Banking + 2 Fintech & Insurtech Penta Penta connects the best financial services and business solutions in an integrated banking platform. Founded: 2017 https://www.getpenta.com See More at NOAH Connect SPEAKER INFORMATION KEY CORPORATE FACTS Headquarters Berlin, Germany Marko Wenthin Other Offices Milan, Italy CEO Active Markets Germany, Italy Employees 51-100 Ownership Financial Investors PRESENTATION TOPIC Key Investors FinLeap, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures Total Funding € 17m SME banking and business management platform BUSINESS OVERVIEW SHORT BIOGRAPHY At Penta we're on a mission to simplify business banking, allowing business owners to focus on the things they really love. They can open a Marko is CEO at Penta, a leading SME banking platform in Europe. He started his bank account online in minutes, get debit cards for employees, send affordable foreign transfers and easily integrate their accounting solution career with an apprenticeship in Deutsche Bank. There he spent 16 years in many into Penta. Almost 10,000 businesses use Penta today and we are growing quickly. different positions in retail, corporate and investment banking. Out of his16 years READ MORE he spent 10 abroad, in Argentina and in Poland. In Poland he became the youngest Board member of a bank in Poland at the age of 30 and acted as COO overseeing IT, operations, back and middle-offices. In his mid 30s he changed his corporate career for an entrepreneurship one. He founded a couple of SaaS businesses and even an helicopter airline which due to the financial crisis of 2008 had to be shelved briefly be- fore starting operations. He helped Asseco, one of the largest IT software companies in Poland to expand in Western Europe and acted as non exec Board member in a couple of the acquired companies. In 2009 he created Sofort Bank, sister company of SofortÜberweisung, which later on was sold to Klarna. Sofort Bank became Deutsche Handelsbank. In order to bring banking to the next level he co-founded solarisBank and defined Banking as a platform in the real world. READ MORE NOAH LONDON SPEAKER BOOK 57
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