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August 21, 2019

The Nordics have a new neo bank contender

With backing from Greyhound and Socii, the Danish neo bank Lunar Way just betted big on Nordic millennials.


Mimi Billing

2 min read

Danish fintech Lunar Way is becoming a bank and is raising €26m in funding.

The Danish banking app Lunar Way has overnight both received a banking licence and €26m in funding, from investors such as Danish Seed Capital, Brittish Greyhound Capital och San Francisco-based Socii Capital.

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Ken Villum Klausen founded Lunar Way back in 2015 to offer millennials a new way of banking.
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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