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Tony Nysten

Partner

OpenOcean welcomes kevin. to the portfolio family

kevin. has announced in November their raise of a $10 million funding round to disrupt the card payment infrastructure. It is our pleasure at OpenOcean to participate together with our friends at OTB Ventures and Speedinvest.

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Through their advanced account-to-account payment infrastructure solution, kevin. enables fast, secure and affordable payments in both online stores, mobile applications as well as POS terminals.With thousands of happy merchants already signed up, we’re with excitement looking forward to ushering in the era of smooth payments together with Tadas and Pavel!

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