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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MoneyLIVE Nordic Banking 2026
MoneyLIVE Nordic Banking 2026 is a two-day retail-banking and fintech leadership conference held 27-28 October 2026 at the Bella Center, Copenhagen, produced by MoneyLIVE (Marketforce Business Media). It gathers 800+ senior leaders — around 60% from banks — across four stages covering AI, digital identity, payments, fraud, risk, resilience, and lending, with 100+ speakers drawn from Nordea, SEB, Swedbank, Danske Bank, Lunar, Monzo and others. Nasdaq Verafin is the platinum sponsor.
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Montonio
Montonio is an Estonian payments and post-checkout platform for e-commerce merchants. Through a single API and dashboard it offers open-banking bank-transfer payments, card payments, Apple Pay and Google Pay, BLIK and Buy-Now-Pay-Later financing, alongside post-checkout tools such as shipping labels, parcel tracking, returns and refunds. The company serves merchants across the Baltics and Poland, aiming to be a unified checkout solution for the region. Its regulated payment-institution entity is registered in Lithuania while the company operates from Tallinn.
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Monzo
Monzo is one of the UK's leading digital-only banks, offering a mobile-first current account with features like instant spending notifications, fee-free foreign spending, budgeting tools, and salary sorting. Founded in 2015, Monzo has grown to over 9 million customers and achieved profitability in 2024. The company holds a full UK banking license and has expanded into business accounts, lending, and investment products.
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Movens Capital
Warsaw-based multi-stage venture capital firm backing Central and Eastern European tech founders with global ambitions. Movens Capital runs a €60M Fund 2 (launched 2025) and writes first checks of €250k–€3M at pre-seed through Series A+. Focus areas: fintech, edtech, healthtech, deep tech, climate tech, enterprise software, and e-commerce enablement across Poland, the Baltics, the Balkans, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova. Founded in 2018 by Artur Banach and Michał Olszewski. Fund LPs include the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), PFR Ventures, and 80+ tech founders, operators, and family offices. Notable exits include MEDICAlgorithmics (IPO) and Fenige.
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N26
N26 is a Berlin-based digital bank with a mobile-first current account and financial products for consumers across Europe. In May 2024, BaFin lifted the growth restrictions previously imposed on the bank, clearing the way for renewed customer expansion. In 2025 N26 rolled out free stock and ETF trading for all eligible customers, adding investing to its core banking offering. The company positions itself as a full-stack European challenger bank with a focus on product breadth and operational discipline.
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Neon
Neon is a Zurich-based digital bank founded in 2018 by Julius Krieg and Jörg Sandrock as one of Switzerland's first challenger banks. Operating on a mobile-first model with no branch network, Neon provides Swiss residents with free everyday banking accounts, a Mastercard debit card, and integrated savings and investment products. The app launched in 2019 and grew to over 200,000 customers, carving out a position in Swiss consumer banking against incumbents like UBS and competing with European neobanks like N26 that do not hold a Swiss banking licence. Neon operates under a banking-as-a-service model through a partnership with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg, which holds the banking licence. It is a benchmark for digital-first financial services built from within Switzerland.
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Nethone
Nethone is an AI-driven fraud-detection platform that profiles user sessions using thousands of behavioural, device and network signals to flag fraud in real time, helping online businesses and payment platforms make accurate accept/reject decisions. Acquired by Mangopay in 2022.
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Netrisk Group
Netrisk Group is a Budapest-based digital insurance comparison and brokerage platform that helps consumers compare policies from multiple insurers and purchase coverage online. The company operates across Central and Eastern European markets and is the leading insurance aggregator in Hungary, covering auto, home, travel, and health insurance products. Netrisk simplifies a traditionally opaque buying process by providing transparent side-by-side comparisons and instant quotes. The group has expanded through acquisitions and organic growth to become one of the most significant insurtech players in the CEE region.
