Ruutti (Pumba Oy) is a Finnish IT provider specializing in transport, resource, and warehouse management systems, alongside integration and IT consulting services.
Designed for industrial enterprises aiming for growth and a competitive edge in logistics, Ruutti delivers advanced consulting and user-friendly tools that streamline processes, enhance operational transparency, and boost stakeholder satisfaction.
Streamlined processes deliver results
For any startup, every hour spent on grant applications is an hour taken away from product development and customer service. By outsourcing the framework, expertise, and time management to an external partner, startups can stay focused on what they do best.
In the initial phase of their collaboration with Grants, Ruutti successfully secured a Business Finalnd R&D grant. The project was executed with Grants’ funding expert, Viljami Kivistö. Sebastian Aarnio, CEO of Ruutti, describes the collaboration straightforwardly: working with an expert made the process clear and controlled.
“Viljami established a clear framework which worked as the base for our application. He communicated our required inputs clearly, and ensured the entire process moved forward smoothly and efficiently.”
— Sebastian Aarnio
Aarnio emphasizes that the greatest value of partnering with Grants lies in their expertise and practical know-how. This hands-on experience is reflected in the time saved and how things are phrased in the application. Aarnio estimates that handling the process in-house would have been significantly more demanding.
“It would have taken me four times longer to achieve the same results that Grants’ expert delivered on our behalf.”
Who benefits most from Grants?
Aarnio recommends Grants especially to startups and small businesses that don’t have the resources and capacity to master the complex application processes. He notes that many nuances would have been impossible to figure out from scratch. Grants’ expert took over the tasks that Ruutti had neither the time nor the specialized knowledge to handle.
“We gained massive value from having Grants’ expert map out the framework and show us exactly how to contribute effectively. The expert took care of the rest.”