Agileday secures €6.4M Series A to scale AI-first platform for professional services
Agileday, a Helsinki-based software company building an AI-driven operating system for professional services firms, has raised €6.4 million in Series A funding to accelerate international expansion and deepen product development in AI.
The round was led by Newion, with participation from Specialist VC, Vendep Capital, and Business Finland. The company said the capital will be used to help it scale faster across Europe and North America while advancing its roadmap around AI capabilities, including agent-like features designed to improve forecasting and operational decision-making.
Targeting a persistent pain point: fragmented tools and slow decisions
Professional services companies—such as consultancies, IT services providers, and digital agencies—often run their operations across a patchwork of disconnected systems. Sales pipelines may live in one tool, staffing plans in another, project delivery in a third, and financial tracking in spreadsheets. That fragmentation can delay decisions, reduce visibility into margins and utilisation, and make it harder to plan workloads accurately.
Agileday positions its product as a unified professional services automation (PSA) platform that connects core workflows into a single system. The company says the platform provides leaders and teams with real-time visibility into project performance and staffing, while AI continuously analyses data to forecast workloads and recommend actions that improve profitability and delivery outcomes.
Founded by industry veterans with a “people-first” thesis
Agileday was founded by Jaakko Hartikainen and Mikko Virtanen, who serve as co-founders and co-CEOs. The pair say the company was built from first-hand experience in consulting and IT services, where operational data is frequently siloed and decision-making can lag behind fast-changing client demands.
Beyond unifying operational data, the founders frame their approach as intentionally human-centric. Hartikainen said the company aims to put people at the centre of services operations—supporting autonomous teams and improving transparency across organisations. He described the product philosophy as “inclusive by design,” with an emphasis on democratizing access to data so more employees can participate in running the business.
Virtanen added that building for a shifting market sometimes requires anticipating needs customers may not yet be able to articulate, particularly as AI changes how services firms plan and deliver work.
How the platform works: PSA with AI-driven recommendations
At its core, Agileday connects several key components of services operations, including:
- Sales pipeline visibility and demand planning
- Resource allocation and staffing across teams
- Project financials, including margins and utilisation
- Employee and team data to support planning decisions
The company says its AI layer continuously evaluates operational signals and generates recommendations to optimise staffing, improve forecasting accuracy, and support faster decision-making. The goal is to help services leaders move from retrospective reporting to proactive management—spotting risks earlier and adjusting resourcing before issues impact delivery or profitability.
Competing in a crowded PSA market
The PSA category includes established vendors such as Kantata (formerly Mavenlink and Kimble), FinancialForce, and Accelo. Agileday argues its differentiation lies in being built for an “AI-first” era—leaner and more adaptive, with automation and forecasting designed into the platform rather than added on as an afterthought.
Customer traction across Europe and North America
Agileday says it now serves more than 70 global service companies. Its customer base includes fast-growing digital consultancies such as Apply Digital and Propeller, alongside European services groups including Knowit, Siili Solutions, and Eficode.
The company also noted it already operates across 10 countries, with clients based in both Europe and North America—an international footprint it plans to widen following the Series A.
Diversity and international expansion
Asked about diversity, Hartikainen reiterated the company’s “people-first” design principles and said inclusivity is embedded in how the product is built and how data is shared across organisations. He added that as Agileday expands internationally, the team expects diversity to increase naturally through hiring across more geographies, bringing in more nationalities and a wider range of backgrounds and skill sets.
What’s next: faster expansion and deeper AI development
With the new funding, Agileday plans to accelerate product development—particularly in AI and “agents”—and expand its go-to-market efforts internationally. Hartikainen said the company intends to scale faster across its existing regions, highlighting the size of the opportunity as services firms look for more intelligent ways to plan, deliver, and scale work.
The Series A comes as professional services leaders face intensifying pressure to improve utilisation, protect margins, and respond quickly to changing demand. If Agileday can continue converting real-time operational data into actionable forecasts and recommendations, it may strengthen its position in a market where many firms are still stitching together multiple tools to run the same business.
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