Kieku Labs, founded in 2015 and based in Helsinki, offers a personalized audio service designed to bring talk audio with radio-like simplicity back as everyday media. The service uses an AI core engine to learn users' listening behavior and curate audio content that matches their interests, combined with a precise social sharing functionality. Users can register, press play, and add favorite content to a personal collection via RSS feeds. Kieku is available worldwide on kieku.com and as an iOS app in most European countries and the US. The company says the product helps listeners discover new influencers and experts in their personal areas of interest and was ranked the hottest startup in August in Finland by Startup100. Financially, Kieku has taken its total funding to €700K following a seed round, and the founders say global expansion will continue in 2018 while remaining open to new investors. Kieku Labs builds a machine-learning-driven audio discovery service that creates a personalised feed based on what users listen to and skip. The company launched a beta iOS app in the Nordics and Estonia and has made its web version available globally. Founders include Sampsa Fabritius (former Nokia R&D director), Juho Pennanen (creator of Moves) and Veli-Pekka Kestilä. Kieku plans to add more features to enable social, user-to-user recommendations. The team positions the product to simplify finding meaningful audio for use cases like commuting. The company was founded early last year and has completed an initial seed funding round.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Aug 2017