Petri Jarvilehto, Seriously co-founder, says Nokia invested heavily in mobile gaming from 2003. "We're kind of a talent pool here that's been already working on mobile games for 10 years," he says. He describes Angry Birds as the first game created from the start for touch.
"In today's world you have mobile games that are reaching 100 million players every single day - there's never been any media, television, movies, where you could have that sort of reach," he says. Rovio, though, let a fifth of its Finnish employees go in October, saying they had hired "on assumptions of faster growth than have materialised".
Some might call this counting their chickens before they hatched. While Finland's strong secondary and university education and skilled workforce have attracted investors from Silicon Valley and Japan, some wonder whether Finland isn't too awash with investment money.
Tomi Kaukinen, chief executive of Sport cam, a photograph-sharing site for sports, cites the example of the founders of a start-up he met last year who had raised €1.7m. When he met them again a couple of months ago, they were once again fundraising. "I was like, you need money again?" he says.
"They said, no, we don't really need it, but it's so easy to get - and they raised a couple more million.”Nokia's heyday might be over. But the tech sector here is not Finnished - it's only beginning.