Value proposition

Connecting tech, design and business talent from the Nordics with top startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Startuplifers is on a mission to nurture the next generation of future builders in the Nordics.

Our story began in 2011 with a group of students from Aalto University’s entrepreneurial community. They wanted to change the negative attitude towards entrepreneurship and make it more accessible to emerging talent.

With this mission in mind, we've sent over 250 ambitious students and graduates to fast-growing startups in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn from the world’s largest tech ecosystem. In the process, they’ve realised that they, too, can become the creators of the future. Our goal is to help them find the confidence to create world-changing innovations themselves. And that’s why we do it not-for-profit.

To fulfill our mission, we send talented tech, design and business students and graduates from the Nordics to work at some of the best startup companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. To ensure the quality of the talent’s experience, we keep the bar high for the selected partners. That's why we've mainly collaborated with alumni startups from top-tier accelerator programs like Y Combinator, StartX and AngelPad. Some of our partner companies include Coinbase, Webflow, Applied Intuition, Curology, UnifyID, Safety Wing and Synack. The majority of our over 200 alumni are now playing an essential role in the fastest-growing Nordic startups like Wolt, Varjo, Blok, Singa, Valohai, Matchmade, Smartly.io and many more.

Check out our open opportunities: http://startuplifers.org/positions

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