This program offers you a unique opportunity to accelerate the development of your business idea together with Nordea experts, Nestholma and some of the best FinTech experts in the Nordics. Speaker: Jan Sirich, Head of Experimentation & Learning Solutions & IT, Digital Banking, Nordea. (English)

1. IBM Business Connect
Nordea’s Digital Transformation and collaboration with startup companies
www.nordeaaccelerator.com
4 October 2016, Jan Sirich

2. • Technology enables new Innovation
• Digital savviness in our region
• Digital Disruption Paradigm
• B.A.A.P as a mental concept
• First Mover beats Follower. Speed beats Brand.
• Integration of 3rd party partners:
• Access to data / API-s
• Business’ willingness
• Planning
• Dare-To-Fail mindset
• Digital transformation
Introduction
 Now!
 Ready!
 Win/Win!
 Team up!
 Compliance!
 Involve early!
 Agile instead of waterfall!
 Praise it and experiment!
 Involve and engage
employees and middle
managers!

3. @nordeastartup
www.nordeaaccelerator.com

4. Nordea Startup Accelerator 2016
Accelerate your business development
Form the banking of the future
Mentoring, training, guidance, networking, partnerships
Seed funding
May-Aug – Applications
Aug – Selection
Sep-Dec – Nordic 12-week program
Nov 29 – Demo day
@nordeastartup
www.nordeaaccelerator.com

5. Identify opportunities for new incremental and radical
business innovation – form the future bank
Claim our spot on the Nordic startup scene as a corporate
innovation partner
Stimulate growth of innovative culture and insight in
Nordea

6. Themes 2016
Banks role in sharing economy
Emerging Technologies
Digital Life and Pension
Compliance and changes in regulation
Banks as collaboration enablers
Surprise us

7. Nordea’s value proposition to startups
• Partnering with Nordea to bring forward your innovation
• Gain domain knowledge and business insight of banking
• Get access to Nordea’s customers, data and markets
• Mentoring by entrepreneurs and FinTech and Nordea experts
• Sparring with global tech giants
• Piloting Nordea’s open APIs
• Expanding your professional network
• Funding opportunities

8. Monday 22.8
 Registration (9 AM)
 Nordea and Nestholma
keynote
 Startups pitch
 Speed dating
 Peer-2-peer mentoring
09:00
Tuesday
 Iterative bus. model
development
 Lean Canvas
 Training in Sales
Wednesday
 Validating the
problem
 Face the customer
 Convince Nordea
Executives
 Mentoring by TCS
Thursday
 Pitching
 Networking
 IBM Bluemix
 Selection
 Celebration
Friday 26.8
 1-on-1 with each
selected startup
 Practicalities for
joining the programme
21:00
Value of
the day
Learn about Nordea view
points and network with
up to 50 other startups
Learn how to build a great
product and a great team,
while involving customers
Validate the problem with
real customers, shake hands
with Nordea Executives, learn
from tech giant TCS
Pitching training and
announcing the final
selection for the
programme; party
Paperwork ready for
the selected startups
Training and selection week Oslo
During the week meet Nordea executives, experts and external guests. Workshops are facilitated by Nestholma.
09:00
16:00

9. 12-week on-site programme schedule with
1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12
Startup day Mentor day Demo day
Main events
Themes and workshops
Building the team and the company
Getting funding and growing
Developing/validating ideas and business models
Understanding the market Marketing and selling
Understanding the customer
Guest speakers
Guests from other startups, technology companies, industry experts, etc.
Mentoring
Every startup has at least one mentor from Nordea. Nestholma mentors also available as needed. Startups are also engaged to provide peer2peer
mentoring through-out the programme.
LEARN DO PITCH
12.9 2.12

10. Asteria (FI)
Helping small and medium sized businesses
mitigate the risk for overdue invoices
Collectly (US)
Collectly helps banks and large enterprises
maximize debt recovery rate at a lower cost while
keeping the customers loyal after the collection
process
Fjuul (FI)
Fjuul makes the insurance experience more
meaningful and engaging by rewarding healthy
lifestyle. Fjuul turns everyday activities into
exercise and translates those into Fjuul points.
Those accumulated points can then be used for
rewards, such as discounts on premiums for
health- and life insurance
Kuan (UK)
Kuan Inc. is a cross border payment platform
backed by blockchain technology for businesses
receiving recurring and large overseas payment
within 2 working days
Mina Tjänster (SE)
People lack control over their economy
when it comes to subscriptions and
recurring costs.
We provide a powerful digital tool were we
summarizes all active subscriptions for the
user by analysing the users transaction
history (bank integrated). Easy cancelation
and easy optimization of all services
Smartcalling (UK)
A proprietary technology that empowers
enterprises to mitigate the major pain point
of anonymity and suspicion when calling
their customers on their smartphone. This
is done by repurposing the incoming call
screen into a branded, dynamic, and
interactive display
D-Vision
We motivate drivers to improve their
driving habits and road safety in a
rewarding and fun way

11. Taviq (FI)
TAVIQ helps investment advisers and private
bankers to make hassle free and objective risk
profiling for their clients. This reduces the
amount of manual work in client risk profiling
while improving advisers understanding of their
clients and helps them to deliver truly personal
services
Tikkr (SE)
Tikkr is a disruptive digital insurance platform for
people on the go! Tikkr focuses on 'MOMENTS' in
a person's life rather than purchasing insurance
for every single object they own. Tikkr's ultimate
goal is to understand an individual's lifestyle,
predicting and protect those moments
Trayce (DK)
Trayce is an intelligent expense management
system that eliminates expense and mileage
processes in SMEs. Using AI, digital receipts and a
clever structure of rules, Trayce helps employees
create and submit error free expenses in a matter
of seconds, thus freeing up valuable time
Voxo (SE)
Voxo enables financial institutions to
ensure the highest level of regulatory
compliance in advisory meetings by parsing
voice recordings into searchable and
analysable digital records, providing
transparent and accessible documentation
while lifting the heavy administrative
burden off advisors
YeyNey (NO)
YeyNey is an app that makes saving social,
simple and sustainable. Our goal is to
reduce spontaneous purchases by giving
you a second opinion from your friends.
With saving goals you will stay motivated,
and save even more
Zash (SE)
Zash is in the business of digitizing the
Retail industry with a focus on the
Hospitality segment. It’s a platform, which
allows merchants to lower their IT cost by
using Zash as their One stop shop service
provider. Zash includes a POS, Customer
facing app, Marketing and so much more!

12. Thank you!
Jan Sirich