Company Name: Akumiitti Oy
Founded: 1993
Founders: Antti Hannula, Pertti Kasanen, Mika Wenell
Domicile: Helsinki, Finland
Highlights: The first Finnish search engine (“Trampoliini”, 1997), invented commercial ringtones (1998), raised 22 M€ funding (1999-2000)
Ownership Status: Exited 2003

Akumiitti was founded at the pre-Internet era but quickly became famous in developing such things as one of the first Finnish search engines (1997) known as Trampoliini and Hakumiitti as well the first commercial ringtones (1998). Akumiitti’s partner (subsidiary) Wireless Entertainment Services (WES) focused on high-quality ringtone creation and Akumiitti Telematics developed telematics systems for Mercedes-Benz (1999). Total funding raised by the companies is about 25 Million euros. Later on, Akumiitti and WES merged and were merged with a major media company in Norway (Telitas).

Akumiitti documents

• Akumiitti White Paper: The Future of Mobile Entertainment
• Akumiitti White Paper: Interactive Comics
• Akumiitti Press Clip collection
• Akumiitti and Nylon Beat ringtones on The Wall Street Journal
• Akumiitti videos on Youtube: Interactive Comics, Ringtones and Icons

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