Anders Jakobsson, Founder + CEO, Cemperium

Cemperium

A veteran enterprise IT executive with severe vision loss has built a crypto exchange around regulation and operational trust at the exact moment Europe’s blockchain industry is being forced to grow up.

During a family emergency abroad in 2023, Swedish entrepreneur Anders Jakobsson needed fast and easy access to funds, the kind FinTech platforms typically promise.

Converting crypto into usable fiat (money and currencies issued by governments) had been marketed as instant and borderless. But Jakobsson’s experience was a protracted process of compliance reviews and blocked transactions.

The technology worked, but the surrounding infrastructure did not.

Jakobsson has spent decades building…