Name:

Secourriel S.A.

Date of creation:

2017.3.16

Address:

29, boulevard Grande-Duchesse Charlotte
L-1331 Luxembourg

Email:

web@secourriel.com

Phone number:

+352 20 60 09 00-10

Website:

www.secourriel.com

Social networks:

Linkedin

Capital Stock:

ND

Funds Raised:

ND

Turnover:

ND

Founders:

Jorg Reinking

Staff:

1

Job Offers:

0

Field of activity:

Cybersecurity / secure messaging for the financial ecosystem (B2B, B2C)

Elevator Pitch:

Secourriel is the gold standard of secure messaging

• Secourriel is transforming classic email and messaging into a secure, contract ready trusted solution.
• Strong demand drivers force the financial sector to adopt secure messaging soon – 2018 is a key deadline
• Platform is tried and tested – important for sensitive data
• Only we have an unsurpassed B2B ability

Products/Services:

We are leveraging of a proven cybersecurity platform, Secourriel will run and transform the platform locally in line with Luxembourg law and banking regulation

• The users keep their existing e-mail addresses or other communication identifiers.
• This service is deeply customised for the financial industry and fully compliant to EU and Luxembourg specific regulation (e.g. CSSF and CNPD).
• Preconfigured, PSF ready turnkey solution.
• Platform as a service or on-premises (Enterprise Edition)
• All common platforms supported: Web based, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Mac OS, Thunderbird (incl. Linux), Android, iOS.
• Central transaction register to provide proof of dispatch and receipt to senders.
• Integration: Plug in/ APIs and SDK available – or SaaS solution in our Tier IV data centre.

Key benefits

• Instant compliance of the messaging channel for key 2018 EU regulations as such as MiFID II, PSD2, GDPR and corporates internal high-risk media policies
• Unsurpassed B2B ability
• Re-use of existing mailing solutions at client
• Evidence of read/opening message from a PSF company
• Fits organisational model of large corporations (delegation)
• Audit trail
• Paper-less (interfaces to output management systems)

Business Model:

• Basic functions are permanently free to clients who are registered by their financial institution
• On company level
  • Licence fee
  • Pay per Use
  • Flat rate for enterprises with a high traffic volume
  • Optional: Integration project when choosing on-premises installation / Enterprise Edition

Forecast:

After establishing of a reference client base in Luxembourg expansion to the neighbouring countries

Value added services

Leverage your network. Meet entrepreneurs. Grow your business. Join the club and help build the future. We set up the first private business club for tech innovators, where individuals, startups and corporates can meet throughout the year at a series of dedicated events, including conferences, workshops and after-work events. We gather the best of the best entrepreneurs that Silicon Luxembourg’s network has to offer. Join the club and help build the future.

Wizata has won the 2017 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for Luxembourg. The startup was honored for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology, and will have the privilege meeting Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, in Washington D.C.

By creating Wizata in 2014, my dream was to help companies to solve business issues with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence innovations.

“This award is a wonderful recognition that confirms once again that the challenge was worth taking!”, said Jean-Philippe Hugo, CEO of Wizata. “We share a common technology, vision and strategy, where Azure allows us to bring forth securely and faster the optimized solutions imagined by our world-class data scientists and industry experts.”

Awards were presented in several categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 2,800 entrants from 115 countries worldwide. Wizata, a Microsoft Professional Development Unit with a Gold certification in Data Analytics and 2016 Tech Startup of the Year in Luxembourg, was recognized once again for providing outstanding solutions and innovative services, for demonstrating business excellence and impact, as well as representing excellent subsidiary engagement in Luxembourg, driving customer satisfaction with convincing results.

“We are honored to recognize Wizata of Luxembourg as a Microsoft Country Partner of the Year,” said Ron Huddleston, corporate vice president, One Commercial Partner, Microsoft Corp. “Wizata is a prime example of the expertise and innovation we see in our Microsoft partner community to deliver transformative solutions.”

Editor’s Note: Wizata was featured in the Spring 2017 issue of SILICON magazine. Be the first to read SILICON articles on paper before they’re posted online, plus read exclusive features and interviews that only appear in the print edition, by subscribing online.

About Wizata

Wizata is a data analytics expert offering all companies, including startups, the opportunity to take advantage of the latest technological innovations in terms of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. The startup harnesses the incredible power of Machine Learning with algorithms and models that think, learn, and keep improving to generate unique solutions to businesses.

Wizata’s Data Scientists uncover hidden gems within data, whether internal or external to our clients’ organization, while helping our clients to manage their data internally without communicating these crucial data to external companies.

Founded in 2014, Wizata combines the agility of an SME with the support of Microsoft, recognized for its vision and advanced technologies, and OSIsoft, expert in sensor monitoring. This empowers the startup to offer packaged solutions as answer to business needs based on results-oriented pricing including R&D, cloud infrastructure and exploitation of intelligence.

