Artificial intelligence is no longer just answering questions; it’s re-architecting how global capital is managed. Leading this shift is aisot technologies, an ETH Zurich spin-off transforming institutional investment management through predictive AI and agentic intelligence. Founded by Stefan Klauser (CEO), Nino Antulov-Fantulin, and Tian Guo, and joined by CTO Roger Peyer, aisot bridges cutting-edge academic […]

Managing general agents are quietly becoming one of the fastest-growing corners of US insurance — yet getting the capacity to back a program can still take the better part of a year. Denny Kuruvilla has watched that friction from every seat at the table: three ventures built, fifteen years spent inside insurance technology at TD […]

Some founding stories start with a business plan. AAZZUR‘s started with a game of Dungeons & Dragons. Philipp Buschmann and Richard Unger met at age 11 at the Vienna International School, bonded over code, and were coding for pay by 16 — a friendship that would eventually outlast several careers, three continents, and one failed […]

Egypt’s wealth is enormous and almost entirely misplaced: of a market worth roughly USD 1.7 trillion, an estimated 84% sits in real estate and gold, only 15% in bank deposits, and a mere 1% in actual investments. It’s a gap that co-founders Mazen El Kerdany and Ahmed Ashour set out to close when they launched […]

Nils Feigenwinter was still a teenager when he started asking a question most adults never think to ask: why does financial education look almost exactly the same as it did a generation ago, while everything else about growing up has gone digital? At just 20, he co-founded Bling with Leon Stephan to close that gap […]

Every founder story has an origin point, but few are as personal as Emmanuel Umoh‘s. As an immigrant balancing two financial systems, he watched sending money home get easier over the years — yet noticed his own family still had no real access to modern banking. That gap between “easier remittances” and “true financial inclusion” […]

In the quiet transformation of streaming, music has become something far more powerful than entertainment: a predictable, global cash-flow engine generating roughly $45 billion in annual royalties. Yet for years, this asset class remained fragmented, illiquid, and largely inaccessible to institutional capital. Enter Linda Portnoff, Founder & CEO of Tangy Market. With a PhD in […]

Construction has always run on trust — and on cash that moves, sometimes unpredictably, through a long chain of hands. Jarvey Moss and Dr Tim Whitehill met at UKREiiF and, within months, decided that trust needed an upgrade. Jarvey had already built and exited Amigo Technology; Tim had spent years inside construction finance and later […]

Long before “tokenization” became a fintech buzzword, Kentaro Sohara was already betting on the idea that real estate didn’t need to stay illiquid, opaque, or reserved for those with deep pockets. After a successful exit in Japan’s edtech space and stints at McKinsey and Bain Capital, Sohara moved to Europe and, together with co-founder Riccardo […]

After leading his first venture from regulatory approval to multimillion-euro fundraising, an unexpected co-founder dispute brought that chapter to an abrupt end. Rather than stepping away from innovation, André Dibé returned with a more ambitious vision: Talwex, a regulated blockchain infrastructure designed to modernize one of finance’s oldest and least digitized markets—the global bond market. […]

While the digital finance industry has spent the past few years racing to build faster payments, smarter stablecoins and seamless tokenization, one foundational question has gone strangely unanswered: who is actually safeguarding the reserves behind it all? Tomasz Sowa, Founder & CEO of Strategic Digital Reserve Bank (SDRB), believes the answer lies in a category […]

The traditional mechanics of capital formation have long been guarded by legacy gatekeepers, leaving solo managers and emerging token issuers to navigate a slow, relationship-gated, and prohibitively expensive landscape. Enter Legion, a groundbreaking infrastructure bridging the gap between crypto-native innovation and traditional private markets. Founded by Fabrizio Giabardo and Matt O’Connor, Legion combines deep algorithmic expertise […]

How do you bring transparency, efficiency, and absolute trust to a €33 billion market that has been deeply underserved and analogue for decades? You look to the visionaries who have already revolutionized how we live and travel. In this edition, we sit down with Jeroen Merchiers (former EMEA leader who helped scale Airbnb to its […]

What do the Karakoram mountains and a Bitcoin space heater have in common? More than you’d think — at least if you ask Lukas Waldner. At just 25, the Innsbruck native has already led a first ascent on a 6,653-metre peak in Pakistan, managed the largest German-speaking Bitcoin conference, and co-founded a company that is […]

In the fast-moving world of enterprise technology, true visionaries are those who recognize shifting tides long before the crowd does. Founded in 2019 as pioneers in advanced data security, Arti Raman (CEO), Pakshi Rajan (Chief Product/AI Officer), and Karthick Mariappan (VP of Engineering) executed a decisive, visionary pivot in 2022—well before GenAI became a global […]

There’s a particular kind of founder who builds not because they spotted a market gap on a slide deck, but because they lived the problem themselves — and couldn’t stop thinking about it. Gabriel Ferraz and Alec Erasmus, co-founders of CREEM, are exactly that kind of builder. Gabriel’s path to Tallinn, Estonia reads like a […]

