Copenhagen Fintech

Hear about Copenhagen Fintech, in the words of the people that create our community. Thank you 👥 Josefine Bjørnholm, Line Ettrich, Mads Brix, Stine Kalmer Jørgensen, and Nicolette Tham. Is there someone in your network that should join Copenhagen Fintech? Tag them in the comments 👇

🚀 Copenhagen Fintech is heading to the Singapore FinTech Festival! 🌏 Our powerhouse team—Laura Kristine Østergaard Sørensen (Head of Commercial and Global Partnerships), Nicolette Tham (Head of Community and Events), and Marie-Louise Roth (Head of Partnerships and Corporate Innovation)—can’t wait to gain fresh insights and connect across the waters! Be sure to pin them down or find us at Hall 5, Booth #5F37, by the ESG Zone. We’re super excited to host three side events throughout the week with strategic support from BNY alongside our talented Nordic Fintech delegation members. Side Events: ⭐️ Tuesday, November 5 | 6 PM – 8:30 PM WealthTech Mixer: Innovating the future of Wealth Management with BNY and Performativ - Wealth Management Software 🎟️ Sign up here: https://lu.ma/hmnw2awl ⭐️ Thursday, November 7 | 8 AM – 9:30 AM Fintech Breakfast: Digital Identity Revolution- Self-Sovereign Identity and Bridging Developments between Europe and Asia Pacific with Trust Stamp, Partisia, and BNY. 🎟️ Sign up here with code 'FINTECH': https://lnkd.in/dpGcMDzJ ⭐️ Friday, November 8 | 8:30 AM – 10 AM Sustainability in Action: Attract and retain next-gen customers with sustainable banking services and wealth management featuring Deedster and Aleta – a next-generation wealth platform. 🎟️ Sign up here with code 'FINTECH': https://lnkd.in/dpBgFQ2e We’re looking forward to an inspiring week in Singapore! 🇸🇬

Calling ALL Nordic fintech (or fintech adjacent) startups 📞📞📞    Are you ready to transform your startup idea into a venture-ready success?    Apply for the New Nordic Challengers Program before November 27th👉 https://lnkd.in/gAgPXdth    What's in it for you?  - Pre-seed #investment: 50k EUR for 2.5% equity and possible follow-on investment  - Access & active intros via our Investor network  - Tap into our global ecosystem: corporates, mentors & industry experts  - 4 Masterclass weeks: hands-on learning & tailor-made 1:1 coaching  - Program duration: March – June 2025    _____________    The New Nordic Challengers program is a program developed by Copenhagen Fintech in partnership with Tenity - the leading global innovation ecosystem and early-stage investor powering the future of finance. 

Huge congratulations to our fintech friend Lunar 🎉 Meet the first GenAI Native Voice Assistant in European banking. With 24/7 seamless banking support and a focus on accessibility for all demographics, this is a major moment in the banking world. 💥 Lunar has designed its AI Voice Assistant with the consumer’s needs in mind. Powered by the GPT-4o model, it is built with robust security features to ensure privacy and security of user data. Once again, huge congratulations to Lunar! We are sure that this will transform the way customer support is done across banks! 🦾

Next week, Copenhagen Fintech is heading to Singapore with our Nordic Fintech Delegation! 🇸🇬✨ We’ll be at the Singapore FinTech Festival, the largest fintech event in the world, showcasing the best of Nordic fintech innovation. Find us at Hall 5, Booth hashtag #5F37, by the ESG Zone—we can't wait to reconnect with familiar faces and meet new ones as we explore the latest trends in fintech! This year, we’re proud to be joined by 14 amazing fintech companies and financial institutions from the Nordics, all ready to scale and explore new partnerships. We’ll also be hosting 3 to 4 thematic side events—stay tuned for more details! Meet the companies joining us 🌎🇸🇬 Aleta – a next-generation wealth platform, Centiglobe, Danish Industry, Deedster, Doerscircle, Doconomy, Partisia, PixelPai, PLX AI, Sydbank, Trust Stamp, United Fintech & ZTL 🙌 Looking forward to gaining fresh insights and connecting across the water! 🚀 Laura Kristine Østergaard Sørensen Nicolette Tham Marie-Louise Roth

What an event 😍 Last week our Mentor Assembly kicked off the Fall 2024 Mentor Program with a bang! Our new cohort had the chance to pitch their company profiles to our expansive mentor network, as well as the challenges they wish to work on throughout the program. Welcome to the program SuFu, Debbie™, Climaider, Sundhed+, and Envo. It was a great afternoon of amazing pitches, Q&A, and networking 🍻 The next step? We are hard at work matchmaking each company with the personalised mentor team best suited to solving its challenges ✅ Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks... 📻

We’re super excited to spotlight our member and lab resident alumni, Pluto.markets (YC W22), as they launch the game-changing investment platform for the modern investor. Introducing a Nordic investment app that offers fractional investing without minimum commissions—it's already smashing it with downloads ranking higher than Nordnet and MobilePay on App Store 🚀 Let's go! Ready for a different investing future? Read more in the article below and download the app today: https://pluto.markets/ 🪐

Last call for October Fintech Tuesday 🔊 Join us tomorrow as we delve into the exciting world of Finternet, a groundbreaking concept in global finance that blends finance and the Internet. In this session, we will be exploring new financial services that utilize the potential of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), including blockchain and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), which play a key role in the concept of the Internet. We are thrilled to welcome our amazing speakers: 🎤 Henrik Axelsen, Ph.D. and Co-founder of PixelPai Henrik will share insights from his PhD Thesis “DAOs and Blockchain for Regulated Finance - Transformative decentralization”. The dissertation identifies key properties of blockchain and DAOs, such as transparency, immutability, and decentralization, assessing their applicability within traditional financial systems. 🎤Christian Zigler, Co-founder and Chairman of Shopbox In this session, Christian will explore the transformative journey of payment systems for small merchants, from traditional methods to today's digital innovations. 🎤Lorenz Carl Flechtenmacher, Co-founder of dewa In this talk, Lorenz will provide us with an exploration of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) and its role in fostering secure, efficient, and interoperable digital services across Europe, empowering governments, businesses, and citizens alike. ________________________ About Fintech Tuesday - Towards the Finternet 🗓 October 29th 📍Copenhagen Fintech Lab 🎟 Save a spot here: https://lnkd.in/dSP2cxgB

Stay up to date on what’s happening in the Nordics… 👀📖 This year’s Nordic Fintech Report delves deep into the trends, challenges, and opportunities driving fintech innovation in the Nordics. From the rise of AI and machine learning to advancements in open banking and embedded finance, the report highlights how Nordic fintechs are shaping the future of global finance. 📥 Download the full report here https://lnkd.in/dCjA74NN Report developed in contribution with EIFO and Signal

📸 Pictures from yesterday's springboard sessions in which 4 health tech startups received sparring from pension & insurance industry stakeholders. The springboard sessions are part of our new Tech for Fin program and serve as a platform for tech startups in different verticals to launch or grow their business in the financial services industry. 📈 The teams from Hemi Health, PRECURE, OrbisCure - Prevent stress now and Mutedo were looking for feedback on their potential business cases in the industry as well as aiming to understand what moves the needle for pension and insurance companies in the Nordics. Thank you Kim Wikan Barth, Line Dalsfort, Adam Hvid and Christine Loft Hunderup for joining and sharing your insights! 🙏