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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Entrepreneur First
Entrepreneur First (EF) is a London-headquartered talent-first investor founded in 2011 by Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck, both former McKinsey consultants. EF pioneered the concept of Talent Investing — recruiting exceptional individuals before they have a co-founder or idea, then supporting them to form teams and build companies — across offices in London, Paris, Bangalore, New York, and San Francisco. The firm manages a fund of $158 million and has helped create over 600 companies with a combined portfolio value exceeding $11 billion. EF's standout portfolio companies include Tractable (AI for accident repair, valued at ~$1 billion), Cleo (personal finance AI), and Magic Pony Technology (acquired by Twitter).
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EQT Ventures
EQT Ventures is the VC arm of EQT Group, launched in 2016 in Stockholm with offices in London, Berlin, and San Francisco. Managing over EUR 2.2B, the firm invests EUR 1-25M from seed through Series C in AI, fintech, mobility, and marketplaces. EQT Ventures uses Motherbrain, its proprietary AI deal-sourcing platform, to identify opportunities early. Portfolio includes Einride, Epidemic Sound, Voi, and Wolt. The fund leverages EQT's network of 300+ industrial advisors for strategic support.
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Ernesto Contreras
Founder and CEO of Unalivio, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Works on blockchain-based solutions for financial access and crypto adoption in emerging markets.
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Esas Ventures
Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, Turkey's largest family-owned investment group backed by the Şevket Sabancı family, founders of the Sabancı Holding conglomerate. Founded in 2018 and operating from Istanbul with a London presence, the fund has built a portfolio of 38+ companies including four unicorns, with Getir, Deel, and Misfits Market among its most notable exits and holdings. The firm invests primarily at Seed and Series A stages in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and consumer tech, with a global mandate spanning Turkey, the US, and Europe. Esas Ventures backed Insider through its $500M Series E led by General Atlantic, underscoring its capacity for large follow-on rounds.
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EU-Startups Summit 2026
Summit at the Mediterranean Conference Centre with 2,500+ attendees and 400+ investors. Features the Big Pitch Competition with a prize package worth over EUR 1M and strong media visibility.
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Eurasia Tech Week (October 2026)
Eurasia Tech Week (ETW) is a B2B technology exhibition and conference at the Istanbul Congress Center bringing together technology companies, investors and industry leaders across the Eurasian region. The programme spans telecommunications and connectivity, fintech and payments, consumer technology, data centre and cloud, and a deep-tech and startup zone, combined with keynote panels, B2B networking and startup pitch competitions.
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European Blockchain Convention 2026
Leading European blockchain and Web3 conference in Barcelona, bringing together 3,000+ crypto founders, investors, and enterprise blockchain leaders. Features startup pitching, regulation panels, and fintech innovation talks. Covers DeFi, tokenization, and institutional digital assets. Particularly relevant for Web3 startups seeking European market visibility.
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Evervault
Developer-first encryption infrastructure that lets businesses collect, tokenize and orchestrate sensitive payment and card data without handling it in plaintext, cutting PCI DSS compliance cost and time. Founded in Dublin, 2019.
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Exabel
Exabel is a financial technology company, based in Oslo, New York, and London, that operates an alternative data platform for investment managers. It integrates more than 75 alternative datasets with fundamental KPIs from providers such as FactSet and Visible Alpha, letting portfolio managers, data scientists, and data strategists discover, evaluate, and analyze data to generate investable insights. Clients cited on its site include hedge funds, pension funds, and global asset owners managing hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.
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Exness
Exness is a Limassol-headquartered retail CFD and forex broker that has quietly become one of the largest trading venues in the world by monthly volume, routinely reporting trillions of dollars in turnover from retail and professional clients across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The company operates a proprietary matching and risk-management stack, auto-executes deposits and withdrawals for most of its payment methods, and is regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) in the EU, the FCA in the UK, and a mesh of tier-two regulators covering its non-EU corridors. Founded in 2008 by a small team of Russian-origin quants who chose Cyprus for its EU/MiFID access and English-speaking talent pool, Exness today employs over 2,000 people and is the anchor tenant of the Limassol fintech cluster that also includes crypto exchanges, prop shops, and several CFD challengers. In the European ecosystem it is the most commercially successful Cypriot financial-services company and a useful anchor for understanding why Limassol became a global retail-trading hub.
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Experior Venture Fund
Experior Venture Fund is a Warsaw-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups, notably in fintech, medtech and digital services, typically at seed and Series A stages. One of Poland's prominent independent VCs, it is known for being co-led by women investors and backs founders across Central and Eastern Europe.
