Valaa

Website http://www.valaa.com

Founded 2016

Employees 16

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Overview

Approximately 20 years ago, Bill Gates declared in his essay that "CONTENT IS KING". Valaa through it's web based platform is creating a completely new category of digital conversation, Valaa will be a social platform that hosts the interactions and connections between developers, content creators and audiences in a sharing economy, acting like a wiki of interactive experiences by harnessing the power of crowd. We call this Social Source.

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Management Team

CEO

Ali Riaz

• Founder of Attivio, built strategy that yielded clients like GE, Goldman, Citi, Fidelity and Cisco. Raised $76M from investors, • Former chief strategy officer and global president of Fast Search & Transfer, organized acquisition by Microsoft for $1.2B.

Founder & CTO

Ville Ilkkala

• 9 years as a game designer and content developer for clients like Novartis Pharma, RMIT and Finnish National Board of Education • At age 19 hired by Nokia Research Center as a concept designer communicating ideas in mixed reality and mobile technologies.

Co-founder & CBDO

Davey Bakhshi

• 25+ years experience in derivatives and capital markets from London Traded Options Market (London), First National Bank of Chicago (London & Hong Kong) and Banca della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) • Former Board Member at Fotolec Technologies (UK) & The American Sail Training Association ASTA (Newport, R.I., USA)

CFO

Youn Lee

• 18+ years of experience in the content creation industry from feature film, television and education to gaming • 10 years launching and growing an independent cable network RLTV with over 25 million subscribers in the U.S..

Chairman & CoFounder

Kari Ilkkala

• 34 years in software business, 24 years of them international • Held Pan-European product management responsibilities for Infor Global Systems • Serial entrepreneur

Chief Architect & Co-founder

Iridian Kiiskinen

• Previously worked as a software engineer at Google in Germany • Over 20 years of software development experience • Experience from a startup, indie game development and research projects in ubiquitous computing and genomic search problems

Non Executive Director

Peter Vesterbacka

Founder of Lightneer Ltd, ambassador of Space Nation and the former CMO of Rovio Entertainment Ltd and the brand builder of the famous video game and movie - ANGRY BIRDS.