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Circular economy company CH-Bioforce receives rare EU funding of up to €15 million
Raisio-based CH-Bioforce aims to build its own biomass processing plant in Raisio in 2024. The company’s business idea is based on the use of industrial and especially agricultural side streams. The regional development company Turku Science Park Ltd. has been involved in the company’s journey since 2015. CH-Bioforce Oy, based in Raisio’s Smart Chemistry Park,……
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Startup Call Invites New Businesses to Turku
Turku Science Park Ltd is organising a programme that invites international startups to develop their businesses in Southwest Finland. In the Startup Call competition, innovative teams participate in an intensive three-month programme that highlights the advantages provided by the startup ecosystem in Turku and Finland. Applying for the Startup Call programme is now open to……
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Estonian startup wins Ă… Pitch competition
Held in an unusual setting on the deck of a river raft on the Aura River, the international Ă… Pitch startup event attracted almost a hundred enthusiastic participants. 12 companies from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Germany and Sweden participated in the pitching competition. The Pitch was organised for the third time under the theme Do Good,……
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DelSiTech and Anticancer Bioscience Announce a Collaboration Agreement for the Development of Long-acting Therapies in Oncology
DelSiTech Ltd, the leading silica drug delivery technology company, based in Turku, Finland and Anticancer Bioscience Ltd., an innovative China-base and international company pioneers in synthetic lethal approaches to precision oncology, announced a notable collaboration pertaining to the development of silica-based long-acting controlled release treatments in oncology. The collaboration joins key European innovations in biomaterials……
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Startups in the Turku region | A walk and talk with Petri from Filmgate Finland
Petri Erkkilä knows movies inside out. He works for Filmgate Finland, a production company that makes VFX post-productions for international films. The company has recently expanded from Sweden to Finland, where Petri is responsible for their Turku office. With the increasing demand in the field, there is now a real need for experts of their……
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Startups in the Turku region | A walk and talk with Dine from Tablebed
When Dine Renfors moved into the center of Turku, he came up with an idea on how to save space: a piece of furniture that could be a table by day and a bed by night. This was the beginning of his startup, Tablebed, which has recently landed a one million euro contract in the……
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Startups in the Turku region | A walk and talk with Iman from Silo AI
Iman Azimi found the Ph.D. position of his dreams in the University of Turku where he could combine two of his main interests: AI and mHealth. After 6 years of living in Turku, he joined the Silo AI team – the biggest private AI lab in the Nordics! Silo AI started off in the Turku……
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Startups in the Turku region | A walk and talk with Tomi from Brinter
Tomi Kalpio, the CEO and co-founder of Brinter, came across a peculiar challenge of printing a human brain in 3D. This is how his long career in 3D printing had an exciting twist that included bioprinting – printing living cells. Tomi is originally from the vibrant City of Turku, which became home to Brinter as……
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Startups in the Turku region | A walk and talk with Arjun from Comptek Solutions
Arjun Mandal came across an exciting nanotechnology company called Comptek Solutions on LinkedIn back in 2017 when the company had just been founded. It didn’t take long until he moved to Turku for work – all the way from India! We asked about Arjun’s experiences of working and living in the Turku region for the……
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Specialists’ and start-up entrepreneurs’ move to Finland to become quicker
Specialists’ and start-up entrepreneurs’ entry into the country will be easier. The fast track service currently under preparation will help professionals to start working in Finland more quickly. Customers will also be able to anticipate the processing of their application better than before. The Finnish Immigration Service will process the residence permits of those coming……