Author: Marita Kamula

Breaking Barriers: The Future of Female Founders

Posted on by Marita Kamula
April 11, 2024
16:00 – 18:00

Join us for an empowering event dedicated to celebrating and supporting female founders within the startup ecosystem. “Breaking Barriers: The Future of Female Founders” is organized in order to inspire, educate, and connect women who are shaping the future of business.

The event aims to open an empowering discussion on bridging the entrepreneurship gender gap. You’ll hear firsthand experiences, addressing the main challenges female founders encounter and gain insights into the journey of fundraising as a woman in startup business.

Highlights of the event:

  • Panel discussion: Learn from accomplished female founders and startup ecosystem players.
  • Networking opportunity: Connect with like-minded people and fellow founders.
  • Empowerment: Support and equip female visionaries for success in the entrepreneurial landscape of tomorrow.

Meet our panelists:

  • Kaija Pöysti – Angel Investor. Entrepreneur, Board member, Advisor and LP in some of the biggest VC funds in Finland.
  • Helene Auramo – CEO of Prönö. Experienced Leader, Board Member, Entrepreneur and Founder.
  • Inga Chernova – Chair of International Working Women of Finland. Female business doer and coach.

Agenda:
16:00 Doors open
16:10 Welcome words
16:15-17:00 Panel discussion
17:00-18:00 Networking

The event is organized on Thur 11th of April from 16:00-18:00 at Platform6, 5th floor. Participation is free, but requires registration.


The event is hosted and organized by Red Brick and Tribe Tampere.

Date

April 11, 2024
16:00 – 18:00
Register here

Kick-off Spring Accelerator ’24

Posted on by Marita Kamula

Red Brick Accelerator welcomes 8 innovative startups to the spring program!

This week we kicked-off the Red Brick’s spring accelerator program with a batch of 8 new startups!

Founders are on a mission to solve important relevant problems out there. From optimizing railway traffic to reducing B2B emissions, using AI for sustainable supplier selection, and revolutionizing municipal asset management.

Meet the Red Brick spring batch ’24:

  1. Weivi – optimizing railway traffic with the goal of fixing train delays and increasing train traffic capacity.
  2. UpCycleo – simplifies & automates sustainable sourcing to tackle 90% of B2B emissions.
  3. Omahal – Cloud-based asset management platform for municipalities.
  4. Texus – a marketplace platform for idle spare parts management in the manufacturing sector.
  5. Done – a marketplace that connects local service providers with buyers.
  6. Medipal – a solution empowering individuals to manage their medical records, reports, and prescriptions securely and conveniently.
  7. Costifier – an AI software helping enterprises achieve cost-effective and sustainable supplier selection.
  8. Life Recorded – connecting generations by recording the extraordinary stories behind ordinary lives.

We are looking at an exciting 8 weeks ahead. Customer discovery, experimentation, strengthening value propositions, working on GTM strategies. And pleeeenty of feedback. Setting up a strong foundation for their next steps and taking companies to the next level.

The energy within the batch bounced up high from the get-go, with peer-support and exploring synergies with each other during the kick-off meeting.

Stay tuned as we follow the progress of these incredible startups. We are excited to be part of their journey, supporting ambitious changemakers and ramping up the development of their ventures.

What is your team culture? session + afterwork

Posted on by Marita Kamula
March 14, 2024
15:00 – 17:00

Welcome to join us on Thur 14th of March from 15:00 at Platform6, 5th floor for a guest session, followed by the community afterwork hangout.

In the session, you’ll learn how to become intentional about creating a culture that allows everyone to lean into their strengths. You will walk away with practical tools for unlocking everyone’s full potential so that you can set your team up for success. The session topic is a perfect fit for team leads, founders, HRs and anyone looking to create an efficient team culture.

The topic coach is Philippe Arnez from Organi.Health who has experience helping companies in creating healthy organizations, and scale the culture during the stages of growth.
Philippe will be introducing the Working Genius assessment tool. It consists of a series of questions designed to identify an individual’s unique abilities, strengths, and work preferences, which are relevant in various contexts, such as problem-solving, communication, leadership, and collaboration. The results of a Working Genius assessment can be used to help individuals and teams understand their own strengths, identify gaps, and how they can take action to maximize their contribution to their team or organization, respectively.

The first 5 people to register for the event will get the Working Genius assessment tool for free.

After the session, we continue with casual afterwork networking with drinks & food!

Agenda:
15:00 Doors open
15:10 Welcome words
15:15 What is your team culture? session
16:15 Afterwork hangout and networking

Participation is free but registration is required.

The event is hosted and organized by Red Brick.

Date

March 14, 2024
15:00 – 17:00
Register here