Your local guide to business in Helsinki
Helsinki Business Hub is the international trade and investment promotion agency for the Finnish capital region. We help foreign companies to set-up their business, grow and develop in Greater Helsinki, which offers key business opportunities in (but not limited to) the following fields:
- Information and communications technology
- Health: personalized health & med tech
- Smart & clean solutions, especially related to energy, circular economy, smart buildings and smart mobility
- Hotel investments.
We’ll help you throughout your journey to Finland and the Greater Helsinki area – from the initial consideration to establishing and expanding your business. Turn to us, if you are looking for the best location for your business, co-operation with Finnish companies, deal flow from Finland or opportunities for expansion in Greater Helsinki. We provide you with the right information and contacts and identify the best growth opportunities for you.
Our services are always tailor-made for your business needs and are free of charge.
Business Finland is the most important innovation funding, internationalization and invest in organization in Finland. The Smart Mobility Finland program by Business Finland supports Finnish companies to benefit from the changing transport sector and attracts international players to join Finnish ecosystems.
Main focus areas for the program are digital ships, smart ports, automotive industry, MaaS, smart forest industry logistics, smart rail, trams and drones.
The services for Finnish companies include innovation funding, internationalization services e.g. trade missions, networking and market intelligence.
For foreign companies the program provides invest in Finland services for finding the best partners, joining and building ecosystems and testbeds and setting up R&D in Finland.
Read more about the program here: www.businessfinland.fi/en/smartmobility
Vaisala is a global leader in weather, environmental, and industrial measurements. Building on over 80 years of experience, Vaisala provides its customers with reliable measurement solutions and services for better decision-making, safety, and efficiency.
Vaisala RoadAI (Road Artificial Intelligence) is a service for efficient infrastructure management. The service is suitable for existing road and rail monitoring processes as well as new construction projects, but it can also be used to monitor a variety of other environments and applications. RoadAI supports maintenance processes by providing a streamlined way to capture visual feed from the field and refining it to valuable information for decision making.
In the future, weather will have an even bigger impact on the transport of people and goods. Based on this, we set a new direction for our digital business and established Vaisala Digital in the fall of 2019. The mission and objective of the business is to complement Vaisala’s ability to provide our customers’ weather-critical operations with industry-leading decision support systems, where the services work seamlessly with Vaisala’s instruments. Our solutions provide authorities, contractors, and connected vehicle drivers with detailed insights of prevailing and forecasted road surface state along entire routes. Such data benefits also autonomous vehicles in the future.
