Startup in spotlight: Helsinki’s Agileday scoops €6.4M to help service firms scale smarter with AI
- ByStartupStory | January 23, 2026
In the world of professional services, many firms still juggle multiple disconnected tools to run their business. Agileday, a Helsinki-based technology company, is stepping into that gap with an AI platform that unifies the core parts of a services business into a single operating system.
Designed specifically for professional services companies, Agileday provides leaders with real-time visibility into their projects and teams while using AI to forecast workloads and improve decision-making.
The company just raised €6.4 million in Series A funding, led by Newion with participation from Specialist VC, Vendep Capital, and Business Finland.
Making businesses more transparent, connected, and human
Founded by Jaakko Hartikainen and Mikko Virtanen, Agileday was created to tackle the core bottlenecks in professional services: fragmented information, slow decision-making, and a culture that treats people as resources rather than true professionals.
“At the heart of our philosophy is putting people at the centre of the business, really building these autonomous teams, a lot of transparency across the organisation, and really engaging everybody in the business,” said Jaakko Hartikainen, co-founder and co-CEO.
This people-first ethos is at the core of Agileday’s product philosophy, which Hartikainen explains is “inclusive by design. So we really democratise the data and really engage every person in the company to be part of the business… very human-centric and very positive towards all diversity and everything else.”
The inspiration for Agileday came after years of experience in the consulting and IT industry. “There is a lot of passion, which brings us extra energy… sometimes you need to build something that the clients don’t even know how to ask for — if you know how the world is changing and how the technology enables you to do something fundamentally different,” added Mikko Virtanen, co-founder and co-CEO.
At the core of Agileday is its professional services automation (PSA) platform. The system connects sales pipelines, resource allocations, project financials, and employee data, offering a real-time view of everything from utilisation rates to margins. Its built-in AI continuously analyses operations and provides recommendations to optimise staffing and profitability.
Hartikainen highlighted their development focus: “AI first, people first, and design first were like three, three sort of cornerstones of that, and obviously, we then built a team that is super senior, like the most senior experts we knew from the industry, and started building the technology and the market.”
Unlike Kantata (formerly Mavenlink and Kimble), FinancialForce, and Accelo, Agileday is lean, adaptive, and better suited to the era of intelligent automation. Its customers include over 70 global service companies, spanning from fast-scaling digital consultancies like Apply Digital and Propeller to major European players such as Knowit, Siili Solutions, and Eficode.
What about diversity?
When we asked about diversity, co-founder Jaakko Hartikainen emphasised Agileday’s values and approach: “The people-first design of Agileday is inclusive by design. So we really democratise data and engage every person in the company as part of the business. The philosophy behind this whole platform and business is very human-centric and very, let’s say, positive towards all diversity and everything else.”
He further noted that as the company continues its international expansion, “we will see even more diversity in our company, because there will be more nationalities coming in, more people with different backgrounds, [and] different types of skill sets across the globe.”
What’s next?
The new investment will support Agileday’s international expansion and further development of its platform as it redefines how service organisations plan, deliver, and scale their work.
“We already operate in 10 different countries, and our clients are based in 10 different countries. We are both in Europe and North America, and we want to scale even faster now. One thing is that we further accelerate the product development, especially in the area of AI and agents… the potential is so, so big,” Hartikainen noted.
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