Establish your startup [City of Tampere]

Tampere offers an excellent framework for entrepreneurship. The city actively invests in entrepreneurs, and the strong local startup culture has created countless success stories, e.g. in the gaming industry, manufacturing industry and health technology.

Get familiar with Startup Tampere ecosystem, the most active startup community in Finland. The Startup Tampere ecosystem brings together actors from the public, academic and corporate worlds to work collaboratively for the benefit of the regional startup community.

Get familiar with the Startup Tampere ecosystem and services

Platform6 startup house is a dedicated place for entrepreneurs with high growth potential and global ambition. You can find everything related to startups there; community, working place, events, accelerator and entrepreneurial programmes, mentors, partners, and more.

Platform6 - The one stop for all things startup in Tampere

Tribe Tampere serves the entire Tampere startup ecosystem by uniting startups, driven individuals and organisations to take action and build a thriving startup community – together! They support and nurture your startup mindset with knowledge and networks.

Red Brick is supporting the growth of pre-revenue startups all the way to first customers and first investments. Together with a network of over 120 high-quality coaches, mentors, investors and industry experts, they accelerate growth of new startup ventures through two online programmes: pre-accelerator and accelerator. Both programmes take place online.

Their programmes are free of charge and take no equity from startups.

Tampere Game Hub is an organisation dedicated to supporting game development studios in Tampere, Finland. They offer mentoring and networking opportunities, business delegations, office spaces, special equipment for game developers, and developer gatherings in the Tampere region. There are now 46 game studios operating in the Tampere region. They are located in the Platform6 startup house.

The City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services provides a wide range of services when you are weighing your options as an entrepreneur. You can get to know your options at I want to start my own business | www.tampere.fi.

The Hive Mind programme is a mentorship session for the early stage startups based in Tampere, ideally with an MVP and some revenue. It is especially useful if you are looking for product validation, product/market fit, internationalisation, and a pitch review for investors. Nordic Startup Ventures will find a mentor based on the challenge that needs to be addressed during the 40-minute mentoring session. Read more about the programme at The Hive Mind | Platform6.

File a Startup Notification

When you start a business or an organization, you have to notify the Trade Register and Tax Administration registers. The instructions may change according to the legal form of the company. See more information at the Business Information System (YTJ).

Start-up notification (YTJ)

Open a Corporate Bank Account

After you have started the process of establishing your company, you’ll need a corporate bank account. To open a corporate bank account, you must present an extract from the trade register and your personal ID.

Opening a bank account for a company

Find a Workspace

There are lots of nice workspaces around Tampere. Here are a couple of suggestions for you to check out!

Updated 21.3.2024

Tampere Startup Kit

Establish your startup

Get familiar with the Startup Tampere ecosystem and services

Platform6 – Home of Tampere Startups Expand Collapse

The Dock – a curated space and community to propel your startup formation Expand Collapse

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Red Brick Accelerator Programmes Expand Collapse

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File a Startup Notification

Open a Corporate Bank Account

Find a Workspace