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Fingersoft
Fingersoft is an independent mobile game studio headquartered in Oulu, 170 km south of the Arctic Circle. It is best known for Hill Climb Racing and Hill Climb Racing 2, which together surpassed 2.5 billion installs, with Hill Climb Racing alone crossing 2 billion downloads in January 2026. Founded in 2012 by Toni Fingerroos, the company remains bootstrapped and profitable, making it one of Finland's most commercially successful independent game studios. In 2026 it launched an open beta for Hill Climb Racing 3 across Finland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the UK.
FutureTech Oulu 2026
One of Oulu's biggest autumn tech events, free and in English, gathering professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs around AI, human-machine collaboration, and dual-use and cybersecurity themes.
Oura
Oura is a Finnish wearable company best known for the Oura Ring, a smart ring that packages continuous biometric sensing into a minimal consumer device. The product built its reputation through strong sleep and recovery tracking, then expanded into broader health insights around readiness, activity, stress, and women's health. What makes Oura significant in the European ecosystem is its ability to combine hardware design, sensor engineering, mobile product experience, and recurring software engagement into a durable health platform. Many consumer wearables compete on notifications and surface-level metrics; Oura instead positioned itself around insight quality, habit formation, and long-term user retention. That has made it a standout European example of a hardware-plus-subscription business that can scale globally without losing product clarity. In directory terms, Oura also broadens the map between consumer technology and healthtech, showing how European startups can build defensible products at the intersection of devices, data, and preventive care. Its success offers a useful contrast to pure software companies and highlights Finland's continued ability to produce globally relevant product and hardware talent.
Polar Bear Pitching 2026
Annual startup pitching event in Oulu, Finland, where founders literally pitch their ideas while standing in an ice-hole cut in the frozen Baltic Sea. Attracts international media attention and a lively audience of investors and ecosystem builders. Memorable entry point for startups seeking Nordic visibility and viral marketing moments.
Polar Bear Pitching 2027
Polar Bear Pitching 2027 takes place 18 February in Oulu. The event is known for its outdoor Avanto Competition, where founders pitch investors while standing in a hole cut into the frozen sea, broadcast worldwide as part of Oulu's startup and innovation calendar.
