Sapotech Oy

Sapotech offers smart and cost efficient solutions for online monitoring and quality analysis of metallurgical processes from high to low temperatures.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Industrial/Energy
  • Location Oulu, Finland
  • Currency EUR
  • Founded October 2012
  • Employees 8
  • Incorporation Type Not Incorporated
  • Website sapotech.fi

Company Summary

We are a team of experienced (+10-40 years) professionals with backgrounds from B2B, ICT, metallurgy and international sales. Products and services are cloud based real-time quality control solutions for high and low temperature processes. Business model is service-driven, and supported by a partner network. Our current investors include Butterfly Ventures, Lavis Con and founders. Some customers: Outokumpu, Rio Tinto, Arcelor Mittal.

Team

  • +20 years of hands-on experience in developing, selling and delivering Internet based large-scale applications.
    Expertise in the areas of technology leadership, team leadership, product development, product management, Internet technologies and architectures, technical sales and product innovation.
    Skilled in analyzing business processes and very capable of accomplishing concrete full-scale technical solutions to customers’ business needs.

  • Chairman of the Board

    Strong background in metallurgical industry, especially process optimisation and R&D. Outokumpu + Ruukki.Currently doctoral student at metallurgical laboratory at University of Oulu. Also, project coordinator for CEE (Center for Energy and Environment)

  • Business Development

    +30 years of experience from mobile and aerospace industries. Wide experience in leading high-tech product development and system integration projects. He’s been in charge of technical (R&D) project and program management, financial management as well as B2B sales and marketing. Accenture, Nokia, Nokia Networks, Patria.

  • Sales Director

    30 years of B2B sales & marketing in different locations (plants, sales companies, central organizations / Finland, China, France, Belgium), out of which over 25 years in the steel industry.

  • Product Management

    A software designer with 15+ years of experience from ICT industry and academic research.

    Strong experience and expertise on agile software development, functional specification, solution planning, data modeling, variety of web technologies, user interface design, relational databases, product management, human-computer interaction and usability.

Previous Investors

  • Co-Founder/Partner, Butterfly Ventures

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