Banking startup ecosystem
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Nikolay Storonsky
Co-founder and CEO of Revolut, which he scaled from a multi-currency card into one of the world's most valuable fintechs, with tens of millions of customers and a full UK banking licence. A former derivatives trader, he is among Europe's most prominent fintech founders.
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Paul Taylor
Founder and CEO of Thought Machine, the cloud-native core-banking platform. He previously founded a speech-technology company acquired by Google, where he built voice systems before turning to banking infrastructure.
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Peter Bosek
Austrian banking executive and Chief Executive Officer of Erste Group Bank, one of Central and Eastern Europe's largest financial services providers, with a long career in retail and digital banking. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 European Forum Alpbach.
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Qonto
Qonto is a Paris-based digital business bank founded in 2016 by Steve Anavi and Alexandre Prot to simplify financial management for SMEs and freelancers. The platform offers business accounts, corporate cards, expense management, bookkeeping integrations, and invoicing in a single interface. Qonto has raised over EUR 600 million from investors including Tiger Global, Valar Ventures, Tencent, and DST Global, reaching a valuation of EUR 5 billion. It serves over 500,000 business customers across France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and acquired German competitor Penta in 2022. Qonto is Europe's largest digital finance platform purpose-built for small businesses.
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Rishi Khosla
Co-founder and CEO of OakNorth, the SME-lending bank, which he started after struggling to get a loan for an earlier business. He previously co-founded Copal Amba, sold to Moody's.
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Sai Agnikhotram
Senior Vice President at Sygnum Bank leading bank-to-bank integration and enablement for digital-asset banking. He is an announced speaker at Eurasia Tech Week 2026 in Istanbul.
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Solarisbank
Embedded banking platform providing regulated accounts, cards, and payments APIs. Solarisbank is a startup based in Berlin, Germany at the growth stage. The company operates in the Fintech, Banking space. Learn more at their website.
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Starling Bank
Starling Bank is a London-based digital bank founded in 2014 by Anne Boden, offering personal, business and joint current accounts through a mobile app under a full UK banking licence. It was one of the first British neobanks to reach sustained profitability and also licenses its banking technology to other institutions through its Engine software subsidiary. It employs several thousand people and reports revenue of more than 880 million pounds.
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Steve Anavi
Co-founder and president of Qonto, which he started with Alexandre Prot after the two had earlier co-founded the price-comparison startup Smokio.
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Tom Blomfield
Co-founder of Monzo and previously GoCardless, and one of the UK's best-known fintech founders. He led Monzo from a prepaid card to a licensed bank with millions of customers before stepping back; he is now a group partner at Y Combinator.
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Trade Republic
Trade Republic is Europe's largest savings platform and a commission-free neobroker offering stocks, ETFs, derivatives, and crypto trading via a mobile-first app. Founded in Berlin, the company holds a German banking license and serves over 4 million customers across 17 European countries. Trade Republic has been valued at over $5 billion and is a leading force in the democratization of retail investing across Europe.
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Valentin Stalf
Valentin Stalf is Co-founder & CEO of the German mobile bank N26. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Valentin leads the German mobile bank N26.
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Vlad Yatsenko
Co-founder and CTO of Revolut, responsible for the engineering platform behind the super-app's rapid global expansion. He previously built trading systems at major investment banks.
