Malmö 14 March – This year’s Mobile World Congress was bigger than ever, a great week with lots of interesting meetings and trend spotting. During four days our visitors could explore how touchless technology can bring smart and natural interaction to their daily lives. Our showcases were a huge success with a nice combination of live products […]

Malmö 14 March – This year’s Mobile World Congress was bigger than ever, a great week with lots of interesting meetings and trend spotting. During four days our visitors could explore how touchless technology can bring smart and natural interaction to their daily lives.

Our showcases were a huge success with a nice combination of live products on the market, demos of usecases with 3D camera technology and our IoT demo showing gesture controlled light effects. The amount of Crunchfish visitors almost doubled from last year and it is really exciting to see such great interest in our use cases as well as touchless technology in general.

If you didn’t have the opportunity to visit us at the show, check out our video footage of our gesture controlled TV demo and our IoT lamp demo. Contact us at any time to learn more about how Crunchfish technologies redefine the way we interact with handsets and other devices.

Malmö, July 2 2015 – Crunchfish, a world leader in mobile touchless interaction, adds a new business unit focused on social proximity interaction and welcomes Anders Blomkvist, former CEO of Skånska Byggvaror, to its team of investors. Crunchfish has invested into proximity solutions for over a year and has already eight pending patent ideas within […]

Malmö, July 2 2015 – Crunchfish, a world leader in mobile touchless interaction, adds a new business unit focused on social proximity interaction and welcomes Anders Blomkvist, former CEO of Skånska Byggvaror, to its team of investors.

Crunchfish has invested into proximity solutions for over a year and has already eight pending patent ideas within this area, adding to an additional eight allowed patents within touchless interaction. This new share issue supports Crunchfish strategic decision to split the company into two technology business units, touchless interaction and the new social proximity unit aBubbl^®, to increase focus in both areas.

aBubbl^® is a social proximity technology that facilitates communication with people nearby, enabling users to discover, connect and share content without any previous connection. A patent pending idea focuses on music streaming, where an active user may discover other users nearby and automatically create a joint playlist based on everyone’s taste in music. The new aBubbl^®unit will be led by Crunchfish founder and CTO Paul Cronholm and the Touchless unit by COO Carl Tönsgård.

“The possibilities we see for our aBubbl technology is extremely exciting and to meet the interest from the market we need to commit both financially and organisationally” said Joakim Nydemark, CEO at Crunchfish.

“We are very happy to welcome Anders Blomkvist on board for this journey as he brings valuable competence and experience in building successful companies”, said Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board.

Contacts:
Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com, mobile: +46 708 46 47 88

Joakim Nydemark, CEO
joakim.nydemark@crunchfish.com, mobile: +46 706 35 16 09

Malmö, 27 February 2015 – Visit Crunchfish at Mobile World Congress to experience how you can share content to multiple devices simultaneously across operating systems without a gesture, tap or click. We believe interaction should be effortless and adapt to users’ dynamic surroundings. Our touchless camera demonstrations will showcase this new level of user experience […]

Malmö, 27 February 2015 – Visit Crunchfish at Mobile World Congress to experience how you can share content to multiple devices simultaneously across operating systems without a gesture, tap or click.

We believe interaction should be effortless and adapt to users’ dynamic surroundings. Our touchless camera demonstrations will showcase this new level of user experience with gesture-based features never before available on the market.

We are for the first time showcasing our new software technology, aBubbl™. With aBubbl we have created an intuitive, user friendly and fast solution for sharing content such as photos, profiles, documents and links across operating systems.

Already today you can experience simplified photo capturing and photo sharing based on our technology by downloading aBubbl™ or Gocam app on Apple App Store.

Visit us at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona 2-5 March: Hall 7, Swedish Pavilion, Stand 7F41

Download aBubbl on Apple App Store

Download GoCam on Apple App Store

Contact: Joakim Nydemark, CEO, joakim.nydemark@crunchfish.com,
mobile: +46 706 35 16 09

Dec 3 2014 Crunchfish is participating in Business of Design Week in Hong Kong, Asia’s leading annual event on design, innovation and brands. During our week at BODW we are introducing GoCam feat. a Bubbl to our visitors, and showing them just how easy and fast capturing and sharing photos should be. Our CEO Joakim […]

Dec 3 2014

Crunchfish is participating in Business of Design Week in Hong Kong, Asia’s leading annual event on design, innovation and brands. During our week at BODW we are introducing GoCam feat. a Bubbl to our visitors, and showing them just how easy and fast capturing and sharing photos should be. Our CEO Joakim Nydemark is also giving a speech in the keynote Pushing the boundaries within Design in Southern Sweden.

To create a fun experience we have set up a photo booth where everyone is invited to experience touchless interaction and social sharing. Here you can capture and share your photos with everyone around you. Since Christmas is just around the corner, we decided to go all in with a Christmas theme.

The Christmas selfies from the event will be available on GoCam’s Facebook, make sure you check them out. Ho Ho Ho!

Crunchfish strengthens Board of Directors by adding two new board members Nov 2014 Crunchfish, a world leader in touchless interaction is happy to welcome Mikael Kretz and Malte Zaunders as newly appointed directors to the board. “We are very pleased to welcome Mikael and Malte to our board of directors,” said Joachim Samuelsson, chairman of […]

Crunchfish strengthens Board of Directors by adding two new board members

Nov 2014

Crunchfish, a world leader in touchless interaction is happy to welcome Mikael Kretz and Malte Zaunders as newly appointed directors to the board.

