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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GoCardless
GoCardless is a London-based fintech founded in 2011 that specialises in collecting recurring bank-to-bank payments, processing Direct Debit and open banking payments for businesses across Europe, North America and Australia. It reached unicorn status in 2022 and handles tens of billions of dollars in payment volume each year for tens of thousands of merchants.
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Goodlord
Goodlord is a UK proptech company providing software for the lettings industry, covering tenant referencing, rent-protection and buildings insurance, tenant payments, guarantor services, contract generation, utility management and tenancy progression through end of tenancy. It serves letting agents, landlords and tenants, and publishes an annual Goodlord Rental Index report on the UK rental market.
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Green-Got
Green-Got is a French ethical banking app, the commercial name of Domino SAS, offering personal, joint, and micro-business accounts along with green savings products such as life insurance (assurance-vie) and a retirement savings plan (PER), including its own Green-Got Sustainable Future fund. The company is a regulated payment institution supervised by the ACPR, is registered with ORIAS as an insurance and investment broker, and has been B Corp certified since 2024. Green-Got reports over EUR 100 million under management in savings.
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Gregory Dellas
Chief Compliance Officer at ECOMMBX and a leader of the ACAMS Cyprus Chapter, specialising in financial compliance and anti-money-laundering. He is an announced speaker at the Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit 2026 in Cyprus.
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Growth Box Ventures
Growth Box Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Ta' Xbiex, Malta, led by Managing Partner Gabriel Demirci. The fund targets pre-seed and seed investments in fintech, personal finance, gaming, and lead generation — sectors where Malta has established global relevance. Founded by serial entrepreneurs with a track record of building and exiting ventures, the firm takes a hands-on approach offering strategic advice and growth support beyond capital. Notable portfolio companies include Odds Scanner and Tekpon.
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Guillaume Pousaz
Founder and CEO of Checkout.com, the payments processor he bootstrapped before it became one of Europe's most valuable fintechs. A Swiss entrepreneur based in London, he is among the wealthiest people in UK tech.
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HackYeah 2026
Europe's largest stationary hackathon, returning for its 12th edition at Tauron Arena Kraków on 3-4 October 2026 — a 24-hour build sprint organised by PROIDEA. Teams of 1-6 tackle open challenge categories (Defence, Sport & Healthcare, Smart City, and AI) plus a justCTF capture-the-flag track, with corporate and government challenge partners. A high-signal place to prototype, recruit co-founders, and get in front of challenge-sponsoring organisations.
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Handpoint
Handpoint is an embedded payments technology company with an office in Reykjavik, Iceland, alongside offices in the UK, US, and Spain, that helps SaaS businesses and financial institutions build payment solutions covering card terminals, face-to-face payments across North America, Europe, and South Africa, an e-commerce suite for Europe, and real-time payments data via its APIs.
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Handwave
Handwave is a Riga-based biometrics-as-a-service startup founded in 2021 by Janis Stirna and Sandis Osmanis-Usmanis that replaces cards, phones, and apps with a palm scan for payments, age verification, loyalty activation, and access control. The platform captures both surface palm lines and subdermal vein structures to build a unique encrypted biometric ID backed by two-factor authentication. Handwave has raised €4.3 million in total funding, including a €3.6 million seed round in 2025 led by Practica Capital with participation from FirstPick and Inovo.vc, and is piloting with live retailers across Europe and the US.
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Harry Nelis
Partner at Accel in London, investing in enterprise software, AI and fintech. His portfolio includes Vinted, Celonis, Miro, Deliveroo and Personio, and he has been a long-standing figure in Accel's European franchise.
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Hellas Direct
Hellas Direct is a Greek digital, full-stack insurance company offering car, motorbike and home insurance, along with related mobility services. Founded in 2011 by former consultants and bankers Alexis Pantazis and Emilios Markou, it uses a technology-driven model to provide fast online quotes and 24/7 claims handling. The company operates across Greece, Cyprus and Romania. In February 2024 it raised a €30 million Series B round led by ETF Partners to support climate-focused insurance products and further European expansion.
