Jesse Heikkila
General Partner at Failup Ventures
Jesse Heikkila
General Partner at Failup Ventures
Helsinki, Uusimaa
Overview
Work Experience
MD, General Partner
2022 - Current
Failup Ventures invests in US and Nordics based pre-seed and seed stage startups.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2022
Coventures builds meaningful digital ventures together with corporations. We have a network of serial-entrepreneurs, innovators, product managers, and entrepreneur-minded technology experts. Together we can create new strategic ventures from scratch validating the idea potential as quickly as possible.
VP of Product / B2B
2019 - 2022
Playtomic is Europe’s leading app and reaching worldwide for racket players and the largest sports booking app and SaaS for sport venues. Through the app, players can search and book courts for padel and tennis, meet new players, find rivals, join groups with other players, improve their level or book lessons. Playtomic is in more than 49 countries, with over 4.800 partner clubs, 21.000 courts and 3.1 million players reaching out to a community with a great passion for racket sports.
Founder & CTO (Acquired)
2016 - 2019
Playven is a SaaS sports facility management and scheduling solution that helps facilities make more money. Our mission is to help people play more sports.
Founder
2015 - 2016
Amper was a mobile application that provided an easy and fun way to find new friends to do sports with and to organize game times with friends. After working on the company for 8 months, we realized a bigger problem in the sports market and started working on Playven.