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Apply Now: Transform Your Tech Innovation into a Global Success at Aalto Startup Center!
Join the ranks of trailblazing innovators at Aalto Startup Center, where groundbreaking tech ideas transform into global success stories like Rovio and Futurice. If you have a visionary tech innovation that can shape a sustainable future, we want to hear from you! Become part of our vibrant community, receive invaluable mentorship, and take your startup to new heights. Apply now and make your mark on the world!
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Event calendar
Most of our events are related to our programs. Public events are listed here.
Urban Tech Helsinki Networking Lunch
Free networking event held by Urban Tech Helsinki on the first Friday of every month.
Science Startup Day 2025
This event is for teams who want to commercialize their research (e.g. R2B teams) and spin-offs from university or research organization, as well as for investors and growth startup talents.
Open House: Business Generator Program - Why to apply? Hear the benefits!
Open House: Business Generator Program - Why to apply? Hear the benefits!Incubator and Accelerator Programs
Business Generator Program
Your success, your profits – Aalto Startup Center takes zero equity. Business Generator Program offers tailored mentoring, investor matchmaking, and an expansive network of entrepreneurs, investors and experts.
Research to Business pre-incubator
In the Research to Business program researchers are supported in the commercialisation of their inventions to prepare the path for the formation of a new startup company.
Urban Tech Helsinki
Urban Tech Helsinki is an incubator for clean and sustainable urban solutions.
Aalto Creatives preincubator
Aalto Creatives is a pre-incubator program supporting students, researchers, and creative industry professionals who have a creative startup concept. The 13-week program fosters the rapid development of ideas into viable startup companies.
ESA BIC Finland for space-related startups
Space industry is booming! It provides infinite opportunities to startups. European Space Agency’s (ESA) Business Incubation Centre in Finland aims to support aspiring innovative entrepreneurs and ambitious startups financially and technically to reveal their undiscovered space potential.
D2XCEL for deep tech and digital ventures
D2XCEL is a collaborative pan-European scaling programme, bringing together a top-tier industry network of 300+ investors, public and private lead customers, and innovation hubs to support deep tech and digital ventures.
Seeds of Bravery for Ukrainian tech startups
Seeds of Bravery is a €20 million project funded by the European Union under the European Innovation Council (EIC) to support Ukrainian tech startups bringing them closer to the EU.
ESA Phi-Lab Finland
Boosting disruptive geospatial innovations for space.
Why join us?
Meet some of the companies we are working with and whom we have worked with over the years.
Lensor
Lensor is an early-stage Nordic startup building game-changing AI and remote sensing technology to create digital, climate-smart solutions for global farmers. We are on a mission to enhance resilience in agriculture.
Amertat Energy Oy
Empowering a Sustainable Future through Innovation and Integrity
Winse Power
Winse Power offers turnkey solutions for innovative light-based energy systems. Our expertise lies in power by light, space, and novel photovoltaics applications.
Solar Foods
For the first time in history, humankind can produce food without burdening our home planet.
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Business Mentors
Join the pool of business mentors as part of our acceleration programs. We are looking for industrial experts from different fields.
Latest news
Meet our startup: Make a BIM revolutionizes building information modeling with AI
The Finnish real estate technology startup Make a BIM has developed an AI application that creates digital building information models of existing buildings quickly and cost-effectively.
Come meet our innovations at Arctic15 (4-5 June)
We are going to Arctic15 with 20 of our startups and deep tech projects. Come to our pavilion to learn all about them!
Keys to growth: How a student satellite became Finland’s new success story
Over just a bit more than a decade, Finland has grown into a space nation that punches well above its weight—and the importance of the space sector continues to grow year by year. A big part of the credit goes to Finland’s first satellite, Aalto-1, and the mindset shift it sparked.