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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Birmingham Tech Week 2026
The West Midlands' largest tech festival, a city-wide week of conferences, exhibitions, and community events. For a Midlands founder it is the main annual opportunity to raise visibility, meet regional investors, and connect with the SuperTech innovation cluster.
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Bitpanda
Bitpanda is one of Austria's most visible fintech scale-ups and has evolved from a consumer crypto trading app into a broader digital wealth platform. The product now combines access to cryptocurrencies, precious metals, ETFs, and other investment products in a single interface aimed at making investing feel simple for mainstream European users. A major part of Bitpanda's strategic value is not just consumer distribution, but the compliance and infrastructure layer it has built around regulated digital investing. That regulatory posture helped the company move from a retail app narrative toward financial infrastructure, including B2B services that let banks and fintechs offer investing products through Bitpanda's rails. In the European ecosystem, Bitpanda represents the maturation of fintech and digital-asset infrastructure on the continent: not only speculation-led growth, but operational depth around licensing, custody, user onboarding, and cross-border product rollout. Its presence also expands the directory's coverage of companies that sit between retail experience and regulated financial plumbing. That makes Bitpanda a strong reference point for founders and investors tracking how European fintech platforms transition from category breakout into foundational market infrastructure.
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Bitstamp
Bitstamp is one of the oldest continuously operating cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, founded in 2011 in Ljubljana by Nejc Kodrič and Damijan Merlak as a European alternative to Mt. Gox, and the first crypto exchange to obtain an EU-wide payment-institution license via Luxembourg. The exchange became a workhorse for professional traders and corporate treasuries in the early bitcoin era because of its deep order books, straightforward fiat rails, and relatively boring, compliance-first posture compared to more speculative venues. Bitstamp has moved its headquarters structure across Luxembourg, London, and the US over the years but its Slovenian origin and engineering roots remain, and in 2024 Robinhood announced a USD 200 million acquisition to use Bitstamp as the backbone of its European and institutional crypto business — a validating exit that puts Slovenia on the map for globally significant crypto infrastructure. For the directory, Bitstamp is the canonical Slovenian fintech deep-tech story.
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Bitvavo
Bitvavo is an Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2018 that lets retail and institutional users buy, sell and store digital assets, and is one of the largest crypto trading platforms in the Benelux region by volume. It is registered with the Dutch central bank and has expanded across Europe under the EU's MiCA regulatory framework.
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BLIK
Poland's dominant mobile-payment system, launched in 2015 by Polski Standard Płatności — a joint venture of six major Polish banks. BLIK enables in-store, online, ATM and peer-to-peer payments via six-digit one-time codes generated in a banking app, processes billions of transactions a year and has expanded internationally. Led by CEO Dariusz Mazurkiewicz.
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Blockpit
Blockpit is a Linz-based crypto tax and portfolio compliance platform, founded in 2017 as one of Europe's earliest crypto tax regulation trailblazers. Its tools include a crypto tax calculator, portfolio tracker, tax optimizer, and source-of-funds reporting, generating more than 1 million tax reports for over 350,000 customers across Austria, Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and other markets. Legally Blockpit AG, the company made two acquisitions in 2020 and 2023 to expand its European crypto compliance footprint and is led by co-founders Florian Wimmer (CEO), Gerd Karlhuber (CFO), Magnus Berchtold (CPO), and Tom Buchsteiner (CTO).
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Boleron
Digital insurance broker offering a marketplace to compare and buy auto, travel, health, life and property policies fully online, plus services like e-vignettes; licensed by the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission.
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BpiFrance Inno Génération 2026
BIG (Bpifrance Inno Génération) 2026, billed as Europe's largest business gathering, takes place on Thursday 8 October 2026 at the Accor Arena in Paris under the theme 'place au culot' (audacity). Organized by Bpifrance, France's public investment bank, it brings tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, SME and corporate leaders, researchers and investors together for hundreds of conferences, masterclasses, expert clinics and networking, free to attend.
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Breega
Breega is a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016, with offices in Paris, London, and Barcelona. The firm manages over EUR 350M and invests from pre-seed through Series A, writing initial checks of EUR 500K to EUR 5M. Breega focuses on fintech, consumer tech, SaaS, and marketplace models, and has backed companies including Swile, Spendesk, Brigad, and Luko. Led by co-founders Ben Marrel and Francois Paulus, Breega combines capital with an in-house growth team offering hands-on support in hiring, go-to-market strategy, and international expansion across European markets.
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Bright Pixel (Sonae IM)
Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM) is the technology investment arm of Portugal's Sonae Group, operating as a corporate venture studio from Porto and Lisbon. Founded as Sonae IM and rebranded in 2020, Bright Pixel invests EUR 1-5M at Series A and B in cybersecurity, retail tech, telecom, and fintech companies across Europe and Israel. The firm manages over EUR 200M and has backed companies including Outsystems, Feedzai, and S21sec. Bright Pixel provides portfolio companies with strategic access to Sonae's retail and telecom operations for piloting and commercial partnerships.
