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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Delta Partners
Founded in 1994, Delta Partners is one of Ireland's longest-running venture capital firms, investing EUR 0.5-3M at seed and Series A in enterprise software and consumer technology across Ireland and the UK. The firm manages over EUR 300M across multiple funds backed by Enterprise Ireland and private LPs. Delta has backed 90+ companies including Movidius (acquired by Intel), CurrencyFair, and Luzern. The team focuses on capital-efficient B2B and consumer startups with international scaling potential.
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Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit 2026 (July 2026)
A full-day summit at City of Dreams Mediterranean on the convergence of crypto, blockchain and mainstream finance. Sessions cover MiCA and DORA regulation, the Digital Euro and CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenization of real-world assets and institutional digital-asset allocation, through keynotes, fireside chats and panels.
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Digitalk 2026
Sofia's leading digital economy conference organized by Capital newspaper, attracting 1,000+ executives, founders, and policymakers. Covers digital transformation, e-commerce, and fintech with a strong focus on the Bulgarian and SEE markets. Tickets around EUR 50-150.
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Dreamplan
Dreamplan is a Copenhagen-based digital financial planning platform, legally Dreamplan.io ApS, that gives consumers independent advice on pensions, investments, insurance, and home financing to help them find hidden savings in their finances. Users get a personalised financial overview and recommendations digitally, with the option to book 1:1 sessions with human financial advisors for complex situations such as home purchases or inheritance. The company is registered with the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) and also builds advisory software for independent financial advisers and banks under the brand Wizflow.
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Dublin Tech Summit 2026
Two-day summit at the RDS in Dublin with around 8,000 attendees, 300+ speakers, and strong buyer presence from IDA-backed multinationals. Passes typically EUR 300-700 with startup rates available. Programming emphasizes B2B startup-to-enterprise partnerships across cloud, SaaS, fintech, and AI, a key pipeline for founders targeting Irish and UK buyers.
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Dublin Tech Summit 2027
Dublin Tech Summit 2027 runs 26-27 May at the RDS Dublin as part of Dublin Tech Week. The summit offers programming for IT professionals and teams across enterprise IT, SaaS, cloud, fintech and big data, alongside partnership and sponsorship opportunities for companies targeting the European tech ecosystem.
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Early Game Ventures
Early Game Ventures is a Bucharest-based venture capital firm that launched its first fund in 2019 focused on Romanian tech startups, achieving a reported 45% IRR on Fund I with 4 exits from 28 portfolio companies including Bunnyshell and Profluo. In April 2024 the firm launched Fund II targeting €60 million to invest in early-stage startups across CEE — primarily Romania (60–70%), with the remainder across Europe — at ticket sizes up to €6 million. Focus sectors include SaaS, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and deep tech.
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EasyBiz
Luxembourg-based digital platform for company incorporation and accounting. Enables entrepreneurs to register a SARL or SARL-S 100% online in five days with no paperwork, paired with a smart accounting dashboard for VAT tracking, invoicing, and expense management from €90/month. Designed by Luxembourg fiduciary professionals.
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EBAday 2026
Europe's premier payments and transaction banking summit, organised by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra at Bella Center Copenhagen. Brings together 1,400+ professionals and 100+ speakers across open banking, payments, digital identity, and cross-border innovation.
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EBAN Congress Leipzig 2027
Europe's largest business angel event moves from Vilnius to Leipzig, Saxony for 2027, running 2-4 June. EBAN Congress brings hundreds of European business angels, VCs, and ecosystem leaders together for keynotes, an awards gala, and ecosystem study visits.
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EBAN Congress Vilnius 2026
26th EBAN Congress brings hundreds of European business angels, VCs, and ecosystem leaders to Vilnius for keynotes, an awards gala, and a Lithuanian startup study visit, with focus on Space & Defence Tech, BioTech, and CleanTech.
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EBO
EBO is a Malta-founded conversational and generative AI company specialising in automated customer engagement for regulated industries. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Gege Gatt, the platform deploys multilingual Virtual Agents across healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, and iGaming, operating in over 100 languages and delivering 24/7 automated dialogue across any channel. EBO's clients report over 80% reduction in customer interaction costs. The company has raised $3.5 million, counts BMIT Technologies among its investors, and operates from Birkirkara with additional offices in London and Milan.
