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Researcher-turned-founder building Olo, sound-based nervous system regulation tech
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Operator · 57th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Olo, a sound-based nervous system regulation technology company.
- Past co-founder of Nature Solutions, a design services company founded in 2017.
- Olo has co-founders — Markus Pesonen co-founded Olo with psychosomatic therapist Catarina Brazão.
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of Olo, a sound-based nervous system regulation technology company.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Olo has co-founders — Markus Pesonen co-founded Olo with psychosomatic therapist Catarina Brazão.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past co-founder of Nature Solutions, a design services company founded in 2017.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Wikidata-equivalent notability signal: Markus Pesonen is identified as a researcher with h-index 12 and 458 citations across 19 works (OpenAlex).
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal pre-seed moment where scientific credibility is your sharpest edge, so the most valuable Festival events connect you with investors and founders who respect peer-reviewed evidence as a moat, not a footnote. Warm intros to Finnish-focused funds like Lifeline and Icebreaker and candid conversations with health-tech founders who've navigated the Calm/Headspace shadow will accelerate your positioning and fundraising simultaneously. B2B wellness channel tactics and a community-lead hiring pipeline round out the near-term moves that can generate revenue and traction before your seed round closes.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA seed-stage dinner for founders with peer-reviewed clinical validation behind their product — where Olo's Psychophysiology HRV study becomes a conversation starter rather than a footnote, and health-focused angels and pre-seed funds compare notes on science-as-moat positioning
- introsA Kiuas accelerator alumni happy hour in SF with warm-intro facilitation to Lifeline Ventures and Icebreaker.vc partners, designed specifically for Finnish founders raising their first institutional round outside of Helsinki
- positioningA positioning roundtable for wellness and mental-health founders competing in the shadow of Calm and Headspace, workshopping how to lead with somatic and nervous-system-regulation angles that the incumbents have explicitly ignored
- positioningA dinner with YC health-track alumni (W20/S21/W22 batches) who built science-backed consumer wellness products through the application process, offering candid prep for founders considering applying with clinical co-founders and peer-reviewed differentiation
- tacticalA tactical lunch for founders selling into clinic, retreat, and enterprise wellness procurement channels — comparing buyer personas, contract structures, and close timelines for the Olo Audio B2B path against similar audio and biofeedback wellness tools
- hiringA hiring happy hour to meet growth and community candidates who have systematized word-of-mouth referral loops at early-stage consumer wellness or mental-health startups, specifically for 4-person teams ready to make their first non-technical hire
- wellbeingAn intimate wellbeing circle for founders building in the mental health and wellness space who use their own product daily — sharing honest reflections on founder burnout, product authenticity, and what it means to be a genuine user of the thing you're selling