At 15, Anne-Maria Salmela volunteered at Slush, managing coats, and gained insight into the Finnish tech scene that shaped her later mission. She shifted from development economics toward entrepreneurship, aiming for faster, broader impact through conscientious decision makers. While studying at NYU Abu Dhabi, she identified a gap for young founders lacking capital and mentorship and co-founded Violet Ventures in 2022. She scaled the volunteer team to 36 and built a community supporting 1,200+ student founders and enabling 25+ startups across four countries. Violet Ventures partnered with Google, Nokia, and Slush, brought Slush'D to the Middle East for three years, and grew attendance from 80 to 500. In 2025, it hosted the region’s largest student-led AI hackathon. Her career also spans early-stage venture capital, hedge-fund work, and AI, leading to Resolve AI, which raised $35 million from Greylock VC to build AI Site Reliability Engineers that automate troubleshooting and reduce incidents.
"Before working in AI, Salmela helped launch an early-stage VC fund and worked on a $30 million hedge-fund project backed by FJ Labs. That experience led her to Resolve AI, a seed-stage company that raised $35 million from Greylock VC. Resolve AI builds AI Site Reliability Engineers that fix the headaches developers dread, bugs, incidents, and endless troubleshooting. By automating the tedious tasks, Resolve AI gives engineers back their time to cre"
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