In the rapidly evolving world of Advanced Air Mobility, innovation often moves faster than the systems designed to protect it. While the horizon is filled with autonomous drones and eVTOL aircraft, traditional insurance has frequently remained grounded by legacy models. Enter Simon Ritterband and the team at Moonrock Insurance. Founded on the realization that emerging […]

In the high-stakes world of small business protection, where nearly half of UK SMBs remain underinsured and traditional brokers leave critical gaps, two serial entrepreneurs decided enough was enough. Paul Prendergast (CEO & Co-Founder) and Peter Bermingham (CTO & Co-Founder) — a powerhouse duo with over two decades of insurtech experience, Lloyd’s Lab alumni, and […]

In the fast-evolving world of AI adoption, where innovation races ahead but regulation struggles to keep pace, true leaders don’t just build technology—they embed trust from the very first line of code. That’s the vision behind Qala AG, founded by David Scott Turner, Carl Strempel, and Bruno Soares, a team with a strong track record […]

In the shifting landscape where Traditional Finance (TradFi) and Web3 converge, few voices carry the weight of thirty years of institutional expertise. Enter Tony McLaughlin, a veteran of payments and treasury, who recognized a pivotal “uncanny feeling” following the 2024 US election: the world was ready for public blockchains, but the infrastructure to support them […]

In the dynamic landscape of fintech, where the battle for primary banking relationships hinges on seamless transitions, few innovators have mastered the art of frictionless change like Cale Johnston. As the Founder and CEO of Onsetto—a Minneapolis-based startup founded in 2025 and already backed by a $2.2 million seed round led by EJF Ventures—Cale brings […]

In the fast-evolving world of fintech, where innovation meets the intricacies of insurance finance, few stories capture the entrepreneurial spirit quite like that of Omer Rimoch and Gal Dreiman, co-founders of Advance. Omer, serial entrepreneur and former co-founder of PayEm (acquired after rapid scaling), and Gal, seasoned software engineer and AI specialist, have built a […]

In the ever-evolving intersection of cryptocurrency and traditional finance, where innovation meets regulation, ChainComply emerges as a beacon for seamless compliance. Founded by Pavlina Pavlova, a globetrotting blockchain enthusiast with deep roots in banking, fintech, and crypto across six continents and twenty countries, alongside co-founder Łukasz Łukaszewski, an entrepreneurial force who previously launched the first […]

In a landscape where generative AI is reshaping the pillars of finance, Rasmus Risager Lindegaard, Alexander Bach Schmidt, and Lasse Hyldahl Jensen are redefining the intersection of innovation and control. As co-founders of Avido, they bring a unique ‘operator-first’ perspective, having navigated the high-stakes reality of production-scale GenAI. Rather than chasing the latest hype, they are […]

At a time when traditional wealth-building models are failing a new generation, Belong is rethinking what it means to invest — and who investing is really for. Founded at the intersection of behavioural science, fintech innovation, and human-centred design, the company is tackling one of the UK’s most urgent financial challenges: turning passive cash savers […]

Corporate payments are no longer just a back-office function — they sit at the heart of how companies operate, scale, and make decisions. Yet behind most B2B transactions, the infrastructure remains fragmented, manual, and largely invisible. 1-Click Procurement is part of a new wave of fintechs challenging that invisibility. By rethinking how data, payments, and […]

In a landscape where artificial intelligence is rapidly redefining how financial institutions interact with their customers, few founders combine deep academic rigor with real-world fintech execution as convincingly as Michael Dowling.In this Q&A, the CEO and Founder of Narrative Banking shares how his team is rebuilding the guidance relationship between banks and small businesses — […]

In this edition of B2B FinTech @Scale, we speak with the team behind Deduction, a US-based tax platform redefining how individuals and sole proprietors access professional tax services. Founded by Sai Dhanak and Jonathan Kieliszak, Deduction combines AI-driven efficiency with CPA-backed expertise to deliver a white-glove tax experience—without the traditional price tag or friction. In […]

This week, we sit down with Salim Benabbes, Co-Founder and CEO of Yieldy, a fast-growing GenAI platform reshaping how wealth managers connect with clients online. With a founding team rooted in deep financial, technical, and AI expertise, Yieldy tackles one of the sector’s most persistent challenges: turning digital visitors into engaged, long-term clients. From hyper-personalized […]

In a sector where innovation often collides with regulation, few founders embody the balancing act as sharply as Doni Hoti. Raised in the fast-paced reality of a family business and later shaped by a career in finance, he has channelled both worlds into Adclear — a platform redefining how regulated brands create and approve marketing […]

In a landscape where small and midsize businesses move faster than the financial infrastructure meant to support them, OneAM is betting on a smarter, more transparent approach to working capital. Co-founders Ksusha McCormick and Charlotte Ng bring a unlikely blend of quantitative finance, payments innovation, and product strategy — a combination that feels tailor-made for […]

As AI and automation reshape financial services, trust is becoming the ultimate competitive advantage. Yet, for many banks and insurers, word-of-mouth — the most authentic growth driver — remains a black box. Enter hypt, a Swiss startup redefining how financial institutions measure and manage customer advocacy. Co-founded by Pascal Sollberger and Tobias Wegmüller, hypt is […]

