​Official ODDfest 2026 Side Event

​Creative Capital Gathering is a curated side event of ODDfest 2026, organised in partnership with FiBAN. Additional partners will be announced soon.

​The event brings together people working across the creative industries and the capital landscape to explore one key question:

​What does it really mean to invest in the creative industries?

​In Finland, creative work is funded in many ways—through grants, foundations, angel capital, impact funds, venture investment, and public support. At the same time, interest in creative IP, experience-driven businesses, and cultural ventures is growing. But the logic of creative work does not always fit neatly into traditional investment frameworks.

​Creative Capital Gathering is an invitation to explore this space together.

​Why this gathering?

​The event brings together invited participants from across the creative and capital ecosystem: investors, foundations, funds, public sector actors, FiBAN angels, and creative industry leaders.

​The aim is not to create a pitching stage or a deal room. Instead, the gathering offers a thoughtful setting for different perspectives to meet—and for capital and creativity to better understand each other.

​Together, we will explore questions such as:

• ​What is investable in the creative industries?

• ​What does investment readiness look like in creative fields?

• ​How can creative ventures and capital better understand one another?

• ​What kind of investment culture could support the next generation of creative companies in Finland?

​Programme

​The detailed programme will be announced soon.

​About ODDfest & FiBAN

​ODDfest aims to strengthen the creative economy by building platforms, programmes, and spaces for cross-sector collaboration.

​Through its Creative Angels initiative, FiBAN works to build understanding, deal flow, and investor readiness around the creative economy—helping connect creative ventures with angel investors.

​Creative Capital Gathering adds one essential layer to this work: a space where capital and creativity can begin building mutual literacy, trust, and new ways of thinking together.

​The intention is for Creative Capital Gathering to become a recurring annual moment during ODDfest’s Creative Week—a place where investors and creative leaders explore the evolving relationship between culture and capital, without predefined conclusions.

​For partnership enquiries, contact [email protected]