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Report . Skills supply vs. demand

The Cofounder Skills Gap: What Finnish Startups Are Missing

Every Trusted Cofounder profile is enriched into two signals: what a founder brings, and what they still need. Aggregated across the active pool, those signals reveal where the Finnish founding landscape is short and where it is long.

The headline finding

The #1 skill Finnish startups need but can't find is Marketing & Growth.

8 active profiles name it as a gap. Only 0 list it as a strength. That is a 8.0x demand-to-supply ratio. Based on 24 live profiles.

What founders bring

Top offered skills

Operations

6 . 25%

Marketing

5 . 20.8%

What founders are missing

Top needed skills

Product Management

8 . 33.3%

Marketing & Growth

8 . 33.3%

Fundraising & Finance

6 . 25%

Enterprise Sales

5 . 20.8%

Where the market is shortest

Biggest gaps by demand-to-supply ratio

Marketing & Growth

8.0x . demand 8 vs supply 0

Fundraising & Finance

6.0x . demand 6 vs supply 0

Enterprise Sales

5.0x . demand 5 vs supply 0

Product Management

2.0x . demand 8 vs supply 4

Where the market is long

Biggest surpluses

Marketing

supply 5 vs demand 0

Operations

supply 6 vs demand 1

By role

Founders

OFFER

Operations
Software Dev
Marketing
Sales & Growth
Product Management
Hardware

NEED

Marketing & Growth
Product Management
Product Design
Business Development
Data & Analytics
Fundraising

By role

Cofounders

OFFER

Html
Python
Typescript
Node.Js

NEED

Product Management
Marketing & Growth
Fundraising & Finance
Enterprise Sales

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Data updated 15 Apr 2026 . 24 profiles analyzed