Tag: SpeedInvest

Website Offline: SpeenInvest Startup Friday Finance Terminated Operation And Will Be Merged Into Pliant!

Fintech tamir - September 4, 2023

Friday Finance (founded as Airbank) wanted to digitize the financial processes of small and medium-sized enterprises with a multi-banking solution. Despite good funding and major expansion plans, the fintech has now surprisingly ended its business - and is selling parts of the company to competitor Pliant, FinanceFWD reports. The transaction is not said to be a "fire sale" and was not driven by Friday Finance's financial difficulties. This may or may not be the case.

Wirecard Supervisory Board Stefan Klestil had to retire from N26

Fintech Charlene Lensburg - September 21, 2020

He is the latest Wirecard victim. Stefan Klestil, the son of the former Austrian president, is the Lead Partner FinTech at the Austrian VC SpeedInvest. Now Klestil is catching up on his past as a member of the Supervisory Board of Wirecard and close business partner of its founder and CEO Markus Braun. He allegedly has to withdraw from the supervisory board of the German FinTech start-up N26 under pressure from BaFin.

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