Our prezo on seed acceleration feat. Startup Sauna at TC Moscow on 5th of December 2011.

1. Seed acceleration overview

2. CURRENT STARTUP TRENDS

3. 6 TYPES OF STARTUPS
Lifestyle
Small Business
Scalable
Buyable
Large Corporation
Social

4. Customerdevelopmentnotproductdevelopment
Technology is nice – butit’sallabout the value

5. Build, measure, learn…

6. Pivot &Iteration
Ifit’snotworking out, goback to the
drawingboard and doitagain

7. Fundingraisingbased on traction and team

8. HOW DO STARTUP ACCELERATORS WORK?

9. Applicationprocess

10. Selectedstartupsgetpre-seedinvestment,
usually in exchange for equity

11. Mentoring, networking, keynotes…

12. Demoday
Exposure and “Validation”

13. SEED ACCELERATORS OUT THERE

14. World’s leading open sourced accelerator

15. Startup Sauna developsNorthern Europe and Russia into a
global hub for entrepreneurship

17. Our region has amazing technology…
but we suck at commercializing it

18. Startup Sauna open sources seed acceleration
in order to build a sustainable startup ecosystem…

20. 6 weeks at Aalto Venture Garage
Coaching
Matchmaking
Keynotes
Legals
Customers

21. Silicon Valley

22. Demo Day
Twice a year, investors, industry experts, bloggers and media
gather into one location to review our region’s best startups

23. Currently, Startup Sauna focuses mostly on ICT and mobile
Medical, clean tech & more traditional industries in the future

24. 500 startups applied in 2011
8% of them got into Startup Sauna

25. 2 years, 3 Batches, 38 teams

26. 7.9M€ raised fund to date in total:
53% teams: avg 60K€ before Sauna (1.2M€)
26% teams: avg 160K€ during Sauna (1.6M€)
66% teams: 200K€ after Sauna (5M€)

27. Future?

28. Antti Ylimutka / Wingman Ville Simola / Captain
@andynosebone @smolaholic
antti@startupsauna.com ville@startupsauna.com