Crunchfish strengthens Board of Directors by adding two new board members Nov 2014 Crunchfish, a world leader in touchless interaction is happy to welcome Mikael Kretz and Malte Zaunders as newly appointed directors to the board. “We are very pleased to welcome Mikael and Malte to our board of directors,” said Joachim Samuelsson, chairman of […]

Crunchfish strengthens Board of Directors by adding two new board members

Nov 2014

Crunchfish, a world leader in touchless interaction is happy to welcome Mikael Kretz and Malte Zaunders as newly appointed directors to the board.

“We are very pleased to welcome Mikael and Malte to our board of directors,” said Joachim Samuelsson, chairman of the Board. “Mikael’s high energy and ability to build a high performance team will be very important to us. Malte’s financial experience and proven business leadership will definitely serve the company very well.”

Mikael Kretz has more than 15 years experience as a serial entrepreneur within IT. He started the IT consultant company Create in 2000 and is also the co-founder of seven other companies. Mikael was nominated to Entrepreneur of the Year in Sweden by Ernst & Young 2009. In 2012 he co-founded his current engagement, the specialist IT consultancy company group, Qgroup.

Malte Zaunders has more than 15 years international experience from investment banking and private equity. In 2008, he founded Sweden based Kattegatt Partners, investing in and developing small-cap growth opportunities. Core skills include deal structuring, capital raising, negotiation as well as creating and driving strategic and operational growth initiatives.

The board of directors also include Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the board and Board members Örjan Johansson.

Joachim Samuelsson has more than 25 years of experience within IT and Telecom. He is an successful serial entrepreneur with the experience of building five successful ventures. He has dedicated to social entrepreneurship and spent several years developing youth entrepreneurship in Southern Sweden and he has recently taken the Irish Man Up campaign to Sweden as a call to action to men to stand up against women abuse. Joachim has been awarded for his entreprenurship several times and was in 2012 voted the most entrepreneurial person in Southern Sweden. He represents also the City of Helsingborg as one of the city’s Ambassadors.

Örjan Johansson has more then 30 years experience in within IT and Telecom and currently is a Senior Consultant that serves several boards. He was heading the project that took an Ericsson short range technology to the market and resulted in Bluetooth. Further Örjan has started and sold several companies both in Sweden and in the US Bay area. Before the entrepeneurships and Bluetooth Örjan was engaged in industry and building automation and headed a US based project that 1993 resulted in the product Flex I/O. It is still Rockwell Automation´s and probably the worlds best selling distributed control system and has to date been sold in over 25 million units.

We would also very much like to thank Håkan Paulsson, Mikeal Kretz partner in Qgroup for the two years he served on the board and Yasemin Arhan, CEO of Anagran Events for her one and a half year tenure. On the board serves also Stephan Carlquist and Jörgen Neckmar as deputies.

Contact: Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board, joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com, mobile: +46 708 46 47 88

Crunchfish announces the completion of a 28 msek angel financing round Nov 2014 Crunchfish, a world leader in mobile touchless interaction, is happy to announce the completion of its third round of angel funding aimed at accelerating growth and establishing the company in Silicon Valley. In addition to this addition of 28 msek new capital […]

Crunchfish announces the completion of a 28 msek angel financing round Nov 2014

Crunchfish, a world leader in mobile touchless interaction, is happy to announce the completion of its third round of angel funding aimed at accelerating growth and establishing the company in Silicon Valley. In addition to this addition of 28 msek new capital in the company, the company also announces internal share transactions of 3,5 msek.

With this investment Silicon Valley entrepreneur Kenneth S. Thom joins the team of investors. Thom operates several co-working facilities for tech high growth companies in the San Francisco area. Crunchfish has plans to set up its U.S. office his prestigious SOMAcentral on Mission Street in central San Francisco. ”Ken Thom is a phenomenal addition to our strong team of investors as he is extremely well connected in Silicon Valley. He has already facilitated meetings with extremely valuable contacts that we would not have gained access to otherwise”, stated Crunchfish chairman Joachim Samuelsson.

The company also announced that Rasmus Nanhed, the Switzerland based Director of Sales at the international office furniture company Kinnarps is also joining the team of investors. ”I am very delighted to welcome Rasmus onboard as one of our investors as I have known Rasmus for a very long time as we both grow up in Helsingborg. Rasmus brings valuable international sales perspectives and his positive spirit to us*, continued Joachim Samuelsson.

It is otherwise the current investors that are doubling down as they together invest an additional 29,35 msek of the total transaction value of 31,5 msek. ”It is an enormous statement of confidence that our current team of investors are doubling down on the company by taking almost the entire round themselves, only leaving room for a few carefully selected investors to join”, said Crunchfish CEO Joakim Nydemark.

