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What we do

Urban Tech Helsinki is an
incubator for clean and
sustainable urban solutions.

what is urban tech helsinki?

Urban Tech Helsinki is an incubator for clean and sustainable urban solutions. We help you turn your business idea into a growth-oriented startup that focuses on solving the challenges of modern cities.

Our goal is to turn fresh innovations into successful, international business. We are a part of the vibrant Helsinki startup ecosystem, with corporate and investor partners in search of sustainable urban solutions. Solving global challenges is a business opportunity worth billions of euros – and it’s well worth taking.

Got an idea? We help you make it real.

meet our
startups

Urban Tech Helsinki partner

University of helsinki

The University of Helsinki is the largest university in
Finland. Its high-quality research and innovations
benefit the whole society. It is home to numerous
innovations, commercialization projects, inventions, and
patents. Its four campuses produce a heavy flow of
spinouts, thus keeping a close link between the
academia and corporations.

Urban Tech Helsinki partner

metropolia university of applied sciences

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences is a bold
reformer of expertise and an active builder of
sustainable future. As Finland’s largest university of
applied sciences, it educates future professionals in the
fields of Business, Culture, Health Care and Social
Services, and Technology.

Urban Tech Helsinki partner

Aalto university

Aalto University is a multidisciplinary community of bold
thinkers, where science and art meet technology and
business. The university strengthens Finland’s
competence base and creates conditions for
innovations, economic growth, employment, and
wellbeing, now and in the future.

Urban Tech Helsinki partner

city of helsinki

The City of Helsinki’s goal is to develop their entire city
into a platform for testing and enabling innovative
business solutions. With the Testbed Helsinki services, we
highlight the diverse opportunities the City of Helsinki
offers for developing new solutions that both promote
business opportunities for companies and create well-
being for all citizens of Helsinki.

get inspired on campus

Urban Tech Helsinki brings pre-incubation activities
to partner campuses. We organize bootcamps, innovation events and other research to business related activities. They offer the
opportunity to researchers, students, and staff to get
together to develop their business ideas and make
an impact.

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Get in touch

Ari Seppänen


Business Advisor

ari.o.seppanen@aalto.fi

Kaisa Ahonen

Project Manager

kaisa.ahonen@aalto.fi

Maria 01 Startup Campus

Lapinlahdenkatu 16
00180, Helsinki,
Finland

urbantechhelsinki@aalto.fi
https://maria.io