LUXKO, Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) and Seoul Fintech Lab (SFL) joined forces to welcome the five most promising Korean FinTech companies to Luxembourg.
Are you a financial institution, investor or fintech expert? Do you want to stay on top of the latest FinTech trends and strengthen relationships with the international Fintech ecosystem? Are you looking for the most innovative FinTech solutions? And want to know more about the potential for collaboration between traditional financial institutions and FinTech?
Then join our cross-border event to connect the international fintech ecosystem and network with peers and industry leaders who are shaking up the FinTech sector. If you wish to have 1:1 deep get-to-know session or become a jury member, please contact to LUXKO.
About the LPEA
The Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (LPEA) is the representative body of private equity and venture capital professionals in Luxembourg.
With over 280 members, LPEA plays a leading role in the discussion and development of the investment framework and actively promotes the industry beyond the country’s borders.
Luxembourg disposes of a stable tax regime and is today at the forefront of international PE regulation providing a flexible, secure, predictable and multi-lingual jurisdiction to operate in.
LPEA provides a dynamic and interactive platform for its members to discuss and exchange information and organises working meetings and networking opportunities on a regular basis.
If Luxembourg is your location of choice for private equity, LPEA is where you actually become a player!
Luxembourg serial entrepreneur and angel investor, founder of 2BE.LU early-stage venture capital fund with a portfolio of 17 companies focused on the sharing economy, artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies. In 2018 launched VNX Exchange (www.vnx.io) a digital asset platform for venture capital investments. Business angel, member of E100 – London Business School angel investor network. MBA London Business School and Columbia University. Co-chair of VC club at LPEA (Luxembourg PE &VC Association) and Executive Council member of Digital Banking and FinTech Innovation cluster at ABBL (Luxembourg Banking Association)
Alex is the key person in Luxembourg Fintech ecosystem. He thrives fintech ecosystem in Luxembourg and support awesome entrepreneurs. The LHoFT aims to foster innovation and develop solutions that shape the future of financial services. It will connect and create value for the entire Luxembourg fintech ecosystem: financial institutions, fintech trailblazers, IT industry, research and academia as well as the regulatory and public authorities (BGL BNP Paribas, Clearstream, BCEE, Deloitte, KPMG, POST, Six Payment, PwC, Societe Generale, and Telindus).
She had more than 15 years of experience in systematic/algorithm trading and portfolio management at Wall street’s major firms such as Quantavium, Citi, J.P. Morgan, and Blackrock (the former Barclays Global Investors). Youngju managed more than 6 billion-dollar portfolios under various market environments.
Besides her career in algorithm trading and asset management, she also taught finance/statistics at few universities including U.C. Berkeley and the University of Gothenburg, and spoke at major professional conferences. She also published six investment books and has been a columnist at the major Korean media. She currently holds an advisor position for Bank of Korea, foreign reserve management where they manage 600 billion U.S. dollar and held advisor positions for Samsung asset management.
Work involves advising fintech and financial companies looking to develop cross-border activity through Luxembourg-based platforms. I also advise on the development of the ecosystem in Luxembourg and on synergy creation with other key financial centres, with a focus on the Greater China region. A proactive and outgoing Cambridge University graduate. Received the top 1st Class degree in Chinese studies in 2009. Chris already has extensive communications experience across a range of organisations with complex and diverse audiences. More info at http://www.chrishollifield.com/
Michael Jackson is a board member of two of the world’s best-known companies: Volvo Cars, AXA Insurance, and two of the world’s leading software companies: Blockchain and Kneip Communications. He reached these positions after a career transforming the communications industry, first as a senior executive in Tele2, Europe’s leading alternative operator, and then as Chief Operating Officer at Skype in its formative years, creating its business model followed by ten years as an investor, company builder and fund manager as a Partner at Mangrove Capital Partners in Luxembourg – one of the top decile performers in the European Venture Capital industry.
Won-Suck is an expert in businesses in the digital age in the global market. With a unique understanding of emerging and frontier markets, and a proven track record in identifying and realizing market opportunities, he is a key partner for investors and operators in IOT, big data, online, telecoms, digital financial services, and media sectors. He started his journey with Metro international (COO), Tele2 (Executive Vice President), Millicom (Vice president, Mobile Financial Services), Global Fashion Group (Board member), Flo Live (Advisor) and now he invests in world class teams, high growth, scalable and category winners.
