it was acquired by Visma. He is continuing as Managing Director at the company and seeking strong growth with more than 130 professionals in the organization. In addition, his experience in start-ups has been as an advisor and an investor in SaaS businesses.

Together Anssi and Matias have founded Leap. Leap brings a network of connections, experience, operational assistance and mentoring to promising entrepreneurs with innovational and game-changing ideas.

Startup Journey is a 10 week accelerator program and the program will start on 7.6.2018 at Sparkup with an open community BBQ. Startup Journey finals will take place at our Demo Day on 16.8 at Sigyn Sali.

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