Vária W. Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Fi

Helsinki Area, Finland

Founder, of a remote first company that serves professional social media creators internationally. Diversifying revenue streams online and creating business management systems for creative business owners. Helped over 20 professional creators and their business to generate predictable results. • Developed and implemented productisation>M strategies for multiple brands. • Built comprehensive business management systems to facilitate growth for creators, ensuring sustainable business operations.Helping management teams to streamline their operations between multiple stakeholders like various agencies, creators, contractors and influencers themselves. • Created new e-commerce services and products. Oversaw sourcing of strategic partners • Developed and optimized sales systems, leveraging SEO (Google, YouTube, Pinterest) and organic social media to generate leads, allowing creative businesses to predict revenue more accurately. • Improved profit margins by analyzing cost structures and renegotiating partnership agreements on behalf of creators business

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

Participant, Nordic Cohort 6 – Antler VC, Founder Program full-time • Selected for the prestigious Antler VC Founder program, with a 3% acceptance rate out of 1,300 applicants. • Completed a 3-month full-time program focused on startup building and scaling, as part of the Helsinki Cohort. • As a team, won the pitch competition by developing a business idea and an initial prototype in 16 hours. The prototype was an LLM/AI system designed to assist early dementia patients in managing their medication through phone calls, leveraging Whisper—a neural net with near-human level robustness and accuracy in English speech recognition—competing against 12 other teams.

Finland

Gamification in online education prototype in 15 schools and municipalities in Finland. - developed the platform from idea to revenue by using low-code development tools. Connected the system to digital crediting system so end users can gain professional certification and academic ECTS points when participating in education created through the platform. Team of 5 working on concept.

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

• Developed and optimized sales processes for SMEs, resulting in increased lead generation and CRM system efficiency.Focus on marketing, e-commerce and sales • Led grant funding applications and project planning efforts to secure funding for clients

• as a team of three, Assisted in the market entry of the company to the Finnish market, contributing to recruitment, sales proposal creation, and other market entry tasks.• Managed and coordinated the SEO content team that delivered content for large e-commerce businesses.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

sales manager and business development manager pre-product market entry and product -market fit - validation as a team of three. Consumer products, health nutrition brands • Created a resale network of 300 locations for a new brand and its products, partnering with major chains such as P&P and KESKO • Negotiated multiple brand deals to support marketing and sales efforts. • Organized and managed promotional events for two consumer brands, driving brand awareness and engagement.