2008-12-12T09:38:48Z false Valto Loikkanen is a serial entrepreneur who has started several companies across Europe and the US in the web and mobile fields. At the age 24, Valto started and grew his first company VTG Worldwide, selling custom mobile phone covers, from the ground up into an international business turning over 14 million EUR. Forward thinking and always seeking the next big web and mobile success, as a serial entrepreneur and startup advisor, Valto got fed up with the lack of transparency and openness in the startup funding process. Web 2.0 companies often need only small amounts of money to grow, due to the cost-effective nature of their business models, and the investment market hasn’t historically been suited to raising small amounts of capital. Valto saw that with Web 2.0 taking hold, lack of transparency no longer works in helping the Internet’s shining stars find their grounding. Wanting to battle these challenges, Valto founded Grow VC to apply the principles of web 2.0 to the area that has historically been shrouded in mystery – VC funding. He aims to bring a better, fairer environment for technology startups seeking funding. 72 40 false Grow VC http://www.growvc.com LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/valtoloikkanen Personal blog http://valtoloikkanen.com/blog/ twitter http://twitter.com/valto Valto Loikkanen 5 image/png valto.png 62526 2009-07-02T09:51:38Z valto-loikkanen 2009-07-02T06:57:41Z 7