Joni Lehto
Business Advisor, NewCo Helsinki, City of Helsinki
Joni has advised hundreds of startups, investors, corporations and others working professionally with innovations. In his day job he focuses on helping startups find investors, clients and other partners in the smart & clean sector, especially in the Nordics and Baltics. His free-time activities include creating and managing Ecosystem.fi, an open list of over 100 investors, accelerators and startup-friendly corporations with easy shortlisting functionality, as well as Startup Helsinki Slack, an open network of 1 000 people interested in startups and the main Helsinki area.
Before becoming a professional startup advisor and connector he built digital platform startups, studied startup ecosystem development and international business, and worked in 30 positions from door to door sales to key account management (1M/year) and gardening to teaching. He has also been an entrepreneur for nearly 20 years, employing at most 30 people at a time in fields as varying as his day job history.