
An early member of the Financial Crypto community, Pelle Braendgaard is the CEO and Co-Founder of Notabene, an end-to-end solution that turns regulatory compliance into a competitive advantage. With more than 25 years experience working with internet, blockchain, identity, and security technologies in Europe, Africa, Caribbean, the US and Latin America, he was most recently an Co-founder and Engineering Lead at uPort, a storied ConsenSys identity startup credited with creating foundational standards for privacy and identity using blockchain technology.
Pelle has worked with a diverse group of services from being Alta Vista’s first webmaster to investment banking in Deutsche Bank, consumer banking in BRFKredit to developing secure communication platforms for doctors at Doximity. As an entrepreneur, he has worked in early crypto currency startups CorpFlow in the Caribbean, Verax Pay in Latin America, and helped bring Bitcoin to consumers and merchants in Africa with Kipochi.
Pelle has worked with a diverse group of services from being Alta Vista’s first webmaster to investment banking in Deutsche Bank, consumer banking in BRFKredit to developing secure communication platforms for doctors at Doximity. As an entrepreneur, he has worked in early crypto currency startups CorpFlow in the Caribbean, Verax Pay in Latin America, and helped bring Bitcoin to consumers and merchants in Africa with Kipochi.
Blog Posts
Insights
Stablecoins Are Just Fiat
May 27, 2026
Insights
The Stablecoin Sandwich Had a Good Run
May 12, 2026
Product Updates
Notabene Flow Video Demo: B2B Invoicing
April 13, 2026
Stack Chats
Stack Chats feat. Kevin Lehtiniitty, CEO of Borderless.xyz
November 6, 2025
Stack Chats
Stack Chats feat. Anoosh Arevshatian, CPO of Zodia Custody
October 23, 2025
Stack Chats
Stack Chats feat. Clarisse Hagége, CEO & Co-Founder of Dfns
September 17, 2025
News
Five Years of Building Trust: A Look Back — and a Look Forward
April 22, 2025
News
Building Institutional Trust for the Stablecoin Future
November 12, 2024
SafeTransact: Crypto’s First Pre-Transaction Decision-Making Platform
August 8, 2023
Product Updates
Encrypt End-User Data with Notabene’s SafePII
October 5, 2022
How Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are Shaping the Crypto Travel Rule Infrastructure
July 6, 2022
News
A note from Notabene's CEO Pelle Brændgaard
November 9, 2021
Product Updates
Note from Pelle, our CEO, about Notabene’s mission
November 24, 2020
Product Updates
Proposed solution to Travel Rule deadlock
July 9, 2020