Summer of Startups’ Winner Arada Services Take Off To Ethiopia

03 September 2010 0 Comments

The winner of last week’s Summer of Startups Demo Day, Arada Services, is ready for the fall and the new adventures it brings. The co-founder Dilu Kefale of the team developing SMS-based ticketing system for intercity transport, is now heading to Ethiopia to do market research and contact potential customers and partners. In Ethiopia, the [...]

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Stanford Superwoman Tina Seelig To Visit Aalto Venture Garage

30 August 2010 0 Comments

An Advisor to Aalto Venture Garage, Tina Seelig, the director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program, will visit on-site in Espoo on September 6th at 17:00 during a first-ever visit to Finland. Garage’s second Bootcamp is just around the corner, taking place on the two last weeks of September (APPLY NOW!) and Tina is stopping by [...]

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Summer of Startups: 10 Startups to Graduate from Finland’s First Ever Incubator Internship

22 August 2010 0 Comments

Summer of Startups, a first-of-its-kind hands-on entrepreneurship program arranged by and for students with university and government support, is approaching its end. One more week to go, the teams are finishing up their summer task lists and getting ready for this Friday’s Demo Day. During the summer, Summer of Startups has given 10 selected student [...]

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Sibesonke is looking for four interns

17 August 2010 0 Comments

Sibesonke provides life-empowering mobile services for people without Internet in developing and emerging countries (South Africa, etc.). We stay in touch with our user community every day. Sibesonke is a lean start-up already now working with well-known global brands and non-profits organizations. We build and appreciate good team spirit of fun, passion, challenges & mutual [...]

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U.S. Ambassador visits Venture Garage

17 August 2010 0 Comments

We received a real treat today! The US Ambassador Bruce Oreck visited the Aalto Venture Garage and heard the elevator  pitch of each Summer of Startups team. Lawyer by trade and an entrepreneur in a large family business, the Ambassador had good input on several of the teams’s companies. Mr Oreck has a background in [...]

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Aaltoes Hosts a National ES Summit

13 August 2010 0 Comments

On Tuesday, Aaltoes hosted the first-ever nation-wide ES Summit. Representatives from Hankenes, HUES, Metropolia, LaureaES/HMEA, STREAM Tampere, BoostTurku and Lithuania gathered to the Aalto Venture Garage to talk about the common challenges and how to move past the common mistakes. In the spirit of the open discussion started yesterday, we share the presentations of the [...]

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