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Repeat Founders Raise $20M For Spektr, A Fintech Compliance Startup, In NEA-Led Series
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For the founders of Spektr, the journey didn’t start with the Danish startup’s inception in 2023; it began a decade ago while working in the trenches of a payments company.
Key facts
- VC-backed financial technology startups totaled $53.8 billion in 2025, per Crunchbase data
- Today, Copenhagen-based Spektr has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively
- Existing backers Northzone, Seedcamp and PSV Tech also participated in the financing, which brought Spektr’s total raised to under $26 million
- With a headcount of 45 and growing, Spektr is currently focused on the heavy lifting required to serve banks and Tier 1 financial institutions
Summary
“We have this saying between the two of us,” explains CEO Mikkel Skarnager, referring to CTO and co-founder Ciprian Florescu. That combination — a blend of deep technical tradecraft and business intuition — first bore fruit in 2020 with the launch of a digital onboarding startup called HelloFlow. After the sale, the pair took a brief hiatus before “getting the band back together” to start Spektr in the summer of 2023. Put simply, their new venture, Spektr, provides infrastructure for compliance teams in financial services.