We are building an ultimate banking experience where you set the pace. Built by business owners for business owners.
Powering 25,000+ Businesses
Launched December 2017
Based in Berlin, Germany
Raised € 30M+
from VCs and Business Angels
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The Penta Story
Penta’s story begins with a deep frustration. Our founders, Lav, Luka, Jessica, Aleks, Igor, and Sir, all serial entrepreneurs, many times had terrible experiences with their business banks. After the brief research in February 2016, they found out that thousands of businesses all over Europe were frustrated with their business bank as well.
Why? The banks were slow, inefficient, offering terrible online banking interfaces and bad support on top of it all. The degree of innovation and willingness to hear customers’ feedback or build the much-needed functionality was just scarily low.
It was clear that the majority of banks just didn’t care about small businesses or startups. This was a turning point when they decided to tackle the problem and build the best business banking solution for SMEs.
Penta launched in Germany in December 2017 and will be available in other European countries in the near future. In the first months after launch, Penta received an unbelievable amount of applications, and today, thousands of businesses all around Germany bank with Penta. Do you feel neglected by your bank?
Go Penta!
Penta is the future of business banking
We are building a platform connecting the best financial services to the bank account. That way you can use one platform for all your business’s financial needs – from simple banking tasks to accounting, expense management, charging customers or getting loans.
Our Values
You set the pace
Penta is built based on your feedback and requests.
Keep it simple
We design Penta to be simple and very easy-to-use.
Let’s make it happen fast
Every month we deliver new features – helping you save time and money.
Be transparent
With Penta, you always know what, how much, when, and why.
Penta management
Markus Pertlwieser – Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Markus Pertlwieser looks back on a long banking career and 20 years of management experience, including a role as Chief Digital Officer at Deutsche Bank. As CEO of Penta, he contributes his affinity for digital business models.
Lukas Zörner – Chief Product Officer
Lukas Zörner is Chief Product Officer at Penta. Before joining Penta, he founded Mespo, an AI-driven Fintech startup, and worked in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division.
Jessica Holzbach – Chief Customer Officer
Jessica always aims to put a smile on our customers’ faces. As a serial entrepreneur and an ex-management consultant, she supervised many customer relationship management projects for banks and insurance companies.
Igor Kuschnir – Chief Financial Officer
Igor is Chief Financial Officer at Penta and in charge of our financial strategy. He brings in extensive corporate finance experience and the necessary attention to detail. Before joining Penta, he worked for Citi’s investment banking division focusing on M&A transactions.
Henrik Jondell – Chief Technology Officer
In October 2019, Henrik Jondell joined Penta’s management team as our Chief Technology Officer. He is leading our team of software engineers, platform operations and cyber-security professionals across our three locations.
“Penta’s digital movement is the answer to a market need that has been ignored by traditional banks for too long. With its sleek interface and powerful features, Penta is revolutionizing how small businesses bank in Germany.”
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Solarisbank AG is a banking platform with a full German banking license, allowing companies to offer their own financial products. Penta leverages Solarisbank’s infrastructure to offer you the best-ever business banking solution.
Solarisbank is fully compliant with the German banking laws, it is regulated by BaFin and offers €100.000 guarantee on deposits. Solarisbank raised over €100 million in investment and is a strategic partner of Visa for developing the novel banking solutions.
