Startup Commons

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    • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Our Customers
    • Services And Pricing
    • Our Business Model
    • Our Digital Solutions
    • Our History
    • Contact Us
    • Partner With Us
    • Request For Speakers
    • Job Opportunities
    • International Internships
  • Business Creators
    • About Business Creators
    • Creating Businesses
    • What Is A Startup
    • Startup Development Phases
    • Growth Academy Elearning Platform
    • Founders Shareholders' Agreement and Team Building Online Training
  • Support Providers
    • About Support Providers
    • Learn About Startup Ecosystem
    • Startup Development Phases
    • Providing Support Functions
    • Innovation Entrepreneurship Education
    • Innovation Entrepreneurship Curriculum
    • Growth Academy eLearning Platform
    • Certified Trainers
    • Become Growth Academy Provider In Your Ecosystem
    • Growth Academy Training On-Site By Startup Commons
  • Ecosystem Development
    • About Ecosystem Developers
    • What Is Startup Ecosystem
    • Ecosystem Development
    • Ecosystem Development Academy eLearning Platform
    • Subscribe to Support Membership
    • Ecosystem Operators
    • Development Funding
    • For Development Financiers
    • Startup Ecosystem Maturity
    • Case Studies
    • Submit Marketplace App Challenge
    • Become Ecosystem Operator
  • Digital Transformation
    • Digital Transformation
    • Ecosystem Operators
    • Apply To Become Ecosystem Operator
    • Applications Partnership
    • Ecosystem OS
    • Circle Pass User Accounts
    • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
    • Digital Ecosystem Applications
    • App Developers
  • Contact Us
  • Startup Commons
    • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Our Customers
    • Services And Pricing
    • Our Business Model
    • Our Digital Solutions
    • Our History
    • Contact Us
    • Partner With Us
    • Request For Speakers
    • Job Opportunities
    • International Internships
  • Business Creators
    • About Business Creators
    • Creating Businesses
    • What Is A Startup
    • Startup Development Phases
    • Growth Academy Elearning Platform
    • Founders Shareholders' Agreement and Team Building Online Training
  • Support Providers
    • About Support Providers
    • Learn About Startup Ecosystem
    • Startup Development Phases
    • Providing Support Functions
    • Innovation Entrepreneurship Education
    • Innovation Entrepreneurship Curriculum
    • Growth Academy eLearning Platform
    • Certified Trainers
    • Become Growth Academy Provider In Your Ecosystem
    • Growth Academy Training On-Site By Startup Commons
  • Ecosystem Development
    • About Ecosystem Developers
    • What Is Startup Ecosystem
    • Ecosystem Development
    • Ecosystem Development Academy eLearning Platform
    • Subscribe to Support Membership
    • Ecosystem Operators
    • Development Funding
    • For Development Financiers
    • Startup Ecosystem Maturity
    • Case Studies
    • Submit Marketplace App Challenge
    • Become Ecosystem Operator
  • Digital Transformation
    • Digital Transformation
    • Ecosystem Operators
    • Apply To Become Ecosystem Operator
    • Applications Partnership
    • Ecosystem OS
    • Circle Pass User Accounts
    • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
    • Digital Ecosystem Applications
    • App Developers
  • Contact Us
Mission
​Scale entrepreneurship and innovation by empowering ecosystem development with global knowledge and tools for data-driven development.

Meet Our Global Team

In addition to our past eight years of startup ecosystem research and development, our collective expertise is based on over two decades of real serial entrepreneurship experience, combined with experience in working in and with public sector organizations for startup advisory and support service development.
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Óscar Ramírez
Co-founder & CEO

Oscar is an international professional that has combined 8 years of personal entrepreneurship experience, combined with +10 additional experience on developing and coordinating startup supporting services from event management to training, mentoring and consulting perspective to more than 500 organizations (SMEs and startups). This holistic view and experience makes him grow every single day as international expert of startups ecosystems and build innovative ways to connect them with new digital finance ecosystem.
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Valto Loikkanen
Senior Advisor 

Valto is a serial entrepreneur who has started several companies across Europe and the US in the web and mobile fields and have more than 20 years global entrepreneurship experience combined with entrepreneurship and startup advisory work via Government and non-profit NGO for 10 years. Valto is a visionary strategist with deep knowledge about innovation, entrepreneurship, investing and digital world interacting with real world. He advises public policy makers on economic development in various countries globally. Experienced in success and failures, Valto has a good sense for predicting where the markets are going. As an inspiring speaker, Valto shares his knowledge about digital finance, entrepreneurship, startups and innovation and help break the myths around these topics.
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Senior Advisor 

Jouko is an investor and entrepreneur across the US, Europe and Asia and is active at a senior level with many web and mobile enterprises. With more than 15 years experience in international business management and having been close to many VC deals in the past, ranging from 150k USD to 15M USD, Jouko is passionate about the challenges in finding and supporting the next great ventures. Jouko believes that digitalization significantly change all business, and alternative finance is currently facing digital transformation. Starting his first software company at the age of 16, Jouko then held progressively senior positions at diverse technology firms including Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young, Powerwave Technologies Inc., Nokia, and Sonera. Jouko regularly speaks at conferences including SXSW, Mobile World Congress, CTIA, and Informa, IIR and others’ conferences around Europe, Asia, and the US. He is also a co-author of the Social Media Marketing book (Futuretext, London, Feb 2009).
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Oscar Di Pasquale
Business Development

Oscar is passionate to work with dynamic situations that allow personal growth in strategic marketing and business development. In addition to the world of marketing and startups. Oscars curiosity extends to various interests such as psychology, sport and travel. His experience of study, work and travel have allowed to expand and consolidate soft skills such as problem solving, teamwork along with English and Spanish languages.

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Inna Podlesnaya
Project Coordinator

Strong Finance Professional, specialising in business development , forecasting and analysis across the Digital Finance, Venture Capital and Startup Ecosystems.
CPA qualified, I focus on delivering insightful information to aid management decision making.
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​Creators

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​Developers

What is Startup Ecosystem?
​From Innovation Ecosystems to Startup Ecosystems
Startup Ecosystem Development
Startup Ecosystem Maturity
Ecosystem Developers 
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Development Funding 

Ecosystem Operators

About Ecosystem Operators
Funding Sources
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