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Expon Capital
Expon Capital is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Alain Rodermann, Jérôme Wittamer, Lily Wang, and Marc Gendebien. The firm has deployed over €90 million across 33 companies in 14 countries through successive Digital Tech Funds, with Fund IV planned for 2026. It backs seed and early-stage tech startups across cybersecurity, fintech, regtech, digital health, and edtech, with a particular focus on Luxembourg-origin companies. Notable portfolio successes include Salonkee, which grew to 250+ employees and raised a €28 million Series B led by PeakSpan Capital after Expon's initial investment.
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Factory300
Factory300 is Linz's flagship startup coworking venue, launched in summer 2017 inside Haus CASABLANCA at Peter-Behrens-Platz 10 within the historic Tabakfabrik complex. The space spans 3,200 square metres and hosts roughly 400 members representing more than 180 businesses, ranging from solo freelancers to corporate innovation teams. Membership tiers run from day passes at €37 through the Family plan (€123/month, flexible seating, 24/7 access) up to a dedicated Fixly desk at €346/month. In November 2018 Factory300 extended into the Strada del Startup — a 230-metre internal production street offering 57 private office units with around 300 additional workplaces, at that point roughly 80 percent occupied at launch. Corporate anchors Fill, MIBA, and Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ hold memberships alongside growth-stage startups. Notable alumni include Blockpit, which raised €8.4 million in crypto-tax software funding, and Celantur, an automotive technology spin-out. Factory300 runs regular community events, a lending library of meeting-room credits, and maintains ties to the broader Upper Austrian startup support network through its location within the Tabakfabrik ecosystem.
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Feedzai
AI-native fraud and financial-crime prevention platform for banks and payment networks, securing trillions in payments annually. Founded 2011; unicorn since 2021; selected by the ECB for Digital Euro fraud prevention.
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Feelsgood Capital
Feelsgood Capital was founded in 2019 and officially licensed by the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency on June 10, 2020, making it the first social impact investment fund in Croatia and the third VC to launch in the country with an entirely Croatian team. Led by Managing Partners Renata Brkić, Domagoj Oreb, Vedran Blagus, and Dinko Novoselec, the fund manages approximately €30 million targeting Croatian and Slovenian ventures. It backs pre-seed through Series A companies delivering measurable social impact in financial inclusion, agriculture, circular economy, education, and healthcare. Portfolio companies include GameBoost and VIDI X, with roughly 12 investments to date.
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Fenergo
Fenergo is a Dublin-based provider of AI-powered client lifecycle management (CLM), Know Your Customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) software for global financial institutions. Founded in 2009, the company automates client onboarding and regulatory compliance workflows for banks, asset managers, and capital markets firms. Recognised as a category leader in the 2026 Celent KYC CDD / CLM Report, Fenergo serves major institutions including DNB Bank and Gen II Fund Services, with over 850 employees worldwide.
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Fenige
Polish card-payments infrastructure provider licensed for card issuing, acquiring, and money transfer. Fenige's platform powers card-based money transfers (card-to-card push payments) and payment products for fintechs, banks, and corporates. An early Movens Capital portfolio company; exited via a strategic sale.
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Fil Rouge Capital
Fil Rouge Capital was founded in 2014 in Zagreb and is the most active early-stage VC fund exclusively dedicated to Croatian startups, having deployed capital into over 170 companies. Its second fund, Fil Rouge Capital II (€45 million), was co-funded by the European Investment Fund with €32.55 million under the Croatian Venture Capital Initiative. Founding Partners Julien Coustaury and Roger Blott, joined by Partner Stevica Kuharski, focus on pre-seed, seed, and Series A across all sectors, with notable portfolio outcomes including participation in the ecosystems around Infobip and Rimac. The fund has recorded 2 unicorns and 12 acquisitions across its portfolio.
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Fimple
Cloud-native, API-first core banking platform offering Financial Functions as a Service, with composable lending, deposits, payments and treasury modules for banks and financial institutions.
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Finch Capital
Finch Capital is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm founded in 2013, specialising in early-stage investments in European fintech, insurtech, and financial infrastructure. The firm manages approximately $400 million across three funds, with its third European fund targeting €150 million. Finch has invested in 51 companies across the UK, Netherlands, and wider Europe, focusing on seed and Series A rounds in companies applying technology to financial services including payments, lending, insurance, and wealth management. Notable portfolio companies include BUX (European retail investing), with the firm also backing Grab in Asia, and exits including 12 acquisitions from its portfolio.