Handwave: the future of wallet-free, phone-free, PIN-free payments In Riga, Latvia, a new generation of biometric payments is taking shape. Handwave, the fintech founded by Jānis Stirna and Sandis Osmanis-Usmanis, aims to make the in-store shopping experience as seamless as possible: paying, verifying age, and activating loyalty programs with a single hand gesture. In-store checkout […]

Giuseppe Ettorre is the Co-Founder and CEO of Alomana, a startup transforming how financial institutions adopt artificial intelligence. With experience in data and statistics teams at Bloomberg and the European Central Bank, Giuseppe has dedicated his career to solving complex problems with innovative solutions. Alomana was born from a clear idea: banks, asset managers, and […]

Flooding is not only the most common natural disaster—it’s also the most costly, with economic losses soaring into the hundreds of billions every year. While the risk grows due to urbanization and climate change, insurance coverage remains low and risk modelling often lacks the precision needed to close the gap. That’s where 7Analytics comes in. […]

In an increasingly digital world, trust is the most valuable currency. Verifying someone’s identity online remains costly, cumbersome, and vulnerable to fraud. Gataca was born to change that. From her early days at MIT to becoming a leader in digital identity solutions, Irene shares how her passion for technology turned into a mission: building the […]

When we talk about company value today, most people think of offices, machinery, or cash in the bank. But what if we told you that 90% of many companies’ value is completely invisible to traditional financial systems? Dylan, co-founder of Intanify, experienced this disconnect firsthand during his career in investment banking and as a CFO. […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure.  I’m an entrepreneur, so no surprise that I’m intensely curious about why things are the way they are, and what would happen if we can change how they are.  That’s true for me in business and everything else I do – it […]

 7 Questions with Morgan Deane, Board Member & Strategic Advisor at Spherium Labs 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure.  I’m a lawyer by profession but have spent my career working in investment banking across Europe, Asia and the US. Currently I am the CEO of a Swiss based international […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Hi, my name is Martin, living in Munich, and I am one of the founders of Tangany GmbH. Together with my co-founders Christopher and Alexey we have started Tangany in 2017. At Tangany, I am responsible for the administration – namely finance, […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am a fintech entrepreneur and worked on the founding teams at 22seven, Luno, and Curve. My obsessions with broadcasting, computers and network science led me through a career in  journalism and into the intersection of money and technology. I authored a […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I founded DirectID in 2011 with a mission to create convenience, offering new products and services for business and consumers alike using the identity and data that we have with our bank accounts to make our lives, in a digital context, easier. […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Hello! I am Terrie Smith. I’m going to start by talking about myself and how I got here When I was 17, I worked at an insurance firm and experienced gender inequality first-hand. Being a tenacious young lady (or maybe just glutton […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. My name is Wladimir Huber. I am a Tech-Entrepreneur with focus on FinTech, Real Estate, Blockchain and data driven companies with an extensive knowledge in founding and scaling companies. I have a M.A. in finance & information technology from Leuphana University. I’m […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. At the moment, I am the co-founder and CEO of Coinrule — a smart assistant designed exclusively for cryptocurrency traders. I’dsay lucky, because finding the right people to start a business is probably the most difficult think in life, even harder thanfinding love. After […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Born and raised in Heidelberg I started my professional career in consulting and after a few years, I transitioned more towards finance. In particular, the alternative investment space has always been very attractive to me. This is why I decided to do […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am currently an initiator, co-founder and business developer of the fintech startup Coinmat with a great team and more great business idea. With Coinmat we are in the seed phase with a MVP+. Since 2011 I am self employed and founder […]

  1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure.   I am Ralf, Co-Founder, and CEO of Fincite and Fincite Ventures. At Fincite, I have the privilege to run our Grow-Team. Our goal is to increase the company´s revenue with Marketing, Business Development, and Sales.  At Fincite Ventures, we are […]

iCEIBA is among the startups selected to present to leading investors like SeedX Lichtenstein, Capnamic Ventures, G+D Ventures and Idinvest Partners at the 11th FinTech Forum, 21st Nov. 2019 in Frankfurt: https://ftf11.eventbrite.com 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. My background is combination of technology, marketing and business and working as a […]

Jens is among the guest speakers on stage sharing his journey to exit at the 11th FinTech Forum, 21st Nov. 2019 in Frankfurt: https://ftf11.eventbrite.com We were pleased to talk to Jens Jennissen of fairr.de, who presented their plan to transform the European pensions market at the 4th FinTech Forum in Mar. 2015, and just announced their exit to Raisin. Also check out our 7 Questions […]

Trality is among the startups selected to present to leading investors like SeedX Lichtenstein, Capnamic Ventures, G+D Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds at the 11th FinTech Forum, 21st Nov. 2019 in Frankfurt: https://ftf11.eventbrite.com 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Hi! I’m Moritz and I’m co-founder and CEO of Trality, a platform bringing together creators […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am Dr Mark van Rijmenam and hold a Bachelor’s in hospitality management, a Master of Science in marketing management and a PhD in management from the University of Technology Sydney. My research was on how organizations should deal with big data […]

