# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sampo-karjalainen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:02:48.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sampo-karjalainen"
name: "Sampo Karjalainen"
slug: "sampo-karjalainen"
description: "Sampo Karjalainen is one of the original founders of Sulake and Habbo, an online social networking video game aimed at teenagers. Sampo has also been in other projects, including Bobba Bar for iPhone. Karjalainen is now the designer, chief executive officer, and co-founder of ProtoGeo Inc., the creators of the Moves fitness tracker app for iOS."
tagline: "Finnish computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sampo_Karjalainen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1977-05-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.351549333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_Karjalainen"
    title: "Sampo Karjalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_Karjalainen"
    title: "Sampo Karjalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_Karjalainen"
    title: "Sampo Karjalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_Karjalainen"
    title: "Sampo Karjalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_Karjalainen"
    title: "Sampo Karjalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_Karjalainen"
    title: "Sampo Karjalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_Karjalainen"
    title: "Sampo Karjalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1844745"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump