A seasoned serial entrepreneur, Anssi Kiviranta, had an epiphany in 2022. Despite the internet transitioning into the video age, company websites still looked largely the same as they did twenty years prior: full of static text and images. Kiviranta contemplated, “What if website navigation happened from one video to the next?”The idea mirrored popular social media services like TikTok and …

JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND – USA Medical Electronix has established a subsidiary in Jyväskylä thanks to successful university cooperation. The company develops a home-use defibrillator, the software for which was completed in Jyväskylä. The cooperation supports the University of Jyväskylä’s goals for its engineering education, whose first Master of Science in Technology students will graduate in 2026. The development project offered engineering …

HELSINKI – Startups have become an increasingly significant part of Finland’s exports. Experienced entrepreneurs and investors Jyri Engeström and Timo Ahopelto have written a handbook about startups for young people.The book will be distributed for free to all third-year students in secondary education.These men know what they’re writing about. Jyri Engeström cemented his place at the center of the Finnish …