Nestholma helps you innovate and renew your organization
We work with banks and insurance companies who want to go beyond startup hype and get tangible results: innovations, faster deals, organization-wide learnings by working with startups.
For startups, we offer a fast track to working with banks & insurance companies. That on top off support for growing their business and becoming ready to work with big financial institutions.
26
collaboration programs
10
countries
4x-8x
faster way of getting deals
Some of our customers include Nordea, OTP Bank, TEB, Nokia, Microsoft, EIT Digital, F-Secure, British Telecom, Telecom Italia, Elisa, Yle, etc.
This white paper explores the benefits of collaborating with startups on branding, innovation and learning.
It also reviews alternatives and best practices on collaboration.
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The way we do transactions (of all sorts) is changing. Technologies such as blockchain and AI have affected the way we do our banking, insurance, legal work, administration, investments, etc. But I’m preaching to the choir. Many of you who read this are already part of the next wave of fintech. Or they have the... read more. 
At Nestholma we believe in proximity. Employees of financial institutions and entrepreneurs need to stay close to learn from each other. We need to be there as well, to make sure collaboration happens productively. But… fintech startups are born global. Fintech startups are not bound by national borders. They need to look past the few... read more. 
We talk with a lot of interesting people every day (definitely one of the best perks of the job!). We learn every day from these smart people and their experiences and thought why not share all that with you. Cue our new monthly webinar series. The first six episodes focus on collaboration and specifically piloting.... read more. 
The best innovations come from collaboration. Yet most attempts at collaboration fail. Most corporates blame the lack of strategic alignment or maturity. Most startups blame bureaucracy and internal politics. And they’re both right: most of the time, there’s some building block missing. When you buy furniture, you wouldn’t leave half of the pieces “for later”.... read more. 
We have done 26 programs so far, but still, each new program makes us as excited as if it was the first one. And the same thing happened again with our latest program: startup accelerator with OTP Bank. Now it has already been a month since the Demo Day and the end of the program... read more. 
Corporations benefit in many ways from having an accelerator. In our whitepaper, we already analyzed those benefits in depth. But one question that is sometimes tricky for people is: how much? This is especially relevant when preparing a business case. Should you or should you not do an accelerator? What are the benefits, the costs,... read more. 
The startup event of the year, Slush, was last week and that meant it was also time for our official Slush side event: Corporate Venture Capital. Together with Helsinki Business Hub, Mawsonia and Global Corporate Venturing we got together the brightest of the CVCs from all over the world. And thanks to the great speakers and... read more. 
This is a guest post from one of our mentors, Petri Ekman. Petri is an experienced executive with a broad and in-depth experience in financing, financial and insurance products and risk management strategies for corporate clients. Change Started Later than in Many Other Industries During my 12 years in insurance, I used to hear numerous... read more. 
Collaboration between startups and corporations is not easy. Most attempts to cooperate actually fail. There is a cultural divide between their two worlds. This why you need a mediator who understands both of those worlds: to make the collaboration a win-win for both the corporation and the startups. Luckily, our area of expertise at Nestholma... read more. 