## Shaped by tech.

We've been lucky to have the class of the fastest growing tech companies shape our approach. We adapt quickly, think across borders, find new heights, and know how to sift through the technical fine print for a heck of a story.

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Helsinki has everything needed for international tech talent to feel at home. The problem is, no one knows about its beautiful features and local tech companies struggle with recruiting the best people. To make everyone aware of what the Finnish capital city has to offer, we branded Helsinki as the world’s first City as a Service (CaaS) that attracted nearly 7,000 applications from tech talent worldwide.

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Nearly 7,000 developers, designers, engineers, data scientists and other tech specialists from +100 cities applied for a free trial trip to the world’s first City as a Service, Helsinki.

Bou – Case Helsinki City

Branding Helsinki as the world’s first City as a Service

Mainframe is the new North Star game company, formed by the world’s finest in AAA, MMO and mobile games. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Riot Games, the team is building an unannounced cloud-native MMO – “the game of a lifetime,” as they phrase it.


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Launched! Mainframe Industries welcomed Andreessen Horowitz and Riot Games to create a cloud-native MMO – a true headliner game of the 2020s.

Bou – Case Mainframe

Launching the next major AAA game company

Blok is a fast-growing property tech company, listed as one of the hottest European startups by Wired. To challenge the market, Blok stands out not only with its award-winning product but also with its playful brand. A combination we really like.

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A pan-Nordic TV campaign for Blok – probably the fastest-growing real estate company in the hoods. Before clicking, a gentle earworm alert.

Bou – Case Blok

Creative campaign concepts for a real-estate startup sensation

Slush is the world’s leading startup event that operates in 29 countries and hosts annually more than 70 events with over 40,000 attendees. The Wall Street Journal describes it not just as an event but rather as a laboratory of new ideas. Bou founding team was responsible for the award-winning marketing, communications, PR and design of Slush in 2016-2017.

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Our founding team was responsible for the award-winning marketing, comms, PR and design of Slush in 2016-2017. Yes, that means the badass banner, too.

Bou – Case Slush

Marketing, communications, design, PR… Everything in-house for the world’s leading startup event

Maki.vc is a Nordic top-tier venture capital firm founded by serial entrepreneur Ilkka Kivimäki​ and former F-Secure executive Pirkka Palomäki​. With a fund size of €80M, Maki.vc backs founders who never conform to industry standards. We have worked as part of the Maki.vc team since their launch in spring 2018.

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Kicked off with a standout visual identity, smooth website experience and global headlines in early 2018. Today, we continue building Maki.vc’s brand on multiple fronts.

Bou – Case Maki.vc

Global launch and continuous brand building for a top-tier VC

Kaffa Roastery is one of the leading Nordic micro-roasteries with an ambitious mission: to remove all the unnecessary middlemen from the global coffee industry. To join the journey, we planned, designed and developed their new webshop from scratch.

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Kaffa Roastery’s brand new website feels like a sip of their superb coffee. Experience the new dark mode and see how clicking around makes you want mmhhmmore of it.

Bou – Case Kaffa Roastery

A custom-made webshop for a leading micro-roastery in the Nordics

Carner is one of Finland’s leading corporate finance houses with 54 partner offices in 38 countries. The name stems from cornerstone – and coming up with it was the first step we took together in 2019. Back then, we gave the brand a proper uplift for the new decade.

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Carner is a leading corporate finance advisory firm with 54 partner offices in 38 countries. And now they got the look too: we gave their brand a proper changeover for the new decade.

Bou – Case Carner

Re-branding a leading corporate finance advisory firm

Umbra unlocks the power of the AR cloud like no other company in the world. They make it easier to create, share and view 3D content in real-time. We have worked with Umbra to share their story and tech to the world.


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When someone is copying the globe to the detail of a single grain of sand, the world deserves to know about it. We launched Umbra’s revolutionary 3D modeling product and reached just the right industry experts.

Bou – Case Umbra

Launching a cutting-edge tech product in international waters 

Bob W. is an accommodation booking platform offering the feeling of a boutique hotel in authentic homes. Standing for the best of both worlds, Bob W. aims for the most fluent experience also online. That’s where we stepped in: to design and construct the website from zero in just two weeks.

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Bob W. is an accommodation booking platform offering the feeling of a boutique hotel in authentic homes.

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