Romain is an active Business Angel who leads the investment committee board from LBAN (Luxembourg Business Angel Network) and worked in the corporate relations and finance at BCEE (Banque et Casisse d'Epargne de l'Etat) +25 year. His passion is to meet top entrepreneurs and listen their business model and being an active investor to support their dream to be a next unicorn! If you see some of the very successful Luxembourg based start-ups, he is always behind of the scene. A true Luxembourger who loves biking the Luxembourg hidden nature and can tell why 'Luxembourg' is a best place for living and doing business.
Semi (Seungeun) PARK is a founder and CEO of LUXKO accelerator and Director of 2be.lu VC fund. A member of LBAN (Luxmebourg Business Angel Network). She brings the most innovative Korean tech firms to Luxembourg (Space tech, IoT, AI).
LUXKO accelerator also brings the Luxembourg based tech firms to South Korea and support its incubating with all the local experts. Her dream is to see a new unicorn which born in Luxembourg. Purely, "made in Luxembourg" with lots of diversity and top talents from Luxembourg!
Michael is a Fintech expert and leader with demonstrated history of working in financial services industry in Europe (Barclays in London, CCO of Luxembourg Stock Exchange, CEO of Digicashin Luxembourg, COO Payconiq, BNP Paribas in Belgium, Fortis and Citigroup in Switzerland). He knows both the traditional finance sector and he led Digicash (Very successful Luxembourg based Fintech) through the incorporated with different financial key stakeholders. A true Luxembourg born Fintech guru who knows the EU expansion fintech strategy.
Professor and Head of SEDAN (Service and Data Management in Distributed Systems) University of Luxembourg (SNT), Jury
Prof. Dr. Radu State is a professor and head of SEDAN (Service and Data Management in Distributed Systems) in University of Luxembourg. He already works with some major Fintech start-ups R&D development in Luxembourg.
He is also an Adjunct Professor of Blockchain & Big data/ cryptocurrencies at the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology at Sacred Heart University of Luxembourg. His excellent academia combined really well with the Fintech start-up's journey to make its technology more reliable and safe!
VOLTA provides a trading strategy open marketplace that connects retail investors and professional traders so that retail investors can trade like professionals with the aid from professional traders.
There are many teams consisting of just one or two talented programmers who make high profits just by running a few trading strategy algorithms. However, these groups lack the resources such as the brand, organization, capital for marketing, funding and customer services, and they are looking for an automated platform so that they can solely focus on trading.
Quotabook is an equity management platform for both companies and investors. Startups and VCs can sync crucial equity data and corporate governance issues through an online equity platform so that every shareholder and portfolio company can communicate through a single source of truth. Quotabook is being used by most of the top-tier VCs and Startups in Korea while also having partnerships with 33% of the transfer agents in Korea. The company was incorporated in late 2019 and was funded by almost 20 VCs, accelerators, and banks ever since.
Finhaven is a capital markets technology company that offers a simple, safe and secure paperless custodial and settlement solution for all market participants. Our technology platform leverages distributed ledger technology and covers KYC, AML, suitability, capital raise, primary distribution, marketplace, settlement, depository, investor relations, and corporate action management. This new digital capital market system will have real time settlement that eliminates the need for clearing agencies, central depositories, and custodians. Finhaven Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Finhaven Technology Inc. is a registered exempt market dealer in six jurisdictions from BC to QC in Canada (Finhaven Capital is operating as “Finhaven Private Markets”). Finhaven Asia, another Finhaven subsidiary, is located in Seoul to expand the Company’s business in Asian markets.
Spiceware on Cloud’ is SaaS that securely protects all data operated by enterprises in finance, public, telecommunications and healthcare sectors by providing data security and PII (Personally Identifiable Information) protection services for building infrastructure utilizing cloud, big data, and AI.
It is a cloud-native PII Protection Service with the following features: Encryption, Access Log Management, PII Deletion, Anonymization & Pseudonymization.
Established in 2017, the company is invested by AhnLab, a major IT security company in South Korea, along with other VC’s in Korea. Spiceware is an Amazon APN Select Technology Partner in the category of DB Encryption since 2018.
Seoul Fintech Lab is based in South Korea and was developed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2018 for development of the financial sector. It is already hosting 100 companies specializing in the financial technology sector.
The companies are provided with space for around two years and guided with their specialized accelerator programmes.