The Summa Labs building in Oulu, Finland

S.00About Summa Labs

Oulu, Finland Lab

Name: Summa Lab Kit
Brand: Summa Labs

Oulu, Finland · headquarters and laboratory

Summa Labs measures free testosterone and free cortisol from saliva, analysed in our own laboratory in Oulu, and reads every result against the person’s own baseline.

01Boston

Boston, United States

02Analysed

20,000+

Hormone samples analysed in our own laboratory in Oulu to date.

03Protected

Patents and filed applications protect our technology.

04One laboratory

Oulu

Every Lab Kit sample is analysed in our own laboratory, in Finland.

S.01Our story

The body keeps one account.

Training, work, stress, travel, sleep: everything a day contains lands in the same body. Hormones carry that account. Free testosterone and free cortisol, the active fraction, show how the body is answering what life asks of it.

We built Summa to read that answer outside the clinic. A drop of saliva, sampled at home in about two minutes, analysed in our own laboratory and returned on the person’s own scale.

We started where the question is asked every day: elite sport, demanding professions and defence. Push harder, or recover. Wearables measure the load. Summa adds the response.

S.02What we believe

We measure what life does to you.

Free, not total

Most hormone in the blood is bound and inactive. Saliva carries the free fraction, the part acting on the body. That is the part we measure.

Your own scale

Every result is read against the person’s own baseline range. Never a population average, never someone else.

Where life happens

Samples are taken at home, in season, before and after training. No needle, no clinic, no interrupting the state being measured.

S.03The platform

From the tube to the answer.

One system, owned end to end: the sampling set, the laboratory analysis of every sample, and the results in the Summa app and the Team Platform.

Lab Kit

Capped tubes with the swab inside, and a holder for the home freezer.

See the Lab Kit

Laboratory

Frozen tubes travel to Oulu, where every sample is analysed. We work with research institutions, including the Wyss Institute at Harvard.

Summa app

Scan the tube, log the day, read each result on top of the days your wearable recorded.

Team Platform

The team view. Staff see only the athletes who have consented.

For teams

S.04The people

The team behind Summa.

Marko MäkinenCo-founder · CEO
Twenty years founding and scaling international startups in ICT and wellness. Leads strategy and global business development.
Tommi KinnunenCo-founder · Chief Creative Officer
Fifteen years building brands. Leads strategy, productisation, app design, narrative and identity.
Juuso NissiläCo-founder · Chief Science Officer
A biotechnology entrepreneur with more than a decade of performance physiology research, including at Polar Electro. Inventor on around 75 patents.
Anton GauffinCo-founder · Chairman
Serial entrepreneur, CEO of Huuuge Games and owner of the Big Bets family office, with more than 50 direct startup investments.