Ozerk Ozan

Ozerk Ozan (born 1979) is a Norwegian IT entrepreneur, co-founder of Norsk Ideutvikling AS and the social networking service Biip.no.[1]

Ozerk Ozan
Born	Cyprus
Citizenship	Norway
Alma mater	University of Oslo
Known for	founder of Biip.no

Ozan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1979. At a young age, he moved to Norway with his family. Ozerk Kamil, his father, is a professor at the Department of Education in the University of Oslo.[2]

Ozan studied medicine in the period 2002–2008 at the University of Oslo. In 2002, he founded Norsk Ideutvikling AS. In 2005,[3] the company launched the online community Biip.no,[4] which two years later had built up a user base of 450,000 users.[5] In 2008, the majority of shares in the company were sold to Egmont Group and Nettavisen (owned as of 2010 by Egmont and Tv2).[6]

In 2015, Ozan started working in the fintech industry and created small ventures.[7] In 2018, he consolidated his early ventures under OpenPayd, headquartered in London.[8][9]

In November 2018, Ozan founded European Merchant Bank (EMBank). By the end of 2021, EMBank’s business loan portfolio reached €29.7 million and the bank generated an income of €4.3 million.[10]