Aalto Startup Center

What an incredible Slush week it was with Natal Mind! It kicked off Monday in Tallinn with the Creative Destruction Lab and in Helsinki with the House of Impact by Puistokatu 4, followed by the Impact Business Modeling System™ Demo Day on Tuesday, Slush Founders Day at the beach, and Unicorn Night at Hanken School of Economics. Wednesday was packed with brilliant meetings, showcasing at our demo booth provided by Aalto University / Aalto Startup Center, and attending the Y-Science side event. The day ended with an afterparty hosted by Lexia Attorneys (special thanks for the fantastic drink bar!). A highlight was Thursday’s impact breakfast hosted by Next in Mind by Reach for Change / The Inner Foundation at the Illusian Founder Office – a big shoutout to everyone I connected with there; I'll be reaching out soon! The final day at Slush brought positive energy (including a healing session in the middle of 1:1 area) and an epic afterparty featuring the secret Kyrö Distillery bar, Cascada, and Windows95man. After Slush, we’re almost there with our future funding, and we’ll definitely have a good crew supporting us, but still room for couple of investors to join – reach out quickly as this ship is about to sail! Thank you for the great conversations, good vibes, and incredible energy! 🚀 Kustaa Valtonen, Perttu Ilmarinen, Mari Lymysalo, Linda Lehto, Stefan Haglund, Richard Georg Engström, Andjela Pecotic, Isabella Bondestam, Laura Meyer, Sara Shepherd, TJ Jackson, Beth Carter, Douglas Wong, Peter Vesterbacka, Juha Hannula, Marco Suvilaakso, Joanna Daffy Tiitus, Luukas Ilves, Aura Pyykönen, Lama Khaiyat, Tanja Tervonen, Wycliffe Raduma, Scott Tait, Agnieszka M. Walorska 🇺🇦, Parker Moss, Mari Tikkanen, Rebecka Löthman Rydå Main photo: Aalto University / Kristian Presnal

🏠 OPEN HOUSE 🏠 Why apply to the Business Generator Accelerator Program for startups? Hear the benefits! Visit us at Aalto Startup Center's premises to learn all about our main accelerator program for startups. We will explain the program and how we are assisting the startups from our community, and answer all your questions. The event is open for everyone but registration is mandatory. The call for this batch closes on January 12th, 2025, this open house is your chance to learn all about it and apply before it is too late! 🔗 REGISTER NOW: https://lnkd.in/dryyYNy3 #fromideastoimpact #openhouse #applynow

Bubbles with Benefits received lots of attention at Slush, we had many great discussions and introducted our ideas to investors. Thanks Anders Adlercreutz and Oras Tynkkynen for your interest. And Oras, yes, we can pop our Bubbles 😀. We continue developing next-generation bio-based packaging materials 🎉 to replace plastics. With Bubbles with Benefits, you are not just protecting products - you are bubble-wrapping the future of our planet👌. Please check our new web page https://lnkd.in/g9w6Yerx. Aalto Startup Center Aalto University #slush #BubblesWithBenefits #sustainable #biobased #packaging

From Lab to Market 2024 – Empowering Researchers! 💡🔬🚀👩🔬👨🔬🌍 it's over and our team finally had a get-together dinner where we could sit down and reflect on our journey with From Lab to Market 2024, a collaborative project led by Aalto Startup Center, Aalto Ventures Program, Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, A Grid, and Aalto Innovation Services . Here are a few key achievements: 1. We gathered nearly 500 signups for our 6 events. 2. We inspired roughly 170 Aalto University's researchers. 3. All our speakers held C-level, executive, or advisory roles. 4. Our speakers represented prominent companies like: Hyperion Robotics, Business Finland, Aalto University, IQM Quantum Computers, Kuva Space, Varjo, epicMeets, Pixieray, CuRen. Special thanks to our speakers: Ashish Mohite, Jaana Rantanen, Anu Honkalinna, Jan Goetz, Tuomas Tikka, Paul Wong, Kasper Suomalainen, Niko Eiden, Robin Gustafsson. +1000000 aura to the organising team: Amy Gelera, Robin Gustafsson, Tomi Tan-Röholm, Elettra Virtanen, Marc Gavaldà Andreu, Eelis Lehtinen, Tommi Byman, Veera Fristadius, Labiba Abdul, My Nguyen, Duy (Teddy) Tran. You guys rock! #Fromlabtomarket #Researchers

