About Rune Mai

Rune Mai is an entrepreneur with a relentless focus on building great products and businesses through quality, care, and dedication. He thrives in the junction of technology, business, organization, and society and spends his time on product planning, marketing/PR, SEO, design, partnerships, organization, contract/legal. He knows the devil is in the detail. Remove clutter and enter the realm of simplicity. He truly believes that great products and businesses are built by caring - no punch clock working. He was the founder and CEO of a company that had European scale and more than 100 employees. He ran the investment strategy and process that eventually led to a Mastercard acquisition. He has worked in senior product and technology positions at eBay and Mastercard. Rune Mai is the CEO and Co-Founder of the personal finance management app, Spiir, and the fast-growing PSD2 infrastructure platform, Nordic API Gateway. With more than 8 years of experience in the fintech field, Rune has nudged financial awareness and made personal finance more fun, simple and automatic for more than 300.000 users in Denmark with the Spiir app. With Nordic API Gateway Rune is now helping start-ups, ERP, retails and banks innovate Open Banking solutions for the benefit of consumers and businesses. In this way, Rune wants to make it easier for anyone to build financial services on top of bank data in the Nordics and accelerate financial innovation. With a purposeful drive of making money easier for everyone, Aiia was developed to standardise the format of financial data and payments - and Rune Mai has played an important role in accelerating financial innovation in Europe through a quality, security and compliance-driven approach to open banking APIs. Today the open banking platform connects to an estimated reach of 337 million European citizens through 2900 connected banks.