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 in the competitive startup industry. 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.
Startup Tampere support for startups in COVID-19 situation
Startup Team at Business Tampere does its best to organize services online, respond on new rising needs and combine information on one place. We have gathered in this news shortly the most important things about existing services and changes in the situation.
StepOne Tech is motivated by making a positive impact on the world
StepOne Tech Oy is a cleantech company based in Pirkkala, Finland, and founded in 2012. The company develops solutions to replace the fossil fuels used in cars, motorcycles and other vehicles with bioethanol.
“Tampere has an active, vibrant and dynamic start-up community”
Balance point method Oy is a wellness company offering new types of body care exercises. The concept behind the Tampere start-up community has already been quoted domestically, so the next step is to expand into larger markets.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.
