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The founding team has been a part of shaping the marine industry with the world’s first situational awareness solution for vessels, the world’s first remotely controlled commercial vessel (tug) and the world’s first autonomous commercial vessel (ferry).

Our story

Karno Tenovuo, Co-founder and CEO of Awake.AI, realized that smart ships cannot interact with the rest of the logistics chain, unless the needed digital interfaces and machine learning models will be developed and linked to an open platform. He and the founding team also saw the increasing environmental issues in maritime logistics. These insights led the four founders to start working with port authorities, port operators and cargo owners who want to be forerunners in maritime digitalization.

Lack of transparency and poor communication among all port stakeholders were identified as key challenges and there was a clear market need for a collaborative and data-driven platform.

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Awake.AI was established in October 2018 to create a software platform for port digitalization and autonomous shipping.

Leading the digital revolution in Maritime Logistics

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Sami Kaksonen

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Sales

+358 50 514 7169

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Anssi Lappalainen

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Sales

+358 40 595 1831

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Chris Kruger

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Sales

+358 45 329 2554

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Justina Li

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Marketing

+358 50 462 3977

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Karno Tenovuo

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Co-founder, CEO

+358 40 579 9552

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Jussi Poikonen

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Co-founder, AI & Analytics

+358 50 309 1497

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Kimmo Kummala

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Co-founder, Engineering

+358 50 486 7143

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Simo Salminen

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Co-founder, Product

+358 45 132 1530

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Tiia Kalmi

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People

+358 44 546 7662

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Jari Ijäs

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Design

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Uolevi Holmberg​

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UX & Design

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Vaklin Angelov

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Project Management

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Petra Virjonen​

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Data Science

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Eero Lehtonen

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Data Science

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Jonatan Wiik

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Algorithms

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Mikko Hakila

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Machine Learning

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Mikko Timoharju

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Software Engineering

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Kari Virtanen

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Software Development

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Sami Jalo

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Software Development

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Juuso Häkli

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Software Development

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Petri Aarnio​

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Software Development

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Santeri Kääriäinen​

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Software Development

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Jan Kinnunen​

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Software Development

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Jaan Taponen​

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Software Development

Raimo Hilden​

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Cyber Security

Senior advisors

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Petri Niemi​

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Senior Advisor

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Jorma Heinonen​

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Senior Advisor

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Mikael Mäkinen​

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Senior Advisor

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