At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Finland based COO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Henri Vahakainu
Co-Founder & COO of AppGyver
I have years of experience in creating brand value and engagement in the entertainment and mobile industries. My specialties include marketing and networking. I am a good team player and have always enjoyed working with great and like-minded people. I want to learn something new every day. I want to make great things that matter and are valuable for me and others. Being successful in business as well as in other areas of life is the big motivator. When you do things with full focus, you can keep moving forward no matter what comes against you. Don’t stop dreaming!!
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About AppGyver, Warner Music Finland: AppGyver offers professional no-code platform for building React and React Native apps.
Niklas Rosenberg
COO of OpenOcean
Niklas Rosenberg is an entrepreneurial and analytical tech enthusiast with a strong background in the financial services industry. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a M.Sc. in Finance. He’s passionate about machine learning and the blockchain revolution and loves to work with FinTech and InsurTech companies. Always the biggest advocate of team karaoke outings,
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About OpenOcean: OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe.
Antti Virolainen
Co-Founder & COO of Sharetribe
Antti Virolainen is Co-Founder & COO @ Sharetribe.
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About Sharetribe: The easiest way to create your own peer-to-peer marketplace.
Jan Kritz
COO of Nordcloud
Jan Kritz is the COO at Nordcloud.
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About Nordcloud: Helping enterprises leverage the public cloud to transform their business.
Tuomas Routto
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Reaktor
Tuomas Routto is Chief Operating Officer at Reaktor.
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About Reaktor, Reaktor Ventures: Reaktor is a strategy, design, and engineering company based in New York, Helsinki, Amsterdam, and Tokyo.
Jarmo Lumpus
COO & Founder of CubiCasa
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About CubiCasa: CubiCasa offers a scalable way to acquire property interior data, enabling any space to be indexed, searched, sorted, and understood.
Anna Rosa Lappalainen
Co-Founder & COO of Vizor.io
Anna Rosa Lappalainen joined Lobster as Account Director in 2020.
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About Lobster.ist, Vizor.io: Vizor is an online platform that lets its users explore, create, and publish virtual reality on the web.
Antti Rikkinen
COO & Co-Founder of Zero Keyboard
Antti Rikkinen is Co-Founder & COO at Blucup Ltd.
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About Zero Keyboard: Zero Keyboard makes data entry into salesforces fast and easy.
Vesa-Matti Hartikainen
Chief Operating Officer of Jolla
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About Jolla: Jolla is an independent designer and developer for mobile devices and open Sailfish OS.
Pavlo Talaychuk
Co-founder and COO of Pibox
Pavlo Talaychuk is the Co-founder and COO of Pibox.com.
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About Pibox: Collaboration platform for music producers
Toni Perämäki
Chief Operating Officer of Valohai
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About Valohai: The Valohai MLOps platform makes production machine learning easy. Automate machine orchestration, version control & pipeline coordination.
Kaisa Helminen
COO of Aiforia
She has a strong background in life science sector where she has gained close to 20 years of experience in the global business. Previously she has worked in commercial roles in both large and midsize international life science companies, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, Sartorius and Finnzymes. Since 2014 she has led Aiforia (former Fimmic), a spin-off company from the University of Helsinki. Aiforia® Cloud revolutionizes image-based diagnostics, especially in the field of pathology, by bringing deep learning AI to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the analysis. As a result, experts can improve their decision-making workflow and patients get better, faster and more personalized healthcare. Kaisa holds a M.Sc. degree in biochemistry from the University of Helsinki.
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About Aiforia: Aiforia’s mission is to provide global access to AI-powered image analysis for medical, healthcare professionals and beyond.
Tommi Rimpiläinen
COO & Co-Founder of Sensible 4
Tommi Rimpiläinen is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Sensible4.
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About Sensible 4: Sensible4 is an autonomous driving software company that develops self-driving vehicles for all-year round use.
Antti Peltomaa
COO & Co-Founder of Taction Enterprises
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About Taction Enterprises: Music Technology – Midi Control – Capacitive Sensor technology.
Janne Tuomikoski
COO, People & Culture of Bitfactor
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About Bitfactor: Bitfactor is a design driven technology company mastering Design, Software Engineering and Data Analytics.
Anu Lapola
COO of Thingsee
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About Thingsee: Open Devices for new internet of things projects
Antti Vikman
COO of Nolwenture Ltd
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About Nolwenture Ltd: We create digital products and services, supporting high growth technology client’s with innovation & software development
Olli Nuutila
Co-Founder, COO of Aido
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About Aido: Aido helps psychiatric patients become more adherent
Lassi Virtanen
Founder, COO of Pilvi Cloud Company
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About Pilvi Cloud Company: Pilvi is an online sales automation platform for SaaS companies and cloud service providers.
Kalyan Giri
Co-Founder & COO of Resimator Oy
I am a Co-Founder / COO at Resimator Oy. I am specialized in software testing(android web and hybrid), product user-stories writing, product planning, and wireframe designing. I have graduated in Bachelor of Information and Communication from Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland. I have good work experience with software testing. Besides computer and technology, I love blogging and travelling.
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About Resimator Oy: PaaS for property, hospitality and facility management businesses.
Max Salmi
Chief Operating Officer of MediSapiens
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About MediSapiens: MediSapiens is a software company developing online applications for biopharmaceutical researchers.
Antti Häkkilä
COO of Process Genius
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About Process Genius: 3D Digital Twin SaaS application that enable complete situational awareness 24/7.
Antti Häkkilä
COO of Process Genius
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About Process Genius: 3D Digital Twin SaaS application that enable complete situational awareness 24/7.