BizBot is among the startups selected to present to leading investors like SeedX Lichtenstein, Capnamic Ventures, G+D Ventures and Idinvest Partners at the 11th FinTech Forum, 21st Nov. 2019 in Frankfurt: https://ftf11.eventbrite.com 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am an entrepreneur, business developer and 100% digital. I am educated in social […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am the CEO of Kaiko, an enterprise-grade market data provider in the blockchainbased digital assets industry. Prior to joining Kaiko, I spent eight years at HSBC in London and Paris, structuring equity derivatives and equity-based financing solutions (first in Global Markets, […]

Lingua Custodia is among the first set of startups selected to present to leading investors like SeedX Lichtenstein, Capnamic Ventures and Giesecke+Devrient Ventures at the 11th FinTech Forum, 21st Nov. 2019 in Frankfurt: https://ftf11.eventbrite.com 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Hello! My name is Olivier and I am the founding CEO […]

Coindex is is among the first set of startups selected to present to leading investors like SeedX Lichtenstein, Capnamic Ventures and Giesecke+Devrient Ventures at the 11th FinTech Forum, 21st Nov. 2019 in Frankfurt: https://ftf11.eventbrite.com 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am 30 years old and I am born and raised […]

Photo: Michael Bußhaus (left) and Ralf Oetting justTRADE is among the first set of startups selected to present to leading investors like SeedX Lichtenstein, Capnamic Ventures and Giesecke+Devrient Ventures at the 11th FinTech Forum, 21st Nov. 2019 in Frankfurt: https://ftf11.eventbrite.com 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Hi, we are Ralf […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Hi, I’m Julius. I live in Lithuania. Nowadays our country experiences Fintech boom and I am happy to be in the thick of things.   I started my career as a salesperson in Ford dealership. My next position was a corporate buyer […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. My name is Andrey, I am the founder of MPT PAY digital bank for business. I have assembled a team of specialists with experience of more than 10 years in banks and intech companies to develop and implement such an ambitious project. Industry Sector: Payment […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Hi, I’m Steph, and I’m originally from Sydney, Australia and now I live in Vilnius, Lithuania, to bring commission free trading to Europe. I’m the founder and CEO of Evarvest, and I’m passionate about investing and changing the way the world invests. […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I was born and raised in Berlin and I am currently the CEO of wevest Digital AG. I have spent my entire career in the banking and financial services industry – first at a large consultancy firm and afterwards as project manager […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. My name is Lucie Haß and I am the Managing Director of Helaba Digital. We founded Helaba Digital in 2018 as corporate venture capital vehicle for Helaba. Before I was working as Senior Project Manager at Commerzbank and was responsible for various projects […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Initially, I planned on studying medicine after graduation. To earn money prior to getting accepted, I began to turn my hobby into a profession: Software Engineering. This was during the big internet hype and lead me to give up my curriculum and […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. After my business studies in Germany and the US, I started my career as a management consultant. In 1999, together with a German multi-family office, I started an alternative investment fund of funds advisor. From 2012 to 2015, I was executive board […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself and Hufsy. I’m Kristoffer and I’m the CEO of Hufsy. I’m overall responsible for running the business both in our HQ in Copenhagen as well as our office in Berlin. Prior to working with Hufsy I spent many years in the digital media business. I have worked […]

 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. As managing director of Loanboox GmbH, I am responsible for running operations in the German market. Previously I worked in the internal consulting department of Zurich Insurance Group. During this time, I had the opportunity to get experience in the areas of […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Hi, I am Julian and co-founder of Fractal Blockchain. We build ID and payment solutions for the decentralized web with a focus on usability and compliance. I have been interested in alternative and open financial systems after seeing the financial crisis first […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am Robert, Founder and CEO. Before founding Forexfix I worked as a banker at KfW Bankengruppe and as a consultant. I founded by first company in 1996. I hold a diploma in Economics from Witten/Herdecke private university. In my spare time I enjoy climbing […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Before founding growney in 2014 I was responsible for developing financial products and trading across all asset classes at the Landesbank Berlin. We were around 200 people and active in all german speaking regions. Back then I was already thinking about starting […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I am the Co-Founder & CFO at CCEX Cloud Commodities Exchange GmbH headquartered in Frankfurt am Main / Germany. CCEX is a truly global project with partners in US, Asia and Europe and the goal to establish a new Asset Class, namely […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Together with my co-founder Johannes Laub we are the managing directors of CrowdDesk. We’re a team of 15, creating the infrastructure for the future of capital markets with the vision to digitize how financial products are issued and brokered. Our HQ is […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I grew up internationally in Czech Republic, Germany, near the French border, spent time in the US and China. I started a smart-card company on my 18th birthday, the sale of the firm brought me natively closer to investment topics, initially as a […]

