Building a Sustainable Nordic Future

The Nordic model is under pressure. The population is aging, birth rates are falling, and key industries are already facing workforce shortages.

We need more than job listings. We need people. Skilled, motivated, globally minded professionals who want to contribute to a society built on equality, trust, and shared responsibility.

At Herizon, we connect international talent with companies shaping the Nordic future — because maintaining the welfare system and the Nordic quality of life requires action, not nostalgia.

We're tackling the root issues:

• A shrinking workforce
• The need for global ambition
• Systems that overlook the potential sitting right here

Many of the people we work with are highly educated immigrants who value the Nordic model and want to help preserve it.

Herizon was founded by Finnish startup builders behind companies like Freska, Supermetrics, Yousician, and Slush. Today, we operate as a nonprofit with one mission: Get international talent hired cost-effectively, efficiently, and at scale.

Herizon started with a question: What if the people Finland needs are already here, just locked out of the system?

While working in early-stage venture capital, Mari Luukkainen built a rapid upskilling program to help B2B startups expand internationally. One of the first participants, a U.S. teacher who had been unemployed in Finland for two years, joined a Finnish edtech startup. She led their U.S. expansion, increased monthly recurring revenue from over €100K to €400K, and helped secure more than €10M in Series A funding.

That result wasn't a one-off. It proved what's possible when international talent is trusted, supported, and given the right opportunities.

What began as a VC side project is now Finland's most cost-effective nonprofit employment model for immigrants. Herizon helps hundreds of people get hired every year and we're building toward 100,000.

Because Finland does not have a talent shortage. It has a hiring problem. We're here to fix it.