Fintech
Thought leadership, insights, and deep dive reports from our Fintech team.
From 30 Employees to 1.5 Million Members: How Tide Scaled Its Fintech Platform
Discover how Tide scaled from 30 employees to 1.5 million members. CEO Oliver Prill shares lessons on fundraising, hiring for growth, codifying culture, product-led M&A, and international expansion in India and Germany.
Why We Invested in Pliant: Building the Future of B2B Payments in Europe
Pliant is redefining B2B payments with a full-stack, API-first platform that goes beyond cards, offering credit, processing, and FX across 30 EEA countries. Learn why Speedinvest co-led Pliant’s $40M Series B to back the future of European fintech infrastructure.
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Crypto Trading with Regulation-First Approach: Our Investment in One Trading
Bitpanda Pro is now One Trading. The only regulated trading platform that can issue structured products at scale, will operate as an independent entity with a separate, dedicated founding team.
Keeping Recurring Revenue for Merchants in Africa: Our Investment in Revio
Speedinvest's Alvaro Perezcano shares why we invested in Revio and how they're simplifying revenue operations for emerging markets.
Offering Light-Speed Mortgages to Latin America’s Middle Class: Our Investment in Morgana
Speedinvest's Enrique Martínez-Hausmann and Vanessa Waibel share why we invested in Morgana and how they're taking the stress out of getting a mortgage in Mexico.
consola.finance Bringing Clarity to Crypto Accounting
Speedinvest's Yang Tran shares why we invested in consola.finance and how they're bringing clarity and control to companies’ crypto finances.
Cap Tables and ESOP Made Easy: Our Investment in Ledgy
Speedinvest's Tom F. Lesche shares why we invested in Ledgy, a Zurich-based cap table and ESOP platform supporting Europe's leading companies in their global expansion.
Connecting the Old With the New: Our Investment in Julaya
Speedinvest's Enrique Martinez-Hausmann shares why we invested in Julaya, an Ivory Coast-based fintech that aims to bridge the gap between payment infrastructures in Africa.
Fintech: The Foundation of Emerging Markets
Our Fintech team share their thesis on Emerging Markets as well as the importance of the space and some of the investments they've already made.
Simplifying Corporate Spend in MENAP: Our Investment in Pemo
Pemo is a UAE-based startup on a mission to empower small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP) region by offering an all-in-one spend management platform that includes pre-paid corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions.
Financial Inclusion for Pakistani Employees: Our Investment in Abhi
Alvaro Perezcano of Speedinvest Fintech dives into the earned-wage-access startup that is modernizing the economy of Pakistan.
Making Payroll Data Accessible For a Fairer Financial System: Our Investment in Rollee
Rollee allows gig-workers and freelancers with multiple employers to aggregate all of their financial data - like payslips and employment contracts - in one place.
Not Just Another Spend Management Tool: Our Investment in Yokoy
Yokoy is using AI and machine learning to bring simple, next-gen spend management to large corporations.
Building a Modern Financial System for One of the World’s Fastest-Growing Economies: Our Investment in Khazna
Khazna is bringing financial flexibility to employees and employers in the fast-growing Egyptian economy.
Fairplay: Bringing Revenue-Based Financing to Latin America
Fairplay is driving Fintech 2.0 by bringing revenue-based financing to SMEs across Latin America.
Micro-SMEs are the Core of Every Emerging Market: Our Investment in Ozé
Ozé brings easy-to-use financial services to micro-SMEs in Nigeria and Ghana, two of the fastest-growing emerging markets in the world.
The Access Layer for the Decentralized Economy: Our Investment in Unstoppable Finance
Unstoppable Finance is fixing the access layer to Web3. Their simple and intuitive wallet democratizes access to the decentralized (DeFi) economy.
A Digital Companion in Life… and Thereafter: Our Investment in Afilio
Through planning assistance, Afilio helps make the hard times in life a little less painful.
Africa’s First Mobility Fintech: Our Investment in Moove
Moove uses data-driven lending to drive vehicle ownership and empower freelancers in Emerging Markets.
Realizing the Potential of Embedded Finance: Our Investment in Toqio
Toq.io's B2B SaaS platform for digital finance allows businesses to quickly and globally build, launch and monetize financial propositions.
The Best-in-Class Platform for Modern Investors: Our Investment in Finary
Finary is the best-in-class modern platform for private wealth management.
Owning the Debt Collection Lifecycle : Our Investment in re:ceeve
re:ceeve is leveraging tech and behavioral science to make debt repayment less painful.
Investing in Women in Fintech
Women face a career, funding and valuation gender gap in traditionally male-dominated sectors like Fintech. Why is this and what can we do about it?
From Pen & Paper to Your Fingertips: Our Investment in Bukukas
Bukukas is digitally replacing pen and paper cashbooks and granting small and medium businesses access to the world of financial services in the process.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Embedded Finance
In simple terms, embedded finance is about adding financial capabilities, such as payments, lending, deposits, and insurance, to any product.
Financing the Internet Entrepreneur of Tomorrow: Our investment in Wayflyer
Wayflyer provides internet entrepreneurs with capital by merging performance marketing with financial gains.
Breaking the Digital SME Insurance Paradigm: Our Investment in +Simple
By digitizing agents and brokers through their software platform, +Simple makes it easy to sell insurance policies online.
Fueling Digital Commerce in Bangladesh: Our Investment in ShopUp
ShopUp enables offline and online neighborhood mom-and-pop shops to sell through digital, social and retail channels.
Planting the Seeds of Digital Finance: The Value of Timing
Agro.Club is a two-sided marketplace funding farmers and suppliers when they need it most.
Supercharging Merchants’ Payments: Our Investment in Primer
Primer consolidates both front and backend payment flows in a single integration, replacing all the work merchants would otherwise have to do themselves.
Spearheading the Neobroker Movement: Our Investment in Bitpanda
Bitpanda is revolutionizing the crypto neobroker movement by offering services like 24/7 trading, real-time settlement, no minimum fees and cross-platform compatibility.
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