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Build your future at KTH

As a student at KTH, you are at the heart of one of Europe’s strongest startup ecosystems.

KTH Innovation is KTH’s startup hub and launchpad for students who want to build the companies of the future. Here, you get qualified support to test your ideas, validate your market, build your team, develop your first product, and launch your startup.

Curious about entrepreneurship? Join our events, become part of a startup team, or explore an idea and see where it takes you.

Already building a startup? Take the next step with support from KTH Innovation’s experienced business development coaches and a strong network of investors, partners, and alumni.

KTH Innovation’s support is completely free of charge, and we take no equity in your company. You can get started at any time. We stand by your side throughout the entire journey.

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Build your startup with us

  • A dedicated business development coach who challenges, guides, and supports you from idea to launch.

  • A team of people firmly on your side, here to help you take the right decisions.

  • Access to early-stage funding for activities such as prototyping, verification, or market validation.

  • A community of founders. Build alongside others who are dedicated to their startups.

  • Access to KTH Innovation’s house at Teknikringen 1, a creative environment in the heart of campus.

  • Support with agreements, company structure, and IP to ensure you build on the right foundation from day one.

  • Programs that accelerate your development, both at KTH and at leading global innovation hubs.

  • Matching with co-founders and key competencies to strengthen your team.

  • An international network of investors, mentors, partners, customers, and thousands of alumni.

We support innovative and tech-based ideas and early-stage startups where a core part of the founding team are current students or researchers at KTH.

If you don't have an idea (yet)

  • Join a startup team. Scroll down to see which teams are recruiting right now!
  • Come to events and workshops where you can learn about idea development, meet startups and network. Scroll down to find our calendar.
  • Join a program that will help you get started
  • Spend the day with us at Teknikringen 1. Our premises are open to everyone every weekday between 07.30-16.30.
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Visit us at Teknikringen 1

Teknikringen 1 is the meeting place for innovation and entrepreneurship at KTH. The building is open for everyone every weekday from 07.30-16.30.

Image: Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and KTH professor Danica Kragic at Teknikringen 1, spring 2023.

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“I’m very impressed with the work done by the teams I met. There’s obviously a vibrant startup community here and lots of great talent."

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet at a visit to KTH Innovation in May 2023.

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Our innovation support model has been inspired by NASA's Technology Readiness Level. It is used by hundreds of organizations in the world, like Imperial College and Vinnova.

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Develop at your own pace

KTH Innovation Access is the program for those who want to grow at their own pace. Join at any time, and stay for as long as you need.

Get a dedicated business development coach, access to funding and networks, support with patents and agreements, and help building a strong team.

Who can take part?

Teams with innovative and tech-based ideas and early-stage startups where the core founding team are current students or researchers at KTH.

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Grow in a supportive community

KTH Innovation Launch is a program for promising startup projects from KTH. In this program, which gives you a year of development in a supportive community, many successful startups have started their journey.

Who can join?

Teams led by KTH students, researchers or employees.

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Meet the global market

In the Brighter program you get inspiration and learn about the global market from local experts in some of the world's leading innovation ecosystems.

Who can join?

Teams led by KTH students, researchers or employees. Application is also open to students and employees at universities cooperating with KTH within the Innovation Offices structure. Teams currently supported by Sting can also apply.

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AI Launchpad

The AI Launchpad is a pioneering pan-European accelerator program designed to advance the field of artificial intelligence by supporting startups that emerge from European universities.

The program operates across six hubs: INiTS in Vienna, DTU Skylab in Lyngby, Campus Founders in Heilbronn, ETH AI Center and Talent Kick in Zurich, KTH Innovation in Stockholm, and XPLORE Venture Creator in Munich.

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Form a team and develop an idea

Ideate is a program where students from SSE, KTH, KI and GIH get together to form teams and create ideas working to solve global challenges.

In collaboration with SSE Business Lab.

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Relativity Collective

The Relativity Collective is a highly selective, pan-European entrepreneurship program for Europe’s most ambitious students. We bring together exceptional talent from top universities to form a deeply connected cohort designed to accelerate ambition, collaboration, and company building across borders.

Run by KTH Innovation in collaboration with ETH Zurich, Technical University of Munich, University of Oxford, Aalto University and CDTM.

Beatrice Ionascu

Inspiring a new generation of programmers

Dora studied the master's programme in ICT Innovation and Beatrice (in the picture) studied the master's programme in Machine Learning. They want to make coding fun and accessible for girls. During their studies, they created imagiLabs, a startup that combines creative coding with a programmable accessory.

Porkchop

Reinventing the satellite

Matija and Victor both studied the master's programme in Aerospace Engineering. They started the space-tech company porkchop as KTH students. Two years later, their nanosatellite propulsion system had circled the earth.

Ellure

Solving the issue of overproduction

Selah from China and Marc from the Netherlands both studied the master's programme in ICT Innovation. They wanted to tackle overproduction and waste in the cosmetics industry, so they started Ellure. Their 3D printer can produce lipstick in 10 thousand different colours in just a minute.

Riedia

Making local news accessible

Riedia was founded by KTH master's students Xuecong, Melker, Rebecca, Carlos, and Rafael. They started Riedia to help you stay informed with local news, anywhere in any language. They're building a news platform with their own translation software that they say outperforms Google translate.

Impact makers