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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London Tech Week 2026
Government-backed UK flagship tech week at Olympia with 45,000+ attendees, 5,000+ startups, and 300+ investors across AI, quantum, fintech, and health tech. Main-stage passes typically GBP 600-1,500 with free fringe events. Founder tracks, UK policy programming, and EQL:HER make it a key entry point for founders targeting UK enterprise buyers.
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London Tech Week 2027
London Tech Week 2027 runs 7-11 June, with the Expo and Content Stages at Olympia London on 7-9 June and a fringe event programme across London through 11 June. The event is designed to bring together tech innovators, investors and enterprise leaders, and organisers say the 2027 edition will reach a new scale with expanded exhibition space.
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Luca Bocchio
Partner at Accel focused on fintech, marketplaces and consumer companies. He has led or backed Trade Republic, Vinted, Tines, Swan and Synthesia, working with European founders from seed through growth.
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Lucile Cornet
Partner at Eight Roads Ventures investing in software and fintech across Europe. She led the firm's investment in spend-management unicorn Spendesk and works with growth-stage founders scaling internationally.
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Lucinity
Lucinity is an Icelandic RegTech company founded in 2018 by Gudmundur Kristjansson that builds AI-powered financial crime prevention software for banks and financial institutions. Its platform combines human analyst workflows with machine intelligence to automate investigation, case management, and regulatory reporting for anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Lucinity was named Iceland's Knowledge Company of the Year for 2024 and has offices in Reykjavik and New York.
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Łukasz Lewandowski
Investment Director at Movens Capital. Drives sourcing and execution across fintech, edtech, and healthtech opportunities in Poland and the broader CEE region; previously in product and operating roles in tech-enabled services.
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Łukasz Pawłowski
Partner at Movens Capital. Investment professional focused on CEE early-stage tech, with deal experience across SaaS, fintech, and digital health. Works with founders on go-to-market, fundraising strategy, and cross-border expansion from Poland into Western Europe and the US.
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Lunar
Lunar is a Nordic digital challenger bank founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2015, holding its own Danish banking licence since 2019 — the first Scandinavian challenger bank to do so. It serves over a million users across Denmark, Sweden and Norway with a full-stack app spanning current and savings accounts, Visa debit and metal cards, loans, buy-now-pay-later, stock and ETF investing and crypto trading via Lunar Block. Lunar Business extends these to SMEs, reaching 40,000 business customers by early 2026. In December 2024 Lunar spun out its banking-as-a-service arm as Moonrise, giving fintechs instant-payment access across the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish krona via a single API. Lunar has raised around €537M in total, including a €315M Series D (2021–2023) led by Aarhus family office Heartland with Kinnevik, Tencent and Seed Capital, and a €46M growth round in January 2026 with Heartland, Orbit Alliance and new investor 100A. Targeting profitability in 2026, the bank appointed former Saxo Bank deputy CEO Søren Kyhl as CEO in mid-2026, with co-founder Ken Villum Klausen moving to the board.
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Luxembourg House of Financial Technology
The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) is the national fintech platform connecting startups, financial institutions, investors and public bodies. It organises events such as Fintech Recruits, a flagship recruitment and networking fair connecting students, graduates and professionals with fintech and finance employers.
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Luxembourg Venture Days 2026
European curated dealflow event at Luxexpo The Box, hosting ~3,400 attendees, 330+ investors and the Fit 4 Start and Fit 4 Scale closing pitches. Connects high-potential startups and scaleups with VCs, family offices and angels across digital, healthtech and space.
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LuxFLAG Sustainable Investment Week 2026
Eighth edition of LuxFLAG's content-driven, non-commercial forum on sustainable and responsible investment. Held at Centre Culturel Scheiss, gathering 250+ finance professionals, asset managers and ESG specialists shaping sustainable finance policy and practice.
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Luxhub
Luxhub is a Luxembourg-based open banking infrastructure provider that builds API connectivity between banks, fintechs, and third-party providers under PSD2 and open finance regulations. The platform enables account information services, payment initiation, and data-sharing workflows that allow financial institutions to comply with regulatory requirements while also opening new distribution channels for fintech products. Founded with backing from four major Luxembourg banks, Luxhub is a strategically important piece of the country's financial innovation infrastructure and a model for how collaborative banking initiatives can accelerate open finance adoption across Europe.
