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Marketplace All-in-One

Can Finland take Europe’s startup crown?

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Building work has started in the Finnish capital Helsinki on what’s expected to become the biggest startup campus in Europe. Finland’s government says it wants the small Nordic nation to offer the best startup ecosystem in Europe. The BBC’s Maddy Savage has this story.

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Finland is building one of the biggest startup campuses in Europe, 13 football fields in size. It technically already exists in smaller form. It's called Maria Zero One, and it's set to expand to accommodate more than 6,000 entrepreneurs.

1:45.7

The goal is to build an ecosystem, as the BBC's Maddie Savage reports from Finland's capital, Helsinki.

1:51.8

Yellow diggers are shoring up mounds of earth as construction workers prepare to lay the foundations for three new buildings at Maria Zero One,

2:00.1

a non-profit hub for startups that opened in 2016

2:03.6

and is partly funded by local taxpayers.

2:06.6

Sarreterunaberg is its CEO.

2:08.6

Well, right now, we are the largest startup hub in the Nordics,

2:11.6

but what we're actually aiming at becoming

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