Futurice was founded in 2000 in Helsinki, Finland by Tuomas Syrjänen, Hanno Nevanlinna, Mikko Viikari and Markku Taulamo while all four were still pursuing their academic degrees at what was then known as Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University).
The founders majored in a variety of disciplines: computer science, electrical engineering, chemical engineering and shipbuilding. Three of them — Syrjänen, Nevanlinna and Viikari — are still with the company, and all four remain the company’s majority shareholders.
Futurice initially focused on solutions and software development for early mobile platforms in the pre-smartphone era, and among other things, created Finland’s largest photo-sharing service, Kuvaboxi, in the early ’00s which was eventually sold to MTV3, a Finnish media company. Futurice has since evolved into an international digital consultancy that combines tech,…