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Lempiäinen: Competing app-testing tool cost $60,000 per test in 2019
“I looked at the market. I saw one tool that didn't work and another one that costed like 60,000 bucks for this one test.”
GeekLab serves Rovio and multiple top 10 mobile gaming companies
“Rovio being, being one of the examples, but like then out of the ones that we can't disclose if you take a look at top 10 mobile gaming companies, so we have plenty of those”
Senkut: Felicis's $41M debut fund backed Rovio, Shopify, and Fitbit
“The very first fund we had was only forty one million, and we invested in Rovio in Finland from that. The whole round was bigger than our whole firm. Shopify's A round and Fitbit's B round”
Sourcing Shopify took Aydin Senkut eight emails; Adyen took two years
“I think Shopify took me eight emails until Toby said yes. And he asked me to fly to Ottawa. Addion took me two years to break through. Rovio took me a year and a half and I had to meet them in the U S and London in Helsinki.”
Accel invested in Qualtrics, Rovio, and Atlassian via its growth fund
“The Qualtrics, the Rovios, the Alassians are all bets out of the growth fund, as it turns out.”
Rovio's $42M Series A was larger than Felicis Ventures' entire fund
“When Rovio closed their first Series A round, it was forty-two million dollars, and that was larger than our whole fund.”
Rovio became Shopify's top store out of 10,000 within a week
“In seven days, the Rovio store was up and running on Shopify. Instantly, it became the top store in Shopify among 10,000 stores. They sold out their whole inventory in a week”