Startups
- Braincare
- Eligo Studio
- Tripper
- Polar Partners
- Ultimate.ai
Tight startup community and unique networks
Startup Tampere exists to make running a startup easier together with a network of people. As part of Business Tampere, we offer support for your business, helping it grow faster and scale up. The strong support from our team as well as the startup mentors of the Tampere Region, international investor contacts and the tightly knit startup community speed up the growth and success of your company.
Tampere
Strong entrepreneurship culture
Large pool of ICT professionals
The best city in Finland to live in
Early stage funding support for businesses
Finnish startup permit
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Finland's most agile and fastest developing startup city
Tampere offers an excellent setting for entrepreneurship and startups. The city actively invests in young entrepreneurs, and the strong local startup culture has created countless success stories in the video game and manufacturing industries as well as health tech, to name a few. The Tampere University and its cutting-edge research constantly bring new professionals and innovators to the region, where an active startup community offers plenty of relevant events.
The Tampere startup ecosystem offers every key to growth
Strong local networks will help your company find new professionals, customers and funding for growth. The Tampere startup ecosystem connects the region’s several hundred startups with investors, startup communities, higher education institutes and services that cover a startups’ whole lifespan. Startup Tampere and the active ecosystem facilitate many kinds of collaboration, such as product development, shared workspaces, investments and events.
Talents
- Tampere University
- Talent Tampere
- Tribe Tampere
Funding
- Business Finland
- FIBAN
- Ensimetri
- ELY Centre
- Banks
Corporations
- Link Mobility
- Solita
- Vincit
- Framery
- Gofore
Events
- Tampere Festival
- Tampere Smart City Week
- Startup World Cup
- Kasvu Open
Research
- Tampere university
- TAYS
- VTT
Mentors
- Digirockstars
- FIVR
- Crazy Town
- Startup Tampere
- Tribe Tampere
Support
- Business Tampere
- Tampere Chamber of commerce and Industry
- City of Tampere
News
The Tampere Region is known for its mindset for getting things done. Startup Tampere compiles the latest startup news and success stories.
”The Tampere start-up community has been a goldmine for us”
In today’s knowledge work market, digitalisation offers the greatest potential but also the greatest challenges. Valaa Technologies from Tampere aims to decrease the complexity of data systems, and the local start-up ecosystem has provided valuable support to the company.
Startup Weekend generated seven sustainable business ideas
In September, around 40 participants gathered to startup community Tribe’s facilities for Startup Weekend Tampere Sustainability 2019. The aim of...
A unique alliance to boost the Tampere Region startup ecosystem
An alliance of public sector operators is in the making, with the main objective to support the startup ecosystem in the Tampere Region. Business Tampere estimates that the alliance is good news for both startups and the business environment in general.Events
Do you want to mingle, exchange ideas and develop your company’s business operations with experts? Join us at Startup Tampere events!
Supporting to build Startup Tampere
6Aika – Ecosystems of growth: Enabling the growth of companies through collaboration
The project aims to generate new business activities in city regions and support growth oriented companies to better access networks and innovation ecosystems that support their needs. Project is a joint effort by the six largest cities in Finland: Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Vantaa, Turku and Oulu, together with the Council of Tampere Region. The idea of cities having a significant role in developing and activating networks to support innovation in companies, guides project implementation.