Name:

LuxApps

Date of creation:

2011.12.27

Address:

11, rue de l’industrie
L-8399 Windhof

Email:

info@luxapps.lu

Phone number:

+352 288 662 – 1

Website:

www.luxapps.lu

Social networks:

Linkedin

Capital Stock:

ND

Funds Raised:

ND

Turnover:

ND

Founders:

ND

Staff:

4

Job Offers:

Have a look to our Careers page

Field of activity:

Tailor-made development: software, mobile applications and websites

Elevator Pitch:

LuxApps helps you to translate your business processes into tailor-made business application, making you succeed in digital transformation and providing you with simple and intuitive products mixed with websites and mobile applications.

Products/Services:

• Development
• Software: real estate property management, fiduciary CRM, scientific tool, holiday management, …

Business Model:

Providing tailor-made business applications to specific PME and keep IP rights of these applications to commercialize them after.

Forecast:

Commercialize our real estate solution to increase license incomes, grow up our team and extend its commercialization to EU.

Value added services

Leverage your network. Meet entrepreneurs. Grow your business. Join the club and help build the future. We set up the first private business club for tech innovators, where individuals, startups and corporates can meet throughout the year at a series of dedicated events, including conferences, workshops and after-work events. We gather the best of the best entrepreneurs that Silicon Luxembourg’s network has to offer. Join the club and help build the future.

NRB, one of the leaders of Belgium’s ICT sector, and Etix Everywhere, a global data center provider and operator, announce today their partnership to develop a new colocation data center in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. The data center will provide 900 square meters of IT space with 900 kVA of power at full build-out.

(Image Credit: Biemar / Biemar)

Supporting the Digital Transformation of Business, Thanks to Cutting Edge Infrastructure

The project consists of three modules of 300 square meters and 300 kVA each. Construction work began in March 2017 and the first module will be ready to receive the first 100 racks in October 2017. Thanks to the technical design developed by Etix Everywhere, each additional module will be delivered in 16 weeks, so that the data center can be adjusted to market needs. The investment for the first phase of the data center, which includes building the next two modules, represents a total of €4.2 million co-financed by NRB and Etix Everywhere.

“This new data center demonstrates the attractiveness of Wallonia for foreign investors,” says Jean-Claude Marcourt, Minister for Economic Affairs and the Digital Economy. “This long-term partnership between a global company and a local player testifies to the potential of our region to grasp opportunities. This is, in fact, one of the primary goals of the ‘Digital Wallonia’ strategy.”

“This major investment reinforces the proactive Cloud strategy of NRB,” explains Pascal Laffineur, CEO of NRB. “We offer tailor-made Cloud solutions to our clients. We select for them the best ICT environment possible, whether an NRB private Cloud, public Cloud or hybrid Cloud approach. We connect and integrate the system and we ensure its efficient management. Moreover, with this project, we take a step further towards smarter IT infrastructure, thanks to automation and a smart software-defined data center.”

As innovation is a core value of both companies, the data center will be equipped with all the latest technologies developed by Etix Everywhere’s R&D Lab, particularly in addressing security matters.

With its current data centers located in Herstal, Belgium, approximately 30 kilometers from the BelgiumDC, and dark fiber linking the two sites, NRB will be better positioned to offer a first-rate business continuity plan. For its part, Etix Everywhere will market data housing to clients seeking to accommodate their servers in the best performance and security conditions of the market. The data center will be carrier-neutral, providing clients the freedom to work with the service providers of their choice. As innovation is a core value of both companies, the data center will be equipped with all the latest technologies developed by Etix Everywhere’s R&D Lab, particularly in addressing security matters.

“We were looking for a partner that shares our vision of innovation,” comments Thierry Engels, Infrastructure Manager of NRB. “With Etix Everywhere, we are assured to have a data center that is always at the cutting edge of technologies, which meets our clients’ demanding requirements.”

A Grid of Data Centers

This data center reflects the common international growth strategy of both companies. The goal of Etix Everywhere is to develop an international network of homogeneous and interconnected data centers in order to offer colocation services of the same quality all over the world. BelgiumDC clients will be able to benefit from IT capacity throughout the Etix Everywhere network with a preferential tariff.

“In parallel with the BelgiumDC construction, we are also building a data center in Lille, France,” states Louis Blanchot, Business Director of Etix Everywhere France. “This territorial coverage will create development opportunities for companies on both sides of the border.”

Launched in 2007 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Creative Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg (CYEL) competition aims to promote entrepreneurship among young people between the ages of 18 and 40 and to reward innovative ideas from young entrepreneurs in Luxembourg.

At the Gala evening and prize-giving ceremony organised in the prestigious Cercle Cité in Luxembourg City, three companies (Yotako, Largowind and Jemmic) and their respective founders (Alfonso Garcia Frey, Mathilde Argaud and Jean-Pierre Schmit) will be honoured.