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BrightCap Ventures
Founded in 2018 by Georgi Mitov and Elina Halatcheva (joined by Managing Partner Diana Stefanova), BrightCap is a pre-seed and seed VC based in Sofia. Its second fund (BrightCap II) closed at approximately €47.5M in 2025, with the European Investment Fund as a cornerstone LP, and is notable as the first vehicle to blend Recovery and Resilience Facility capital from both Bulgaria and Romania in a single cross-border fund. Managing partners bring operating backgrounds from exits at VMware (Aviaso) and Honeywell (Sciant) rather than traditional finance. BrightCap invests €400K–€3M tickets with sector focus on future of work, digital health, and fintech; the portfolio includes Software Group, Pliant, and FITE.
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Brunnur Ventures
Brunnur Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 and focused on high-growth Icelandic startups. The firm backs scalable B2B software, gaming, biotech, cleantech, and marine-tech companies, writing initial seed cheques and following on through growth rounds. With around 34 portfolio companies, the firm has achieved notable exits including CCP Games and Oculis. Key partners include Founding Partner Sigurdur Arnljotsson and Managing Partner Arni Bloendal.
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bsurance
bsurance is a Vienna-based insurtech founded in 2018, one of the first movers in embedded and connected insurance in Europe. Its no-code insurance platform helps insurers, MGAs, banks, and brands launch and manage digital and embedded insurance products quickly, positioning itself as the speed layer between legacy insurance cores and new market opportunities. The company says it is built on the experience of more than 30 cooperations across 10+ countries, and it is led by co-founders Emmanuel Cheret (CEO), Raffaela Gruen (COO and CPO), and Pedro Antunes (CTO).
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BTC Prague 2026
Europe's largest Bitcoin conference, now in its fourth edition, bringing together 8,500+ enthusiasts, 250+ speakers, and 100+ companies across three stages to discuss Bitcoin technology, economics, sovereignty, and culture.
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BTC Prague 2027
BTC Prague 2027 runs 6-8 May, having grown since its founding in the 2022 bear market into the biggest Bitcoin event in Europe, drawing 8,500+ attendees. The event maintains a strict 'Bitcoin only' focus and includes a dedicated Bitcoin Living Masterclass track covering health, financial sovereignty and psychology alongside core Bitcoin programming.
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bunq
bunq is an Amsterdam-based digital bank founded in 2012 by Ali Niknam, a serial entrepreneur who self-funded the company with EUR 40 million of his own capital. bunq holds a full European banking license from the Dutch Central Bank and offers personal and business accounts with features like multi-currency support, real-time budgeting, automated savings, and fee-free international transfers. The bank has attracted over 12 million users and reached profitability, with a reported valuation of EUR 1.6 billion. bunq differentiates itself through its user-centric philosophy and sustainability focus, planting trees for every EUR 100 spent by users. It is one of the few European neobanks built without initial venture capital backing.
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BUX
BUX is an Amsterdam-based fintech founded in 2014 that operates a mobile neobroker, letting retail users across Europe invest in shares and ETFs, often commission-free, through an app aimed at first-time investors. It expanded across several European markets and positions itself as a simple, low-cost gateway to investing.
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byFounders
byFounders is a Copenhagen-based venture fund built around the idea that early-stage founders benefit most from investors who have already built and scaled companies themselves. The firm is backed by a broad collective of Nordic and Baltic founders and operators, giving portfolio companies access not only to capital but also to practical advice on hiring, go-to-market, product development, and international expansion. That structure makes byFounders more than a conventional seed fund; it operates as a networked operating layer for startups emerging from the Nordic-Baltic region. Its importance in the directory is strategic because it fills the middle of the ecosystem pipeline: after founders are incubated by universities, venture builders, or accelerators, but before they are ready for large global growth funds, they need a seed investor that can professionalize the company and prepare it for the next round. byFounders has become one of the clearest examples of that role in Northern Europe. It also helps connect smaller regional startup communities into a shared capital network, which is especially relevant for Baltic and Nordic founders that need international reach early.
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Catapult: Green Fintech 2026
One-week fast-track bootcamp at the LHoFT for 10 selected green fintech firms, co-facilitated with LSFI. Participants pitch to investors, meet sustainable finance decision-makers and join the annual LSFI Summit.
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Cathay Innovation
Cathay Innovation is a Paris-headquartered global multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, affiliated with Cathay Capital, with offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Madrid, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm closed its third fund at $1 billion in 2025 — the largest AI-dedicated fund out of the European Union — bringing total assets under management to over €2.5 billion. Cathay invests in vertical AI, digital health, fintech, mobility, and energy across Europe, North America, and Asia, connecting startups with a corporate network of 20+ Fortune 500 partners. The portfolio of over 120 companies includes Glovo, Ledger, Owkin, Alma, and Descartes Underwriting, with eight unicorns, six IPOs, and 18 acquisitions.
