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to develop your health business in Helsinki Metropolitan

Health Capital Helsinki is building the greatest health capital by improving our ecosystem, supporting business first steps, and making great matches. We can be your guide to open the right doors and develop your health business in Helsinki Metropolitan. Our services are free of charge.

We’re a part of Helsinki Business Hub, the international trade and investment promotion agency for Helsinki.

We develop the ecosystem.

We increase collaboration within the Helsinki Metropolitan health ecosystem and bring relevant parties together. When we find gaps, we develop services to fill them. In short, our aim is to help the network operate smoothly.

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We support organic growth.

We connect research projects with investors and companies, and support the formation of innovative health & life science startups and the startup scene in many ways. We have an active role in Health Incubator Helsinki, a unique development environment for research-based health startups.

We attract investments.

We help international corporations and investors enter our ecosystem and find valuable opportunities and partnerships. We promote the strengths of Helsinki Metropolitan and Finland with the aim of building strategic investments.

Here are some of the things we can do for you:

Connect potential business partners
Tell us what you expect from a business partnership. We may know someone with similar expectations.
Connect you with testbeds and living labs
Want to take your product to the ultimate test? There are plenty of opportunities and if you don’t know where to start, start from us.
Connect you with world-class research
Greater Helsinki is home to unique clinical research initiatives, especially in the field of oncology. There are also thrilling advances in the field of “one health”, where human and animal medical sciences meet. Just to name a few of the most obvious ones.

Help investors and startups meet
We’re an active matchmaker that organises meetings and introductions case by case. Get in touch to learn more.
Help research initiatives get commercial
We cooperate with universities that have identified potential scientific spin-offs. Health Capital Helsinki is also an active partner of SPARK Finland.
Spread your news
Want to share your news or events? We’re happy to help. And by ordering our newsletter and following our social media accounts, you can also see what other ecosystem members have going on.

Help startups get started
Health Capital Helsinki is an operational partner at Health Incubator Helsinki. We coach and mentor, and organise trainings when needed.
Help companies grow and get international
Whenever we see a possibility to introduce one of our startups to international contacts, we do that. And we actively seek contact with potential international partners that could be beneficial for our companies.
Take things to the next level
We want to boost health and life sciences related R&D and the digitalisation of healthcare. Also we believe that health outcomes of new technology can and should be measured. No strings attached; we are on a mission to change the world.

Health Capital Helsinki team

Let us help you navigate in the Helsinki Metropolitan health ecosystem.

Alliance partners

Health Capital Helsinki is supported by a public alliance of the largest cities, hospital and educational institutions in Finland.

Steering group

Marja-Leena Rinkineva
Director of Economic Development, City of Helsinki

Deputy: Santtu von Bruun, City of Helsinki

Sanna Svahn
Head of Social and Health Services, City of Espoo

Deputy: Tuula Antola, City of Espoo

Visa Honkanen
Director of Strategic Development, HUS Helsinki University Hospital

Deputy: Pekka Kahri, HUS Helsinki University Hospital

Sari Heikkinen
Director Research Program, Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Deputy: Sirpa Lassila, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences

Risto Renkonen
Professor, Dean Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki University

Deputy: Olli Silvennoinen, Helsinki University

Markus Mäkelä
Director of the Aalto Health Platform & Executive-in-Residence, Aalto University

Deputy: Janne Laine, Aalto University

Helsinki is the capital of Finland, with a vision to be the world’s most functional city.

Espoo is the second largest city and the Finnish capital of innovation.

HUS Helsinki University Hospital is the largest health care provider in Finland and one of the largest in Europe.

The University of Helsinki is Finland’s largest university. The Faculty of Medicine and HiLIFE Helsinki Institute of Life Science conduct and support globally top-level research.

Aalto University is one of the country’s main innovation players with health & well-being as a strategic focus.

Metropolia is the largest University of Applied Sciences. Metropolia, Haaga-Helia and Laurea work in strategic partnership.

Haaga-Helia is a strongly business orientated University of Applied Sciences.

Laurea University of Applied Sciences focuses on welfare and health in RDI and education.

Collaboration partners

Together we are more! Health Capital Helsinki collaborates with various organisations in Finland and internationally. If we cannot provide the service that you need, maybe one of our partners can.