Maria 01, the leading startup Campus in the Nordics, is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who officially assumed the role on the 30th of October. After an extensive and thorough selection process, the board of directors is confident in their choice to lead Maria 01 into a new era of innovation and growth.
Home to over 180 startups and 1,500 members, the new CEO will have a prominent role in accelerating Maria 01’s ambitions of becoming one of Europe’s biggest startup hubs as well as supporting City of Helsinki’s strategy as a Place of Growth. Current CEO Ville Simola has decided to move to new challenges from November 2023 onwards.
Maria 01, the Nordics’ leading startup hub located in Helsinki, Finland, will partner with Google Cloud to strengthen the collaboration between Finnish startups and Google Cloud. This alliance enables startups to get support in scaling and growing their business while amplifying their security using the best-in-market analytics tools and products.
The Maria 01 Impact Report shows that the hub’s startups have collected more than 700 million euros in funding over the course of its seven-year history. The amount of funding has increased almost tenfold in six years.
Microsoft and Maria 01 are proud to announce their partnership to launch the Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact program. The program aims to support the growth of startups solving some of the world’s most pressing problems, and will be launched at the Maria 01 Campus in February.
On 10 January 2023, the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland (KHO) overturned the decision, issued by the Administrative Court of Helsinki roughly a year ago, that repealed the detailed plan to facilitate the construction of the Maria startup campus.
An open letter to our Ukrainian friends from the Finnish startup ecosystem and Maria 01 Community.
Maria 01, the leading startup campus in the Nordics, has received the Internationalisation Award for the year 2021, granted by the President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö. The recognition is granted to Finnish companies and communities that have gained international success, and to the organizations behind them.
Together with our community members Aatos.app, Inventure and Accenture we hosted a webinar session about: Why should you care about startups’ cybersecurity?