The three finalists were selected from the ten files invited to support their candidature on 1 June, after an initial selection of the best paper applications. The jury comprised Antoine Hron (Luxinnovation), Jean Kalmes and Christophe Ney (BGL BNP Paribas), François-Xavier Borsi (KPMG), Melvin Tjon Akon and Carolina Vasselli (Bonn Steichen & Partners) and Julien Brunel, winner of the 2016 edition of CYEL with his company milepaKr.

Enhancing innovative entrepreneurship in Luxembourg

In addition to the establishment of the company in the Grand Duchy and the age of the entrepreneur (40 years maximum), the selection criteria were based on innovative and creative solutions in the companies created.

Created in 2016, the company YOTAKO of Alfonso Garcia Frey automatically translates the design of websites into code.

Mathilde Argaud has developed a Connected Rope®, a connected object concentrating technologies allowing the owners of boats to manage it remotely.

As for Jean-Pierre Schmit, since 2009 he has been developing security and process improvement solutions, mainly in the financial field.

The winner of the CYEL 2017 will be revealed to you on Thursday 15 June, during the gala evening organised by the Junior Chamber of Economy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The award ceremony will be preceded by an intervention by Richard RUSSEL, entrepreneur, specialised in innovation and digital technologies, having developed innovative solutions for Amazon and Google.

To discover the new faces of entrepreneurship in Luxembourg, please register (free registration) at the gala evening via the following link: www.cyel.lu/en/gala

The StartUp Europe Awards initiative, promoted by the European Commission and implemented by Finnova Foundation, in collaboration with StartUp Europe, will recognise for the first time the best startups in Europe in 10 categories, in the so-called “Eurovision for startups”. This recognition will take place in Brussels next Wednesday, 7th of June, in a ceremony that will count on the honorific presence of the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani.

In total, 84 finalists startups coming from Croatia, Greece, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland, Macedonia and Montenegro will opt for the recognition of best startup in the categories of Creative, Energy, Fintech, Green, Health, ICT, Smart Cities, Social, Tourism and Water.

The 6 startups finalists from Luxembourg that will compete for one of the European prizes by category are: OUNI (Green Category), JOB TODAY (Social), SWIRL (Energy), vyzVoice (ICT), Digicash (Fintech) and APATEQ (Water).

The awards will be delivered by the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani; the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Mr. Carlos Moedas; the Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions, Karl-Heinz Lambert; the Vice-President for Communication of the European Economic and Social Committee, Gonçalo Lobo Xavier and the DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Mr. Michel Servoz.

In addition to distinguishing the best startups from Europe in 10 categories, the StartUp Europe Awards final will also recognise the best Public Administration for the Startups, a pioneering prize which aims to recognise the best programmes or public services supporting entrepreneurs and innovation in municipality, province, region and international organism category. The initiative also recognises the Best Media Partner, a prize that will be given to the media partner most committed to the dissemination of the entrepreneurship and the startups.

Finally, the president of the organisation “Mind the Bridge”, Alberto Onetti, will present in the ceremony the last report of “Scaleup Europe” by Startup Europe Partnership (SEP). This report includes new data about Scaleups and capital raised in Europe, plus a comparison among regions, countries and sectors. The maturity of the EU scene, the potential impact of Brexit, and recent growth ends the report, along with a survey of the largest verticals present in Scaleup Europe, and which countries these verticals are most represented in.

All the winners of StartUp Europe Awards will obtain great visibility all around Europe thanks to the Media Partner Alliance of StartUp Europe Awards formed by 21 media members. The startups will also have access to a programme of mentoring (in internationalization, European funds like SMEs Instrument of 50.000 € to 2,5 million € of non-refundable subsidy, international communication, etc.), through the StartUp Europe Accelerator of Finnova Foundation, which will allow them to boost their projects and to make them more viable worldwide.

About StartUp Europe Awards

StartUp Europe Awards is an initiative that seeks to identify and recognise local models of success which become an example to other entrepreneurs, to the public administrations for developing custom-made programmes to stimulate its growth and to the investors for approaching local ecosystems.

“From the Commission, we want that entrepreneurship generating growth and employment is not only present in a few cities or regions. Thus, more people can benefit from the impact” assures Isidro Laso, Head of StartUp Europe’s Sector – European Commission.

StartUp Europe Awards also proposes a methodology of open innovation through the public – private partnership, “that works for the public entities to find a solution for its local challenges and for the startups to try its innovations in pilots supported with European funding”, declares Juan Manuel Revuelta, Director of StartUp Europe Accelerator by Finnova Foundation.

More than 20 local events and 14 national awards have been celebrated under StartUp Europe Awards´ frame in 2016, with 91 startups winners and 84 that made it to the final. 21 media Partners of the whole Europe, as The Independent in Ireland or Emprende TVE in Spain, they have helped to give visibility to this initiative. 9 members of the European Parliament have come together in the StartUp Europe Awards as ambassadors, supporting the local events with their presence and following closely the progress of the startups.

StartUp Europe Awards is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and it is supported by the President of the Committee of the Regions, several members of the European Parliament as Ambassadors and implemented by the Finnova Foundation in collaboration with Startup Europe.

