SLUSH 2025: WE TAKE YOU TO SLUSH IN HELSINKI!

SLUSH is an annual technology conference and one of the most important meeting places for the startup scene worldwide and will take place from 19.11.25 - 20.11.2025.

SLUSH connects startups, scaleups, investors and high-tech talent with leading international investors, executives and media. The startups hope to find funding for their company or partners for their projects and to get in touch with others in the industry.

In cooperation with the NBank as part of the state initiative Niedersachsen.next startup, hannoverimpuls GmbH supports the participation of a Lower Saxony delegation consisting of 15 startup teams from the Hanover region and the whole of Lower Saxony.

As an additional offer, five selected start-ups from the Lower Saxony delegation will have the opportunity to present themselves at the German Pitching Stage of the German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce/AHK Finland as part of a pitch at the SLUSH conference.

The costs for two tickets to SLUSH and four overnight stays in a hotel booked by NBank/hannoverimpuls GmbH are covered for up to two people per start-up. Accommodation is in a double room. The stay in Helsinki is planned from November 17 to 21, 2025.

The funding value per start-up is up to 5,000 euros.

Apply to us if your company

• have their registered office or a permanent establishment in Lower Saxony,
• are already founded at the time of application and are not older than 5 years (founding date from January 1, 2020),
• have a justified entrepreneurial interest in participating in SLUSH 2025,
• see themselves as outstanding ambassadors for the Lower Saxony delegation,
• fulfill the requirements of the de minimis regulation and
• have not yet been funded by NBank or hannoverimpuls GmbH to participate in SLUSH.

The selection process

The application documents should be sent by e-mail to: slush@nbank.de , subject: "SLUSH 2025 - Application".

The application deadline is May 26, 2024 and ends on June 22, 2025 (midnight). The date of receipt by the NBank counts.

NBank and hannoverimpuls GmbH are expected to decide on the awarding of funding by the beginning of July 2025.

There is no legal entitlement to funding.

You can also find more information about SLUSH 2025 at Nbank: https: //www.nbank.de/Service/Aktuelles/SLUSH-Konferenz-2025-in-Helsinki-Bewerbt-Euch-jetzt-für-eine-geförderte-Teilnahme

If you have any questions, please contact the NBank team or the Internationalization team by phone or e-mail.