How can we attract more foreign Angels to Helsinki?
Entrepreneurs will tell you: one of the biggest strengths of the Helsinki startup ecosystem is our highly active local angel network, FiBAN. These 600+ members...
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In 2020 Helsinki lost Finland’s top spot in VC funding
This year Helsinki lost its spot as the No 1 town for venture funding in Finland as its neighbouring Espoo bypassed it thanks to major funding rounds of HMD, Ic...
8 Helsinki Startups That Make Your Life Better
Finland has been recognized as the happiest country in the world, and this extends to its startups as well. With much more focus on health, lifestyle and cleant...
7 Most Exciting Startups From Helsinki This March
1185 startup companies. That is how many Helsinki-based startups are listed in Crunchbase, the world’s leading database for the startup ecosystem. Helsinki is a...
Top 10 Startups from Helsinki You Can't Afford to Miss
Last week MyHelsinki launched a new website, that makes it easy for locals and Helsinki visitors to find information about the latest trends, events and resta...
Finland’s 12 hottest startups have their home at Maria 01
Community house Maria 01 in Helsinki is home to promising tech startups, investors and other startup organisations who get to enjoy of the nourishing environmen...
Helsinki's 3D city model has generated tens of application ideas
The new generation 3D city models, which the City of Helsinki has published as open data, provide application developers with countless opportunities for utilis...
Helsinki looking 10 years beyond
Helsinki Business Hub celebrated on Tuesday its tenth anniversary, inviting a number of influencers from the public and private sector not to look back at doing...
Finnish eSports Gaming Firm Raises Impressive €4 Mln Seed Round
If eSports used to be a mythical word not familiar to anyone just a few years ago, right now it is gaining massive attention. From tournaments that get enormous...
Pitching at FINAC Open
Pitching is a crucial part of startup life, but it can surely create stress and grey hair even for young founders. At the same time, one must say that pitching ...
Will Helsinki Build The Biggest Nordic Startup Hub?
The proposal for founding the biggest Nordic startup hub, Startup Maria, will be represented to the Helsinki City Council.The startup hub is planned to be open...
Two Finnish Night Light Firms Tap Crowdfunding
Two Finnish light firms are raising money from the crowd to boost takeoff of their character formed lights, the LeeLuus and the Moomins.
LeeLuu started on Monda...
Finnish Lead Generation Tool Closes €530k Seed Round
Leadfeeder, the “Google Analytics for Sales", secures funding to make B2B sales more data-driven.Helsinki-based Leadfeeder announces closing a €530k seed round...
Media Industry – Where Is The Future? Media Honeypot 2016
Media. We consume it everyday, be it through video, audio, text or other means. In some sense – media runs the world and that’s why we created the Media Honeypo...
Creating a world without food waste
Froodly launches a crowdsourced community for using up expiring groceries.Each year the Finnish food chain wastes 400 million kilos of food – and according to F...
Co-working space HUB13 announces its expansion plan
HUB13 takes over Loft Helsinki's operating responsibility starting in September 2015.Helsinki's co-working space HUB13 blows out the candle to celebrate their f...
Zalando Opens Tech Office in Helsinki: What Does That Really Mean?
Yesterday was the official opening day for the Zalando office, Helsinki. That may seem like not that big of a news to you, after all companies open offices all ...
World’s first interactive yoga studio closes $3 million seed round
Yoogaia wants to continue making wellbeing more accessible globally.The Helsinki-based wellness startup Yoogaia announces closing a $3 million seed investment r...
AppGyver aims to democratize software development
And they want you to join their team – Would you enjoy helping your customers to create mobile applications that support developing their company’s processes?Wo...
TBT: the Helsinki Spring
Remember the Helsinki Spring? Only a startup deity like Steve Blank could visit Helsinki in September and tell us that spring was coming (and for us to believe ...