❄️ It's a wrap for Slush 2024, and what a ride it was! In case you missed it, here is a quick recap: 🔋 CuRen, a Research to Business case from Aalto University, won the Fortum Spark Innovation Challenge. Congratulations! 🍃 Amertate, among other startups from our portfolio, had their own booth at the event (go to our Instagram to check out our video with them). 🔥 Tai, ecosystem builder at Aalto Startup Center, kept on doing an amazing job hosting the Impact stage for the second and last day. 💥 Other startups from our community were around the venue having meetings with investors, such as Nite Labs Ltd. Thank you to everyone who made it possible! And remember, the call for startups to join our main accelerator program is now 📣 OPEN 📣 All the details: https://lnkd.in/dayqPB5f Aalto University Slush #fromideastoimpact #slush2024 #slush #startups #opencall

🇫🇮 #Finland| The Business Generator Accelerator Program is Open! 🙌 Do you have a startup focused on deep-tech? The acceleration program offered by Aalto Startup Center ranges from practical workshops to personalized mentoring. 🔗 How to apply? All details here ->https://lnkd.in/daFkPqqY #AcceleratorProgram #AaltoStartupCenter #Startup #deeptech #Tech #innovation #BusinessGenerator

Extremely honoured for us to be a winner of the Fortum Spark Innovation Challenge! This is a wonderful opportunity for us to be working with one of the leading energy companies in the Nordics ⚡️ This strong support from Fortum will enable us to take the next steps towards bringing our Copper flow batteries out of lab prototypes and into deployed pilots next year. Of course, we would not have gotten this far without the exceptional help from so many organisations around us throughout our journey: Aalto University Aalto Startup Center Business Finland The next few months will be an exciting one - stay tuned and follow us as accelerate the energy transition in Finland and beyond with our battery tech! 🔋 #flowbattery #LDES #energystorage

Slush day 2. One of the Business Generator startups at Aalto Startup Center is Amertate wind-turbine innovation. Come and see it! Javad Hosseininia #startups

✅ Slush first day, DONE ✅ And what a fantastic first day it was! Aalto Startup Center and its amazing team were present basically everywhere around the event hall. Did you catch us? 🔥 Tai Tran, our startup ecosystem coordinator, was doing a great job hosting the Impact stage, the second biggest stage in the venue. 🌠 Kaisa Ahonen, ESA BIC Finland's project manager, was one of the panelists at the Deeptech Frontier event to talk about how spacetech is redefining our future. 💥 The rest of the team? At Aalto University's booth talking about what we do (and promoting the open call for the Business Generator Accelerator Program!). Have you checked our booth? Still didn't have the time? Tomorrow you have a second chance! Come to Aalto's booth (7B2) and let's meet up. 🔗 Apply to join our startup community: https://lnkd.in/dayqPB5f #fromideastoimpact #slush2024 #slush

📣 We have a BIG announcement... The first day at Slush is going great, and we couldn't be more excited to see Aalto University's booth filled with interested people. Our Research to Business cases are explaining about their projects and getting new connections to bring their ideas to the next level, but this is not all! 💥 Our main accelerator program is now accepting new #startups! 💥 The Business Generator Accelerator Program is for you if: 🔬 Your business idea is based on research or deep-tech innovation. 💚 Your startup fits the "Tech for Sustainability" theme. 🇫🇮 You have a Finnish business ID under 3 years old. 🆙 You have a scalable business model and an MVP or Proof-of-concept. 👫 You have a team of, minimum, 2 full-time employees. Are you in Slush? Do you want to know more about us and apply to the program? Come to the Aalto University booth and ask about it, we will be happy to explain everything you need to know and answer your burning questions! ➡️ The deadline to apply is January 12th, 2025 ⬅️ 🔗 Everything you need to know: https://lnkd.in/dayqPB5f 🔗 Apply NOW: https://lnkd.in/dCgx7KVM #fromideastoimpact #startups #slush