Fintech startup ecosystem
Europe has produced more fintech unicorns than any region outside the US. London, Stockholm, Berlin, and Amsterdam are global centres for payments, neobanking, and embedded finance. Strong regulatory frameworks like PSD2 and open banking have created a uniquely innovation-friendly environment. We track 517 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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12th International Funds Summit & Expo 2026
The 12th International Funds Summit & Expo brings together fund managers, institutional investors, policymakers and industry leaders at the Parklane Resort & Spa in Limassol to examine the European alternative funds landscape. Sessions cover private credit, private equity value creation, AIFMD II implementation and the integration of AI into fund management.
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27th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum Cyprus 2026
One-day QUBE forum at Four Seasons Limassol bringing 400+ leaders to cover instant payments, open banking, digital wallets, stablecoins, the Digital Euro, RegTech and AI in compliance.
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33East
33East was founded by Demetrios Zoppos and Yiannis Eftychiou and selected by the European Investment Fund in 2023 as Cyprus's first EIF-backed venture capital fund. It closed a €26 million debut fund in January 2025, anchored by the Cyprus Equity Fund (NRRP) and private investors including the Bank of Cyprus. The fund targets pre-seed and seed-stage startups with a Cyprus connection, writing cheques of €100K–€1M across enterprise software, fintech, gaming, marketplaces, logistics, digital health, and climate tech. First portfolio companies include Electryone AI, an AI-powered renewable-energy management platform.
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4YFN Barcelona 2026
Global startup platform co-located with MWC at Fira Gran Via, featuring broad investor and corporate access. Includes the 4YFN Awards 2026 live pitch sequence: top startups pitch on March 2, 2026 with finalists advancing to the March 4, 2026 final during MWC week.
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4YFN Barcelona 2027
4YFN 2027 runs alongside MWC Barcelona at Fira Gran Via, connecting founders, investors, and corporates focused on turning early-stage innovation into real business outcomes. The event draws thousands of startups and investors from across Europe and beyond, with structured matchmaking, a pitch competition, and the 4YFN Awards. It operates as an independent but deeply integrated event within the broader MWC ecosystem.
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500 Global in Eurasia
A Tbilisi-based accelerator programme run by 500 Global in a four-year partnership with GITA and Bank of Georgia, launched in 2022. The 12-week programme accepts cohorts of early-stage tech startups from across the Eurasia region twice a year, providing $100,000 in investment per company and culminating in a Demo Day. As of mid-2024, six batches had accelerated more than 70 startups from over 15 countries.
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500 Istanbul
500 Istanbul is an Istanbul-based early-stage venture capital fund established in 2016 by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur Şirinoğlu in partnership with 500 Global, operating as a distinct fund entity focused on Turkey and Emerging Europe. The fund raised a €30M Fund II and later evolved into 500 Emerging Europe, targeting a €70M raise for the broader CEE and Baltics region. Its portfolio of 37+ companies includes three unicorns — Insider, BillionToOne, and Carbon Health — with portfolio companies collectively generating over $600M in annual revenue and attracting $1.1B in follow-on funding. The fund backs pre-seed to seed-stage startups with typical cheques from €200K to €3M.
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9fin
9fin is a London-based AI-native intelligence platform for credit and debt capital markets, founded in 2016 by Steven Hunter and Hussam El-Sheikh. The platform provides real-time data, news, analytics, and document-extraction tools to banks, asset managers, law firms, and advisors covering leveraged finance, private credit, and distressed debt. In March 2026, 9fin raised $170 million in a Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation, reaching unicorn status. Over 300 leading financial institutions use the platform.
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Abacum
Abacum is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform for mid-market and scale-up finance teams, integrating 700+ data sources to automate planning, consolidate real-time data and enable collaboration on budgets and forecasts. Commercial HQ in New York.
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ABB Innovation Center
ABB Innovation Center is the corporate innovation arm of the International Bank of Azerbaijan (ABB Bank), founded in 2019. It runs multi-cohort incubation and hackathon programs for early-stage fintech startups, alongside ABB Tech Academy for developer education. The center focuses specifically on startups whose products can augment ABB Bank's digital and online services.
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Accelpoint
Active since 2018. Smart-tech accelerator scaling startups across Central and Eastern Europe with programs like AccelStart, AccelBoost, and Green Impact. Support: specialized accelerators, corporate partner network, mentoring. Scope: Regional (CEE).
