Nairobi Innovation Week, taking place on 5-9. March celebrates local and international innovations, addresses key issues in innovation management and builds Kenya’s innovation ecosystem. This year, Peloton will be present there together with the Finnish delegation. Continue reading →
The transnational collaboration project between SmartUp Accelerator is up and running! Partners from seven countries around Baltic Sea have started to scan their regional consumer cleantech ecosystems and prepare for several national events taking place in the spring.
In 2018, we are focusing on the topic of Smart Homes, therefore all acceleration activities, events and network building will be organised around the topics related to it. Smart Homes theme includes a wide variety of products and services in the fields of housing, energy, shared space, construction materials and home automation – concepts and technologies making housing and buildings smarter and more efficient.
Learn more about the project at www.smartupaccelerator.eu and @smartupacc stay tuned for news about national events, including startup competition coming up soon!
What is “the one thing” most of the startups have constant struggles with? Is it how to find customers? Is it visibility in the market? No, most often the biggest worry is how to secure funding in order to keep on going and staying alive. We invited some of the most exciting professionals to help TryOut teams with this particular question. Continue reading →
What do you get when you put four big companies and four startups to do business experiments together? At least understanding on how other companies work, understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of yourself and your company, patience and a lot of empathy. Continue reading →
What would you learn about your employees and company if you could communicate and collect data from a building? This was put into test in an experiment between a pre-startup stage team called Go-Far-A-Day and a large company in smart building business Granlund. Continue reading →
SHIFT festival was organized in the castle of Turku -one of the coolest venues in Finland- for the 2nd time. The speciality of this business conference is the venue, since most of the workshops, presentations and face-to-face meetings are arranged outside in the park around the castle. This unique setting makes the atmosphere very relaxing and easy-going. Continue reading →
At the end of April, TryOut teams gathered into two-day Experiment Design Camp held in Urban Sauna Kallio to further develop their business models and experimentation ideas co-creatively together with mentors and experts. First day was based on intense ideation aided by relevant mentors for each team. These included a wide range of people from the city of Helsinki, construction companies and universities, among others. Second day’s focus was on gathering the inspiration and the feedback gotten from the mentors into a concrete experimentation plan. Continue reading →
Peloton Innovation Camp, taking place in January this year, gathered teams, startups and large companies to the cool startup hub NewCo Helsinki for co-creation and establishing new business experiments and partnerships. The camp was the kick-off event for two currently running acceleration programmes in Demos Helsinki: Bees and Trees and TryOut. Continue reading →
In December a good crowd of people gathered to Peloton Club Night, held by Demos Helsinki, to talk about sustainable food, to eat excellent kale pizza and to have some beers.
Because the climate footprint of food consumption is about as big as the impact from traffic or housing it is vital that we start consuming food in more sustainable way. The good news is, as we heard from the great panelists in Peloton Club, that we already have many solutions.
Do you have a business idea you would like to try out? Does it have to do with for example air quality, nutrient recycling, greywater treatment, sustainable consumption, open data or data modelling? We are looking for cleantech and circular economy teams to develop and experiment solutions with the city of Helsinki and its inhabitants. Experimentation takes place through the open innovation platform TryOut, which aims to enable business model testing in the city together with people.