We are a truly global team of people excited about digital currencies….Bitcoin, Blockchain, decentralized ledgers, and all the cool things these cheap, easy and open technologies can do for emerging markets.  Most of us have worked/lived in Africa for a bit and our HQ is currently in Luxembourg.

We were the FIRST company in the world to link Bitcoin with mobile money, the first company to link Africa and China payment system via the Bitcoin blockchain, and are able to do cool things with the unique financial systems of the countries where we operate.

About the role:

BitPesa is looking for a UI designer with product experience to join the team in Luxembourg. The ideal candidate would have 2-5 years of experience as a UI designer as well as experiences in product analytics and management.

+ Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define and implement , visuals and experience for BitPesa’s product. Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to the engineering team.

+ Devise customer use cases and analyse key customer and product trends.

About us:

BitPesa is a pan-African platform redefining how businesses make payments to and from sub-Saharan Africa. Focused on using cutting-edge blockchain technology to increase efficiency across markets, BitPesa opens corridors for business payments and trade between Africa and the rest of the world.

Using BitPesa, organisations can now take control of their payments to employees, distributors, or suppliers, as well as collect payments from African customers. This includes payment from popular mobile money services as well as delivery to an organisation’s national or international bank account on the same day. We offer businesses the fastest and most cost-efficient way to make and receive payments in African currencies.

BitPesa’s team has grown to more than 20 people across five countries, hailing from some of the world’s largest companies, including Google, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Wells Fargo, Moneygram, JPMorgan, Deloitte Consulting, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

BitPesa’s team is over 50% women, and comprises of citizens of Kenya, Nigeria, the U.S., Estonia, Taiwan and India. Currently we have 5 offices in Nairobi, Lagos, Dakar, London and Luxembourg.

Skills

User Research, UI/UX Design, Bitcoin, Product Design, InVision Prototyping, Blockchain

Compensation

$36K – $50K
No Equity

Location

Luxembourg City, Remote
Full Time

Apply now via https://angel.co/bitpesa/jobs/50382-ui-designer-product-analyst

Patrick Kersten, CEO of Doctena and Hugues Langlet, CEO of Editus Luxembourg, have just signed a partnership contract that intends to provide all visitors of editus.lu the benefit of Doctena’s medical booking platform, which has been available in Luxembourg since 2013 and is also operating in Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

(Featured Image, from left to right: Patrick Kersten, CEO of Doctena and Hugues Langlet, CEO of Editus Luxembourg)

As the leader in local search, Editus is referencing all doctors – GP’s and specialists – in Luxembourg and now allows all its users to access a booking service directly via editus.lu. Editus remains therefore committed to the public and expands its offer by giving access to this new service useful on a daily basis.

The users, among which more and more use our mobile applications and generate about 50% of the traffic, will also have the possibility to fully enjoy this new feature.

“This new collaboration is the fruit of a winning synergy for the users and all practitioners of the Grand Duchy. It perfectly fits into our development strategy. We are working daily on strengthening our position as leader in local search by providing the visitors with qualitative content in line with what they came to look for on editus.lu. From now on, it is no longer only a question of looking for the contact details of his doctor but also of making the appointment and therefore to access a complete service. This collaboration with Doctena aims to offer a complementary, unique and innovative experience to all our users”, says Hugues Langlet.

Being present on Editus is for Doctena another way to fulfil our promise to facilitate easy access to healthcare. A patient who finds his doctor on Editus will now directly see his availabilities.

Editus.lu, the 4th most visited website in Luxembourg – and the first outside information websites – records more than 1,3 million visits per month. For its part, the platform of Doctena, which has already been operational in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Luxembourg since 2013, has a total of more than 7,000 practitioners, available across Europe. Doctena Luxembourg currently has 210,276 appointments available and the practitioners referenced on the platform are speaking 25 languages. One in five Luxembourgish doctors has an online agenda. This collaboration allows them to join forces and increase drastically their visibility to the users in Luxembourg and in the Greater Region.

“Being present on Editus is for Doctena another way to fulfil our promise to facilitate easy access to healthcare. A patient who finds his doctor on Editus will now directly see his availabilities. He can now book online in 3 clicks, totally secure, or, if he prefers, call the indicated phone number”, says Patrick Kersten, the founder of Doctena.

Some numbers*

This new service, available on editus.lu, meets a growing demand. In total, nearly 7,400 searches are recorded every month on editus.lu, across all medical professions.

Top 3 most searched practitioners in Luxembourg are dentists, general practitioners and ophthalmologists*.

*source: editus.lu

The two main players in professional real-estate valuation in Luxembourg, Houser and BetaTracker S.A., today announced their merger. Along with a capital investment into Houser, BetaTracker S.A. brings a ground-breaking public/private research project with LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), whose researchers are developing an exclusive method to accurately value residential property in Luxembourg.

