Portfolio: A Collection of Innovation and Impact

1. Elina Education

is an AI assistant for Educators that helps them save time on planning, documentation, and communications. Based on Finnish education excellence, Elina empowers teachers to focus more on children and less on paperwork. Elina empowers early childhood educators with AI to simplify planning, save time, and personalize learning. Built to solve real classroom challenges, Elina is more than a platform; it's a supportive partner helping educators nurture every child through inclusive, engaging education. The Services are designed to support early childhood education by enabling teachers to plan activities, gather insights at the group level, and support skill development.

2. BlendIN Kids

is an interactive library that empowers educators with story based playful language lessons for young learners. It helps teachers create meaningful interactions while fostering professional development with engaging thematic content. They inspire learners to build language skills as they build their global cities, combining learning and play naturally. BlendIn transforms language education through immersive storytelling and interactive experiences.

3. HAPPYFAM

is an app for inner development and resilience building of families with children. It builds on cutting edge neuro, social and behavior sciences and brings inner development to devices of each family member. With HappyFam, the next generation gains skills that it takes to make it in this troubled century. The app supports holistic family wellbeing and development through science backed approaches.

4. ATOM

gives teachers and school administrators tools that support planning and reflecting processes for continuously making term, unit and lesson plans. The platform solves the challenge of maintaining teacher autonomy while streamlining educational planning workflows. The flexibility of Atom ensures teachers maintain their professional autonomy and brings teachers' expertise into focus. Atom empowers educators with systematic planning tools while preserving their pedagogical independence and professional judgment in curriculum development.

5. NeduAI

uses artificial intelligence to enhance career planning and employment services. NeduAI's platform addresses the challenge of aligning individual skills and talent profiles with career opportunities, improving recruitment efficiency and facilitating precise job and educational matching for the future workforce. Their solution makes career planning data driven and personalized through intelligent matching algorithms. NeduAI transforms how individuals navigate their professional development paths.

6. SPROK

is a digital language learning game and an edTech research to business (R2B) project. It is an engaging, collaborative, classroom based tool designed to foster integration via the national curriculum. SPROK gives access to culture and language of the country you live in, making language learning fun and meaningful. The game creates an inclusive learning environment that supports cultural integration through interactive gameplay.

7. Vegemi

is a food and health education provider for children aged 3 to 8 years, co developed with world leading Finnish education authorities. They focus on addressing inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption among children through their innovative mobile app that utilizes XR image recognition and gamification. Through their mixed reality and AI powered app, featuring the lovable character Vegemi, they create a playful and immersive experience allowing children to unlock exciting superpowers by eating a diverse range of fruits and vegetables. They provide a comprehensive food and health education solution for nursery and primary school settings around the world.

8. TESSINT

develops immersive learning tools using XR and AI to transform education. They solve the challenge of engaging students with complex concepts by providing interactive, 3D visualizations that enhance understanding and improve learning outcomes. Their innovative approach makes abstract concepts tangible through technology enhanced learning experiences. Tessint bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical understanding in education.

is a language learning app that helps professionals improve their language skills through tailored, AI-powered learning experiences. The platform addresses the challenge of workplace language training needs across various industries. Many companies face difficulties in finding skilled employees and providing effective language training, which prevents workers from reaching their full potential and affects company competitiveness and efficiency. AliceAI offers personalized professional language skill development solutions that enable employers to enhance their workforce capabilities directly in the workplace environment.

Light of Life (Smart Greenhouse) Light of Life is a flexible and interdisciplinary learning solution based on a Smart Greenhouse that creates a "climate for learning." Their solution combines IoT, generative AI, and proven pedagogy through an interactive portal, tailored for grades 1-8 with focus on environmental and natural sciences. They use authentic, interactive, hands-on approaches to connect learning with real-life problem solving while helping schools align with curricula and gain real-time insights. Light of Life addresses the challenge that sustainability education often lacks engagement and connection to everyday life by empowering students and teachers to explore global challenges like energy, climate change, equality, and food security through phenomenon-based and inquiry-driven approaches.

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empowers users to learn new languages through their own engaging pictures with the slogan "Take a picture, learn a word!" The platform enables international students and immigrants to learn daily life vocabulary using visuals, audio, and verbal cues, making the learning process more interesting, effective, and research-based. KuvaLearn solves the problem that many language learners face with traditional vocabulary learning methods that are often boring, disconnected from real life, and hard to remember. They turn users' real-life experiences into personalized learning content, helping build practical vocabulary in context while maintaining motivation.

helps people learn the right skills to reach their goals through hands-on bootcamps, AI-powered personalized learning paths, and supportive community engagement. They assist individuals whether they want a new job, career switch, or skill advancement. Try2 addresses the problem of unclear learning paths and lack of motivation for people trying to skill up, as many learners don't know what to learn, how to prove their skills, or how to stay on track. They solve this through AI-powered guidance, practical bootcamps, and strong community support, helping achieve tangible outcomes where millions of online learners typically drop out without reaching their goals.