Tatjana will be presenting at the 10th FinTech Forum/ 5th Anniversary Edition on 22nd Nov. 2018 at The Airport Club, Frankfurt. Learn more/ register here: http://www.fintechforum.de/announcing-the-first-set-of-startups-partners-5yftf/ 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Tatjana is Chief Marketing Officer at RYSKEX, where she is responsible for the worldwide B2B marketing, further development […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Jörg Sandrock, one of the four founders of neon. Started my career at Deutsche Bank (2 yrs. venture capital, 2 yrs. think thank), before I got into consulting, where I worked 12 years at Strategy& (PWC) Besides neon, I’m a father first, […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. Imburse is a motivated team of 5 from Zurich, Switzerland. Apart from our HQ in Zurich, we have our development team out in London doing an amazing job of delivering on our vision and empowering our clients. We are a very close […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. My name is Frank Ackermann. I am the co-founder of SDG INVESTMENTS GmbH and AHP Capital Management GmbH, a financial service provider based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. We are an experienced team with roots in investment banking, corporate finance and credit […]

BITA is one of the startups selected to present at the 5th Anniversary Edition of FinTech Forum on 22nd Nov. 2018- more information for startups is here. Registration for investors / financial institutions is here. 1.     Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. A Venezuelan native, I’m one of those perhaps “irrational […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I was born in Saint-Petersburg and hold a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Saint Petersburg State University. I have more than 10 years experience in management and marketing as well as 6 years in Digital Payments. I am a fan of Zenit […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I was born and raised in Belgrade. Went to school in Switzerland. I like to read books, take long walks and hang out with friends. I love wine tasting and visiting nice restaurants. Chess relaxes me. I also play the violin. I […]

1. Tell us a bit about yourself My name is Dirk Rudolf, Co-Founder and Managing Director of FinTecSystems. At FinTecSystems I ‘m responsible for Product, IT & Operations. Over the past 20 years, I have co-founded several companies and was previously part of the management team and CIO of SOFORT, one of Europes’ leading payment […]

1. Who are you? I’m Stephan, Founder and CEO of FinCompare – a fintech platform for SMEs to find, compare and close financing options from over 200 lenders. This is my second startup. Previously I founded Watchmaster.com which is Europe’s largest online marketplace for luxury watches. I’m originally from Munich but didn’t live there in […]

Our new series “European FinTech Journeys” showcases European FinTechs’ journey to a funding, exit or closure – and the blood, sweat and tears in between! We are proud to launch this series with Qumram, a FinTech Forum alumnus which was acquired last week by Dynatrace. Qumram was selected to present at the FTF On Tour | InvestTech event in London (Sep. 2015), […]

1. Who are you? I am Til, founder of BRIX, the first community-backed and fully digital pension for millennials. Before I became an entrepreneur, I was a Partner with the Boston Consulting Group in Berlin and worked for UBS in Zurich. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? BRIX is the […]

1. Who are you? My name is Bastian and I am the CEO of compaio, where we follow the vision to become the most customer-centric financial advisor. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Compaio offers holistic financial advice, by covering all relevant topics of personal finance from accounts to insurances, […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. My name ist Gian Reto à Porta, Co-founder & CEO of the Zurich-based Fintech-Startup Contovista. I studied computer science and before founding Contovista I worked as a management consultant for the banking industry. When I’m not working I love spending time in […]

1. Who are you? My name ist Gernot Overbeck, I am co-founder of Fintura and CEO 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Fintura is the platform for SME-financing. For its individual customer need like financing a car, buildings, machinery, working capital or others the SME gets in 15 min a […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. My name is Anya Schmidt, CEO of the Munich-based banking app Outbank. At work I am passionate about building great products based on Cutting edge technologies with our talented team. In such a fast-moving environment like FinTech that is a great challenge. […]

1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, both at work and leisure. I went to Stanford in the 80s and stayed in Silicon Valley for 20 years, starting companies. I’m on my 22nd company now. I’ve had 5 successes and 16 failures so far – I think you could say I’m a serious student […]

1. Who are you? My name is Felix Röscheisen and I am a co-founder of Werthstein – a digital Wealth Manager with a strong media flavour. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Werthstein provides both journalistic information and portfolio management on a single platform. This allows our clients to think […]

1. Who are you? I am Eva-Catrin Reinhardt, architect and founder of rds energies GmbH. I have two children, and I love to play piano. I am a very creative person with an analytic understanding, being able to recognize opportunities with a high potential to earn much money and to bring something positive forward in […]

1. Who are you? My name is Oliver Dümpe. I am founder and CEO of card4you AG and its loyalty innovation paycentive. Before launching paycentive in 2014, I already implemented a couple of loyalty projects for financial institutions. Prior to that I was a research associate and lecturer at the department of information systems at […]

1. Who are you? I am Julian, Co-Founder of Exporo, responsible for project acquisition, product and business development. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Exporo is a real estate crowdfunding platform acting as an intermediary between interest-seeking investors and capital-seeking real estate companies. Investments are made in form of subordinated […]

