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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iyzico
iyzico is an Istanbul-founded payment processor and merchant-acquiring platform that became Turkey's most visible fintech exit when it was acquired by Naspers-owned PayU in 2019 for around USD 165 million, at the time one of the largest fintech deals in Turkish history. Founded in 2013 by Barbaros Özbugutu and Tahsin Isin, iyzico built a developer-friendly API stack for accepting card payments, recurring billing, marketplace split payments, and fraud detection in the Turkish market, and layered a 'buy now, pay later' product on top that became a default installment option for thousands of Turkish e-commerce merchants. Even inside PayU, iyzico continues to operate as the Turkish merchant payments brand and has expanded into additional financial services, making it a canonical reference for how a CEE/MENA fintech can convert a tough local regulatory environment into a defensible commercial wedge.
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Jan Hammer
Partner at Index Ventures leading the firm's fintech practice from London. He sits behind investments in Adyen, Robinhood, Wise, Alan and Collibra, and has been a long-standing board member at several of Europe's most valuable financial-technology companies.
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Jeppe Zink
Partner at Northzone based in London, investing across software and fintech in Europe. He works with founders from seed through growth and is a prominent voice on European venture and scale-up building.
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Jessica Bilcock
Public Policy & Vulnerability Manager at Monzo Bank, the UK digital challenger bank, where she works on financial inclusion, consumer protection and open-banking policy. She is an announced 2026 speaker at the Open Banking Expo UK & Europe in London.
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Jimmy Fussing Nielsen
Partner and CEO of Heartcore Capital, the Copenhagen consumer-tech VC he co-founded in 2007 (as Sunstone Technology Ventures). He has backed European category leaders including Tink, Trustpilot and GetYourGuide and is one of the Nordics' most active early-stage investors.
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Joel Perlman
Co-founder of OakNorth and earlier co-founder of Copal Amba with Rishi Khosla. He has spent his career building financial-data and lending businesses.
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Joko
Joko is a Paris-based consumer fintech that rewards users with cashback on their everyday purchases. Through a mobile app and browser extension, it automatically detects qualifying transactions at partner retailers and credits users with rewards, both online and in store. The company's technology builds on PSD2 open banking, connecting to users' bank cards to identify eligible spending without manual scanning of loyalty cards. Joko raised a €10M Series A in October 2020, led by Partech and Axeleo, bringing total funding to around €12M at that time.
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Jonas Templestein
Co-founder and former CTO of Monzo, where he built the engineering organisation behind the challenger bank's mobile-first platform. He previously co-founded GoCardless with Tom Blomfield.
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Jörg Sandrock
Co-founder of Neon, the Zurich-based Swiss challenger bank he co-founded in 2018 with Julius Krieg. Sandrock previously held roles in banking and payments before launching Neon, which grew to over 200,000 customers. Neon operates as Switzerland's leading mobile-first bank, running on a banking-as-a-service partnership with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg.
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Joseph Bolkvadze
Founder of Cryptal, a Georgian cryptocurrency exchange and digital-asset platform. He is an announced speaker at FUTURUM Payments Georgia 2026 in Tbilisi.
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Joseph Cleetus
Business Transformation Manager at Lulu Financial Holdings, focused on fintech transformation and cross-border payments. He is an announced speaker at Eurasia Tech Week 2026 in Istanbul.
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Julian Teicke
Julian Teicke is Co-founder & CEO of the insurtech platform Wefox. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Julian leads the insurtech platform Wefox.
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Julius Krieg
Co-founder of Neon, the Zurich-based Swiss challenger bank he co-founded in 2018 with Jörg Sandrock. Krieg led product and growth for Neon, helping the app reach over 200,000 Swiss customers with free everyday banking accounts and integrated savings products. Neon operates through a banking-as-a-service partnership with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg.
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JumpIT Forum 2026 (October 2026)
JumpIT Forum is a business-focused IT conference held at the Mozaik Event Centar in Zagreb and running since 2017. The 2026 edition, themed 'Projekti koji mijenjaju poslovanje' (Projects that change business), features 16 TED-style talks, 4 panels and 32 speakers, aimed at converting IT projects into measurable business value across the IT, telco, banking and finance sectors.
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Juni
Juni is a Gothenburg-based financial management platform for e-commerce businesses, founded in June 2020 by Samir El-Sabini, Jonathan Sanders, and Anders Orsedal. The platform offers multi-currency accounts, virtual and physical cards, credit products, analytics, and accounting integrations designed specifically for online merchants and digital advertisers. Juni holds an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence from Sweden's Finansinspektionen and has raised $282 million across five funding rounds including a $206 million Series B.
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Kamil Mieczakowski
General Partner at Notion Capital focused on European B2B software, AI and fintech. He invests at Series A and supports portfolio companies on the path from early revenue to scale.
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Kantox
Kantox is a Barcelona-founded currency management automation company whose FX risk management software helps finance teams automate foreign exchange workflows, including dynamic hedging, dynamic pricing across currencies, in-house FX netting, payments and collections, and hedge accounting. It serves industries such as travel, adtech, logistics, food, chemicals, pharma, and manufacturing, and has grown to more than 200 people across offices in Barcelona and London. As of July 2023, Kantox is a BNP Paribas company but continues to operate independently under its own brand.
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Keen Venture Partners
Keen Venture Partners is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm founded in 2015, investing at Series A and B in enterprise software, fintech, and consumer internet companies across Europe. The firm manages over EUR 200M and writes checks of EUR 2-10M, often leading or co-leading rounds alongside top-tier European and US co-investors. Keen's partners bring extensive operating experience from companies like Booking.com and Adyen, and the firm focuses on data-driven businesses with strong unit economics and clear paths to profitability.
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Keepz
QR-based payments fintech founded in Tbilisi in 2023. Keepz enables merchants to accept payments via Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank cards, open banking, and cryptocurrency without requiring customers to download an app. The company was the first in Georgia to obtain an open banking licence and, in December 2024, helped Georgia become one of the first countries to enable tax payments via digital assets. It has onboarded over 20,000 merchants and is expanding into Turkey and Italy.
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Keyrock
Keyrock is a Brussels-based digital-asset market-making and trading firm offering market making, OTC and options trading, onchain liquidity provisioning, and asset-management strategies for crypto markets. It also provides ecosystem-development and validator services, publishes crypto-market research, and recently raised Series C funding from SC Ventures.
