Startups

A startup is a company that is only just validating its solution, its business model and its readiness for the market. A scaleup has already passed that stage and is focusing on increasing sales, exporting, building its team, and attracting investment. Corporations are at a more mature stage with a fixed structure, a larger team and a defined position in the market.

We help startups make fast and decisive progress towards growth. We help them with wording business plans and value propositions, validating the needs of customers, starting sales, improving investor readiness, and finding the right contacts. We also provide mentor support, access to practical training, a community, and special programmes that help companies progress from an initial idea to a functioning business.

The strength of the Tehnopol Accelerator is its network and its practical support. Our community has more than 170 mentors and experts and we hold more than 100 events and training sessions during the year that help startups learn what they need to do, make valuable contacts and move faster to the next stage of development.

We expect them above all to be dedicated, keen to learn, and ready to test their ideas in the real-world market. It is important to us that the team must be motivated and must want to grow, and it must make active use of the feedback from mentors and the opportunities of the programme. The Tehnopol Accelerator is of most benefit for companies that are operating consistently and are ready to tailor their solution to meet the actual needs of real clients.

You should apply if you do not want to have to develop your business on your own. The incubator can help you avoid the classic mistakes of the early stage, move forwards faster, and gain access to knowledge, contacts and opportunities that would otherwise take a long time to find. We want to help you grow your business in a sensible and ambitious way that meets the needs of the market.

Yes, Tehnopol helps companies to look beyond the Estonian market. Depending on the stage of development of your company and its focus, opportunities may arise to join international programmes, cooperation projects, delegations, and work to support export-readiness, and to access foreign partners and networks. Our role is to find the best next steps for developing the company at the international level as well.