Northbound Startups organizes three investor training online workshops in January and February on portfolio strategy, investment process, deal flow, valuations and DD. All sessions are identical with a limited amount of participants and there’s still room for few more people especially in February. Our coach is Björn Larsson from Beels, the developer of the Investment Readiness … Continued
Time to fly together! We invite you to an investor program with the aim to make startups fly – and you with them! Northbound Startups is a project that provides a path towards entrepreneurship and supports the already existing pre-seed stage startups in Finland, Estonia and Sweden to find their first customers and investors. Now … Continued
NBS will be present at the SHIFT Business Webstival next week. How cool is that! You can find our avatars at the Turku Business Region virtual booth. If you have received an invitation from us, take your chance and ask for the ticket and if you haven’t, it’s not too late to get in touch … Continued
Teams participating in the Northbound Startup accelerator started their evolution on September 9th. Practical workshop event concentrated on business models and result management. For the next 6 months, these startups will get a chance to develop their product or service, sharpen their marketing and selling activities and become investment ready. Experienced mentors are going help the … Continued
The first accelerator of Northbound Startups is lurking behind the corner. Twelve teams from three different countries have been selected to speed up their business. In the coming six months those teams will be pumped up with details of running a successful business and also geared up to meet new investors. The accelerator will begin … Continued
We will extend the submission period of the NBS accelerator with two weeks. Since the program will start online, there’s no need for travel arrangements and we wanted to use that excess time in favor of those teams which are still getting their act together after the summer break. The new submission date is 23.8.2020. … Continued
The first NBS Accelerator goes online. Program will start in September as planned but due to Covid-19 the workshop sessions of 2020 will be streamed online preventing the need for traveling abroad. For more information of the accelerator program please visit News and events. Link to the Accelerator page. The accelerator will start on the 7th of September … Continued
In the beginning of June the Northbound Startups project provided an investor meeting for Finnish investors. The meeting was jointly organized by Turku Science Park and SHIFT and arranged in connection with the NBS cross-border investment meeting. The event took place in the TScP premises and was streamed in Zoom. It merrily topped off the … Continued
The application period for the first accelerator of Northbound Startups has started! The deadline for applications is 9th of August but there’s no reason to wait for that. We will review the applications continuously so apply now! Link to the application form. Switch your business to the acceleration line NBS organizes two accelerators within two years … Continued
We are glad that You participated at our first cross-border meeting. More than 40 persons were signed in on the Zoom stream of the international webinar. For those who missed that or want to watch the best parts again we will soon release an edited summary of the event on our webpage. The panel introduced … Continued