“We are very pleased to welcome Mikael and Malte to our board of directors,” said Joachim Samuelsson, chairman of the Board. “Mikael’s high energy and ability to build a high performance team will be very important to us. Malte’s financial experience and proven business leadership will definitely serve the company very well.”

Mikael Kretz has more than 15 years experience as a serial entrepreneur within IT. He started the IT consultant company Create in 2000 and is also the co-founder of seven other companies. Mikael was nominated to Entrepreneur of the Year in Sweden by Ernst & Young 2009. In 2012 he co-founded his current engagement, the specialist IT consultancy company group, Qgroup.

Malte Zaunders has more than 15 years international experience from investment banking and private equity. In 2008, he founded Sweden based Kattegatt Partners, investing in and developing small-cap growth opportunities. Core skills include deal structuring, capital raising, negotiation as well as creating and driving strategic and operational growth initiatives.

The board of directors also include Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the board and Board members Örjan Johansson.

Joachim Samuelsson has more than 25 years of experience within IT and Telecom. He is an successful serial entrepreneur with the experience of building five successful ventures. He has dedicated to social entrepreneurship and spent several years developing youth entrepreneurship in Southern Sweden and he has recently taken the Irish Man Up campaign to Sweden as a call to action to men to stand up against women abuse. Joachim has been awarded for his entreprenurship several times and was in 2012 voted the most entrepreneurial person in Southern Sweden. He represents also the City of Helsingborg as one of the city’s Ambassadors.

Örjan Johansson has more then 30 years experience in within IT and Telecom and currently is a Senior Consultant that serves several boards. He was heading the project that took an Ericsson short range technology to the market and resulted in Bluetooth. Further Örjan has started and sold several companies both in Sweden and in the US Bay area. Before the entrepeneurships and Bluetooth Örjan was engaged in industry and building automation and headed a US based project that 1993 resulted in the product Flex I/O. It is still Rockwell Automation´s and probably the worlds best selling distributed control system and has to date been sold in over 25 million units.

We would also very much like to thank Håkan Paulsson, Mikeal Kretz partner in Qgroup for the two years he served on the board and Yasemin Arhan, CEO of Anagran Events for her one and a half year tenure. On the board serves also Stephan Carlquist and Jörgen Neckmar as deputies.

Contact: Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board, joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com, mobile: +46 708 46 47 88

Crunchfish announces the completion of a 28 msek angel financing round Nov 2014 Crunchfish, a world leader in mobile touchless interaction, is happy to announce the completion of its third round of angel funding aimed at accelerating growth and establishing the company in Silicon Valley. In addition to this addition of 28 msek new capital […]

Crunchfish announces the completion of a 28 msek angel financing round Nov 2014

Crunchfish, a world leader in mobile touchless interaction, is happy to announce the completion of its third round of angel funding aimed at accelerating growth and establishing the company in Silicon Valley. In addition to this addition of 28 msek new capital in the company, the company also announces internal share transactions of 3,5 msek.

With this investment Silicon Valley entrepreneur Kenneth S. Thom joins the team of investors. Thom operates several co-working facilities for tech high growth companies in the San Francisco area. Crunchfish has plans to set up its U.S. office his prestigious SOMAcentral on Mission Street in central San Francisco. ”Ken Thom is a phenomenal addition to our strong team of investors as he is extremely well connected in Silicon Valley. He has already facilitated meetings with extremely valuable contacts that we would not have gained access to otherwise”, stated Crunchfish chairman Joachim Samuelsson.

The company also announced that Rasmus Nanhed, the Switzerland based Director of Sales at the international office furniture company Kinnarps is also joining the team of investors. ”I am very delighted to welcome Rasmus onboard as one of our investors as I have known Rasmus for a very long time as we both grow up in Helsingborg. Rasmus brings valuable international sales perspectives and his positive spirit to us*, continued Joachim Samuelsson.

It is otherwise the current investors that are doubling down as they together invest an additional 29,35 msek of the total transaction value of 31,5 msek. ”It is an enormous statement of confidence that our current team of investors are doubling down on the company by taking almost the entire round themselves, only leaving room for a few carefully selected investors to join”, said Crunchfish CEO Joakim Nydemark.

The shareholding in the company after these transactions are that Saudi-Ethiopian businessman Mohammed Al Amoudi maintains his 32,5% share of the company, but now with the ownership now spread over both Midroc Invest AB 30% and Granitor Invest AB 2,5%, which Mohammed Al Amoudi co-owns with the three Wikström brothers, who also are the top management of Mohammed Al Amoudi’s Midroc Europe group. At Crunchfish Mohammed Al Amoudi shareholding is represented by Oscar Ahlgren, CEO of Midroc Finans AB. Crunchfish chairman Joachim Samuelsson increases the share of his holding company Femari Investment to 30% with its 15 msek additional investment. The other current investors of the company, Stephan Carlquist, Claes Ohlsson, Claes Ripa and Anders Williamsson, are investing to increase or defend their share. Jointly they have now 13% of the company. The third largest individual shareholder of the company is otherwise the company founder and CTO Paul Cronholm in possession of 10,5% after the round.

Contact: Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board, joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com, mobile +46 708 46 47 88