Garage presentation

Juho Hyytiäinen@JuhoHyytiainen

• Coworking space with a focus on entrepreneurship- Located in Otaniemi campus- Also runs a seed accelerator program

• Started by a group of students- Growing Aaltoes needed a space and took actions

“ Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is an independent, privately funded student and post-graduate led community initiative. We encourage high-tech, high-growth, scalable entrepreneurship, providing a tight startup community in Northern Europe. Founded in 2009, Aaltoes believes in grassroots action, self-initiative and lean practices ”

• Currently Aalto Venture Garage houses 8 startups and 3 student communities

- During the summer garage underwent a major renovation worth 200k

Why universities need coworking spaces? Aalto’s story

• True interdisciplinary needs a no-mans-land

- When everybody are away from their comfort zone, they are at the same time equal

• A place like home within the place you work

- Having a dedicated, versatile space creates endless options

Value for the universitycase Aaltoes

• Attention, attention, attention- To attract the brightest students and to arouse interest in

funding companies media traction in needed

• Being the pioneer shows you’ve got vision

- Startup Sauna was the first early stage accelerator program run by an university in Finland, is not any more

That’s all!juho@aaltovg.com+358 50 3630 204