TC Moscow | Seed acceleration overview

Seed acceleration overview

CURRENT STARTUP TRENDS

6 TYPES OF STARTUPSLifestyle

Small BusinessScalableBuyable

Large CorporationSocial

Customer development not product developmentTechnology is nice – but it’s all about the value

Build, measure, learn…

Pivot & IterationIf it’s not working out, go back to the

drawing board and do it again

Funding raising based on traction and team

HOW DO STARTUP ACCELERATORS WORK?

Application process

Selected startups get pre-seed investment, usually in exchange for equity

Mentoring, networking, keynotes…

DemodayExposure and “Validation”

SEED ACCELERATORS OUT THERE

World’s leading open sourced accelerator

Startup Sauna develops Northern Europe and Russia into aglobal hub for entrepreneurship

Our region has amazing technology… but we suck at commercializing it

Startup Sauna open sources seed acceleration in order to build a sustainable startup ecosystem…

…which enables us to help the best and most ambitious startups from Northern Europe and Russia

TO GO GLOBAL

6 weeks at Aalto Venture GarageCoaching

Matchmaking Keynotes

Legals Customers

Silicon Valley

Demo DayTwice a year, investors, industry experts, bloggers and media gather into one location to review our region’s best startups

Currently, Startup Sauna focuses mostly on ICT and mobileMedical, clean tech & more traditional industries in the future

500 startups applied in 20118% of them got into Startup Sauna

 2 years, 3 Batches, 38 teams

7.9M€ raised fund to date in total:

53% teams: avg 60K€ before Sauna (1.2M€)26% teams: avg 160K€ during Sauna (1.6M€) 66% teams: 200K€ after Sauna (5M€)

Future?

Antti Ylimutka / Wingman@andynosebone

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Ville Simola / Captain@smolaholic

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