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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: COSTPOCKET

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: NEXPAY

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: SALV

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: ENFUCE

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: FIDESMO

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: QUANTFOLIO

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: PIE SYSTEMS

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: NORDIGEN

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: EVERYPAY

In 2012, the founders of EveryPay realized payment gateway solutions available to businesses in Estonia were not good enough. In an interview with the fintech’s current CEO and co-founder Lauri Teder,

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: HUDDLESTOCK

Huddlestock, founded in 2014, provides digital solutions that connects stakeholders in the wealth management industry, making trading and investments safe, easy and cost efficient. The fintech has exciting new launches and announcements, including instating their...

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Spiir

Danish fintech Spiir was founded in 2010 by Rune Mai and Gudmundur Hreidarsson, co-founders of the open banking platform Nordic API Gateway. In an interview with Spiir Product Lead Martin Junker, we were curious to...

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: SOFTPAY

The Danish fintech Softpay participated in the Spring Class of the program this year and recently announced €3m in investment from a few selected private investors. With Softpay, customers are able to integrate contactless online...

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: GOAPPIFIED

The Danish fintech GoAppified participated in the Spring 2019 edition of the program and we interviewed former CEO Søren Jensen, now Nordic Head of Sales at Loomis, to tell us more about where they started...

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Alumni Spotlight: SupplierPlus

SupplierPlus is a buyer-led Supply Chain Finance (SCF) platform that optimizes working capital allocation in trade relations. More simply put, the company simplifies invoice financing between buyers, suppliers and financiers.

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Alumni Spotlight: eDoks

eDoks has proven to be a competitive solution in Latvia for partner organizations to digitally deposit, store, transfer and sign information and documents.

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Hedman Partners Announcement

Hedman partners joins DLA Piper and Borenius as the law firms providing support in Lighthouse and will participate in the Tallinn workshops this spring.  

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Mastercard Lighthouse – Join the 2020 Edition

Lighthouse – the leading partnership platform in the Nordics & Baltics – open its applications for the 2020 edition. This year, Mastercard is taking the existing fintech partnership program – Lighthouse Program – and doubling-down...

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Meet the Lighthouse class of Fall 2019

STOCKHOLM—Mastercard and NFT Ventures are pleased to announce the fall 2019 class for the Lighthouse Development Program. Lighthouse is a collaboration network that, twice a year, invites 15 of the most promising fintechs from the...

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Pushing the boundary through partnerships

Zliide was founded with the vision to revolutionize the fashion retail industry. With hardware as a core component of the product, the journey wasn’t an easy one. Fast forwarding some rough periods of starting up...

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Another one in the books

It’s hard to believe, but it has been just over a year since we announced the start of the Lighthouse Development Program. Standing on the same stage in Amsterdam, where that announcement was made, and...

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Meet the finalists

Mastercard and NFT Ventures are excited to announce the finalists for the Lighthouse Development Program Batch #2. At the start of the year, Lighthouse Program organizers solicited applications from Denmark, Estonia and Norway before selecting...

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Nordic Banking Partnership with Danske Bank

Announcing Partnership with Danske Bank – Empowering fintech collaborations and innovation in Danish market   2019- 03- 19   As Nordic lands finally show early signs of spring season, we kicked off Lighthouse Development Program...

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Lighthouse class of 2019

Introducing 15 fintech’s for Lighthouse 2019 Last year we had the opportunity to work with 15 great fintech companies in Stockholm, Helsinki, and Vilnius. The founders and their teams reminded us so much of the...

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Nordic Banking Partnership with DNB

Announcing Partnership with DNB – New collaboration to shape fintech innovation on Norwegian market Today we are beyond excited to announce our new partnership with DNB, one of the largest and most recognized banks in...

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Baltic Banking Partnership with SEB

Announcing Baltic Partnership with SEB – Continuous collaboration to accelerate fintech development on Baltic markets Lighthouse Development Program is thrilled to announce our continuous partnership with SEB as the official banking partner in the Baltics....

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Lighthouse Kicks off 2019 in Tallinn

When Lighthouse team met for the first time, never could we imagine the effect of gathering large corporates like Mastercard and banks with small, ambitious startups. Fast forward months, we have witnessed various projects initiated...

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Taking the mind-set to the next level!

When we kicked off Enfuce back in June of 2016 the driving force was to make something awesome, a company that delivers services better, faster and cheaper than the incumbent players. We truly set aim...

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Wow, what a week it was! Every year Slush brings over 20,000 people to Helsinki in the midst of the harsh winter climate to celebrate the newest innovations in tech. This year at Slush, fintech...

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Lighthouse Finalists Announced

The first series of workshops in the Lighthouse Development Program have concluded; a total of 15 startups, went through 6 workshops, in 3 cities, that brought together over 100 participants to explore opportunities for collaborative...

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Highlighting Nordic and Baltic Fintech

We have now closed out the “series 1” workshops in the Lighthouse Development Program, and it has been very rewarding to see how much progress the 15 participating companies have made. Each company has started...

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And We’re Off!

Coming into week 37 was a mixture of pure excitement and nervousness— like that feeling before the first day of a new school year. In a way, the day before the first Lighthouse workshops, was...

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Introducing the Lighthouse class of 2018

The next generation of Fintech is announced 15 finalists selected for Mastercard’s and NFT Venture’s Fintech-initiative Lighthouse Development Program Nordics & Baltics August 29, 2018 – Mastercard  and NFT Ventures today announced the final 15 participants...

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Nordic and Baltic Meetup Amsterdam

On June 5th Mastercard and NFT Ventures hosted a meetup following the events at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam. Fintech companies, banks, and regulators gathered at the beautiful TQ coworking space to discuss trends in Nordic...

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It’s Official…

Mastercard and NFT Ventures have started working together to explore how to make a bigger impact on the Nordic and Baltic Fintech communities. After scanning the market and seeing what others were doing, we began...

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