Hub for Health & Life Sciences Entrepreneurship

Terkko Health Hub is a community, a co-working space and an event venue focusing on health and life sciences entrepreneurship.

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About Us

Terkko Health Hub is a startup community, a co-working space and an event venue focusing on health and life sciences. We are located in the heart of Helsinki’s medical campus and provide various services, events and programmes for our community in collaboration with local and global partners.

COMPANIES

76

PEOPLE

206

VISITORS A YEAR

20 000

MONEY RAISED

125 M€

Enablers

The mission of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Helsinki is to conduct high-quality research and provide research-based undergraduate and postgraduate education in medicine and dentistry. The Faculty educates health care specialists, including physicians, dentists, psychologists and speech therapists as well as Master’s degree holders in translational medicine.

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HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science supports high quality life science research across the University of Helsinki’s campuses and faculties. HiLIFE builds on existing strengths and new recruits and partnerships to create an attractive international environment for researchers to solve grand challenges in health, food, and environment.

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HUS – Helsinki University Hospital offers specialized medical care based on high-level clinical medical research. It is a Joint Authority formed by 24 municipalities aiming to offer patients timely and equal access to specialized medical care.

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What Do We Offer?

Terkko Health Hub is a startup community, a co-working space, and an event venue focusing on health and life sciences entrepreneurship. Our mission is to promote a new form of collaboration between entrepreneurship, research, and healthcare and offer a helping hand to make our startups – Terkkonians – grow and flourish. We provide various support services and events for our community with the help of our wide network and corporate partners.

Photo by Eeva-Stiina Niemi

A man pitching in front of investors at Terkko Health Hub

Bridging Academia and Entrepreneurship

Terkko Health Hub is the biggest health hub in Finland. We house startups, researchers, corporates, the entrepreneurship society of the University of Helsinki – Helsinki Think Company, and a unique three-year incubator programme, Health Incubator Helsinki by The City of Helsinki.

Located in the heart of Helsinki’s medical campus, we are at the junction of the HUS University Hospital, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki, and HiLIFE, the Helsinki Institute of Life Science.

Our Annual Reports

Are you interested in taking a closer look at our story and the steps our community has taken in past years? Here you can check out our annual reports!

Annual Report 2023

Annual Report 2022

Annual Report 2021

Annual Report 2020

Annual Report 2019

Annual Report 2018