Crunchfish’s chairman co-founder of Fintech Øresund
The founders of Fintech Øresund, from the left: David Nilsson, Smart Refill, Joachim Samuelsson, Crunchfish, Kenneth Nilsson, Resurs Bank, Victor Sandberg, pej and Karsten Deppert, Collaboration concepts. Crunchfish together with IBM, Resurs Bank, Smart Refill and Mindpark are the first members of Fintech Øresund. The purpose of the forum is to highlight the experience and skills […]
The founders of Fintech Øresund, from the left: David Nilsson, Smart Refill, Joachim Samuelsson, Crunchfish, Kenneth Nilsson, Resurs Bank, Victor Sandberg, pej and Karsten Deppert, Collaboration concepts.
Crunchfish together with IBM, Resurs Bank, Smart Refill and Mindpark are the first members of Fintech Øresund. The purpose of the forum is to highlight the experience and skills of financial technology in the region, and create the conditions for faster growth and new businesses in the area.
Fintech Øresund is a new forum for sharing experience and expertise within the financial technology business, founded by local entrepreneurs Karsten Deppert, David Nilsson, Kenneth Nilsson, Victor Sandberg and Joachim Samuelsson. There is already considerable experience, knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit in Fintech in the Öresund region, but there has so far been no industry forum. Through Fintech Øresund, the founders intend to improve the conditions for local Fintech players in order to grow faster and to facilitate the launch of new ventures in the area.
The Fintech industry has grown ever stronger in recent years, as new technology has made it possible to develop new and more efficient ways of managing payments and information linked to this. The Fintech industry is predicted to become one of Sweden’s strongest growth areas in the next few years.
The core of the business will initially be bi-monthly network meetings at Mindpark in Helsingborg. When Mindpark opens at Hyllie in Malmö, meetings will also be held there. Mindpark resources will administer the activities of the forum, which is organized as a non-profit association. The initiators welcome more members, both Swedish and Danish, who share the founders’ mission to strengthen the Fintech business in the region.
“We have long wanted to create a local Fintech forum. There is a lot of world-class FinTech here. I want to develop cooperation in the region so that Smart Refill and other companies continue to be at the forefront of this fast-growing industry.”, says David Nilsson, founder and CEO of Smart Refill.
“Resurs Bank invests heavily in innovative technology to better serve our customers and open up new business segments in the market. For example, we were the first bank of Northern Europe with its own Mobile Wallet solution. In order to continue to develop quickly, we want to contribute to and benefit from the innovative power and FinTech expertise in the Öresund region.”, says Kenneth Nilsson, Group CEO of Resurs Bank.
“Crunchfish’s way to the market is through strong partners who build our mobile technology into their products and then introduce them to their sales organization and customers. We are very much looking forward to working with IBM, pej, Resurs Bank, Smart Refill and other future members of Fintech Øresund.”, says Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board of Crunchfish.
“There is a lot of high-quality technology being developed in the Öresund region. As a start-up company, it is crucial to be responsive to the market and quickly deliver innovative solutions. Technology from other companies speeds up our development significantly. For example, we were first integrating Crunchfish’s innovative Connected AR technology for mobile payment.” says Victor Sandberg, CEO and founder of pej AB.
“We are continually looking for emerging technologies from academia and start-ups that have a potential for global markets. IBM embraces an open ecosystem to innovate across industries with cloud, cognitive, blockchain, and IoT technologies. Fintech is an industry we see innovation coming at a rapid pace and it’s my hope that participation in this forum will increase the prerequisites for finding these partnerships.”, says Brandon Jones, Director of IBM iX Nordic.
“Collaboration concepts runs several entrepreneurial clusters in the region. Öresund deserves a Fintech forum to accelerate cooperation and keep up with the rapid industry development. I am pleased that Fintech Øresund will have its hub at Mindpark, Helsingborg and later in Malmö when Mindpark opens there.”, says Karsten Deppert, entrepreneur and founder of Collaboration concepts.
For further information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board of Crunchfish and Chairman of Fintech Øresund
+46 (0)708 464 788
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com
Joakim Nydemark, CEO Crunchfish
+46 (0)706 351 609
joakim.nydemark@crunchfish.com
