Our mission is to serve the local startup ecosystem by uniting startups, talents and organisations to take action and build a thriving startup community – together! Get to know the actors in the startup community, who are dedicated to serve the startup ecosystem.
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Organisations who are supporting and enabling us in our mission.
Framery is the pioneer and the world’s leading manufacturer of soundproof private spaces for solving noise and privacy issues in open offices: Our products make employees happier and more productive in offices of dozens of the world’s leading companies, including Microsoft, Puma and Tesla. In fact, 40% of all Forbes 100 companies use Framery.
Nokian Panimo on rehellisen aito ja itsenäinen suomalainen pienpanimo, joka vaalii perinteikkään oluen panemisen, käsityön ja yhdessä tekemisen perinteitä suurella sydämellä.
Nokian Panimo is an honestly genuine and independent Finnish microbrewery that cherishes the traditions of traditional beer brewing, craftsmanship and teamwork with a big heart.
Platform6 is the home of Tribe Tampere. It is the epicenter of the Tampere startup ecosystem: one stop for all things startup.
Located in the heart of Tampere in the Tulli business area, Platform6 is a strong and like-minded community of entrepreneurs, investors, incubation & acceleration programs, advisors, and partners connecting them with critical resources to create, launch and accelerate high-growth businesses at a global scale in a safe, resilient friendly environment.
Entrepreneurial organisations and communities who are working together with us supporting and unifying the startup ecosystem.
We are an independent, nonprofit association for Finns and everyone else with African heritage living in Finland. We are dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion, supporting cultural development, encouraging civic engagement through diverse events, and entrepreneurship and educational programs. Connect, mentor, and build skills in the community Empower unemployed and underemployed African youth to build and sustain businesses, create jobs, and add value to the Finnish economy Increase entrepreneurship engagement of African Diaspora and Finland.
Our Mission is to elevate, encourage and support more self-reliance within the community.
Arctic15 is the most effective matchmaking startup event in Northern Europe. The focus is on making deals and quality networking. The 2-day event brings together a focused international crowd of startups, investors, corporates, media and influencers. The event is organized by ArcticStartup, a startup media covering Nordics and Baltics since 2007.
We believe that if urban farming were easier, more people would do it.
From our store, you can get garden boxes and pots, nutrient-rich living soil and fresh seedlings delivered to your home.
Bloom ry is a non-profit association dedicated to building a community where both internationals and locals can thrive together through social and cultural events. Strengthen networks. Meet new friends. Grow together.
Business Tampere, the economic development agency of the Tampere region, promotes investments and creates an attractive environment for sustainable business in the region.
Coding Sauna is a weekly get-together for people interested in coding with good company and snacks. Every week we discuss a new topic presented by a community member while enjoying snacks and drinks, followed by open discussion in the sauna.
Crazy Town is a high-trust community for over 400 businesses and thousands of experts. We have solopreneurs, remote workers, startups and corporations. We work, learn and grow together! You can find us from Tampere, Jyväskylä, Pori, Hämeenlinna and virtually.
Crazy town offers flexible working spaces and connects people with an ecosystem full of talent, customers, partners and content. Our community managers ease our member’s day to day lives and help them to develop their businesses. In addition we have events and different types of educational programs. We truly know how important being surrounded by the right people and developing the right skills is for a successful business. We are here to help! Many of our events and activities are also open for non-members, so don’t hesitate to ask or join in!
Working at Crazy Town is easy – all you need is your laptop and we take care of the rest. You get all you need and way more with just a one monthly payment.
Demola is an internationally awarded service for companies and organizations, contextualizing and demonstrating driving forces and opportunities of the future. The secret sauce is in harnessing international university students and generation Z as future experts and change-makers. For you as a student, Demola project is a chance to put your skills, ideas and values into action.
All advice on entrepreneurship; from a limited company to a limited liability company and from light entrepreneurship to a cooperative. You can get advice and training from us when you want to know more about your opportunities as an entrepreneur. Our business advice is always confidential and free of charge. We are happy to help you when you want to know more about your opportunities as an entrepreneur. We offer first class advice when you want to discuss your business idea with someone.
