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  <created-at type="datetime">2008-12-14T22:39:44Z</created-at>
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  <description>Petteri Koponen is the founder of two companies which he both steered to a succesful exit with the other co-founders. 

His first company FirstHop was acquired by Airwide Solutions. Koponen's second exit was Jaiku, which was acquired by Google.  

Koponen worked at Google in London, UK. He left his job at Google in October 2009 and joined a Finnish startup accelerator Lifeline Ventures, that is also one of the three original Vigo accelerators. </description>
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  <link-3>Lifeline Ventures </link-3>
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  <name>Petteri Koponen</name>
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  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-12-21T12:13:31Z</updated-at>
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