Helsinki-based product growth automation platform Skene announces it has closed a €800,000 pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital and with participation from NVIDIA executives. With its first agent already live, Skene CEO Teemu Kinos, Co-Founder of GetJenny, aims to use the funds to cross €1M ARR and expand their offering to support growth across the full user journey by spring 2026.
The rapid acceleration of software development via AI has led to a $113 billion problem: the gap between building a product and achieving commercial success. With 42% of startups missing the market entirely and up to 53% of SaaS applications going unused or underutilised, this execution gap translates into over $113 billion in annual wasted venture investment in viable products that fail to drive essential growth outcomes such as activation, feature adoption, and retention.
To compensate, companies often resort to scaling human headcount in sales and customer success, masking the product’s true potential to drive autonomous growth. Skene is built to solve this critical execution gap.
“Most legacy products rely on human-shaped sticking plasters in the form of sales, CS, and manual workflows to execute growth strategy, yet when it comes to AI agents capable of fixing these problems at scale, they hesitate,” says Kinos. “The opportunity for exponential product-led growth (PLG) is in the hands of AI-native teams looking for ways to ship at a speed and scale manual growth strategies can’t match. Skene automates the path to growth at every step, constantly improving user outcomes with every release.”
Skene has built an AI Agent that directly reads a product’s source and understands its logic, structure, and intended use. Within minutes, it creates constantly improving user guidance based on best practices across their daily tools and workflows. By helping users quickly get more value from products, Skene drives higher adoption, creates more opportunities to expand functionality, and boosts retention across the entire user growth journey.
“Skene’s approach of analysing actual code rather than just product data is a fundamental breakthrough. Combined with the team being repeat founders and a bold execution timeline, we knew we had to back this team,” says Juha Ruohonen, General Partner at Superhero Capital.
Shen.ai Chief Growth Officer Anna Harris: “Skene gave us clarity on the jobs to be done and revealed blind spots we hadn’t seen before. Something that’s often hard to do in the middle of fast execution.”
Skene’s first Agent is already live, with full product growth loop coverage planned for early 2026. Aside from Kinos, the founding team includes Teppo Hudsson and Michele Boggia, PhD, who leads NLP-driven product development.
