Siim Lepisk

Siim Lepisk is a venture builder and innovation advisor based in Tallinn, Estonia. Founder of Solano Advisory, helping company owners, investors and leadership teams uncover, validate and build scalable digital businesses.

Focus: new business opportunities from assets companies already have, including customers, data, workflows, industry expertise, technology and relationships. Increasingly, this means using AI not just to improve existing operations, but to enable entirely new products, services and business models.

Track record:

• 20+ years across software development, digital sales & marketing, corporate innovation, entrepreneurship, venture building and angel investing
• Experience across operator, board and investor roles, including venture investment, spin-off governance and scaling new businesses
• Built innovation and growth accelerators at SEB Bank and Telia
• Built corporate venture-building capabilities and teams, including scaling Net Group’s innovation unit from 0 to 20+ people
• Worked hands-on with 100+ companies and startups on growth, validation, commercialization and venture building
• Co-created venture and spin-off programmes that produced 10+ companies with a combined portfolio value above €100m

I work particularly well with established companies and investors that have strong industry knowledge, customer access or underused assets that could become new scalable businesses.

Areas of expertise: venture building, corporate innovation, digital business models, AI-enabled business creation, B2B growth, commercialization, spin-offs and venture validation.