Petri Saarinen

Ambassador for EWC/GEN Global for Finland.

Active angel investor and advisor to several global startups. Petri is a serial entrepreneur with a background within family-run engineering companies in Finland, Chile, Dubai, USA and Spain.
His companies have received over a dozen innovation awards/recognitions e.g.; Shell New Energy Challenge, Demo Africa, EnergySpin, Hello-Tomorrow Global, and from the Solar Impulse Foundation organisations. Founder/co-founder; Eduze.za, Teraloop.com, Salto Digital, Gusto Digital, RedPHX, etc.

Currently roles;

Currently, running a private Startup Studio agency Salto Ventures, supporting entrepreneurs to build global tech services, from Sports tech, Esports, Gaming, Entertainment, Payment, DeFi, Crypto, DeFi, Web3, AI/LLM, AI Agent, Large Multimodal Agent Technologies, CyberSecurity, AI CyberSecurity, and other technologies and service industries.

Partner: iLab Ventures LLC. A US-based innovation agency. Supporting global startups enter US markets with advisory, funding, and innovation services.

Associate Partner, Head, Global Strategy: Creww Inc. The biggest innovation agency in Japan with +8.000 startup community. Creww is also the Asian partner for the Real Madrid NEXT Accelerator.

Founding member of EdTech Finland, a non-profit association supporting Finnish EdTech startups.
Co-founder of StartNorth, a youth empowerment platform B-Corp company, and community.

Mentor/Coach with over 16 years of experience at over 50 accelerator programs all over the world. Currently advisor/mentor at +10 accelerators. Petri has been on stage as a Keynote, Panelist, Moderator, or MC in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Russia, Estonia, etc.

Petri has been raising over €25M for his startups. BS, Engineering, Finance, and extended studies from; Helsinki School of Economics, HAMK, SFSU, Alsace University.

Former, Managing Director Europe: MSG Securities Inc.
Former, Partner: Breadfruit Capital Ab.