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SILTA S27 Application

This is an application for the S27 SILTA Program.

Program

> Orientation: January / beginning of February 2027 (Remote + Helsinki)

> 12-week track: February 15th – May 7th, 2027 (San Francisco)

> 6-week track:

A: February 15th – March 28th, 2027 or B: March 29th – May 7th, 2027 (San Francisco)*

* 6-week track available for founders who cannot commit to the full 12 weeks (requires justification in the application).

The participation fee for the SILTA Spring 2027 program is €3,000 per founder for the full 12-week program or €1,500 for the 6-week track.

The participation fee includes three main things: 1) accommodation, 2) a light program structure, and 3) access to SILTA's KUMMI network.

1) SILTA will provide accommodation for the participants for the entire 12-week/6-week period, but the participants are required to cover their own flights and living expenses in the area. The accommodation is located in the city of San Francisco, and all the participants will live in a shared, spacious house with their own bedrooms. Household utilities are also included in the participation fee.

2) Before the actual program, there will be a 2-week orientation in Finland, consisting of around ten one-hour sessions. During this period, the founders will, for example, meet our alumni, finalize their OKRs, and learn key legal insights from our partner Roschier.

The program structure in San Francisco is light, consisting of 2–3 sessions per week. The sessions include, for example, weekly dinners with the batch, sparring sessions with successful founders (e.g., Strava, Tesla) and VC partners (e.g., a16z, Lightspeed), weekly progress check-ins, and ecosystem events hosted by SILTA. Participants will also have access to coworking spaces and other startup ecosystem events.

3) SILTA has an exclusive mentor network of unicorn founders, top-tier investors, and experts from different fields. Through its KUMMI network, participants will have opportunities to connect with experienced founders and investors for advice and sparring. SILTA also has an active alumni community that supports you both during the program and after it ends.


To ensure that financial circumstances don't prevent exceptional founders from joining, SILTA offers a limited number of reduced participation fee spots. The reduced fee is €1,000 for the full 12-week program or €500 for the 6-week track.


Reduced fees are intended for founders whose personal or startup financial circumstances make it difficult to cover the full participation fee. Factors such as limited external funding may be taken into consideration. These are guidelines rather than strict requirements, and all applications are evaluated individually by the SILTA team. More details can be found in the application questionnaire below.

Selection Schedule

> Applications: November 10th - December 6th, 2026 > Interviews: December 9th - December 13th, 2026 > Final Decisions: No later than December 18th, 2026

Note

Participants will cover their own flights and living costs during the program, estimated to be approximately 1000-1500€ per month per participant (meaning food, public transportation, etc.) If applying as a team of two, both team members should fill out their own application accordingly. The primary applicant will be responsible of filling in the details about the company / idea. For further information, visit https://www.siltahouse.com/program or contact Pyry Paananen at pyry@siltahouse.com or +358 40 814 4055

Eligibility

To be able to apply to SILTA, you should check all the boxes. If not, please specify to the "Other".

Other

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