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Hendrik Brandis
Co-founder and General Partner of Earlybird Venture Capital, which he started in 1997. One of Europe's most experienced venture investors, he focuses on deep tech, fintech and insurtech and has helped build Earlybird into a ~€2.5bn multi-fund platform backing companies such as N26, Isar Aerospace and Aleph Alpha.
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Hepsiburada
Hepsiburada is one of Turkey's two largest e-commerce platforms, running a marketplace, first-party retail, express logistics, payments (HepsiPay), and advertising network serving tens of millions of monthly customers. Founded in 2000 by Hanzade Doğan Boyner, the company was the first major Turkish internet company to list on a US stock exchange when it IPO'd on Nasdaq (HEPS) in 2021 — a milestone that put Turkish consumer tech firmly on the radar of international public-market investors. Hepsiburada differentiates from Trendyol through its stronger positioning in 1P inventory, premium electronics, and its in-house payment infrastructure, and has built one of the largest same-day and next-day last-mile networks in the country. For the directory it is a key example of a Turkish consumer-internet story that reached public markets on its own, rather than through strategic acquisition.
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HIPTHER Baltics, Nordics: Tallinn 2026
Grand finale of the 2026 HIPTHER Baltics series at Hilton Tallinn Park. Three parallel tracks on digital governance, fintech compliance, AML, digital identity, and Nordic market expansion with 150+ delegates and 30+ speakers.
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Holded
Holded is an all-in-one cloud business-management platform for SMBs, unifying invoicing, accounting, CRM, inventory, HR/payroll and project management in one interface. It became Spain's fastest-growing cloud ERP and accounting platform. Acquired by Visma in 2021 (€120M).
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Homeppl
Homeppl is a London-based customer risk platform that helps real estate and lending businesses reveal fraud, verify income and affordability, and qualify applicants using open banking data, document analysis, and a fraud database. Its products include Fraud Finder for document fraud detection and financial qualification tools used by clients such as Knight Frank, Quintain Living, and Portman Asset Finance to cut fraud losses and speed up approvals. Homeppl operates as a trading name of Thirdfort Limited, a UK company registered in London.
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House of Startups
A 6,000 m² campus in Luxembourg City's station district that federates the country's main incubators, accelerators, and startup support organisations under one roof. Opened in June 2018, it hosts between 150 and 200 startups and is home to Luxembourg-City Incubator, LHoFT, Le Village by CA, and the International Climate Finance Accelerator. Backed by the City of Luxembourg and Chamber of Commerce.
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ICT Spring 2026
Luxembourg's largest tech conference held at the European Convention Center, attracting 5,000+ attendees from the fintech, space tech, and cybersecurity sectors. Strong institutional presence from EU bodies and Luxembourg's financial regulators. Features a startup pitch zone and investor meetings. Tickets from EUR 200.
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ICU Ventures
ICU Ventures is the venture capital arm of ICU Group, Ukraine's largest independent asset management and investment banking firm, established in 2006 by former ING senior professionals. The venture arm, active since 2018, focuses on late seed and Series A investments of $200K–$5M in tech companies with strong Ukrainian ties across fintech, deep tech, mobility, and enterprise software. With 40+ investments to date, the portfolio includes Respeecher (AI voice technology) and Khazna (fintech), with the most recent disclosed investment made in February 2025. ICU Ventures operates from Kyiv and continues to actively back Ukrainian-rooted founders building global businesses.
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identifAI
identifAI builds AI-powered deepfake and synthetic media detection technology, using 36 proprietary de-generative models to analyze images, videos, and audio for manipulation at pixel-level probabilistic patterns rather than superficial artefacts. Founded in 2024 in Cesena and Milan by cybersecurity veterans Marco Ramilli and Marco Castaldo, the company serves insurers, healthcare providers, HR departments, financial institutions, and government agencies for KYC verification and fraud prevention. Processing millions of checks daily, identifAI has raised €7.2 million (including €5 million led by United Ventures), was named a sample vendor in Gartner's 2026 Emerging Tech report, and counts Experian and KPMG among its clients.
