Warsaw, Poland · Venture CapitalWarsaw-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.
Venture CapitalPre-Seed to Series A+FinTechEdTechHealthTechDeep TechClimate TechEnterprise SoftwareE-commerce
Lublin, Poland · StartupPolish card-payments infrastructure provider licensed for card issuing, acquiring, and money transfer. Fenige's platform powers card-based money transfers (card-to-card push payments) and payment products for fintechs, banks, and corporates. An early Movens Capital portfolio company; exited via a strategic sale.
StartupExitedFinTechPaymentsCard Infrastructure
Budapest, Hungary · StartupBarion is a Budapest-based licensed e-money institution and payment processor that offers online card acquiring, wallet-based payments, and embedded-payment APIs for e-commerce merchants, marketplaces, and software platforms in the CEE region. Regulated by the Hungarian central bank (MNB) and passported across the EU under its e-money license, Barion is one of the few independent merchant-acquiring alternatives to Stripe, Adyen, and the big international PSPs for merchants that specifically want a Hungarian-language, locally supported, lower-fee payment rail. The company has been growing steadily into neighboring markets and into B2B verticals like iGaming and SaaS, and serves as the local reference for fintech founders who want to understand how small EU markets can build their own regulated payment infrastructure rather than reselling others'.
StartupGrowthFinTechPaymentsAcquiringE-money
Warsaw, Poland · AcceleratorFounded in 2018, Cogito Capital is a Warsaw-based growth-stage VC investing EUR 5-15M at Series B and beyond in enterprise software, fintech, and mobility scale-ups from Central Europe. The firm manages over EUR 100M and focuses on B2B companies with proven revenues scaling into Western European and US markets. Cogito's partners bring operational backgrounds in technology and finance, helping portfolio companies with go-to-market, M&A strategy, and international expansion.
AcceleratorSeries B+Enterprise SoftwareFintechMobility
Lisbon, Portugal · StartupComudel develops a business operating system that automates workflows, legal contract handling, and AI-assisted financial operations for companies. Founded in 2022, it is associated with Unicorn Factory Lisboa and Instituto Pedro Nunes, operates from The Fintech House in Lisbon, and participated in the SPRINT accelerator focused on compliance and enterprise operations.
StartupEarly StageFinTechEnterprise SoftwareAI
Copenhagen, Denmark · EventDistributed fintech festival across Copenhagen hosted by Copenhagen Fintech, with sessions at banks, fintech offices, and innovation hubs. Covers payments, open banking, green finance, and insurance innovation with a Nordic lens. 3,000+ participants across the week. Most sessions free.
EventEventsFinTechPaymentsInsurTechOpen Banking
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