Mashup 2026
Build your network and access to Europe’s top founders and funders
Always by invitation
10x your network in the Nordics of Founders from Stealth - Series A & Investors VCs, CVC, Angels & Family offices
Website: https://www.mashup.day/
The calendar of all side events - Mashup Calendar
It’s an invite-only capped at 500 people, with a vetted group and a small, curated crowd, so you’ll meet great, relevant founders and investors a couple of times per year at dinners, side events at big tech events, or just at a karaoke club.
What to expect at the Mashup Main event
Day 1 - 15th of April
09:30 - 15:00 Robotics & Physical AI
15:00 - 20:30 Founders Day to bond with 250+ like-minded VC-backed and soon-to-be VC-backed founders are attending. Dinner, drinks, and talks among founders only.
15:00 - 18:00 Roundtables, network, mingle, side events
18:00 - 20:00 Founders Dinner
20:30 - Late Mix & mingle
15:30 - 21:00 Investor Meetup - meet 250+ peers over boule pétanque, food, drinks, and discussions to deepen your Nordic network.
15:30 - 18:00 Boule, mingle, networking
18:00 - 21:00 Investor dinner
18:00 - 20:30 GP Dinner
20:30 - Late Mix & mingle
Day 2 - 16th of April
Founders and investors Mashup. We share detailed info about all attending startups and investors joining ahead of the event so you can source the most relevant deals. We spend the day building relationships, meetings, and end the day with dinner and Karaoke.
07:30 - 09:00 Sauna and cold plunge
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome
09:35 - 10:00 Startup pitches
10:00 - 10:30 Founder panel - Hedda Båverud Olsson Founder of Lassie & Kim Villum Klausen Founder of Lunar
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:25 Startup pitches
11:25 - 11:50 Founder panel - Jan Erik Solem Founder Staer & Siddharth Khullar Founder Aris Machina
11:50 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 16:00 Roundtables
16:15 - 16:20 Closing words
16:00 - 18:00 Afterwork drinks
18:00 - Late Mashup Housewarming & After Party
PS. We have 150 hotel rooms at Clarion Malmö live with discounted prices for our guests. You receive an email after check-out with a link to book the hotel.
Confirmed Roundtables
Day 1 - Robotics & Physical AI
The $5T Bet: The Real State of Humanoids, Hype or Paradigm Shift - Mehrdad Farhmini, Merphi
Ocean & Subsea Robotics: The Most De-Risked Physical AI Market Nobody Is Talking About - Taiga Ueta & Jose Havier Poe, Nordic Ninja & Planet Ocean Capital
Physical Prototyping for Social Impact - David Cuartielles, Arduino
Sim-to-Real Transfer & Data capture: The Last Mile Problem - Petri Rajmahle, FOV Ventures
The Dual-Use growth story between Commercial vs. Military - Maria Wasastjerna, Kvanted
The Last Hard Problem in Physical AI. VLA Models: Are We There Yet? - Volker Kreuger, Lund University
Who Owns the Brain? How Foundation Models Are Quietly Kingmaking in Robotics - Fabian Kerj, Qualia
Spatial Intelligence and Robots for Automating Warehouses - Carl Sibersky
Last-Mile Delivery & Logistics Robotics - Marianne Wangen-Eriksen, Sandwater
Day 2 - Mashup Day
Pure Software Plays in Physical AI: Will the brains or the bodies win the race to full autonomy? - Chloe Fu, Sandwater
Should founders cash out? Secondaries in venture deals - incentive or a red flag? - Carolina Thoft, R&D Law
Why do Europe's best founders still choose American capital? - Heidi Lindvall, Pale Blue Dot
Why some of the most technically ambitious applications of AI are being systematically underfunded - Anne-Marie, Unconventional Ventures
How to win enterprise deals with security as a moat? - Jacob Henricson, Nordsnipe
The Big Reframing: A Narrative Reset in ClimateTech - Moritz Kotter, Extantia
Bridging Startups and Corporates: How to Build Successful Partnerships - Matilda Borg, HM
Are non-AI-native startups already dead? - Ilya Malkin, Sort A Brick
The Founder Mindset for Building Ambitious Companies - Kasper Juul, Kin AI
The Nordic Right to Win: What’s Our Unfair Advantage? - Sherington, Atomico
Too Early, Too Hard, Too Weird - Let's Ditch the Labels and Build a New Playbook - Mala Valroy, Thursday Ventures