Keynote speaker
I deliver keynote speeches for startups and events, sharing over 20 years of hands-on experience in early-stage growth, startups, venture capital and entrepreneurship.
My talks combine real-life stories, practical strategies, and actionable insights to engage and inspire audiences, whether they’re entrepreneurs, investors, or business leaders.
With a dynamic speaking style - including live whiteboarding to keep things interactive - I focus on making complex ideas accessible and motivating. Topics include entrepreneurship, startup funding, growth hacking, and SEO.
Book today to bring fresh perspectives and actionable advice to your next event!
I've held keynotes for over 1000+ different startups and scaleups mainly from Nordics and Baltics, bigger companies, startup accelerators, and other organizations such as Kiuas, TechChill, Nordic ScaleUp Academy, Boardman Grow, Fiban, and Founder Institute.
What people have said
Mari was very precise and to the point with her advice, concerning our current situation and how to go forward. We thoroughly enjoyed the session and loved her approach to growth hacking.
Her deep dive session provided concrete solutions to the questions asked throughout the session. It was a good presentation overall when it came to her format; clear presentation; important and useful topic. We will probably adopt heavily from this in our sales/marketing approach. Happy that she gave the space for comments and questions.
Mari’s session was very concise and practical. The advice came from years of hands-on experience. Plenty of insight on metrics and what to look out and I liked Mari's passion for growth hacking.
Popular topics
- Scaling a cleaning company from 700K€ to 13M€ in 2 years
- Sustainability trends in investing and building a startup
- Improving diversity
- Career story (from a small town to a global VC firm)
- Building a brand with profitable growth marketing
- How to get funded for Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A stage startups
- Acquiring your first clients as a Pre-Seed startup
- Building a cross-functional growth team
- Getting started with your cross-functional growth team
- Growth hacking: why and how?
- Growth hacking for B2B companies
- Growth hacking for B2C companies