(Featured Image: Daniel Haag, co-founder of BetaTracker and Matti Heikkila, CEO of Houser)

BetaTracker S.A. was conceived to provide professional real-estate services to banks and financial institutions, while Houser has already created several big-data real-estate services, Houser.lu for property buyers and renters, and HouserLOOP.com for real-estate agents.

Combining the scientific rigour of LISER’s research with Houser’s real-time market data and operational expertise ensures we can address the needs of banks to manage their portfolio risk and fulfill their regulatory requirements.

“This is a perfect match,” said Matti Heikkila, CEO of Houser, “The combination of BetaTracker’s banking expertise with Houser’s proven operations team ensures we can deliver the best real-estate services to our customers. For banks, we’re able to solve many of the problems they face, from loan acquisition and credit approval to risk management.”

Daniel Haag from BetaTracker was equally enthusiastic “Our unique partnership with LISER allows us to develop the most accurate valuation model in Luxembourg based on the real price of properties. Combining the scientific rigour of LISER’s research with Houser’s real-time market data and operational expertise ensures we can address the needs of banks to manage their portfolio risk and fulfill their regulatory requirements.”

LISER is already participating in the Observatoire de l’Habitat, department of the Ministry of Housing which is the leading source of official real-estate statistics in Luxembourg, releasing regular market information to the public through the website http://observatoire.liser.lu. As the first public/private partnership within LISER, the project has already shown how researchers at the institute are able to apply their expertise and address real business needs. Julien Licheron, the project coordinator in LISER was excited at the prospect of working with Houser “It is a very innovative project for us, creating a very close link between applied research and the business world. The operational expertise and experience of Houser is extremely complementary to our research skills in the construction of the valuation model”.

Houser, based in the startup incubator Lux Future Lab, is already testing its services with banks and plans are underway to build on its success in Luxembourg and expand services internationally with Germany, France and Belgium in its sights.

The first StartUp Europe Awards, the Eurovision for startups, ceremony took place last night in Brussels at the European Parliament. Two Luxembourg-based startups, vyzVoice and APATEQ, have been awarded out of the 6 national nominees in total including OUNI, JOB TODAY, SWIRL, Digicash. Silicon Luxembourg also came runner-up in the Best Media Partner category.

Good ideas and investment in digital technology will help create a true Digital Single Market. Happy to meet @StartUpEU award winners pic.twitter.com/pl3pyqYCR1

— EP President Tajani (@EP_President) 7 juin 2017

Winners from Luxembourg

ICT: vyzVoice

vyzVoice mission is to revolutionize the relationship between people and their connected device data by providing a highly secured cloud-based application infrastructure to manage their connected things. Our infrastructure is based on powerful analytics and real-time data empowering our customers to make thoughtful and smart decisions.

vyzVoice provides flexible and intuitive solutions suitable for any user in any market. We, as a team, work together with our customers to define the best applications enabling them to take out the most valuable and actionable insights from their data. vyzVoice is committed to provide high quality standards, first class services and embedded security to its customers.

Time for the winner in #ICT for #SEUA16Final (drum-roll) @vyzVoice! Because of their secure cloud platform for the IOT! pic.twitter.com/t9krxwYfX3

— StartUp Europe Award (@StartUpEUAwards) 7 juin 2017

Water: APATEQ

APATEQ provides oil-water separation systems for oilfield operators as well as compact wastewater treatment plants for special and demanding applications and pre-treatment systems for industrial wastewater. Our technical team gathers members, each with decades of experience in water and wastewater treatment or global product industrial manufacturing and commercialization.

Time for #ExtraordinaryAwards in #Water Category #SEUA16Final! @APATEQ! Focused in environmental and water protection. pic.twitter.com/xlzAtK9WqC

— StartUp Europe Award (@StartUpEUAwards) 7 juin 2017

First Name/Last Name:

Jean-Marc (aka Gianmarco) Liacy

Email:

hello@gianmarco.design

Phone Number:

(+352) 691 688 069

Url of the blog/company:

www.gianmarco.design

Social Networks:

Lindedin | Pinterest | Instagram

Biography:

Gianmarco is my name, also some may know me as Jean-Marc Liacy. I am a graphic designer and illustrator who have been around advertising agencies for more than 16 years. My background is more artistic and I’ve been doing artworks since my childhood. During the past years I was an art director in Luxembourg managing a team of talented creative and also doing all kind of production – web design, branding, illustration, storyboarding for international and national companies,… like a swiss knife but with passion. Pretty flexible, with a right amount of spice, I will be honored to work with you, and help you to visually develop your ideas.

What I’m looking for:

Gianmarco is looking for dynamic and creative collaborations with young starters.

What I can offer to the community:

Gianmarco would like to assist the young starters in the creation of all their essential communication tools (logo, flyers, postcards, id cards, roll-ups, banners, photos…). Develop together a startup visual kit to promote the young company ideas & solutions.

Leverage your network. Meet entrepreneurs. Grow your business. Join the club and help build the future. We set up the first private business club for tech innovators, where individuals, startups and corporates can meet throughout the year at a series of dedicated events, including conferences, workshops and after-work events. We gather the best of the best entrepreneurs that Silicon Luxembourg’s network has to offer. Join the club and help build the future.

