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Midnight Pitch Fest in Oulu 22.-23.8

Midnight Pitch Fest is looking for scalable startup businesses with large market potential in four categories to pitch. Startups, apply now! Midnight Pitch Fest is a rock festival style pitching and start-up event, which will be held August 22-23 in Kuusisaari Island, Oulu.

Monsta Points launched in App Store

Adapkit, a startup grown in Protomo Tampere has launched Monsta Points, an innovative digital reward chart for iPad that makes it easy for parents to set goals, and truly motivate their children to earn the rewards they really want, including new apps and games.

Summer in Protomo Tampere

Protomo and New Factory won't quiet down for the summer months. Protomo teams and the startups in New Factory are continuing to keep the co-working space busy.

Protomo expert services and facilitation are on summer holiday until August 5th.

During the summer, Protomo doesn't provide any expert services or organize events. Don't worry though, you can follow New Factory's event calendar to see what else is happening at the factory! New Factory gathers people for events, trainings and workshops also during summer.

Aalto Protomossa Tuote- ja palveluinnovaattorin koulutusohjelman uusi ryhmä (ryhmä 6) täydessä vauhdissa

Ohjelmaan valitussa 37 henkilön ryhmässä on laaja kokemus tekniikan, taloustieteen, taiteen ja kulttuurituotannon aloilta. Monipuolisen taustansa ansiosta ryhmässä on mahdollista jalostaa kiinnostavia liikeideoita tuote- ja palvelusektorille.

Frontlé won the pitching competition

Every night the city is full of interesting music events - You just have to find them first...

Congrats to Spaceship winners!

Over 9,000 people from all corners of the world participated the NASA Space Apps Challenge.  Spaceship, the local event at New Factory gathered 12 great teams and here's the top 2 winners!  These teams will progress to the global judging round. The results will be announced in May.

And the local winners are...

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...Meteorienteers and Spaceveggies!

Holiday Greetings

New Factory and it's co-working space will be open for member teams and startups during the Easter.

The front door in Väinö Linnan aukio will have special opening hours: Friday 29.3 and Monday 1.4 @ 10-18. Other days the door is open normally.

Happy Easter Holidays everyone!

Sytyttäjä-liikeideakilpailu käynnistynyt

Sytyttäjä-liikeideakilpailu

Sytyttäjä 2013 -liikeideakilpailu on alkanut. Huhtikuun 18. päivään mennessä kaikkien kiinnostuneiden toivotaan kuvaavan liikeideansa ja osallistuvan kilpailuun, jonka maalina on synnyttää uusia kasvuyrityksiä.

Voittajaidea saa tänä vuonna 5000 euroa. Lisäksi tulee asiantuntijasparrausta idean jalostamiseen ja yrityksen perustamiseen.

TeamUp nominated 2013 Red Herring Europe Finalist

TeamUp, a startup from New Factory has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region.

Ministry of employment and the economy Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland - TEK Sitra - The Finnish Innovation Fund The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries Nokia UPM AppCampus VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland