Helsinki-based product growth automation platform Skene has closed a €800,000 pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital, with participation from NVIDIA executives.

As AI accelerates the pace of software development, a widening gap has emerged between building products and achieving commercial success. Many startups struggle to reach market fit, while a significant portion of SaaS tools remain underused. This execution gap leads to substantial wasted investment each year. In response, companies often expand sales and customer success teams, which can mask a product’s underlying ability to drive growth on its own.

Skene was founded to address this challenge. The company has developed an AI agent that analyses a product’s source code to understand its logic, structure, and intended use, and then generates continuously updated user guidance integrated into everyday tools and workflows. By helping users realise value more quickly, Skene supports higher adoption, broader product usage, and stronger retention throughout the user lifecycle.

Skene positions its platform as an autonomous value layer for SaaS products. Its AI agents read software codebases to deliver personalised, outcome-driven customer success at scale, automating key growth functions such as onboarding, adoption, and retention.

According to CEO Teemu Kinos, many established products still rely heavily on sales teams, customer support, and manual workflows to execute growth strategies, while remaining cautious about adopting scalable AI-based solutions. He adds:

The opportunity for exponential product-led growth 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, continuously improving user outcomes with every release.

Skene has already launched its first agent and plans to expand coverage across the full product growth loop by early 2026. The company intends to use the new funding to surpass €1 million in ARR and broaden its platform to support growth across the entire user journey by spring 2026.