36m | Melanie Mingas
Telness Tech has named its first head of product who might be liable for driving the product and buyer expertise providing, whereas rising the model in its native Sweden and overseas.
Filip Askviken has joined the Telness spin off solely a 12 months after its launch and because the firm goals to broaden its cloud-PBX providing.
Askviken mentioned: “Telness Tech has made an enormous identify for itself within the Swedish telecommunications house in a brief house of time by going towards the established order. I’m wanting ahead to constructing their place in Sweden and internationally by making certain we meet not solely the shopper wants of immediately, however these of the longer term.
“We function in an enormous house with a necessity for digitalisation and improved person expertise. Legacy techniques have made sluggish technical progress. This together with extra advanced merchandise and selective prospects have given common telecom gamers a nasty repute. We will proceed to construct first rating person experiences, and scale these to assist telecom gamers and their finish prospects do the identical.”
Telness was based by former Telenor exec Martina Klingvall along with Telness CTO Jonas Cedenwing Telness Tech adopted within the spring in 2021. Cedenwing is its CEO with Sara Rasmussen within the place of CCO.
Telness Tech describes itself as half of a brand new wave of European “teltech” start-ups that need to “revolutionise the drained telecoms market”. It has a cloud-PBX providing which now has “a number of prospects” and went reside with the primary accomplice in October.
As a completely impartial begin up Telness Tech in September raised €1.5 million in post-seed funding taking its whole increase thus far to €6.5 million. Investors embody angel investor Viveka Ekberg and the Gothenburg-based JCE Investments.
Bringing Askviken into the fold brings additional start-up and funding experience to the staff.
In 2013 Askviken based Metapic, an influencer online marketing enterprise that was offered to Tradedoubler in 2017. He’s additionally half of the Jury of Venture Cup and was beforehand Chapter Director of Startup Grind Gothenburg.
Cedenwing mentioned: “The telecoms and communications areas are present process large disruption. We want to make sure we provide merchandise that remedy communication wants of immediately, and that we’re getting ready for the longer term too. The market is consistently altering, behaviours are adapting and there’s a large improve in competitors each from incumbent gamers and tech corporations equivalent to Zoom.
“For this motive, I’m very happy to announce that we’ve got employed a Head of Product to spear-head our product growth. With years of expertise in altering numerous industries from the bottom up and constructing merchandise from zero to tons of of hundreds of customers, Askviken enters at a vital time the place our preliminary traction has propelled us into better demand. This function will assist us meet elevated competitors and altering buyer wants.”
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