our mission is to inspire and help students become startup entrepreneurs.
We are a student-run organization who organize entrepreneurship-related events, accelerator programs and offer mentoring sessions for startups and for founders-to-be.
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We are a student-run organization who organize entrepreneurship-related events, accelerator programs and offer mentoring sessions for startups and for founders-to-be.
When you first hear about us, you can many questions in your head. Like, how are all our events and programs free? What startups has there been in the past? How is this all possible?? Read more about us in the about page!
Boost alumni have founded 180+ companies. This includes companies that are founded by board alumni or Journey alumni.
You have questions, we have answers!
Our events are aimed at higher education students in Turku, so most attendees are students at UTU, TUAS, ÅA or Novia. Our events are open and free to everyone, so you don't need to be a member (or a student) to participate!
NO! All of our events and programs are completely free of charge to attend and participate. Boost Turku ry is a non-profit organisation that is funded by our main partners: University of Turku and Business Turku. Learn more about our partners here.
PS: You'll usually can even get some free food and drinks at our events ;)
In Finland entrepreneurship societies are quite unique organisations in the startup ecosystem. Most are basically student-run organisations that help students take their first steps toward entrepreneurship. Essentially the idea of giving back to the community that has helped you keeps the ES culture running!
Boost is not the only one in Finland! There are many ES organisations, like Aaltoes, Lutes, Tres and many more! Startup Foundation has done a great report on the scene, read it here.
You can just come to our events to show your support! However, if you want to become more involved, you can become a Boost member through here.
If you have some event ideas or something else in your mind, you can always contact us at [email protected] or come talk to us f2f.