Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (Aaltoes) operates a coworking space called Aalto Venture Garage located on the Otaniemi campus of Aalto University. Aaltoes was started by students and currently houses 8 startups and 3 student communities in the garage. They also run a seed accelerator program. Aaltoes aims to encourage high-growth entrepreneurship and provide a tight startup community in Northern Europe. The garage recently underwent a 200k euro renovation and expansion.

1. Juho Hyytiäinen
@JuhoHyytiainen

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

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

4. “ 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 ”

5. • Currently Aalto Venture Garage houses 8 startups and
3 student communities
- During the summer garage underwent a major renovation worth 200k

23. 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

24. Value for the university
case 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

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