1. Who are you? I’m Rune Brunborg, co-founder at Tribe – the Tinder for Insurance customers. At Tribe we’ll make simple and fair insurance solutions for responsible people and their friends, utilizing their social network. Before joining Tribe I’ve headed Penger.no – the largest online financial aggregator in Norway, I’ve been head of strategy at […]

1. Who are you? My name is Karl Viertel and I’m the CEO and co-founder of Alyne – a RegTech business to make Cyber Security, Risk Management and Compliance as easy, cost effective and painless as possible through a smart Software as a Service. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Everyone […]

1. Who are you? I am a co-founder and head of marketing at LIQID. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? LIQID is a digital wealth management service for private investors with liquid assets in excess of 100.000 €. We offer a range of “core” investment strategies developed in partnership with […]

1. Who are you? I am Jonas, CEO at Avuba. For European smartphone users who have become accustomed to a superior digital experience Avuba is the next generation of mobile banking. It delivers a category defining user experience providing, simple sign-up, high levels of security, payment cards, full banking services and easy to use features […]

1. Who are you? My name is Christian Tiessen. I studied Business in Germany, Singapore and Spain. After working a few years for consulting and corporates, I founded my first startup in e-commerce. The business grew quite rapidly, and was finally acquired by an American company.  Since March 2014 I am working with and on […]

1. Who are you? I’m the founder and CEO of Bitbond, a global peer-to-peer lending platform for small business loans. Before starting Bitbond I was a consultant at Roland Berger’s restructuring practice. Prior to that I worked in sales & trading at Deutsche Bank London. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your […]

1. Who are you? My name is Felix Schollmeier, I am 34 years old, a Computer Scientist, former VC and currently a FinTech/InsurTech entrepreneur: I am the co-founder of Finanzchef24, the leading digital insurance broker and comparison platform for SMEs and entrepreneurs. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We are […]

1. Who are you? My name is Stefan Krautkrämer and I am co-founder and CEO of FintecSystems. For the past years I have helped to built up an international payment system called SOFORT as its COO. After being acquired by Klarna I left the company and founded FintecSystems together with SOFORTs former CIO Dirk Rudolf. […]

1.     Who are you? My name is Serena Torielli. I am the CEO and a Co-founder of AdviseOnly. After 18 years in Investment banks, I realized that the web was the right medium to change finance as I knew it into something  less self-referential and  easily accessible to the the savers public. 2. Which services […]

1. Who are you? My name is Christopher Grätz and I am co-founder and CEO of kapilendo. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Kapilendo (www.kapilendo.de) is a premium online credit marketplace, which connects small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in need of a credit for their projects with investors in search […]

1. Who are you? My name is Matiss Ansviesulis; I am a Co-founder and a CEO of Creamfinance. The mission of Creamfinance is to make money available; this is done by providing consumer loans online in a convenient and speedy manner. To focus on prompt service delivery, we’re working towards becoming a one-click loans‘ provider […]

1. Who are you? I am the Co-CEO and Co-founder of Scalable Capital (we love the Co-thing). Prior to this I worked in e-commerce (Co-CEO of Westwing Germany) and finance (Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in the Sales & Trading division). 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We manage your […]

1. Who are you? I am Ralf Beck, founder and CEO of Geldwerk1 and professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Dortmund, Germany. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We are a Crowdinvesting (Equity Crowdfunding) platform that offers everybody the opportunity participating in and sharing the success […]

1. Who are you? I am Indrek Neivelt, CEO and a co-founder of Pocopay that is a new player in everyday banking business coming to live later this year. I have been more than 15 years the CEO and Chairman of two different banks. I feel it is time to bring some freshness into the […]

1. Who are you? I’m a Canadian living in Germany for the past 15 years. For the past 12 years, I’ve built banks and financial services companies around the globe for Daimler and then in my own company Avantalion International Consulting. Now, I’m doing a second startup, ascribe.io to fix the UX for intellectual property. […]

1. Who are you? I am Dorothee Fuhrmann, COO of Prophis Technologies. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? From the flood of internal and external data, Prophis identifies the key market, economic and risk developments that are likely to have the greatest impact on a particular portfolio and then facilitates […]

1. Who are you? I am Lars Reiner, Co-Founder and CEO of Ginmon. Ginmon provides an automated investment solution which empowers private individuals to invest their money in an easy, secure and profitable way. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Our vision is to enable individuals to invest their money in […]

(Qumram is among the startups selected to present at the FinTech Forum On Tour | InvestTech event on 25th Sep. in London.) 1. Who are you? My name is Mathias, I am the Co-Founder and Head of Business Development at Qumram AG. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Qumram Q5 is a the […]

1. Who are you? My name is Ron Guggenheim and I am the Co-Founder of OneVisage. I am Swiss born startupist, live in Ebamtingen near Zurich, have 2 decades of startup and hi-tech experience, am a proud father of 2 daughters and one son. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? […]

1. Who are you? I am an ex-executive banker who left a top management position in BNP Paribas to start Ybanking. I am an innovator and contrarian. I joined banking by accident after my first startup exploded in the bubble. Surprisingly I made some career in banking challenging bosses and questioning conventions. Ybanking was too […]