The shareholding in the company after these transactions are that Saudi-Ethiopian businessman Mohammed Al Amoudi maintains his 32,5% share of the company, but now with the ownership now spread over both Midroc Invest AB 30% and Granitor Invest AB 2,5%, which Mohammed Al Amoudi co-owns with the three Wikström brothers, who also are the top management of Mohammed Al Amoudi’s Midroc Europe group. At Crunchfish Mohammed Al Amoudi shareholding is represented by Oscar Ahlgren, CEO of Midroc Finans AB. Crunchfish chairman Joachim Samuelsson increases the share of his holding company Femari Investment to 30% with its 15 msek additional investment. The other current investors of the company, Stephan Carlquist, Claes Ohlsson, Claes Ripa and Anders Williamsson, are investing to increase or defend their share. Jointly they have now 13% of the company. The third largest individual shareholder of the company is otherwise the company founder and CTO Paul Cronholm in possession of 10,5% after the round.

Contact: Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board, joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com, mobile +46 708 46 47 88

GoCam feat. aBubbl™ is blasting the barriers for social sharing Malmö, 14 November, 2014 – Crunchfish AB opens up the possibilities of instantly sharing photos locally with the release of GoCam feat. aBubbl™. GoCam feat. aBubbl™ is the next generation of GoCam, the first touchless camera and video app on the market. The new aBubbl feature […]

GoCam feat. aBubbl™ is blasting the barriers for social sharing

Malmö, 14 November, 2014 – Crunchfish AB opens up the possibilities of instantly sharing photos locally with the release of GoCam feat. aBubbl™.

GoCam feat. aBubbl™ is the next generation of GoCam, the first touchless camera and video app on the market. The new aBubbl feature is for the first time making it possible to share photos to everyone around you, simultaneously with a simple gesture.

“We developed GoCam feat. aBubbl with one goal – to make capturing and sharing of photos fast and super easy. We all use our smartphones to share photos and selfies. Being able to then share them with everyone around you with just one gesture and without any passwords or pairing will jazz up social interaction. It is instant, easy and really fun”, said Joakim Nydemark, CEO

GoCam feat. aBubbl™ is opening up for new adventures within the touchless space that will change how we explore and interact with people around us. For the first time social sharing is truly interactive.

Key points

• GoCam feat. aBubbl™ – lets you share photos instantly to everyone at the same time within a few meters.

• Touchless camera and video- first app on the market with touchless video recording
• Remote capture – fast photo capturing and photo trigger from a distance of up to several meters

• Works across all iOS8 devices

Launch date: GoCam feat aBubbl™ is available globally from Nov 14, 2014

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Contact: Joakim Nydemark, CEO, joakim.nydemark@crunchfish.com, mobile: +46 706 35 16 09

Crunchfish wins the 2014 European Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation Leadership   Malmö, 10 November 2014 – Crunchfish AB receives top honours in innovation from Frost & Sullivan for its revolutionary gesture recognition solution, the Touchless A3D® software. The independent benchmarking by Frost & Sullivan reveals that Crunchfish is far a head of its […]

Crunchfish wins the 2014 European Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation Leadership

Malmö, 10 November 2014 – Crunchfish AB receives top honours in innovation from Frost & Sullivan for its revolutionary gesture recognition solution, the Touchless A3D^® software.

The independent benchmarking by Frost & Sullivan reveals that Crunchfish is far a head of its competitors with its patent pending touchless technology and gesture recognition techniques.

“Backed by the single layered patent pending object tracking technology, Touchless A3D^®software platform has a much faster core engine and a superior gesture tracker than competing solutions, which makes the solution efficient in facilitating interaction with the devices in real time even from a considerable distance, making the gesture recognition more reliable.” – Debarun Guha Thakurta, Research Analyst | Technical Insights – ICT

“Our target has been to develop a software for touchless interaction with superior performance and to combine that with design and integration knowhow in order to provide the best possible solutions to the market. Crunchfish is very proud to be recognised as a company with unique and innovative capabilities. We have a fantastic development team and will continue to enhance our software to offer market leading solutions to our customers, said Joakim Nydemark, CEO.”

PR Newswire – Crunchfish Wins Top Honours in Innovation from Frost & Sullivan for the Touchless A3D, its Revolutionary Gesture Recognition Solution

Contact: Joakim Nydemark, CEO, joakim.nydemark@crunchfish.com, mobile: +46 706 35 16 09