Flashpoint is an international investment group with over US$0.5 billion AUM. Flashpoint manages six venture funds: four VC funds, a Venture Debt Fund, and a Secondary Fund. We invest in international software companies with proven business models, support founders originating from Emerging Europe and Israel doing business in the western markets, and provide various types of capital to companies and their stakeholders from early life of the company to late stages.
We’re helping create more sustainable food systems by promoting food innovation and entrepreneurship. We are especially focused on growing and unifying the foodtech ecosystem in the Tampere, Finland region. However, even though we work locally, we think globally.
Future Board ry is an active network of young board professionals under the age of 40, with the goal of promoting company growth through active board work and advancing the board careers of its members. In our activities, we emphasize effective and interactive collective learning while sharing clear and insightful ideas about the future of board governance. Future Board was established in 2012 and has over 100 members. On average, our members hold 3 board positions in companies, representing a total turnover of over 1 billion euros in their board roles.
HealthHUB brings together health, wellbeing, technology and research-oriented companies and talents, and provides an environment for the co-development of new ideas and innovations. We want to boost the chances for success of the Tampere health sector community and offer our own expertise to startups and established companies in health sector.
HUBS offers free-choice studies that develop the skills and knowledge of students around the themes of innovation and entrepreneurship. We support students who are planning to become entrepreneurs or have already become entrepreneurs in our Sparring clinic (hubs.fi/en/help-with-ideas/sparring-clinic), through our mentor network and in our courses (hubs.fi/en/studies), that help to develop one’s own business idea and versatile skills that are needed as an entrepreneur. Our activities are open for every student in the Tampere Universities, regardless the field or year of study.
International House Tampere from International Tampere is a single service point for supporting internationals with living, working, studying and connecting with local employers. International Tampere is the place to contact when you need information and advice on moving to and settling in Tampere, looking for a job, studying and entrepreneurship.
JCI Pirkanmaa (PINKK) is an international leadership, learning and development organisation for active influencers under the age of 40. We make a positive impact on society by developing young adults’ leadership skills, social responsibility, entrepreneurship and internationalism.
Our work is based on learning by doing.
Tammerkosken Nuorkauppakamari ry, founded in 1981, is one of Finland’s largest youth chambers of commerce. The aim of Tammerkoski Youth Chamber of Commerce’s activities is to develop its members, the chamber itself, regional business life and society with its trainings, projects and events. Tammerkoski’s members work in working life in a wide range of fields, mostly in various expert roles, in executive or management positions, or as entrepreneurs. Our members are active initiators and result makers who want to develop their capabilities to act as leaders and influencers.
JCI United is an internationally oriented junior chamber based in Pirkanmaa area. We aim to offer our members opportunities for versatile and interesting learning experiences and project work. We are international by heart, and want to invite our members, local companies and community to join us in going forward and becoming truly global.
At Kiuas our vision is to enable early-stage startup founders to successfully build companies that change the world for the better. We do that by empowering founders to grow with world-class support and resources.
Nordic Startup Ventures develops and invest in early-stage startups. We help institutions and organizations with developing their startup ecosystem and we help startups with their investment readiness.
We support businesses and entrepreneurs in Pirkanmaa in developing their business by sharing our valuable experience and expertise for the use of SMEs. The work of Yrityskummi is voluntary and confidential mentoring with the aim of helping our client companies to succeed.
We believe that entrepreneurship is an effective way to start creating a better world.
TAMK Proakatemia is an academy of new knowledge and expertise where the students learn about entrepreneurship in team enterprises.
In the beginning of their studies our students establish a real company, usually a cooperative, that is the foundation of all studies. Our graduated students are professional team entrepreneurs, who have the best skills to face the challenges of the future.
Red Brick is the leading early-stage accelerator in the Tampere region, supporting early-stage founders in the idea validation and development. We currently have two programs: online pre-accelerator and accelerator program. Both programs offer high quality coaching support and access to some of the best industry experts, who work closely with our startups.
