Futurefly's team. Oskari Häkkinen, chief product officer, is in center.
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Finland’s Futurefly raises $2.5M to reinvent mobile game and app messaging

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Futurefly, a startup that includes former Remedy Entertainment game veteran Oskari “Ozz” Häkkinen, has raised $2.5 million in funding for a new mobile game and app-messaging technology.

Häkkinen, the former head of franchise development at Remedy (the maker of hit games like Alan Wake), joined the new company this summer in Helsinki, which is still a hotbed for mobile game startups (it’s the base for Rovio and Supercell and many others started by their veterans). Mobile games are expected to become a $30 billion business this year, eclipsing console games on a global basis, according to market researcher Newzoo. But Futurefly’s ambitions go beyond gaming.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.