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LVenture Group
LVenture Group is a Rome-based holding company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana) that operates in seed-stage venture capital and startup acceleration. Together with its accelerator arm LUISS ENLABS, founded in 2013 as a joint venture with LUISS Guido Carli University, it has accelerated over 100 startups and built a portfolio of 90+ companies across fintech, cybersecurity, and digital sectors. The firm operates from a 9,000 sqm hub at Rome's Termini Station and a dedicated office at the LUISS Hub in Milan.
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m10
m10 is a mobile financial super-app developed by PashaPay (part of PASHA Holding's Bir ecosystem), officially launched in July 2022. It offers domestic money transfers, international remittances, QR-code payments, BakıKart transit top-ups, and consumer credit up to 25,000 AZN. The platform serves 700,000 daily active users and has accumulated 2.5 million downloads, operating under the Central Bank of Azerbaijan's Regulatory Sandbox.
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Malcom Finance
Malcom Finance (formerly 4Trans) provides factoring and financing for truck drivers and logistics SMEs. Its underwriting leverages real-time telematics and operational data to assess risk more accurately than traditional banks. This enables faster payouts and more flexible credit for transport operators who are cash-flow constrained. By 2026, Malcom is a fast-growing Czech fintech focused on the logistics economy.
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Malta Blockchain Summit 2026
A major Web3 and blockchain conference leveraging Malta's pioneering Virtual Financial Assets Act and progressive crypto regulation. Attracts 4,000+ attendees including DeFi founders, token issuers, and regulators. Features a startup pitch competition, hackathon, and expo floor. Tickets from EUR 200-500.
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Malta Venture Capital (MVC)
Malta Venture Capital (MVC) is a €10 million government-backed equity fund launched in 2024 and managed from offices in Sliema, under the auspices of Malta Government Investments. It co-invests alongside private investors in early-stage, high-growth digital and technology-driven businesses, with each eligible startup able to receive up to €500,000 in equity. Target sectors include video game development, fintech, e-sports, life sciences, agritech, AI, and green energy. Since launch MVC has invested in five companies and assembled a network of 30 accredited co-investors.
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Mambu
Mambu is a Berlin-founded, Amsterdam-headquartered SaaS cloud core-banking platform, established in 2011 by Eugene Danilkis, Frederik Pfisterer and Sofia Nunes. It pioneered the 'composable banking' model, in which banks, neobanks, lenders and fintechs assemble modular, API-first components for deposits, loans and payments instead of replacing entire legacy cores. The platform serves 280+ institutions across 65 countries, supports 114 million end clients and processes nearly 200 million API calls daily, with customers including N26, ABN AMRO, OakNorth and Western Union. Mambu became one of Germany's most valuable fintechs after a €110M Series D led by TCV in January 2021, followed by a €235M Series E led by EQT Growth in December 2021 valuing it at €4.9bn. Total funding is about €410M, backed by a syndicate including EQT Growth (Sweden), TCV, Tiger Global, Bessemer, Runa Capital and German investors Acton Capital, CommerzVentures and Point Nine. In December 2024 it made its first acquisition, buying Paris payments gateway Numeral, and launched Mambu Payments in 2025.
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Marc Simoncini
Marc Simoncini is a French serial entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the founder of Meetic, Europe's largest online dating platform, which he sold to Match Group. After his successful exit, Simoncini became one of France's most active angel investors, co-founding Jainama, a personal investment vehicle through which he has backed over 100 startups. His investments span consumer internet, marketplaces, fintech, and lifestyle brands, with notable bets including companies like Made.com and Sensee. Simoncini is known for writing large angel checks and taking board seats, combining strategic guidance with significant early-stage capital. He is a key figure in France's first generation of internet entrepreneurs who now fuel the next wave of founders.
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Marko Wenthin
Marko Wenthin is Co-founder of the banking-as-a-service platform Solaris. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Marko leads the banking-as-a-service platform Solaris.