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ACT Venture Capital
ACT Venture Capital is Ireland's most established and most active venture firm, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Dublin. Over three decades it has backed more than 140 Irish and European technology companies, raising over €600M across six funds — including its largest, a €140M fund closed in 2022 — and generating dozens of exits with a combined enterprise value of around €4.6bn. Its limited partners include the European Investment Fund, Enterprise Ireland, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and AIB, several of whom have backed the firm for more than twenty years. Led by Managing Partner John Flynn alongside General Partners Debbie Rennick and John O'Sullivan, ACT invests from seed to expansion stage with cheques up to €10M across software, AI, deep tech, health tech, energy and fintech in Ireland and the UK. Landmark outcomes include the $400M sale of UWB semiconductor company Decawave to Qorvo (2020), the acquisition of digital-mental-health platform SilverCloud Health by Amwell (2021), and SoftBank's €473M investment into connected-vehicle company Cubic Telecom at a €900M+ valuation (2024). Recent active deals include AI pathology company Deciphex and energy-optimisation platform GridBeyond.
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Ada Ventures
Ada Ventures is a London-based pre-seed and seed fund founded in 2019 by Check (Francesca) Warner MBE and Matt Bradley, focused on backing diverse founders building breakthrough technology across climate equity, economic empowerment, and healthy ageing. The firm closed its first fund at $50 million and raised a second fund of £63 million in March 2024, bringing total assets under management to over £100 million. Ada distinguishes itself as Europe's first VC fund explicitly designed to address underrepresentation in the startup ecosystem, investing £250K–£1M per company and running a scout and angel programme to surface talent overlooked by traditional networks.
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Adyen
Adyen is a global payments technology company headquartered in Amsterdam that provides a single platform for accepting payments across online, in-store, and mobile channels. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam since 2018, Adyen serves major enterprise customers including Spotify, Uber, eBay, and Microsoft. The company processes hundreds of billions of euros annually and is one of Europe's most valuable public tech companies, with a market capitalization that has exceeded $50 billion. Adyen's end-to-end approach, combining gateway, risk management, processing, and acquiring in one platform, has made it the payments infrastructure of choice for global enterprises.
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Ageras
Ageras is a Copenhagen-based fintech company founded in 2012 that has assembled a comprehensive financial operating system for small businesses through a strategy of organic development and acquisitions. The platform combines banking, accounting software, payroll, invoicing, and tax tools into a single integrated experience, reducing the need for SMBs to juggle multiple vendors. Ageras has acquired companies including Billy, Kontist, and Tellow to build out its stack across Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. The company aims to become the default financial backbone for European small businesses.
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AI Barometer Release 2026
FinTech Belgium, Sailpeak and Vlerick Business School unveil the third edition of the AI Barometer at SilverSquare North, tracking how Belgian financial institutions are moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment, with keynotes, use cases, panel and networking.
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AI for Georgia Summit 2026
An execution-focused AI deployment and investment forum at Hualing Expo Plaza, covering AI strategy, healthcare AI, fintech, and cybersecurity, with a developer track, a 72-hour hackathon, and a startups and funding track. Strong fit for founders building AI-native products.
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AI Summit Adria 2026
Invite-style AI & Data summit at Hotel Histria for 200 senior leaders across banking, telecom, healthcare, retail and public sector, with 50+ speakers focused on business value of enterprise AI.
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Aibidia
Aibidia (Aibidia Oy) is a Helsinki-based transfer pricing software company that automates the full transfer pricing lifecycle for multinational enterprises. Its platform connects teams, tools, and territories in a single data hub, covering TP compliance, operational transfer pricing, local file generation, P&L segmentation, Pillar Two preparation, benchmarking studies, and an AI research assistant called TP Aurora. Customers referenced on its site include Fujifilm, Phoenix Group, Symrise, Valeo, Nokia, and HMD.
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Alan
Alan is a Paris-based health insurance and digital health platform founded in 2016 by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve (CEO) and Charles Gorintin (CTO) — the only new independent health insurer licensed in France since 1986. It combines group and individual health insurance with a mobile super-app offering reimbursements, telemedicine, mental-health support (Alan Clinic) and Mo, an AI health assistant delivering doctor-reviewed answers. By early 2026 Alan served over one million members across France, Belgium, Spain and Canada, with €785M ARR in 2025 (up 53%) and operational profitability in France. Alan has raised roughly €754M across eight rounds. It reached unicorn status in 2021 with a €185M Series D led by Coatue, and in March 2026 a €100M Series G led by Index Ventures — a backer since its Series A — valued the company at €5bn. Other investors include Temasek, Teachers' Venture Growth, Coatue, Lakestar, Partech, Belfius and DST Global.
