Lauri Koutaniemi
Founder And CEO at Immersive Ltd
United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolLauri Koutaniemi is a serial founder and CEO with over 25 years building cloud-based apps, games and creative platforms, having launched 100+ products and scaled studios from two founders to 50+ developers. He founded and led high-growth companies including Gamelion and Sumo (whose apps reached millions of users and earned Apple Editor's Choice), and now runs multiple ventures across immersive tech, education and creative cloud services. Lauri blends hands-on technical leadership (CTO roles and product engineering) with operator experience in global markets, having lived and worked across Europe, Asia, the US and the Middle East. He is focused on making education more engaging through gamified platforms and on creating an ecosystem that frees entrepreneurs from administrative burdens so they can concentrate on product and revenue. Beyond product launches, he has a track record of successful spin-offs, crowdfunding and startup competition wins that demonstrate both creative vision and commercial execution. Based in the UAE, he currently leads Immersive, Advantage and Sumo Apps while chairing charitable and education-focused initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Jyväskylän yliopisto
English, Finnish
Github Skills (8)
exchange10
open-source10
cql10
cdp10
metadata10
data-exchange10
blockchain10
api4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sumo-apps/paint-docs
Feb 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
lakoutan/strip2048
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 day
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