Ground control to Slush Tokyo 2019! We have a little over a month left to the event, and we want to make sure you know that you can still apply for your startup pass and demo booth. Here’s how: 1. Apply for your pass on the Slush Platform 2. Wait for your application to be […]

Last January 11, 2019, Slush Tokyo held its first official side event for Slush Tokyo 2019. The Media Roundtable was created for attending media companies to meet the team, get exclusive news and hear about secret projects that have yet to be publicly released. The event started off with a brief history lesson on how […]

Ever wondered what it would be like to sit and chat with an investor? Curious about what’s going on in their mind? We all know about the founders and their vision – so we thought of shifting the spotlight. Today Slush Tokyo 2019 launched Investor Insights, its brand-new VC initiative comprising of a series of […]

Hello to all startups out there and everyone considering Slush Tokyo 2019! Here’s a little breakdown of how this event works: So you have your startup pass – with this you can attend stage programs, access our matchmaking tools, and consult with mentors at the meeting area. *applications for pitch contest are now closed. But […]

Although Slush Tokyo’s big event only happens during the first quarter, smaller events are held throughout the year. One of the projects that has been going on for the past few years is the Recruiting Event. With Japan’s traditional recruitment scheme, Slush Tokyo aims to give students another option and view when it comes to […]

Japan’s biggest startup event, SLUSH Tokyo, is looking for pitch contest applicants! 22-23, February 2019 at Big Sight, Tokyo. As the biggest all-English, non-profit, student-run organization, Slush Tokyo has gathered over 6000 attendees, 600 startups, in just 4 years of its existence, with the mission to redefine and nurture the Japanese startup ecosystem. Please apply […]

for Startups, Inc. and Slush Tokyo has struck a whole new partnership aimed at driving the startup ecosystem forward.Co-hosting and rebranding the Meeting Area plus introducing a Mentoring Program aimed to help startups of all stages. for Startups has been a long time Slush Tokyo partner since 2015. In this collaboration, for Startups, Inc. will […]

Global Impact Community event was where Slush guests interested in sustainable development and impact ventures came together to turn their thoughts into action. This year, the event was co-hosted with Demos Helsinki, the leading Nordic think tank that works towards a sustainable, fair society. The focus of the night was on measuring impact, supporting sustainable […]

This year, Slush launched a sustainability competition for our partners that awards the top most sustainable booths at Slush. It’s all been a part of our mission to make our event more sustainable, and since a large part of the event space is produced by and for partners, it’s crucial to get everyone onboard. Those […]

Eight young researchers pitched new research ideas at Slush at the research pitching finals. The main prize, a 100 000 euro research grant, went to Sandra Jernström from Karolinska Institute, who’s winning idea strives to find a new kind of treatment to cancer. Sandra Jernström aims to find a new kind of treatment to cancer […]

Slush Tokyo 2019 will be giving an exclusive chance to startups with demo booths – SHOWTECH TIME – an opportunity to pitch to customers, whether it be B2B or B2C. Yes, you read that right. Apart from having a booth where startups may exhibit their products and/or services, there will be 30 stage slots for […]

The computing industry has a problem. Christina Sass, the Co-founder & President of Andela, joined Slush to discuss the issues behind tech-talent recruitment. Andela is a software engineer and developer recruitment organization, mostly recruiting from Africa.  Christina took the Founder Stage to share her insights on the importance of training and how can a tech company […]

First there was 100. Then there was 15. Then three continued. And today those three finally became one.  Meeshkan was announced the winner of Slush 100 on the Founder Stage this evening. Meeshkan is developing a framework for interactive machine learning. The main purpose is to help teams train machine learning models faster. All of […]

On Evergreen stage today, Alex Bangash, the managing director and CEO of Trusted Insight and Jyri Engeström, Co-founder and general partner at Yes VC had a fireside chat about the trends in the VC scene at the Evergreen stage. Let’s take a look at the trends that stood out. Entrepreneurs can have portfolio too The […]

Brian Halligan, the Founder & CEO of Hubspot opened up the Founder stage on Day 2 by telling us what was the word of the year chosen by Dictionary.com – misinformation. There is a huge trust issue between buyers and sellers, which companies need to react to. This is where customer experience comes in. During […]

Slush Global Impact Accelerator (GIA) is a program created in collaboration with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and other global partners to support startups in emerging markets offering sustainable and social impact solutions. 19 startups flew to Helsinki on Dec 27 for the Slush GIA bootcamp with inspiring training sessions, workshops and company […]

Today on Founder Stage we got the privilege to listen to four successful VCs discuss the current trends and innovations in the funding landscape. Hosted by the Managing Director at Sapphire Ventures Beezer Clarkson, the insights were shared by Alice Bentinck, Co-founder and General Partner at Entrepreneur First; Rebecca Lynn, Founder and Partner at Canvas […]

Anna Rosling is the co-founder of Gapminder Foundation and creator of Dollar Street, which is visualising what the world would look like if we were all living on the same street by photographing peoples’ homes all over the world. This year Rosling published the book called ‘Factfulness’, written together with Ola and Hans Rosling. At Slush, […]

Growth and profitability don’t necessarily rule each other out. Inevitably, at one point or another, founders are forced to prioritize between the two. Having made this difficult decision himself, Oisin Hanrahan took the Pink stage at Slush to tell us how Handy, the platform for booking household services, shifted focus from growth to profitability and how […]

The world of tomorrow is written with code. New solutions are desperately needed to produce skilled coders – from all walks of life. Ilkka Paananen, alongside an impressive lineup of big names of Finnish tech, introduced Hive, School for Coders which will open for applications on January 15th.  Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen started the conversation […]

Food has taken the hot seat in the battle for climate change. The more we know about the net impact of the food we grow, eat and waste, the more we realize how much room there is for improvement. Luckily for us, the new food tech companies are tackling some of the most pressing challenges […]

Andras Forgacs, the Co-founder and CEO of Modern Meadow took the Founder stage this year at Slush to share his story of creating the materials of the future. The company has created a material called Zoa™ – leather grown in a lab. Modern Meadow aims to change the material tech-industry by creating flexible and sustainable […]