1. Who are you? I am Toby Triebel, Co-Founder and CEO of Spotcap. Spotcap is an online credit platform that leverages big data to provide financing solutions for small businesses that are underserved by traditional banks. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We provide short-terms loans of up to €100,000 […]

1. Who are you? I am Jonathan Prince, co-founder with Raoul Mulheims, Georges Berscheid and Mike Sergonne, of Digicash Payments SA which provides a digital payments platform and apps designed for banks & PSPs. 2. Which services do you sell? Our company provides a white-labelled digital payment authorisation platform and App, fitting neatly into banks’ […]

1. Who are you? My name is Marcel Platz and I founded geldempfehlung.de in 2013. I had 2011 the vision that investment consulting can be digital. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We are offering an automated recommendation portal for private investors based on algorithm. We ask the customer about […]

1. Who are you? We are Lauri and Margo Karp, founders of TreasuryView 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? 2009 we startet with cloud-based risk analytics for public sector loan and hedges portfolios. We were pioneers in moving rather mature financial abstainers to cloud and offer new type of user […]

1. Who are you? My name is Jens Jennissen and I am the founder of Fairr.de GmbH. Fairr.de offers savers innovative and transparent retirement solutions. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We currently offer one retirement product, the fairriester, with the aim of broadening the product line this year with […]

1. Who are you? meetinvest is a free financial social media platform that empowers retail investors with a toolkit to invest like a professional. meetinvest links individuals with like-minded people to exchange ideas, share experiences and connect on the topic of investing. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? meetinvest services are […]

1. Who are you? I am Robert Abend, one of the founders of BörseGo AG. One of our many successful products is our platform Guidants, which we created in 2012. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Guidants is a browser- and cloud-based investment and analysis platform for investors and traders […]

1.  Who are you? We are Andreas Dubrow and Philipp Kalwies founders of Decimo GmbH the first factoring service especially for freelancers. 2.  Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? Our service is factoring for freelancers. Until now it was very difficult for freelancers and small companies to use the tool of […]

1. Who are you? David Lais and I, Thomas Koch, are the founders of xWare42™ GmbH and have taken on the task of using current technology to catapult the classic system of payment transactions into the 21st century, as well as of establishing a new user experience in online banking. 2. Which services do you […]

1. Who are you? My Name is Daniel Boedger [CEO & Founder of BankingCheck], 33, Dipl.-Ing. IT. After my studies I worked with Robert Bosch GmbH & SIEMENS as a project leader and development engineer for server systems in the process automation industry. Already in 2007 I have founded my first FinTech platform in the daily allowances and fixed deposit sector – […]

1. Who are you? My name is Daniel Neis [CEO & Founder / KOINA AG], 42, business economist, I have over 15 years of experience as an ecopreneur and founder, as a consultant for startups and as a visionary strategist with a focus on management, marketing and sales. In the past I owned and managed […]

1. Who are you? My name is David Holetzeck  and I am the founder and CEO of Table of Visions. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? TABLE OF VISIONS provides crowdfunding software solutions for brands, busineses and organizations. As a full service provider, TABLE OF VISIONS GmbH develops customer-specific solutions in […]

1. Who are you? Xignite is the leading provider of financial market data via cloud-based APIs. 2. Which product or service do you sell and who are your competitors? Our main line of products is a family of APIs that provide anything from real-time, to historical and reference financial data. We cover every financial asset […]

1. Who are you? Aleksandar is Head of Technology and Products and Predrag is Head of Marketing and Operations with tradegear gmbh, Swiss fintech startup. We bring combined 40 years of experience in software engineering, international business development and business analysis in financial industry. In last 5 years we have been working intensively with quantitative […]

1. Who are you? My name is Robert Henker and I am the founder and CEO at CASHBOARD. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? CASHBOARD is a personal online investing platform. We are the only platform which combines the whole world of traditional investments (funds, stocks etc.) AND modern online […]

1. Who are you? My name is Bartosz Burclaf and I am the founder and CEO at MoneyVane.com.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? My team and I are working on the first financial “robo-adviser” based in Switzerland. Our direct competitors across Europe are companies like Nutmeg (UK) or […]

1. Who are you? As the CEO of EXtravest GmbH I founded our latest project easyfolio.de in April 2014. I have been working in the financial industry since 1991 – mostly within Private – and Online Banking. In 2007 I founded Isarvest GmbH, a company that runs a software solution for Private Banks working with […]

1. Who are you? We, Benedikt Kramer and Philipp Neub are the founding team of BCB Biometric Credit Bureau. BCB Biometric Credit Bureau offers services tailor-made to microfinance institutions and Savings and Credit Co-operatives in sub-Saharan Africa. BCB collects and analyzes personal loan/credit information using a unique, low budget IT solution. BCB is the pioneer […]

1. Who are you?
 Mambu is a cloud banking platform provider. We enable innovative banking providers to rapidly create, launch and service loan and deposit products through our agile, flexible and affordable cloud banking platform. An alternative to legacy core banking software, our goal is to accelerate time to market for new consumer and SME […]

