Bringing together top Nordic talent and world’s best startups
Startuplifers is a talent program that connects talented Nordic tech, design and business students and recent graduates with promising startups in San Francisco.
Working at a startup in these startup hubs is an opportunity of a lifetime to boost your career, learn from the best and elevate your way of thinking.
For students 
- Well paid opportunities at the best tech startups in San Francisco for 6-18 months
- 100% free, all costs are covered by us
- Maximize your learning and work with the latest technologies
- Join the active community of over 200 Startuplifers alumni
- Get confidence to do anything
For startups
- Add global perspective and diversity to your team
- Hire pre-vetted Nordic talent in engineering, design or business
- Hand-picked students or recent graduates with 2+ years of working experience
- We handle visas and flights for you together with our visa partner and lawyer
- No costs or commitments before hiring
Talents, here’s how the process works
Apply to our talent pool
You’ll get to join our talent community and we’ll match you with startups based on your skills and ambitions.
Perfect your application with our help
We’ll help you perfect your CV, portfolio, and application to increase your chances of getting hired.
Start getting introduced to startups
We’ll introduce your profile to our partner startups based on your preferences and you’ll get invited to interviews.
Excel in your interview and get hired
We help you with every step such as preparing for the interviews.
Have an experience of a lifetime!
You don’t have to worry about anything after getting hired. We handle visas, flights, and legal stuff for you!
Alumni testimonials
I worked at Petasense as a Business Development Manager. I managed our sales throughout the whole funnel and built it through emailing, calling, online webinars, face-to-face product presentations to potential customers. My tasks also included negotiating deals with customers and attending relevant conferences to build market and competitor knowledge. One of my favorite tasks was collaborating with product development and the engineering team on customer requests.
Miika Jokinen
Business Development Manager, Petasense
I worked at Coinbase as a Product Designer. Coinbase is a Y Combinator company that builds a platform for transacting digital currencies. At Coinbase I did UX design and web design for Coinbase’s consumer product and marketing website. I also spearheaded Coinbase’s user research initiative by organizing and conducting user testing for their web and mobile products. I ended up working for the company for almost two years. The learnings have had a massive impact on my career.
Satu Peltola
Product Designer, Coinbase
My first project at Notable Labs was to build a new backend service for storing data produced in our drug research. In parallel with this project, I also did both back- and frontend work on the internal web-based tools used by the scientists. Towards the end of my internship, I started researching machine learning models to automate a crucial bottleneck in the data analysis process, which was made possible by the data infrastructure I had already built.
Oskari Mantere
Software Engineer, Notable Labs