Following its recent authorization as an independent depositary in Luxembourg, Trident Trust has moved quickly on the roll out of its services to private equity, real estate, infrastructure and debt funds with the announcement of the implementation of Governance.io.

The Governance.io solution gives Trident Trust’s Luxembourg depositary services team the tools to efficiently perform and document its oversight and supervision duties, and communicate with clients, service providers and other stakeholders.

“We believe our new depositary service will grow quickly, based on demand from our existing alternative investment fund clients and new clients who need the support of an independent depository. Ensuring we have the right technology platform in place to deliver an accurate, reliable and scalable service is critical to us,” says Chantal Behr, head of depositary services at Trident Trust in Luxembourg.

“The Trident Trust team has been committed to innovation and implementing the best solutions from the very start. Their focus to turn regulatory compliance into an asset is an example for the fund industry,” affirms Bert Boerman, CEO of Governance.io.

Luxembourg RegTech startup Governance.io has been included in the Hot Ten list of FinTechCity.

The list was presented together with the FinTech50 and includes the 10 FinTech companies in Europe that are expected to be the next big innovators coming into the FinTech50. “The listing is a recognition for our mission to re-invent corporate governance”, said Bert Boerman CEO of Governance.io

“We especially with to thank our clients for their vision and courage to implement Governance.io long before the company became a reference for efficient governance processes”, he concluded.

Dieter Horn is the CEO of CBN Technologies and one of the three co-founders of InnoHub Luxembourg. He shared with us some insights about the company he currently leads and how InnoHub has helped him to accelerate his business.

(Featured Image: Hannes Rogler, Founder and Managing Director of Rogler International)

Who are you? What does your company do?

I am the CEO of CBN Technologies. We are a young Luxembourg software developing company, founded by Hannes Rogler and Beatrix Blab, that works in the field of Industry 4.0. Since 1992 we have been working on Management Information Systems (MIS) under our Austrian company Rogler International, and in 2016 we decided to move all our operations to Luxembourg in order to internationalize our business activities, creating CBN Technologies.

Today, we are a recognized market player in the field of process digitalization and automatization as we have already realized about 100 installations in nine European countries. We offer many flexible and tailor-made solutions for our clients that want to automate processes. A good example is the flexible cost calculation based on performance catalogues, control of intra-logistics, electronic scheduling or monitoring solutions.

Initially your company started in Austria, why did you decide to come to Luxembourg?

Luxembourg is a great place to internationalize and we were surprised by Luxembourg’s RDI framework, which supports our intentions to develop game changing innovation.

As you have already collaborated with the soft landing platform and accelerator InnoHub Luxembourg, could you share your experience?

InnoHub is like the German Autobahn and allowed us to accelerate our activities and planned undertakings. We were able to rapidly access a vast network of competent partners and clients, which was crucial for our development. InnoHub is also a great resource for strategic development assistance, advice on innovating, and figuring out how to access markets effectively.

What is your advice for other entrepreneurs who intend to accelerate their business?

Contact InnoHub ☺

A statement that you want to share with Luxembourg?

Start small, get big!

Editor’s note: This is sponsored news, which means it has been written by one of our partners, which in this case is InnoHub Luxembourg. If you would like to learn more about advertorial posts on Silicon Luxembourg, contact us to learn more about our partnership opportunities.

Luxembourg start-up, vyzVoice, has been named overall winner of the ICT category of the StartUp Europe Awards. vyzVoice CEO, Robert Spicer accepted the award at the ceremony presided by the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Antonio Tajani.

What is vyzVoice?

vyzVoice provide solutions for middle market companies that remove barriers to digital transformation.. Our origins were in commercial building data but it quickly became clear that advances in IoT and big data were creating tremendous opportunities for companies in many sectors. However, while large companies were investing heavily in digital transformation in both infrastructure and services, middle market companies faced a number of obstacles in moving forwards – investment decisions, rapidly changing technology and limited in-house technical expertise. As a result, many of these companies have been limited in their digital transformation and use of data solutions to remain competitive.

This is where vyzVoice comes in. By providing off-the-shelf, customizable solutions, we remove many of these difficulties and make effective digital transformation accessible.

With each of our customers we work on defining their business processes and identifying KPIs for data analysis for all users in the organisation. Starting with a Proof of Concept, in many cases our solutions can be fully deployed in a matter of weeks. Our platform is device agnostic and integrates with existing devices so customers are not faced with difficult investment decisions or concerns about future changes in technology.

We like to see our role as taking care of the technology so that our customers can focus on their business decisions.

What products/services do you offer?

The foundation to all our solutions is our platform, Chorus. Chorus is a cloud-based application framework, developed to securely acquire real-time data from all sources, regardless of their technology or software protocols. With powerful analytic capabilities, Chorus delivers a clear dashboard visualization of real-time data, customized to the KPIs of each end user and enabling them to make data-driven decisions focused on business goals.

