Crazy Town EriCa afterwork & terrace opening brought together 50+ people over the course of the afternoon and early evening last Friday.
The agenda was simple: Bring people together and build social capital - because all good things start with a discussion
Some highlights from the evening (and apologies in advance for everyone we forgot to or couldn't mention due to LinkedIn limitations).
Crazy Town EriCa members, friends, and participants from the EriCa Reactor program - all focused on building research-based solutions for sustainability - including
* Puro Analytics team — who have just started implementing analysis at the shared labs and have a solution for biodiversity tracking and reporting
* Juho from NPHarvest - whose technology recovers nutrients from wastewater
* Minna from CAAMA, an Oulu University spinoff, - who offer a cheaper, more efficient, sustainable and environmentally friendly solution for cleaning mine wastewater
* James from Wellmatix, all the way from South Korea — who have developed AI-driven SaaS platform for scientific discovery
At the same time, long-time Crazy Town member Peter Vesterbacka was running a parallel event where entrepreneurs were vibe-coding new apps together, including:
* Siru from Kaarto Innovations Oy — who digitalize equestrian wellbeing and maintenance (also a familiar face from our Hämeenlinna activities with Linnan Kehitys Oy / Linna Business Development Ltd.)
* Zachary - who was previously a challenge owner in one of the Crazy Town hackathons we organized for Helsinki
* Teemu from Audiodraft, who do audio branding for brands
Providing them the backbone was Juhani from Ikon AI. Check them out, it's great we have a Finnish alternative to Lovable.
We also had ecosystem friends and collaborators joining throughout the evening, including (but not limited to): Pontus, Lars, Kari, Dr. Henrik, Mayumi, Pekka, Jussi, Sini, Maggie and many others. Lots of community and deep tech driven initiatives taking place or in the works. This is where Finland's future lies.
And of course, our partners and neighbors at Kemira.
Plus there were many people we’ve recently been discussing future collaboration, community activities, and joining the Crazy Town / EriCa ecosystem with. There’s great stuff cooking, from spin-offs emerging out of University of Helsinki, Aalto University and Oulu University, all the way to ideas being built in garages and side projects.
Thank you all for making the evening happen. ❤️
We'll let you know when the next one is :)