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Timo Ahopelto, founding partner at Lifeline Ventures, talks to Marek Pawlowski about start-up UX culture and developments in mobile, health and gaming.  Lifeline Ventures raised a EUR 57m fund in February 2016 to invest specifically in these areas.

On this edition

• Marek Pawlowski, co-host & founder of MEX (@marekpawlowski)
• Timo Ahopelto, founding partner, Lifeline Ventures (@timomj)
• Co-host Alex Guest returns in the next edition (@alexguest)

Interview: Timo Ahopelto, founding partner, Lifeline Ventures

Timo Ahopelto’s investment portfolio at Lifeline Ventures focuses on mobile, health and gaming.  Notable successes includes Moves, a personal activity tracker with a highly praised UI which was sold to Facebook, and Supercell, the Finnish gaming company.  Timo himself built and sold CRF Health, a medical technology company.  His strong personal interest in design has become a key part of his investment philosophy and the interview discusses the importance of embedding user-centred design approaches in start-up culture from the outset.

• Lifeline Ventures
• @timomj
• Techcrunch on Lifeline’s new EUR 57m fund
• Moves
• Supercell

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