About us
Our story of how we became the seasoned expert in education
Mobie has a long history as a pioneer in digital education. We have been developing innovative learning solutions for decades, providing organisations and educational institutions with flexible, intelligent and scalable digital environments.
Mobie Oy was founded in July 2010 by Kari Vatanen. Joni Kollani, who was hired as the company’s first employee, is still working for Mobie Oy as a senior software engineer.
The first services developed in 2010 related to mobile websites for national organisations (e.g. Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland and Finnish Road Safety Council Liikenneturva). The Hirvivaara mobile app for Liikenneturva was also implemented at the same time. In the summer of 2011, Mobie Zine, an HTML-5 based web magazine application that is still in use today, was released. The service is still widely used by our customers.
Since 2013, Mobie Oy has focused on developing digital learning solutions. It all started with a 3-year OnEdu development project in 2013-2015 involving 100 Finnish educational institutions, where nearly 2500 teachers had the opportunity to share their wishes for the future of e-learning.
To date, we have been working on e-learning solutions and pedagogies in partnership with public administrations, organisations in various fields, and educational institutions to develop education that strengthens growth and competence.
In this decade, we have begun to explore and develop AI as part of our efforts to produce educational materials and facilitate learning. Our mission is to create an AI-enabled e-learning environment, but in a way that the use of AI is responsible and the entirety is still under human control.
In July 2023, the ownership of Mobie Oy changed when Risto Vahanen first became the majority shareholder and later bought Mobie in its entirety. As a result, our international networks have developed, especially in India and Egypt, and our staff numbers have increased. Today, we bring education from Finland to the world, and our modest goal is to produce the best education in the world.