Teemu Mattila at Lifeline Ventures explicitly uses performance psychology and learning science frameworks from Carol Dweck, Angela Duckworth, and Josh Waitzkin to evaluate founders' mindset and resilience, making him unusually structured in applying these academic concepts to venture decision-making compared to most VCs. He publicly discusses using AI stress-tests and deal autopsies as part of his investment process design, representing a more analytical and introspective approach to capital protection and learning from outcomes than most venture investors articulate.
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Deeptech / Hardware, Health, SaaS, Gaming / VR, Climate
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Lifeline Ventures is led by serial entrepreneurs who built and exited major tech companies before becoming investors, and runs one of Europe's largest early-stage-only funds at €400m designed to back founders from day zero through to global scale rather than handing them off at later rounds. The fund has backed every major Finnish unicorn including Supercell, Wolt, and Oura at true pre-seed stage, and operates formal Entrepreneur in Residence and Next-Gen Investor programs inside the firm to lower entry barriers for young talent into both entrepreneurship and venture capital.
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