Our solutions are focused on 4 major areas – Data Center Infrastructure Management, Industrial Asset Management, Sustainability Optimization & Reporting and Comfort & Wellbeing. With full integration in an organisation the impact can be seen on all levels – from product development to operations management to expansion of customer service.

Why did you apply to SEUA16?

SEUA considers a number of criteria for their awards. We recognised that these elements also corresponded to some key tenets at vyzVoice – not just as an innovative start up but also in the way our solutions make a significant, practical contribution to sustainability efforts.

We are also actively engaged in European projects such as HEART (Holistic Energy and Architectural Retrofit Toolkit) – a collaborative project, supported by the European Commission that is focused on sustainability and resource management in building renovation.

Last, but certainly not least, it is an honour to be able to represent Luxembourg. Luxembourg has provided a very supportive environment for vyzVoice as a start-up and innovator. SEUA also aims to build an eco-system for start-ups across Europe and Luxembourg is an great role model for others.

You won the SEUA16 in the ICT Category, what does it mean to you?

We are really delighted to receive this recognition of the value of our innovations and solutions on a European level. As with all the SEUA winners, the award opens up opportunities for further European collaboration and development. We are also really pleased that with both vyzVoice and Apateq receiving awards, Luxembourg is clearly on the map of the European start-up ecosystem.

And, for the vyzVoice team, it is great to see our hard work rewarded and it is certainly cause for celebration.

What are the next steps of your development?

We continue to work on development of our platform and solutions, ensuring that new advances are rapidly integrated, security levels are always at the highest standard and that our solutions bring real results to our customers.

We are developing a number of partnerships that will expand our services to new sectors and users. As with all start-ups we are always looking for new opportunities for innovation and growth.

The LHoFT in partnership with Temenos, and the support of the Ministry of State and Digital Lëtzebuerg initiative, is organizing the LTS Fintech Hackathon in Luxembourg. We asked to the LHoFT Foundation Team details on the initiative.

What is the purpose of your hackathon?

Over the course of the last weekend of June, 30 teenage students from the Luxembourg Tech School (LTS) will develop and present their answers to the question: “What does the bank of the future look like?” The students will be guided by various senior technology and business mentors from the local financial services industry​. The Hackathon will be hosted by the LHoFT​ and the technical infrastructure provided by Temenos.​​

What do you expect from it?

Part of the role of the LHoFT is also to enhance knowledge regarding financial technology and digital trends. With this Hackathon​, ​we are very much looking forward to see how these 30 teenage students from the Luxembourg Tech School (LTS)​, ​future customers and potential employees in financial services​, ​will respond to this critical question: “What does the bank of the future look like?” Their needs and expectations, shaped by the technologies they use, will be different to ours. It is maybe the start of the next revolution.

Who can join the weekend?

This hackathon is the perfect opportunity to exchange with these bright millennials about their thoughts on banking and to help them develop their solutions, passing on knowledge and experience.

Editor’s note: Should you want to join the adventure, please don’t hesitate to send an email to info@lhoft.lu​

Temenos Group, software specialist for banking and finance, has become the latest Leadership Circle Partner of the </ u>Luxembourg House of Financial Technology Foundation (The LHoFT).

The LHoFT ​Foundation ​and Temenos will work together to deliver two exciting events in the coming weeks as part of their longer-term collaboration.

The first event is the Luxembourg Tech School (LTS) Fintech Hackathon to be held end of June. 30 teenage students will develop and present their answers to the question: “What does the bank of the future look like?”

On the 5th of July, Temenos Group and the LHoFT will address a burning issue with a focused conference: how to master banking transformation – moving from the traditional banking to open-banking with the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

Temenos Group joins the eleven other distinguished members of the LHoFT’s Leadership Circle: BCEE, BGL BNP Paribas, Clearstream (Deutsche Börse Group), Deloitte Digital, Foyer Group, KPMG, POST, PwC, Six Payment Services, Société Générale and Telindus (Proximus Group).

Nasir Zubairi, CEO of the LHoFT comments: “We are incredibly excited to have Temenos join our Leadership Circle. Temenos have been at the forefront of innovation for a long time and their experience, in collaboration with the LHoFT, can really help drive Fintech forward. I am very excited about the two forthcoming events and the positive impact they will have on industry. I look forward to future collaboration with Temenos on a variety of projects.”

Ben Robinson, Chief Strategy Officer at Temenos and Head of Community for the Temenos MarketPlace adds: “Temenos is committed to offering its customers the highest levels of innovation. Increasingly, we do this through the Temenos MarketPlace, our open banking platform that brings together banks and Fintech companies. This partnership with the LHoFT will help us to grow the community around MarketPlace and to uncover the most exciting Fintech companies.”

Etix Everywhere, a global data center provider and operator, and Swedish agency ArcticSites announce the start of the pre-ordering phase of a future, Tier III+ design colocation data center, ‘Etix Jokkmokk #1,’ at hydro power hub Porjus in Jokkmokk, Sweden.

