Product growth automation firm Skene bags €800k in round led by Superhero Capital

Helsinki-based product growth automation platform Skene has closed a €800,000 pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital and with participation from NVIDIA executives. With its first agent now live, Skene CEO Teemu Kinos, Co-Founder of GetJenny, aims to use the funds to cross €1 million ARR and expand the offering to support growth across the full user journey by spring 2026.

“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 says that it 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.

“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.”

Retail

Kinos tells RTIH that Skene is designed to turn software products into growth engines. For a retailer, this means optimising their e-commerce storefront or loyalty app rather than physical operations.

“Just as we help SaaS companies, our AI agents can read the codebase to identify friction points in the customer journey, helping retailers drive "activation... and retention". This is crucial for increasing lifetime value (LTV) in e-commerce,” he says.

“Skene focuses on outcome driven customer success, meaning it could automate flows to ensure a retail app/site user actually completes a purchase or adopts a loyalty feature, rather than just visiting the site.”

“Retail also opens up box of new channels to implement from video to phone and collaboration. Skene would not be just another chatbot to be added to the site, but a tasteful shop clerk who is helping the visitors to get proper guidance. Just like humans do it in boutiques.”

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