Women in Tech 2022: Lena Hackelöer, CEO and Founder of Brite Payments

Founded in 2019, Brite is a second generation fintech, which currently provides instant bank payments and payouts across 21 markets in Europe. Foremostly, Brite is an ‘Open Banking’ company, meaning its platform has been specifically built to enable the most reliable and compliant way of doing account-to-account payments using the banks’ ‘Open Banking’ APIs.

Brite leverages this technology to process payments in real time between consumers and online merchants, removing risk and increasing safety across several verticals. Now, Brite aims to bring its accessible, more affordable payment solution to a wide range of customers across a number of different markets.

Lena Hackelöer is the CEO and founder of Brite and is leading the company as it revolutionizes the world of payments. She got her first start in the fintech industry after joining Klarna in 2015.