The document summarizes activities of the TULI program at Aalto Venture Garage that aim to build world-class startups. The program offers grassroots entrepreneurship events to expose students to startups, an 8-week Summer of Startups program that provides funding and workspace for student teams, and opportunities for selected startups to gain exposure in foreign markets through trips to places like Silicon Valley. Key success factors include cultivating a culture of entrepreneurship among talented Aalto students and researchers, attracting ideas and founders from across the Nordic and Baltic regions, and providing coaching from experienced serial entrepreneurs.

1. Aalto Venture Garage
- building world-class start-ups
TULI-OHJELMAN VUOSISEMINAARI
Ville Simola, AES, Aalto-yliopisto

2. What has TULI made possible?
Grass root activation events
Summer of Startups
Exposing start-ups to foreign markets

3. Grass root activities
Pitching
events
Open Mics
Talkoot
workshopsBringing inspiring
speakers
Tuli-talks w/
research based
start-ups

4. Summer of Startups
8-week start-up program
targeted for students
Teams were provided:
1) Garage coach network
2) 24/7 working space
3) 750 euros grant per team
member

5. Exposing start-ups to foreign
markets

6. Key success factors
Culture of venturing from grass roots: Aaltoes,
meaning that we have best students
and researchers interestedto
a) start b) work on startups

7. Key success factors
Ideas and teams coming not only from Aalto
or rest of Finland but from whole
Baltics and Nordics: only way to get
good enough people and ideas

8. Key success factors
experienced serial
entrepreneurs with international
success and failures as coaches to work
with the selected startups from
very beginning: our coaches

9. Key success factors
Exposure for the best startups
to real markets, competitors, investors
and specially to culture of doing business: 3- 4
months in the valley, in future Israel and china

10. Contacts
www.aaltovg.com
www.aaltoes.com
ville.simola@aaltoes.com
+358 44 070 0520