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SADE Innovations’
heart is in Salo

SADE Innovations is a full-service R&D House with loads of experience and know-how on its belt, with a particular focus on custom IoT solutions. Having their headquarters in Salo is a no-brainer for the 360-service portfolio company.

SADE Innovations’
heart is in Salo

SADE Innovations is a full-service R&D House with loads of experience and know-how on its belt, with a particular focus on custom IoT solutions. Having their headquarters in Salo is a no-brainer for the 360-service portfolio company.

– All of our key personnel were already based in Salo, so it was a low-threshold decision for us to start our business here, says Petri Hirvonen, Engineer and Marketer at SADE Innovations.

SADE Innovations was founded in 2017, and most founding employees had a professional background from Nokia and Microsoft. While the company describes itself as a full-service R&D firm, its core offering is based on SADE Booster, a fully customizable end-to-end software and hardware asset, enabling a fast and cost-efficient R&D phase for SADE´s customers.

– Our offering based on our SADE Booster builds on understanding the customer needs and customizing SADE Booster for various adaptations. Our customer companies can use it, to name a couple of examples, for diverse remote monitoring and controlling solutions in everything from solar panels to electric vehicles or underfloor heating, Petri describes.

An advantageous location

Juha Kuosa, CEO of SADE Innovations, says that the company had never even thought of starting its operations from any place other than Salo: the advantages of their hometown were simply that many for their needs.

– When it comes to partners and customers, many are already here. Salo as a location also provides a competitive advantage: operating from Salo helps us keep the fixed expenses moderate, giving us an upper hand in competitive bidding compared to other companies from, for example, the Helsinki region or abroad, Juha adds.

Petri and Juha continue that the mere fact of coming from the Salo IoT Campus has given Sade Innovations certain credibility in their line of business. But having their home base in Salo is also a matter of affection to the company’s home region.

– I guess our choice of HQ location can be seen as a statement, too: we want to give an example and do our part in nourishing the vitality of the Salo region, Juha states.

SADE Innovations is a fast-growing R&D company located in Salo and Turku. Being a full-service R&D house, they specialize in custom IoT solutions. SADE Innovation’s customers, projects and assignments cover a complete variety of different R&D needs. The company delivers turnkey solutions, including software, cloud services, hardware, mechanics and industrial design.

SADE Innovations is a company owned by its employees, meaning that every time they hire a new employee, they also hire a new future partner.

Read more at www.sadeinnovations.com