Timo Felin

Chairman

2024 - Current

Investment Director

2020

Senior Associate

2017 - 2020

Manning (almost) all stations and pulling several strings at Vendep (as usual in a small team of four). Main task of course involves finding great B2B SaaS entrepreneurs in need of fuel (0,5-1Me) for scaling their company internationally.

Board

2019 - 2024

PLG operator (secondment from Vendep Capital)

2022 - 2023

Trustmary set on a product-led growth transformation journey in 2022. I joined in an interim 80% operative role that touched on all the areas from potential customer awareness to upsales to existing customers. 6 months full of experimentation, learnings and implementation with a tremendous team.

Board Observer

2017 - 2021

Venture Advisor & Growth Capital team lead

2015 - 2017

Adding value to foreign (non-Finnish) venture capital funds and corporates through a globally unique service concept of HBH Investor Services. - sourcing and analysing Finnish growth companies, - increasing VCs' visibility in the market, - providing links to LPs and the Finnish growth company ecosystem (local VCs and portfolio holders) Also coaching growth companies in fund raising for late seed + A-round. Results so far: helped companies in raising 62Me in 2016 and 28Me in 2015. Eg. assisted Noona Healthcare in acquiring investors to their 1,5Me funding round and Bonusway to their 6,9Me round.

Partner & Co-founder

2013 - 2015

Accelerating Russian startups through Helsinki. Ran and managed the accelerator program for 3 sets of companies, while negotiating and building deal flow with companies from the former CIS countries.

Business Advisor

2012 - 2013

Bringing Russian strategic investments into the Greater Helsinki region and consulting Russian SMEs in expansion into the EU. - Matchmaking Russian companies (ICT, life sciences and cleantech industries) with Finnish partners for R&D, sales and marketing and business development - Conducting searches for M&A target companies - Assisting in acquiring product certification - Support in locating sites for greenfield investments Developing a pipeline for foreign young innovative companies to establish international operations in the Helsinki region and find business developers from the Finnish talent pool.

Master's Thesis worker

2011 - 2012

Researching and developing the consumer care network.

Project manager/BD Specialist

2009 - 2010

License and payment management software for the mobile environment. Managed international clients and projects and advised the VP of sales in developing business models for the company.