Helsinki-based product growth
automation platform Skene has closed a €800,000 pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital, with participation from NVIDIA executives.
As AI accelerates the pace of software
development, a widening gap has emerged between building products and achieving
commercial success. Many startups struggle to reach market fit, while a
significant portion of SaaS tools remain underused. This execution gap leads to
substantial wasted investment each year. In response, companies often expand
sales and customer success teams, which can mask a product’s underlying ability
to drive growth on its own.
Skene was founded to address
this challenge. The company has developed an AI agent that analyses a product’s
source code to understand its logic, structure, and intended use, and then
generates continuously updated user guidance integrated into everyday tools and
workflows. By helping users realise value more quickly, Skene supports higher
adoption, broader product usage, and stronger retention throughout the user
lifecycle.
Skene positions its platform as an
autonomous value layer for SaaS products. Its AI agents read software codebases
to deliver personalised, outcome-driven customer success at scale, automating
key growth functions such as onboarding, adoption, and retention.
According to CEO Teemu Kinos, many
established products still rely heavily on sales teams, customer support, and
manual workflows to execute growth strategies, while remaining cautious about
adopting scalable AI-based solutions. He adds:
The
opportunity for exponential product-led growth is in the hands of AI-native
teams looking for ways to ship at a speed and scale manual growth strategies
can’t match. Skene automates the path to growth at every step, continuously
improving user outcomes with every release.
Skene has already launched its first agent and plans
to expand coverage across the full product growth loop by early 2026. The
company intends to use the new funding to surpass €1 million in ARR and broaden
its platform to support growth across the entire user journey by spring 2026.