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Eight Roads Ventures
Eight Roads Ventures is the global venture capital platform of Fidelity, tracing its roots to Fidelity Ventures (1969). Headquartered in London for its European and Israeli operations, it invests exclusively from Fidelity's balance sheet rather than raising external LPs — a structure that affords long holding horizons. The European arm has deployed four successive funds, growing from £100M to a $450M fourth fund (2021), within a global platform managing over $5bn across Europe, Israel, India and Asia. The London team focuses on growth-stage and scale-up investments, writing $5–50M cheques into companies past product-market fit (roughly Series A–C) in SaaS and enterprise software, fintech, healthtech, consumer technology and climate tech. Notable European portfolio companies include Spendesk (France), Hibob (Israel/UK), Funnel.io (Sweden), Tibber (Norway), Swan (France) and Amenitiz (Spain); key exits include InnoGames (€260M to MTG, 2016), Compte-Nickel (BNP Paribas, ~€200M, 2017) and Made.com's 2021 London IPO. The team is led by Managing Partner Davor Hebel with partners Lucile Cornet and Michael Treskow.
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Eileen Burbidge
Eileen Burbidge MBE is a British-American venture capitalist and Founding Partner of Passion Capital, an early-stage London VC she co-founded with Stefan Glaenzer in 2008, with notable portfolio companies including Monzo and GoCardless. A computer science graduate of the University of Illinois, she built her early career at Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Skype before moving to London in 2004. She served as the UK Treasury's special envoy for fintech from 2015 and was appointed MBE for services to entrepreneurship the same year.
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EIT Digital Accelerator
EIT Digital Accelerator is a pan-European programme backed by the EU's European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), supporting deep tech scaleups with tailored business development, investor introductions, and international customer acquisition since 2012. It operates across 18 European cities and a San Francisco hub, and has supported nearly 300 startups that collectively raised €1.5 billion, with over €100 million directly facilitated by the Accelerator. Focus areas include AI, cybersecurity, digital industry, digital health, and fintech.
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Ekiden
Lisbon-based blockchain derivatives trading platform providing on-chain perpetual futures and options markets with institutional-grade execution infrastructure for algorithmic traders. Raised €1.7M seed at a €17M valuation in May 2026.
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Elastics
Elastics is a Warsaw-based startup building an AI-native operating system for prediction markets. Powered by auditable AI agents, its platform lets traders build and automate trading workflows in plain language, from signal generation through execution. The company was founded in April 2025 by Szymon Pawica (CEO) and Mateusz Brodowicz (CTO).
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Elevator Ventures
Elevator Ventures is the corporate venture capital unit of Raiffeisen Bank International, co-backed by Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien and Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark, managing funds of more than €100 million. The firm targets Series A and B fintech and beyond-banking companies, with a focus on the DACH and CEE regions, and has invested over €60 million in 21 companies, achieving seven exits. It originated from Elevator Lab, an RBI accelerator launched in 2017 to scout startup partners globally.
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Eleven Ventures
Founded in 2012 by Daniel Tomov, Dilyan Dimitrov, Ivaylo Simov, and Jon Bradford, Eleven Ventures is one of Bulgaria's oldest and most active pre-seed and seed funds, with 170+ investments across South-Eastern Europe over 13 years. Its third fund (Eleven Fund III) closed at €60M in January 2022 backed by the EIF and 60+ individual LPs, targeting fintech, healthcare, future of work, sustainable food, and ecomtech. Notable exits and portfolio names include Payhawk, Quantive (formerly Gtmhub), SMSBump (acquired by Yotpo), Dronamics, and NitroPack. The first fund was listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange in 2020 via a spin-out called Eleven Capital.
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Enfuce
Enfuce is a cloud-native card issuing and payment processing platform that enables banks, fintechs and brands to launch and scale payment programmes across Europe. Founded in 2016 and holding EMI licences from both the Finnish FSA and the UK FCA, the company raised €45 million in a Series C round led by Vitruvian Partners with participation from Visa and Maki.vc. With 280 employees and ambitions to 10x revenue by 2030, Enfuce became Finland's largest fintech startup. In March 2026, co-founder Denise Johansson took sole CEO responsibility as the company accelerates European expansion.
