Finding a gaming cofounder in Helsinki

Why Helsinki's gaming pool is unusual for a city this size

Supercell's success pulled a disproportionate amount of games talent, capital, and know-how into Helsinki relative to the city's size, and much of it stayed local rather than dispersing. That means a real, if not huge, pool of people who have shipped and run live mobile games at scale, which is a genuinely different skill from having built a game as a portfolio project. See the full Helsinki cofounder pagefor who's listed today.

What actually differentiates a gaming cofounder

• Whether they've run live-ops on a shipped title (retention tuning, monetisation, content cadence) versus only having built and shipped once.
• Which engine and platform they're strongest in, since mobile F2P, premium PC/console, and web/instant games pull from different toolchains and, often, different personalities.
• Whether the split you need is technical/creative (engineer plus art or design lead) or technical/commercial (engineer plus someone who owns publishing, UA, and monetisation).

Where to start looking

Write your "Looking for" text with the specific game genre and platform, not just "gaming cofounder" — a hyper-casual mobile team and a narrative-driven indie team are looking for completely different people even though both are "games." If you already know you need someone technical first, start with technical cofounders in Helsinki; if you have the build and need someone to own publishing and growth, growth cofounders in Helsinki is the closer fit.

Browse the public directoryto see who's actively looking right now.