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Friday, 6 November 2026
A long wooden shared table in a bright white-brick room with tall windows, set with several closed laptops, headphones and mugs, and no people.Startups·List

Coworking Helsinki: prices, areas and hours compared

Hot desk, fixed desk and private office prices from Helsinki coworking operators' own pages, read on 7 Oct 2026, with area, opening hours and VAT status.

By Afshin Hosseingholinezhad · 2 min read
A wooden workshop table with half-built electronics prototypes, a soldering iron on a stand, coiled wire, small tools and an open notebook, beside a window with a grey view over a town and water.Startups·List

Startup accelerators in Finland: a checked list of terms, equity and dates

5 min readInside a small bicycle repair workshop in autumn: hand tools hang on a wooden pegboard, a wheel sits in a truing stand on a workbench, and the open door shows a yellow birch and a lake.Business·Explainer

YEL insurance in Finland 2026: cost, income and pension for the self-employed

5 min readThe Slush 2025 meeting area in a dark hall: rows of numbered tables with small lamps, with people seated in pairs and talking, and others walking between the tables.Startups·How-To

Slush meeting tool: how to book meetings at Slush, step by step

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The Founder Stage at Slush 2025 in red and purple light, with people speaking on stage and a seated audience listening.Startups·Analysis

Slush 2025 recap: what happened, the figures and a founder's account

By SiltaNova Editorial · 7 min readFour people seated in red chairs and two standing on a stage in front of an orange screen with the Slush 100 competition graphic, one of them speaking into a microphone.Startups·Explainer

Slush 100 explained: how the competition works and what the winner gets

By SiltaNova Editorial · 4 min readTwo researchers look at a large screen showing abstract model visualisations in a university lab.AI·Guide

AI in Finland: companies, research and public support

By SiltaNova Editorial · 9 min readA Nordic harbour city on a winter morning, with modern waterfront buildings, a tram on the street and soft pink light over the sea.Startups·Guide

Finnish startup ecosystem: a founder's map of hubs, funders and events

By SiltaNova Editorial · 8 min read

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A hairdresser stands in her small, newly set-up salon on a winter morning, with one styling chair, a mirror and an open laptop on a side table.Business·How-To

How to register a toiminimi (sole trader) in Finland, step by step

Registering as a private trader is one €75 notification to PRH and one free notification to the Tax Administration. Here is each step of the Finnish-only YTJ service, translated, with the rules checked on 8 Oct 2026.

By SiltaNova Editorial · 5 min readA dark brick hall lit in blue and pink at Dream 2026 in Lahti, with the audience seated in rows facing a stage where two people stand in front of a large Dream screen and a StartHub banner hangs on the left wall.Startups·Analysis

Dream Lahti startup event 2026: winners, finalists, jury and prizes

Dream is StartHub's one-day startup event in Lahti. Here are the 2026 winners, the programme, the speakers, all 15 finalists, the jury and the prizes.

By SiltaNova Editorial · 7 min read
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