Review for Donors 2022

Aalto Ventures Program (AVP) is the entrepreneurship education program at Aalto University. It reaches about 2,000 students annually. At AVP, students work in multidisciplinary teams and do handson exercises focusing on sustainability. AVP’s vision is that everyone can benefit from having entrepreneurial skills.

A-Grid is one of Europe’s largest community spaces. It brings more than 140 startups, small businesses, creative entrepreneurs, accelerators and other partners together under the same roof at the Aalto campus.

Aalto Innovation Services aims to convert research results into positive societal impacts through commercialisation. Typically, about 150 inventions are published and about five spinout companies are set up annually.

Aalto Startup Center is a hybrid accelerator for less than 3-year-old companies with focus on technology industry in particular. It makes use of Aalto University’s interdisciplinary expertise in design, business and technology. Every year, some 50 companies are involved, 10 of which operate under ESA BIC Finland which specialises in space technology. About 20 early stage startup companies are selected each year to the Urban Tech Helsinki incubator established in collaboration with the City of Helsinki.

Aalto Entrepreneurship Society is Europe’s largest and most active student-led entrepreneurship community. It participates in educating and inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs. The community organises Junction hackathon every year and has its own incubator program called Ignite. The startup and tech event, Slush, originates from Aalto’s student community.