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4 months ACCELERATION PROGRAM
Our four month program will ignite your digital health and wellness startup. The program is focused on growth and scalability, with design & user experience, distribution & customer acquisition, and lean startup practices & metrics. In short, we help you build and validate your product and find distribution partners for growth.
We hand-picked an international team of over 100 mentors including marketing & operations executives, medical experts, serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and angel investors. They’ll provide your team day-to-day mentoring and the best network out there.
6 months of COWORKING SPACE
As a ArcticBlast startup you get to work at our Coworking space in the Otaniemi campus area, the center of innovation and new tech of Finland. The coworking space offers your team modern working facilities, professional-grade kitchen, and a buzzing digital health community.
We organize interesting and international healthtech events monthly, and have international investors and guests in the space almost every day.
Industry leading PARTNERS
With our industry leading partner companies we offer startups direct access to industry insight, cutting edge technology and global market outreach. You’ll get to build your product with our partners, work head to head with Samsung R&D people, and brainstorm with Sonera healthcare team.
Our partners are the best in their fields and share your interest to bring life changing products to the market. You will benefit from their international market knowledge and customer base, and receive invaluable coaching.
It takes only a few steps to ignite
Our ideal candidates are young, ambitious teams who have put passion into developing a product that will change people’s life and health for the better. We seek to work together with entrepreneurs that have a proven concept requiring support to reach growth and scalability.
Check the applicatiojn form for more information on the criteria. If you like what you see and find yourself wondering whether you could be the next, go ahead and pitch your great product to us!
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F.A.Q
ArcticBlast is a startup accelerator that is solely focused on health technologies and smart life. The accelerator program is run twice a year for 4 months at a time. Each time up to 15 early stage companies within the domain of health technologies and wellness are chosen for the program.
The accelerator offers companies an environment where to develop and grow their business: together with selected partners, the accelerator offers members a co-working space, a state-of-the-art training program which focuses on going from minimum viable product to minimum meaningful product, organizing of financing, assistance, and connections within marketing and international product distribution. Our partners are with us to work with our portfolio startups. They will help you with technology, market insights, distribution and beyond.
We are part of your team. We don’t just advise you, we work with you shoulder to shoulder each and every day to build successful stories. At Vertical our goal is to get you to launch your idea to the world. This usually means to get you to the point you have built something impressive enough to get your first paid customers and start to scale your business. Together, with our team, partners and mentors, we will brainstorm, plan, design, sell, and if needed start all over again with you – we share your passion to build companies.
Our partners are an integral part of the ArcticBlast accelerator program. In fact, their curiosity prompts us to look at specific trends and requirements. In other words we work together with them to find and select the most promising companies to revolutionize healthcare together. Our program has been designed to facilitate such collaboration from day one. We can promise you a unique and direct access to these industry leaders.
Our corporate partners are various industry leaders across the value chain. They will interoperate and connect to redefine and provide tomorrow’s healthcare solutions together with our startups.
Latest technologies from various domains of expertise are converging to disrupt traditional healthcare. Tomorrow’s healthcare innovations will be built on a foundation of several competences. We are providing a new way to accelerate innovation where industry expertise and lean startups are blended. Each of our partners brings a unique access to technology, market insights, distribution and beyond to our portfolio companies. In that respect, expect more large companies to join us soon.
We invest in the most promising companies at the end of our Accelerator Program. We believe long-term alignment with companies is the only way to build great value, and our 4 months long program is the best way to establish such alignment.
We first want to help our portfolio companies to find the right path, and when they do, we financially commit to help them reach the next milestone.
We don’t take equity from participating startups, but in exchange for the program ArcticBlast receives a right of first refusal to invest in the company with a 25% discount within one year. When we do invest, we receive normal stock, which is just like founders’ stock. You maintain complete control of your company and we remain committed to make you successful.