Lena Hackelöer is the Founder and CEO of Brite Payments, a Stockholm-headquartered fintech that uses open banking to enable instant account-to-account (A2A) payments and payouts across 27 European markets. A fintech leader with ~15 years’ industry experience, Lena previously held senior roles at Klarna and served as CEO of a publicly-listed Swedish fintech focused on consumer credit solutions. She founded Brite in 2019, and in 2023 led a $60M Series A round, the largest Series A by a female fintech founder in 2023. She is passionate about building the next generation of instant bank payments with Brite