​Operators & Friends x Inception Fund are gathering builders and founders for an evening with Karri Saarinen from Linear on August 12th.

​Karri Saarinen, Jori Lallo & Tuomas Artman founded Linear in 2019 - focusing on quality as a winning strategy rather than relying on traditional “best practices”.

​Today, Linear has evolved into a category defining company, used and loved by 10,000s of builders.

​We'll dive into community-curated discussion on what it takes to build category winning companies - from Europe to the US and beyond.

​This evening is made possible by our friends at Lifeline Ventures.

​​​Agenda

• ​​​​​​​​​18:00 – doors open​

• ​​​​​​​​​18:30 – fireside chat with Karri Saarinen / Linear

• ​​​​​​​​​​19:00-20:30 – food, drinks, and vibes

• ​​​​​​​​​​​21:30 – goodbyes, doors close

​​​Location upon approved application.

​​💙 Juhana, Oliver + Lifeline team

​​About Operators & Friends

​Operators & Friends accelerates the next generation of builders emerging from the Operator Layer with access to talent, distribution, and funding.

​We've gathered +4,000 company builders and backed 14 teams alongside a16z, Google Ventures and Lightspeed and many more - our portfolio.

​This new wave of founders are rewriting the rules of building and scaling companies. We're fortunate to partner with those shaping the European tech ecosystem like Tandem Health, Legora, Framer, Hugging Face and Lovable - our manifesto.

​About Inception Fund

​Backed by the top 1%. Investing in the top 1%.

​We invest globally €100k - €500k at inception and pre-seed stages in the top 1% of technical founders with a New Nordic connection, no matter age.

We are well networked across Europe and the US, powered by a unique combination of deep global AI networks and strategic technology and research partnerships. We move fast. We keep it simple. Serving outlier founders to go from zero to one. No BS.

​About Lifeline Ventures

​Lifeline Ventures is a Helsinki-based early-stage VC. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, we work with early-stage companies in funding, sales, technology, strategy, and operations.

​Lifeline Ventures invests in future category-leading companies with strong founders. To date, we have invested in over 100 companies.

​Our investment ticket size ranges from 100 kEUR to 2 mEUR and we participate in angel, seed and series A rounds.