is a preventive and cost-effective digital solution that supports well-being and working life skills among both future and current workforce, including higher education students, teachers, staff, and employees. They offer tailored solutions for educational institutions and companies to address the growing need for resilience and self-leadership in modern work environments. Wells tackles the challenge that today's work life demands more than just technical skills by combining science-backed content, social peer support, and flexible online learning. Their solution enhances personal growth, mental skills, and time mastery with measurable results.

is an AI-powered educational platform that benefits communities, initially in Ethiopia. It supports students with a personal AI tutor offering real-time feedback and curriculum-aligned exam preparation, while providing teachers with an AI mentor for lesson planning, feedback, and professional development. The platform is accessible offline, available in local languages, and optimized for low-resource environments, helping ensure quality education for all learners.

 is an AI-powered ideation platform designed for academic research. It addresses critical early-stage challenges researchers face, such as formulating novel topics and identifying significant knowledge gaps. A proprietary AI engine guides students, academics, and R&D teams through the research process, from topic discovery to proposal building. By transforming inefficient traditional workflows, Aveksana empowers researchers to produce impactful work more efficiently and with greater confidence.

Niilo Mäki Institute’s (NMI est. 1990) is a digital service for schools to screen reading difficulties among their students. Encouraged by the service’s success in Finland, it strives to develop identification of reading difficulties globally. NMI’s versatile experts in educational research, software development and management can make dreams come true. 

KAI is a software designed to support educators’ pedagogical planning efficiently in real time. It covers ECEC criteria and enables continuity in group learning even during staff shortages, without disrupting daily activities. The solution also reinforces essential collaboration between educators, which is necessary for maintaining quality and consistency. Despite differences in qualifications, pedagogical standards are upheld.

is a mobile learning platform for studying high school level mathematics. The aim is to counter the declining level of mathematical skills of Finnish high school students by making studying easier, more effective and more motivating. This is achieved by a mobile app that makes studying possible anywhere.

creates innovative learning tools that help children truly understand mathematics. Our blended approach combines smart use of technology with hands-on materials that support personal, visual thinking. At the heart of our work is the Merkitysten® Cakes, a unique, language-free tool for exploring 50 math concepts through doing. We believe learning should be meaningful, intuitive – and fun.

PathEd is an AI-powered solution reshaping how students prepare for exams. By combining curriculum-based content with learning science and adaptive AI, it creates personalized study paths that are accessible and effective for every learner. The mission is to democratize individualized studying.

 is a browser-based application that brings structure and motivation into classrooms. It helps teachers guide learning with clear task lists, motivating rewards, and activities tailored to students’ individual needs.

TydeSolve is an immersive VR solution designed for vocational training. It provides an interactive application that allows users to learn and practice hands-on skills in a safe, controlled virtual environment.

Ampitio is an EdTech company founded by three special education students, giving teachers a digital sixth sense in the classroom. Their real-time, anonymous student feedback platform makes students' understanding visible instantly. Their AI Co-Pilot analyzes these gaps and suggests pedagogical solutions and alternative explanations to support the teacher. Ampitio is turning classroom silence into actionable, inclusive learning data to build a more equal future for education.

is a conversational AI assessment platform that gives teachers real visibility into how students think, not just the answers they submit. As generative AI makes it easier than ever for students to produce polished answers without genuine understanding, schools are left with a critical blind spot: they can't tell who actually learned something. Better-ed closes that gap by running oral-style assessment conversations at scale - the AI asks the follow up questions, probes the reasoning, and surfaces what a student truly knows. It is built for the reality of today's classrooms, where the question isn't whether students use AI, but whether schools can still see through it.

is a Helsinki-based EdTech startup developing a new approach to language learning through commercial video games. They design immersive, game-based learning experiences that help learners actively use language in meaningful, real-world contexts. Their platform combines educational research with interactive gameplay to create engaging, social, and learner-centred language learning journeys. LIVES is currently in early development and pilot stages, working with learners and educational partners in Finland, Spain, and Türkiye.

Speech Buddy is a speech development app for children with speech delays. Founder Vince Rocha built it after waiting two years to find a clinician for his son. Mylo is a streaming app with a structured curriculum that guides children through easy, repetitive activities at home. The app gives parents and teachers simple and consistent activities to do with their children so kids can already start developing their speech while waiting for professional help.

Nasu EDU builds Nasu AI - a safe school controlled AI tutor and AI literacy platform for primary schools. AI is already becoming part of children's learning, but many students use it without guidance, safeguards, or a clear understanding how it works. Nasu helps schools to bring AI into learning safely, pedagogically, and fairly - while supporting teachers with different learning needs in the classroom. 

$uomi.Life is a gamified life simulator to help Finnish youth become more financially-prepared adults. By practicing real-life financial behaviors in the context of transitioning between compulsory education and youth adulthood, players would be able to understand both the positive and negative consequences of various financial decisions. The team consists of Changing Education masters' students at the University of Helsinki and a Computer Science masters' student at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences.