• Social e-commerce platform for beauty lovers (link)
• Computer vision based positioning for navigation and wide-area AR (link)
• A mobile platform for ecological consumption (link)
• Sales-bot driven web-store with fundraising element (link)
• Tripifier makes it easy to find climate smart holidays (link)
• IoT solution for Fatigue failures of metal structures (link)

9 new profiles (see all)

Top skills:

• Business Development: 6
• Marketing: 6
• Product Development: 3

Top industries:

• Health: 5
• Manufacturing: 5
• SaaS: 4

• The cap table problem in the Nordics (link)
• How to make everyone talk about your product (link)

• As a long-waited feature update on Kiuas Inside, users can now edit their projects & profiles directly on the platform, which means much more freedom for project & profile owners as well as 10x less admin work for our team 😍
• Thanks to everyone who applied or helped us spread the word of Kiuas Start S20! We ended up with an awesome pool of applicants (+30% from last fall) and have chosen 20 startups into the program. You'll hear more about the teams during the next couple of weeks.

• Modern debt collection and payment reminder service (link)
• Virtual Sets library website for filmmakers (link)
• Uncover stories behind places - gamified service for guide tours (link)
• A free universal translator using pictures (link)
• Boosting the most valuable assets - Usage tracking of Real Estate (link)

• 8 new profiles (see all)

Top skills:

• Product Development: 6
• Software Development: 4
• Business Development: 4
• Marketing: 3
• Engineering: 3

• The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2019 (link)
• Guide to Finding an Angel Investment (link)

• Application for Kiuas Start Spring '20 is open, with 24 days left to apply. Currently starting a company or know someone who is? Check out the trailer and kiuas.com/start to find out more!
• On Kiuas Inside, we added a new "Fields" -tab, which you can use to discover both projects and profiles based on different industries 😍 Health, for example!
• Niklas from our team wrote a blog post about Starting Up – an online course we launched a couple months ago. Read it here.
• Lastly, take a look at our 2020 plans!

• Cleantech startup bringing plastic recycling to public spaces (link)
• Predictive risk rating to growing markets (link)
• Social Shopping (2.0) (link)
• Helping young visual artists earn a decent living (link)
• A Live Streaming Video Recruitment App (link)
• Platform for distributed clinical trials (link)
• GIS Webservice for architects (link)
• Making it easy to get professional cleaning occasionally (link)
• Blood sugar monitoring for non-diabetics (link)

• 9 new profiles (see all)

Top skills:

• Product Development: 6
• Software Development: 4
• Design: 3
• Marketing: 3

• Best fundraising & legal tools for startups (link)
• Free Online Course on Startup Entrepreneurship (link)

• A couple of weeks back at Slush, we launched a new initiative called Starting Up – an online course covering the fundamentals of startup entrepreneurship. The course contains 200+ pages of practical advice from top Nordic entrepreneurs and is supported by 25 global supporters including Nokia, Microsoft, Northzone, and UC Berkeley.
• For us, 2019 has been a year of growth with more startups than ever and two new initiatives launched. Read about our year in our recent blog post!
• Also: we implemented a bunch of new changes to the Kiuas main website to start the next year with a fresh look 😍 Check it out!

• New sensor technology to improve the accuracy of wearables (link)
• Innovative eCommerce concept for selling preowned furniture (link)
• Modern portfolio optimization and risk management as SaaS (link)
• Optical wireless link with fiber like capacity (link)
• Companies production is slow to improve and apply. Until now... (link)

• 9 new profiles (see all)

Top skills:

• Business Development: 8
• Product Development: 4
• Marketing: 4

• Best fundraising & legal tools for startups (link)
• What Makes The Top 10% Of Founders Different? (link)

• We, together with three other entities, will be launching a new initiative on the Slush Founder Stage, Day #1 Nov 21st, at 14:15. Join us for the launch & find out if entrepreneurship can be taught.
• For the 2nd year in a row, Kiuas was chosen as the best accelerator in Finland. We'll continue to Copenhagen for the Nordic finals in December. Thanks to everyone for voting us 😍
• Our last program of the year, Kiuas Start Fall 19, finished last Saturday. In total, 52 startups have participated in Kiuas programs in 2019. You'll hear more about our year soon!

• Service for creating learning paths for specific job offers (link)
• Marketplace for crowd-investments in intellectual property (link)
• Platform for finding financial service providers (link)
• App for connecting events & visitors at the right time (link)
• Carbon offset broker for forest owners and consumers (link)
• Recruitment platform for software developers (link)
• Team celebration app to Slack/Teams with a sustainability twist (link)

• 17 new profiles (see all)

Top skills:

• Business Development: 11
• Design: 8
• Software Engineering: 8

• The Tools Startups Need to Understand Their Customers (link)
• Why You Should Tell Everyone Your Startup Idea (link)
• Do Things That Don’t Scale (link)

• We finally launched last Tuesday, and are already close to hitting 500 members. It's been especially great to see people outside the traditional "startup bubble" join the platform and engage with projects and profiles. Keep it up 😍
• Our 3-week pre-accelerator program Kiuas Start started last Saturday. Get to know the participating startups! (link)
• Last day to vote Kiuas as the Best Accelerator in Finland at Nordic Startup Awards!