The Story of Happi
I believe that effective learning should be available for everyone. Revolutionizing education is my way of making a real difference in the world.
Sakke Suomalainen
Co-founder of Happi
Lead Creator of Happi’s SAT® Math Course
With the right methods, we can accelerate learning—not just by a few percent, but by leaps and bounds! We owe it to students everywhere to make education as effective as possible.
Antti Suominen
Co-founder of Happi
Lead Innovator of Happi Software
A lifelong enthusiast of learning, Sakke has a background in physics and mathematics and over a decade of experience in teaching and developing learning materials.
To better understand the student experience, Sakke took an official digital SAT® exam, scoring 1580, including a perfect 800 in math.
Antti is a math and teaching aficionado, known for his innovative thinking and developing new ways of studying and teaching. He has a background in engineering and teaching.
In 2010, Antti and his friend Teemu Kekkonen founded a learning app company in Finland, which has transformed the Finnish education scene with its courage to challenge the status quo and its groundbreaking methods.
Would you like to know more about Finland? >>Here’s a quick overview.
We started as a small but determined team in Finland, challenging major educational publishers who had long controlled the high school market. Starting with a tiny marketing budget, a handful of hardworking people, and no institutional backing, we focused on one thing: building a better learning experience.
The results speak for themselves. We saw a meteoric rise, becoming the go-to choice for medical school entrance exam prep, with 67% of all successful applicants relying on our courses in 2024. Perhaps even more impressive, 50% of all high school students in Finland preparing for their math finals choose us—most buying our courses themselves despite their school offering another product for free.
Exceptional results drove exponential growth that lead our company to grow to be a market leader in entrance exam preparation and to claim our spot as one of the big players in the Finnish educational publishing industry.
Now, we’re taking on an even bigger challenge—the global SAT® prep market. Here’s our secret: more isn’t what students need—better is.
We don’t just create SAT® content. We build science-based, student-tested learning experiences based on the methods we pioneered in Finland, and they work wonders in SAT® too: for example, one of our early students improved from top 6% (math score 730) to top 1% (math score 790) with only 34 hours of studying on the Happi app!
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Our team leads, content creators, and software developers work in close collaboration, ensuring that every piece of the learning experience fits together seamlessly. This allows us to develop quickly, adapt efficiently, and continuously refine our product.
Now, we’re ready to take the next step—proving that Happi can change how students worldwide learn.