5h | 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 yr after its launch and because the firm goals to broaden its cloud-PBX providing.
Askviken stated: “Telness Tech has made a giant identify for itself within the Swedish telecommunications area in a brief area of time by going in opposition to the established order. I’m wanting ahead to constructing their place in Sweden and internationally by making certain we meet not solely the client wants of in the present day, however these of the longer term.
“We function in an enormous area with a necessity for digitalisation and improved consumer expertise. Legacy methods have made gradual technical progress. This together with extra advanced merchandise and selective clients have given common telecom gamers a foul repute. We will proceed to construct first rating consumer experiences, and scale these to assist telecom gamers and their finish clients 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 wish to “revolutionise the drained telecoms market”. It has a cloud-PBX providing which now has “a number of clients” and went reside with the primary accomplice in October.
As a completely unbiased begin up Telness Tech in September raised €1.5 million in post-seed funding taking its whole increase up to now to €6.5 million. Investors embrace angel investor Viveka Ekberg and the Gothenburg-based JCE Investments.
Bringing Askviken into the fold brings additional start-up and funding experience to the workforce.
In 2013 Askviken based Metapic, an influencer online marketing enterprise that was bought to Tradedoubler in 2017. He’s additionally half of the Jury of Venture Cup and was beforehand Chapter Director of Startup Grind Gothenburg.
Cedenwing stated: “The telecoms and communications areas are present process large disruption. We want to make sure we provide merchandise that resolve communication wants of in the present day, and that we’re making ready for the longer term too. The market is consistently altering, behaviours are adapting and there’s a large enhance in competitors each from incumbent gamers and tech firms similar to Zoom.
“For this cause, I’m very happy to announce that we’ve got employed a Head of Product to spear-head our product improvement. With years of expertise in altering varied industries from the bottom up and constructing merchandise from zero to a whole bunch of hundreds of customers, Askviken enters at a vital time the place our preliminary traction has propelled us into larger demand. This position will assist us meet elevated competitors and altering buyer wants.”
https://www.capacitymedia.com/articles/3830795/filip-askviken-named-head-of-product-at-telness-tech
