Breakfast event at Slush: How to fund the next big brand

Finnish Textile & Fashion and Paloceras invite you to a breakfast event during Slush week, exploring how strong brands and creative excellence can attract venture funding and drive growth.
  • Ajankohta: 19.11.2026 08:30-10:00
  • Ilmoittautuminen päättyy: 12.11.2026 12:00
Ilmoittaudu
  • Paikka: Paloceras Helsinki HQ
  • Maa: Suomi

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BREAKFAST EVENT DURING SLUSH WEEK  |  19 NOVEMBER 2026  |  8:30-10:00  |  PALOCERAS HELSINKI HQ

Over a delicious breakfast, you will hear perspectives from international investors and connect with innovative brands and creative talent shaping the next chapter of fashion and consumer brands.

The event takes place at Paloceras’ impressive headquarters in central Helsinki, located in Punavuori’s former candy factory, built in 1898. Paloceras creates rare eyewear shaped by myth, precision and the pursuit of the extraordinary.

Founded in 2022 by award-winning designers Mika Matikainen and Alexis Perron-Corriveau, with early backing from Lifeline Ventures and leading angel investors, Paloceras has been featured by Financial Times and Monocle. Its eyewear has also been embraced by global tastemakers including singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy, actor and singer Cynthia Erivo, and former footballer Djibril Cissé.

Preliminary programme:
8.30 Breakfast & networking
9.00-9.20 In Discussion: Mika Matikainen, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Paloceras & Madeleine J Palmberg, Partner and Investor at Bust (Sweden), moderated by Stella Korpikuusi
10.00 event ends

Due to limited capacity, pre-registration is required by 12:00 on Thursday, 12 November. Please contact Maria Pirkkalainen-Barber (maria.pirkkalainen-barber@stjm.fi) for any questions.

Speaker bios:

Mika Matikainen is an award-winning designer, technologist and 4x founder who helped lay the foundations for one of the largest exits in Nordic tech. After years building digital products, he co-founded Paloceras to bring the same thinking to physical objects, earning coverage from the Financial Times, Monocle, Vogue, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. He holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship from ECAL and a Global EMBA from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership. He also invests in early-stage companies both directly and through venture funds backing one of Europe’s fastest-growing unicorns. An outspoken advocate of brand-led growth, he champions a dedicated design fund to help Finland build its own nine-figure brands, as Ganni and Toteme have done next door.

Madeleine J Palmberg is a partner at Bust, a Stockholm-based evergreen investor backing Nordic founders who build consumer tech companies around joy, meaning and everyday happiness. Bust invests up to €1m at pre-seed and seed, combining long-term capital with support in brand building and commercial strategy – with emotional connection at the heart of value creation. Her career spans leadership roles at Storytel, consulting at Bain & Company and expansion strategy at H&M, giving her a rounded view of strategy, international growth and commercial scale. She brings both an investor’s and an operator’s perspective to backing bold founders and helping build the next generation of iconic consumer brands.

 
Stella Korpikuusi is a Founder’s Associate at Paloceras, with a broad background spanning startups, venture capital and marketing. Her experience includes working at early-stage VC Antler, leading global satellite events and marketing initiatives at Slush, and building the brand of startup Mjuk, alongside experience at a digital marketing agency. This background gives her a perspective across both the investor and brand-building sides of the startup ecosystem

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