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“This is a top-notch quality data center design that together with the redundant 100 percent renewable power supply and multiple fiber redundancy in Porjus makes this one of Sweden’s most powerful colocation data centers,” says Jörgen Venot, Senior Vice President for Northern Countries of Etix Everywhere.

“As a rule of thumb, an indirect free cooling design sharply reduces power consumption, and together with the local connectivity, will grant companies and organizations with a highly competitive infrastructure to support their digital transformation in Sweden,” says Jonas Sukloed, Director of ArcticSites. “On top of this, the expected uptime increases significantly compared to an ordinary server room.”

Pre-booking of rack-space has opened up and the construction starts as soon as a minimum level of pre- ordered capacity is reached.

“We can start the operation at a pre-ordering volume around a few hundred kVA, which indicates the advantageous conditions found in the Jokkmokk area,” adds Mr. Venot.

The data center will be marketed to local and international customers thanks to its highly developed connectivity. Given the technical design developed by Etix, the company only needs 16 weeks to deploy the data center, once the pre-ordering volume is reached.

The Mayor of Jokkmokk, Robert Bernhardsson, welcomes the announced establishment, especially considering the number of work opportunities it may create in the form of managed and added value services.

“It means boosting business for regional IT companies and a renewed dynamism for the local ICT ecosystem, empowering all types of companies in their digital transformation,” states Mayor Bernhardsson.

The customers of Etix Jokkmokk #1 will benefit from 24/7/365 monitoring by the Luxembourg Network Operations Center (NOC) and the latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) and perimeter-security technology developed by Etix Labs, the R&D team of Etix Everywhere.

This new data center diversifies the Swedish colocation market and offers to both local and international companies a cutting-edge infrastructure that meets the highest standards on the market to support their development strategy.

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House of Entrepreneurship – ONE-STOP SHOP

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2016.10.16

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The « HOUSE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP– One-Stop Shop », is a single point of contact which welcomes and provides support to future or existing entrepreneurs and project owners who are confronted with questions on any aspect of business life, while becoming self-employed or growing their business.

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Leverage your network. Meet entrepreneurs. Grow your business. Join the club and help build the future. We set up the first private business club for tech innovators, where individuals, startups and corporates can meet throughout the year at a series of dedicated events, including conferences, workshops and after-work events. We gather the best of the best entrepreneurs that Silicon Luxembourg’s network has to offer. Join the club and help build the future.

You’ve been patient, but finally the wait is over. After several weeks of scrutinising applications from more than 160 FinTech companies, KPMG Luxembourg and the LHoFT Foundation are happy to announce the 15 semi-finalists who have been selected to face the jury at the FinTech Awards Luxembourg.

These 15 companies will get the chance to continue their adventure by attending the semi-final and final competition this 28 June at KPMG Luxembourg. They will face the judges to pitch their company and its disruptive aims. “It was very difficult to narrow down the applicants’ pool,” said Pascal Denis, KPMG, who will supervise the jury at the semi-final in June, “as the quality of applications was of an incredibly high standard again this year. It’s challenging for them, but also for us as organisers. To ensure an excellent 2017 edition, we must understand every project, since each one’s ins and outs inform its ultimate potential”.

The list of the 15 semi-finalists is of great quality, as is the diversity of the activity sectors represented. They geographically demonstrate the international dimension of the Awards and the indisputable appeal of Luxembourg as a FinTech hub. We cannot wait to hear the pitches in the semi-final and the final and to see who will finish at the top of the podium” – Nasir Zubairi, CEO of the LHoFT

The 15 selected are:

15 semi-finalists, 7 finalists, 4 winners.

This 28 June, these 15 FinTech companies will find themselves in the spotlight, pitching and answering the jury’s questions.

Seven finalists will break through the first stage of elimination and continue their race to the grand final, seeking one of the top prizes. Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna will both be present at the Awards to speak and to award the prizes, which are as follows:

• FinTech Startup of the Year
• Runner-up: FinTech Startup of the Year
• Second Runner-up: FinTech Startup of the Year
• Women in FinTech Award

The prizes for winning include: €50.000, 4 months’ hosting at Technoport, a participation to the Innovation Tour – a trip to Silicon Valley, a membership to the KPMG Hub for Entrepreneurship (The Khube) for a year and a free membership to the LHoFT, which includes 6 months’ hosting at the LHoFT’s FinTech hub.

The evening will end by a networking session amongst the public investors, representatives of the financial sector, startups and other enthusiasts present. We anticipate a memorable evening together.

About the FinTech Awards Luxembourg

The FinTech Awards are organised by the LHoFT and KPMG Luxembourg, in collaboration with Digital Lëtzebuerg, the Luxembourg ICT Cluster, Luxinnovation, and Maison Moderne, and sponsored by KNEIP and Telindus.

For more information, please visit our site dedicated to the FinTech Awards Luxembourg: www.fintechawards.lu