Vaasa Entrepreneurship Society
Vol. 1Startup
Window

Build a real company in 72 hours. In public.

8-10.4
April 2026
9-12
Selected
72h
Non-Stop
30K+
Watching
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How It Works
Three days.
One rule: ship it.

You enter with nothing. You leave with a product, a client, and proof that you can build under pressure. Everything happens behind glass. The city is watching.

72h
Sprint
3
Per Team
10+
Mentors
1
Goal: Client
DAY 01

Lock in. Start building.

Teams form. Problems get identified. Mentors push you to commit. Not to a slide deck, but to a real direction. By evening, you pitch your first version.

DAY 02

Sell it or kill it.

Talk to real customers. Iterate based on real feedback. Sales workshops, customer outreach, and pressure from mentors who've done this before.

DAY 03

Demo Day. Prove it.

Live demos. Partner panels. Livestreamed to anyone watching. This is where you show what 72 hours of building actually produces.

Why This Is Different
Not a hackathon.
Not a workshop.
You build behind glass. Thousands of people walk past while you work. There's nowhere to hide.
No prizes. No judges. The only metric is: did you get a client?
Mentors from Slush, VC firms, and Finland's startup ecosystem are in the room. Not on a Zoom call.
This isn't education. It's execution. You leave with something real or you learn why you didn't.
The Experience

Three days of focused intensity. Whiteboards filling up. Customer calls happening in real time. Mentors dropping in unannounced. Your team sprinting toward a deadline that doesn't care about your feelings.

This is what starting a company actually feels like. Compressed into a weekend. No lectures. No theory. Just the thing itself.
Schedule
Wed 8 to Fri 10 April
01
Wednesday — Kickoff
15:00Opening — VES
15:10VASEK / Startia
15:30Kim Väisänen
16:00Team formation & ideation
18:00Building begins
02
Thursday — Full Build Day
All-day building, testing & customer outreach
Mentor sessions throughout the day
Iteration & validation
03
Friday — Demo Day
17:00Opening — VES
17:10Joel Sunabacka
17:20Demo presentations
18:00Noora Fagerström
18:30Joakim Strand
Livestreamed
"We help people realize their potential and create a spark — not just in business, but life in general."
Miika Huttunen, Co-founder VES, former CEO of Slush, founder of Realm
Supported By
The ecosystem behind it.

Regional leaders, venture capital, and Finland's startup infrastructure — backing the next generation of founders from Vaasa.

LähiTapiola
Supporting Partner
VASEK
Regional Development
Startia
Startup Services
Rewell
Venue Partner
Pohjanmaan Kauppakamari
Chamber of Commerce
Vaasan Yrittäjät
Entrepreneurs Network
Teams
Meet the Builders

Selected teams working across health tech, game development, and more.

COMING SOON

Full team profiles and project descriptions will appear here.

Location
Rewell, Vaasa
Viljos Square & Spot 140

City centre. Market square. The second largest shopping centre in Ostrobothnia. You build where the city lives.

~3M
Visitors / year
8,000+
Daily
1st
Floor
Rewell, Viljos Square, 1st Floor
Coming Autumn 2026
Startup Window Vol. 2

Same format. 10x the scale. More teams. More mentors. Bigger stage.

Vol. 1 is the proof. Vol. 2 is the movement.

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