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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nDaniel Kjellén co-founded Tink, the open banking platform founded in Stockholm in 2012. He was its chief executive through its 2020 funding round and when Visa completed its purchase of the company in March 2022, when Visa said he and the existing management team would continue to lead it.\n\n## What Daniel builds\n\n- [Tink](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tink.md), graded B, 62.5/100, in Bank data \u0026 open banking. Tink is a European open banking platform owned by Visa. Its REST API and hosted Tink Link flow read accounts, balances and transactions with the account holder's consent, and start bank payments. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Fredrik Hedberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/fredrik-hedberg/), Co-founder\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Insight Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/insight-partners/)\n- [Dawn Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dawn-capital/)\n- [HMI Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hmi-capital/)\n- [Eurazeo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/eurazeo/)\n- [PayPal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/paypal/)\n- [Poste Italiane](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/poste-italiane/)\n- [Heartcore Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/heartcore-capital/)\n- [ABN AMRO](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/abn-amro/)\n- [BNP Paribas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bnp-paribas/)\n- [Sunstone Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sunstone-capital/)\n- [SEB](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/seb/)\n- [Nordea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nordea/)\n- [Christian Clausen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/christian-clausen/)\n- [Nikolay Storonsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nikolay-storonsky/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Daniel Kjellén?\n\nDaniel Kjellén co-founded Tink, the open banking platform founded in Stockholm in 2012. He was its chief executive through its 2020 funding round and when Visa completed its purchase of the company in March 2022, when Visa said he and the existing management team would continue to lead it.\n\n### What does Tink AB (Visa) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Tink from Tink AB (Visa). Tink is a European open banking platform owned by Visa. Its REST API and hosted Tink Link flow read accounts, balances and transactions with the account holder's consent, and start bank payments.\n\n### Who has invested in Tink AB (Visa)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Insight Partners, Dawn Capital, HMI Capital, Eurazeo, PayPal, Poste Italiane, Heartcore Capital, ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas, Sunstone Capital, SEB, Nordea, Christian Clausen and Nikolay Storonsky.\n\n### How are Daniel's tools graded?\n\nTink is graded B, 62.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://tink.com/about-us/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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