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Nevis
Nevis is an AI platform for the wealth management industry, describing itself as the first unified AI platform for wealth management. It automates advisors' administrative and operational workflows end-to-end, including meeting summaries and prep, intelligent search, client email drafting, task generation, and account opening with custodians. The company primarily targets Registered Investment Advisors. Founded in 2024 by three former Revolut employees, it is headquartered in London, and in December 2025 it acquired voice-AI startup Ledra AI.
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Next Gate Tech
Luxembourg-based fintech providing SPARK, an AI-powered operating ecosystem for automating investment operations in asset management. Handles middle- and back-office oversight with agentic AI, processing 5 petabytes of data monthly for institutions including BNP Paribas Securities Services, Amundi, and Capital Group across €500bn+ in assets.
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NEXT Summit Valletta 2026
Operator-led iGaming summit at the Mediterranean Conference Centre drawing 6,000+ delegates, with sub-summits on start-up & investment, crypto, and payments. Includes a Hot Seat startup pitch format for founders meeting VCs and senior operators.
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NEXT Summit Valletta 2027
NEXT Summit Valletta 2027 runs 26-27 May at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta. The iGaming-focused event gathers roughly 6,000 operators, suppliers, investors, regulators and innovators for a week of connected conference activity, including a dedicated Start-Up & Investment day focused on funding and innovation.
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Nextesy
Zurich-based AI-first enterprise operating system for SMEs and freelancers that automates invoicing, accounting, payroll, and document management in a single platform. Built on ETH and HSG research. Connects all operational processes with AI as the core layer rather than an add-on module.
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NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum (October 2026)
The 25th edition of the NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum is a one-day senior-executive fintech conference held at the Athens Marriott Hotel. Through keynotes, panels, roundtables and one-to-one meetings it covers instant and real-time payments, account-to-account transactions, digital wallets, open banking, the Digital Euro, embedded finance, fraud prevention and regulatory technology across Greece and Europe.
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Nextury Ventures
Nextury Ventures is a venture capital firm and startup incubator founded in 2013 in Vilnius by entrepreneur Ilja Laurs and ICT executive Mindaugas Glodas. Inspired by Silicon Valley models, it builds and invests in early-stage companies in fintech, proptech, sharing economy, e-commerce, and mobile sectors. Since inception it has invested in over 30 companies across multiple European markets, including the UK and US, with cumulative returns of +219% after taxes reported over a five-year period.
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Nexus 2050 2026
Luxembourg's flagship tech and innovation conference at Luxexpo The Box, positioned as a bridge between the Greater Region's corporates, the Luxembourg fund industry, and international deep-tech founders. Programming spans AI, space tech, fintech, and sustainable finance with 4,000+ attendees and an exhibition floor featuring Luxembourg-based scale-ups like Paul Wurth, Gcore, and LuxAI. The 2024 edition launched with ministerial support and has since become the country's primary innovation showcase. Tickets EUR 100-400.
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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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Nordic Fintech Week 2026
A major Nordic fintech gathering at TAP1 with around 2,000 participants, 200 fintech startups, and 150 financial institutions across roughly 100 sessions. Strong startup-to-institution matchmaking.
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Nordigen (GoCardless)
Nordigen is a Riga-based open banking data platform that was acquired by GoCardless in 2022. The company provides free access to bank account data through PSD2-compliant APIs, enabling fintechs, lenders, and financial service providers to retrieve transaction histories, account balances, and payment data from over 2,300 banks across 31 European countries. Nordigen's freemium model disrupted the open banking aggregation market by making basic bank connectivity accessible without per-API-call fees. As part of GoCardless, the Riga team continues to develop open banking infrastructure and represents an important Latvian contribution to Europe's financial data ecosystem.
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NorthCap
NorthCap (Northcap Partners) is a Copenhagen-based venture capital firm founded in 1999, focused on B2B and B2B2C technology companies across the Nordics, with a particular emphasis on SaaS, cloud computing, and mobile services. The firm invests from seed stage (Denmark only) through growth stage, with ticket sizes ranging from $1 million to $25 million, and draws on more than 100 investments of operational experience to support founders in scaling and internationalization. Notable investments include GAN Integrity and Visiopharm.
