Episode 12 How Ailo’s Green Data Center Could Become the Fastest IPO in SV History
Episode Description:
In this episode of Nordic Visionaries, recorded live at TechBBQ in Copenhagen, Soulaima Gourani - a Moroccan-Danish entrepreneur now based in Palo Alto - shares her journey from growing up in remote Danish towns and troubled neighborhoods to becoming a VC-backed founder, keynote speaker, and author.
The conversation explores her two current ventures Happioh and Ailo. She explains how she’s building AI tools that clean up the pre-meeting space by improving agendas, filtering invites, and grounding AI agents - and how the same technology is being adapted to support healthcare workers in low-resource settings.
Other key themes include storytelling as a founder skill, raising capital over Zoom, the discipline of staying “forever in beta,” and the difference between being busy and being productive. Soulaima also reflects on Nordic strengths in innovation, the need to think globally from day one, and why she believes AI will accelerate progress toward curing cancer.
About our Nordic Visionary
Name: Soulaima Gourani
Title: Serial Tech Entrepreneur
Company: Happioh & Ailo
Soulaima Gourani is a VC-backed founder, keynote speaker, and author. She cofounded Happioh, an ‘AI Agent Gym’ where bots are coached, challenged, and polished to perform at their very best, and Ailo, building affordable modular green datacenters and a computer marketplace.
A Moroccan–Danish entrepreneur now based in Palo Alto, she has inspired audiences worldwide with her life story and her work at the intersection of AI, technology, and the future of work.
