Past projects

Grants granted previously

SILTA

SILTA is a program that takes early-stage founders from Finland to the San Francisco Bay Area for three months to build their companies and immerse them into the vibrant and lively culture.‍

SILTA sets the scene for the participants to focus on building their companies and competences to become world-class founders. The program aims to provide the participants with custom activities that might help the participants with reaching their program objective - depending on the participation agenda this could mean anything from making necessary introductions to investors to organizing events for networking or a gathering of experts from a particular domain.

MIMIR Fellows

MIMIR Fellows is a program and a network enabling efficient use of technology and science to form and evolve impactful companies. This program ventures into deep tech and academic research that can radically address some of our world’s biggest problems. Think fusion, not apps. Student-driven movements like Slush have proven that this type of shift in attitudes is possible.

2024

Project Grants

  • OuluES hackathon project.

    Grant amount: 1 000€

  • Tre.es recruitment event aimed at startups.

    Grant amount: 100€

  • Wednesday is an Aaltoes project and the support is for spinning out from under Aaltoes to be an independent entity.

    Grant amount: 7 000€

  • Support for restarting an entrepreneurship society in Kuopio.

    Grant amount: 1 000€

  • Support to the economic growth operators ry for creating a new educational program for founders.

    Grant amount: 10 000€

  • Taking strive as a program to the next level.

    Grant amount: 2 000€

2024

Individual Grants

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

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  • Grant amount: 6 000€

2023

Project Grants

  • A project building a business program for Ukranians. The grant is for translation related costs for the materials.

    Learn more about Startup Refugees

    Grant amount: 5 000€

  • Deep Dive 2023 - a case competition where entrepreneurial students work with university research commercialization projects to solve real business development challenges the projects face. Deep Dive will source the brightest students from top Nordic universities to attend the case competition qualifications during the spring. The concept was piloted under Aaltoes in 2022 and now building the concept further under Mimir.

    Learn more about Deep Dive

    Grant amount: 10 000€

  • SILTA is a program that takes promising early -stage startup founders from Finland to the San Francisco Bay Area to build their companies for three months. The grant was for supporting the sift from an Aaltoes project to an independent organization.

    Learn more about Silta

    Grant amount: 10 000€

  • Engaging students with the startup ecosystem early on.

    Grant amount: 3 300€

  • The idea is to connect students to the startup world more actively.

    Grant amount: 5 000€

2023

Individual Grants

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

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  • Grant amount: 6 000€

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

  • Grant amount: 6 000€

2022

  • Silta is a program that takes early-stage founders from Finland to the San Francisco Bay Area for three months to build their companies and immerse them into the vibrant and lively culture.‍

    Silta sets the scene for the participants to focus on building their companies and competences to become world-class founders. The program aims to provide the participants with custom activities that might help the participants with reaching their program objective - depending on the participation agenda this could mean anything from making necessary introductions to investors to organizing events for networking or a gathering of experts from a particular domain.

    Learn more about Silta

    Grant amount: 10 000€

  • MIMIR Fellows is a program and a network enabling efficient use of technology and science to form and evolve impactful companies. This program ventures into deep tech and academic research that can radically address some of our world’s biggest problems. Think fusion, not apps. Student-driven movements like Slush have proven that this type of shift in attitudes is possible.

    Learn more about Mimir Fellows

    Grant amount: 10 000€

  • The Startup Refugees team believes that refugees and other newcomers bring huge economic and human potential to Finland. This is why they established the Startup Refugees Fund which offers support for newcomer founders.

    The fund is for everyone who believes that the Finnish startup ecosystem needs more diversity and inclusion. The founders and teams receiving the funding are from the Startup Refugees Business Program and have a promising business idea or a running business but are not attracting investors yet.

    The recipients of the funding are selected by an external jury which consists of Startup Refugees network members, individuals and experienced newcomer entrepreneurs.

    Learn more about Startup Refugees Fund

    Grant amount: 20 000€