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Realm Founder Story

SEP10
18:00 · Europe / Helsinki

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Aaltoes Fireside Chats are back!

Realm was founded in 2023 to solve a problem most enterprise sales teams know too well.
When a customer asks for an RFP response, security review or deal-specific material, the answer usually exists somewhere. In Slack. In Google Drive. In old proposals. In someone’s head. But finding it, adapting it and getting it out the door still takes hours or days.
Realm is building AI agents that do this background work for sales teams.
Recently, Realm raised a $4.5M seed round led by Frontline Ventures, with HubSpot Ventures, Slack co-founder Cal Henderson and Deel co-founder Alex Bouaziz participating. The team is now growing fast and expanding toward the US.
We invited Realm’s co-founders Mikko Mäntylä and Johan Jern to share their story and learnings.
Come hear how Realm got started, what they’ve learned from selling AI to enterprise customers and what it takes to build from Helsinki toward the global market.
Ask questions, meet people and enjoy snacks and drinks!

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