SDM Digital is a leading Finnish digital marketing and growth specialist that helps B2B companies increase sales with operating models based on data, analytics and systematic marketing.
SDM Digital – growth and development 2020–2024
- Turnover increased by 2.7 M€ → 7.5 M€ (+175 %, approx. 29 % average annual growth)
- Growth in every financial year – consistent development path
- The company has been consistently and predictably profitable
- Strong annual operating profit
SDM Digital has systematically utilized public funding to develop its business for several years. The company has had a long-term collaboration with Grants, and the funding has been used for service innovations, strategic product development, recruitment process development and most recently, AI research.
Cooperation with Grants has been continuous. There are no individual applications, but funding has been directly linked to the different stages of SDM’s growth. Public funding has enabled sufficient resourcing of investments and development efforts to achieve the goals set by SDM Digital.
A particularly significant funding entity is the R&D grant project launched in 2025, which aims to study solution architecture based on AI agents. The project was prepared together with Grants expert Tarja Pitkänen.
Key figures for cooperation
| Grants & SDM Digital | |
| Duration of cooperation | 2020–2026 |
| Financing decisions | 6 |
| Total funding granted | approx. 690 000 € |
| Development themes | Service innovations, Strategic product development, Employer image, AI agents |
Customer experience
SDM Digital CEO Jaakko Suojanen described the cooperation with Grants as great:
“I can highly recommend Grants. I have already referred several companies to their services because I know they are top professionals.”
— Jaakko Suojanen, CEO, SDM Digital
“Collaboration with Tarja was great and extremely knowledgeable. She not only prepared the application, but also sparred with us the whole way. In addition, Tarja is a top bloke”