SHIFT is built to bring change-oriented people and businesses together to network, learn, and get inspired. SHIFT calls you to define what the future brings for your business, but also to re-think how your business can impact the future. SHIFT Business Festival is the highlight of our year, and exactly what it says – a two-day inspirational and fun festival with insightful business content.
THE event for starting entrepreneurs! *ship Startup Festival has been THE startup event for all entrepreneurs and early-stage startups since 2015. The event consists of two main days: the mentor program and the pitch captain competition.
sTARTUp Day is the most startup-minded business festival, bringing together startups, traditional entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, and students. The aim of the event is to connect like-minded people and celebrate entrepreneurship in the smart city of Tartu.
The world’s most extreme startup event. Where the world meets the Nordic startup ecosystem in the mountains of Norway.
TRES is a student-run entrepreneurship society that encourages inspired people to take action.
TechChill in Riga Latvia is the main tech and startup event in the Baltics bridging the gaps in knowledge, skills and network! TechChill celebrates the best of the Baltic startup community by annually bringing together 2000+ attendees, including the fastest-growing startups, most innovative corporations, investors active in the region and talented tech enthusiasts.
The first Southern European startup entrepreneurship event TechChill Milano will take place on September 27th-29th in Milan to further put Italy on the global startup map and bring together international industry experts and brightest talents from the Italian tech ecosystem and beyond. The event is all about the networking, bringing the right people together and taking care of what startups need the most.
Many of Tribe Tampere Member Organisations are the founders of Tribe, and they can have a representative in the Tribe Tampere board.
Creativity Squads is a Finnish association helping people to find inspiration, open mindset, building the skills of 2020, solving problems together with multicultural and international interaction and disrupting the traditional ways of learning. We build scalable workshop concepts and develop purpose driven culture to help people to find their talents and realize dreams.
Demola is an internationally awarded service for companies and organizations, contextualizing and demonstrating driving forces and opportunities of the future. The secret sauce is in harnessing international university students and generation Z as future experts and change-makers. For you as a student, Demola project is a chance to put your skills, ideas and values into action.
HUBS offers free-choice studies that develop the skills and knowledge of students around the themes of innovation and entrepreneurship. We support students who are planning to become entrepreneurs or have already become entrepreneurs in our Sparring clinic (hubs.fi/en/help-with-ideas/sparring-clinic), through our mentor network and in our courses (hubs.fi/en/studies), that help to develop one’s own business idea and versatile skills that are needed as an entrepreneur. Our activities are open for every student in the Tampere Universities, regardless the field or year of study.
JCI United is an internationally oriented junior chamber based in Pirkanmaa area. We aim to offer our members opportunities for versatile and interesting learning experiences and project work. We are international by heart, and want to invite our members, local companies and community to join us in going forward and becoming truly global.
We believe that entrepreneurship is an effective way to start creating a better world.
TAMK Proakatemia is an academy of new knowledge and expertise where the students learn about entrepreneurship in team enterprises.
In the beginning of their studies our students establish a real company, usually a cooperative, that is the foundation of all studies. Our graduated students are professional team entrepreneurs, who have the best skills to face the challenges of the future.
Red Brick is the leading early-stage accelerator in the Tampere region, supporting early-stage founders in the idea validation and development. We currently have two programs: online pre-accelerator and accelerator program. Both programs offer high quality coaching support and access to some of the best industry experts, who work closely with our startups.
An event for early stage startups. Practical support and tools of growth.
TRES is a student-run entrepreneurship society that encourages inspired people to take action.
Tampere Game Hub ry is all about promoting and cultivating the game development scene in Tampere. Any game development team and company working actively in the Pirkanmaa region can join. The goal of the organization is to unify the Tampere game development scene.
Tampere Startup Hub is part of the coalition that is the operator of thePlatform6 startup house.
Tampereen Startup Tukiyhdistys is a group of individuals supporting the startup ecosystem in Tampere.