Startup Sauna in Tirana – Sep 17

At a Startup Sauna Local Event, local early stage startups will receive honest feedback and advice from coaches, who are experienced serial entrepreneurs and investors. By impressing the coaches, attending startups have the opportunity to be shortlisted for the Startup Sauna fall 2015 acceleration program held October 12th – November 13th in Helsinki, Finland.

Startup Sauna connects the most promising startups from Nordics, Eastern Europe and Russia with experienced serial entrepreneurs, investors and other industry experts through an intensive one month accelerator program. We focus heavily on business development: from finding a scalable business model to understanding the target market and customers’ needs, and from pitching to putting together an investor deck. Naturally, technical help is also available.

The best teams of each batch are brought to Silicon Valley after the accelerator program to get understanding of the US market, that is, to meet investors, media, customers and potential partners.

Once accepted to Startup Sauna, a company also gets access to Slush, the leading startup event in Europe. In 2014 Slush attracted more than 13.000 attendees, 1.400 startups, 700 investors and 600 media representatives.

Startup Sauna is a non-profit organization and its events and programs are free-of-charge.

What happens and when?

Startup Sauna is organised twice a year, the Spring program in May-June and the Fall program in October-November. The program takes place in our own co-working space in Helsinki, Finland. The application period opens two months before the program starts.

Apply here

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