1. Wer bist du? Hi – mein Name ist Daniel Bödger und ich bin der Gründer und Geschäftsführer von BankingCheck.   2. Welche Dienstleistung verkauft ihr und wer sind Eure Wettbewerber? BankingCheck ist eine unabhängige Bewertungsplattform für Banken, Versicherungen und Finanzdienstleister. Unsere Idee ist ganze einfach – früher wurden Banken und Konten von Familie und […]

1. Wer bist Du? Christ, Optimierer, Ex-Handwerker, Ex-Wall-Street Banker und hoffentlich ein „Zeichen-der-Zeit-Erkenner“. Mein Name ist Mark van den Arend und ich bin Gründer und geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der WIR Finanzierer GmbH.   2. Welche Dienstleistung verkauft ihr und wer sind Eure Wettbewerber? WIR stellen mit der KMU-Anleihe gesunden Unternehmen des gehobenen Mittelstands einen neuen, langfristigen […]

1. Who are you?
 quirion is Germany’s first web presence for asset management and fee-based advisory services. quirion offers professional asset management strategies that are based on latest scientific research in finance. At quirion, we share the vision that professional asset management should be made available for everyone in an easy, accessible and web-based way. […]

1. Who are you?
 Traxpay transforms the way that businesses pay and get paid with the world’s first and only B2B Dynamic Payments platform. Our patent pending platform uniquely combines secure, flexible, real-time 24/7/365 electronic payments with any and all structured and unstructured data related to the transaction. What further sets Traxpay apart from all […]

1. Who are you? Joschka Friedag, Co-Founder and CEO of Cringle.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We are building a mobile p2p payment solution which works with your regular bank account.   3. How did you get your start-up idea and how did you finance your startup? It was a […]

1. Who are you? We are cashcloud and in the last year and months, we have been able to create a solid base for a promising future with the development of a mobile payment system, which relies on stability, and security and where confidence in the company and the product is the highest priority. Our […]

1. Who are you? My name is Erik Bogaerts. I have over 20 years of experience in information technology and the banking industry and managed quite a few large scale and complex banking IT implementation projects at various locations across Asia and Europe. Today as the founder of Naqoda, I focus mostly on strategy and […]

1. Who are you?
 I’m Simon Redfern, programmer, composer, CEO of TESOBE (an agile web / mobile agency based in Berlin) and founder of the Open Bank Project. I started programming 32 years ago, and have worked on database driven web applications since 1996.  During this time I’ve gained deep hands-on experience in web application, […]

1. Who are you?
 We are Dieter Fromm and John Cremer, the founders of moneymeets. In our previous lives we were bankers and consultants for banks. In both functions, we gathered extensive experience in the retail operations of banks and savings banks. We were thereafter advisors to banks and held several management positions – including […]

1. Who are you?
 My name is Julien Arnold. I started my career at the Hamburg-based venture capital fund Neuhaus Partners. From there I went to Rocket Internet and built the business for Groupon in London. Lastly I was in charge as Chief Revenue Officer for the Home and Living channels and for the design […]

1. Who are you?
 My name is Dirk Littig. I am the founder and CEO of bankless24.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors?
 bankless24 is the first crowd investing platform in Germany, which only addresses the Mittelstand. We do not define Mittelstand based on revenue size or number of […]

1. Who are you?
 I am Stefan Kupferberg. I studied management in Berlin, London and Philadelphia. Before I started SentiTrade I worked for the Allianz Group, Volkswagen and PNE Wind. Since 1997 I have been trading actively in the stock market, and with SentiTrade I have turned my passion into a profession.   2. Which […]

1. Who are you? We are Thomas Bloch, Yassin Hankir and Oliver Vins, founders of vaamo.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? With vaamo we help individuals, to invest their money easily and inexpensively. By means of our web-based platform, anybody can manage his personal financial goals (e.g. retirement […]

1. Who are you? My name is Benjamin Manz and I am the founder and CEO of moneyland.com – the Swiss online financial centre.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We are the Swiss next-generation online and mobile financial comparison service, with high quality, intelligent cost- and performance- algorithms. […]

1. Who are you? My name is Guido Sandler. I am the founder and CEO of Bergfürst. Previously, I founded and led as CEO the Berliner Effektenbank and E *Trade Germany.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We are the first crowd-investing platform in Germany. We offer young growth […]

1. Who are you? Connoisseur, engineer, ex-consultant – my name is Mark Fabian Henkel and I am one of the founders of PAYMILL.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors?
 PAYMILL is a payment service provider which focuses on small to medium-sized customers. This means we support startups from start-up […]

1. Who are you? André M. Bajorat, Co-Founder of figo. Active in the banking sector since 1996 – including senior management positions at Star Finanz and giropay.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? With figo we aggregate the current finances of individuals and small businesses in a cloud-based account […]

1. Who are you? I am Sebastian Diemer, Founder and Managing Director of Kreditech and an extreme sports enthusiast.   2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? We have developed a novel scoring technology that predicts the credit-worthiness of individuals within a few seconds globally using “Big Data”, regardless of credit […]