Asiakasnäkymä

Free business consulting for those interested in entrepreneurship and existing businesses

We can provide you with business consulting, free of charge, when you are considering whether entrepreneurship is the right choice for you. A personal consultation with a business advisor will guide you forward.

Service implementation:

Hybrid service (combination of remote and contact)

Life situation and service category:

Interested in entrepreneurship,

Setting up a business,

Business development

Service language:

Finnish

Swedish

English

Russian

Charges:

The service is free of charge

Service accessibility

Possibility of easy language service

Who is the service for?

We serve everyone – primarily Vantaa residents – who is interested in entrepreneurship and starting out as an entrepreneur, regardless of their age or background. Our special area of expertise is immigrant entrepreneurship. Our services are available in Finnish, Swedish, English and Russian.

As an active Vantaa-based entrepreneur, you will receive support for various changes and at different stages of your business’s life cycle. Examples of such situations include financing your business, changes of ownership, business development and hiring an employee. Your business can also make use of our free-of-charge expert clinics, such as the legal clinic and change of ownership clinic.

Participant’s municipality of residence:

Vantaa

Age:

All people of working age

How can I participate in the service?

Make a free appointment with a business advisor via our online calendar at https://business.vantaa.fi/en/start-company. For appointment booking or brief enquiries, you can also request a call-back by calling 09839 20000 or send questions by email to yritysneuvonta@vantaa.fi.

Choose the desired type of service in our appointment calendar. You can choose to hold the personal consultation either in person at our office or remotely via Teams. Additionally, you can choose the business advisor and the language in which you wish to receive advice.

We regularly hold live information sessions about entrepreneurship, free of charge. Everyone is welcome to attend these sessions. Sign up for them on our website in the ‘Tapahtumat’ (Events) section. On our website, we also share information about entrepreneurship events organised by our cooperation partners.

Conditions for participating in the service:

You are welcome to contact our business advisory services if you are interested in entrepreneurship, regardless of your background and situation in life.

Benefits of participating in the service:

By using our advisory services, you can make sure that you take into account everything that you need to consider as an entrepreneur, thereby avoiding the pitfalls present during a business’s first steps. The advisory services will provide you with practical advice on your path to entrepreneurship, from the business idea to registering your business.

More than 80% of businesses that consult business advisory services before starting their business are still in operation after five years (compared to 50% among those that did not consult business advisory services). Therefore, we recommend that you also make use of entrepreneurship professionals.

More information about processing personal data: Processing personal data at the City of Vantaa Business Development Services.

We primarily process personal data in order to manage the client relationship, but we also use it for reporting/statistical purposes and to provide information and market our operations. We process personal data to fulfil the contract (business advisory services), to fulfil our legal obligations and on the basis of legitimate interest (reporting/statistics) and consent (marketing). We may also send client feedback surveys to our clients and use the results of these surveys to develop our operations. In summary, our legitimate interest particularly concerns increasing awareness of our activities, developing our activities and maintaining functional cooperation networks. The full version of our privacy notice and register description is available on our website at business.vantaa.fi/en.

How is the service organised?

If you intend to apply for the start-up grant, you can start preparing your business plan and calculations before the consultation. We can help you refine your plan and calculations as needed. The templates are available on our website in the section titled ‘Start-up grant’.

Links:

Business Vantaa - Start a Company

Where and when?

Place

Elannontie 3, 01510 Vantaa (Yrityskeskus Leija)

Location additional info

YritysVantaan toimisto sijaitsee Vantaan Pakkalassa lähellä Jumboa. Toimisto on toisessa kerroksessa.

Palvelun kielet toimipaikassa

Finnish,

Swedish,

English,

Russian

Weekday and time

Mon at 08:00 - 16:00

Tue at 08:00 - 16:00

Wed at 08:00 - 16:00

Thu at 08:00 - 16:00

Fri at 08:00 - 16:00

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Start-up grant

The start-up grant is a discretionary grant intended for entrepreneurs who are starting out. Its purpose is to support the entrepreneur’s income in the initial phase of their full-time business activities.