Our 22 events have brought together 360+ startups and 1800+ investors and financial institutions, while our newsletter and social media presence has grown to over 20k. Scroll down for summaries of all our completed events, the participating investors, corporates and startups, and reach out to contact@fintechforum.de to get on their radar. For weekly updates on active and new FinTech-focused investors, subscribe to our weekly newsletter.
Completed Events
13th FinTech Forum
Agenda: Thursday, 18th Nov. 2021
(Digital Streaming: 14:00 – 17:30 CET)
12:30 – 13:00 Registration
13:00 – 14:00 Networking/ Lunch
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
14:10 – 14:20 European FinTech Deal Highlights: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum; EMEA Lead, SixThirty Ventures.
14:20 – 15:00 Startup Pitches – Round 1
aisot | Insaas | Wequity | Vermögensheld
15:00 – 15:15 InsurTech Trends to Watch- David Schäffler, Hannover Digital Investments
15:15 – 15:30 FinTech Trends to Watch– Cynthia Nadal, SeedX Liechtenstein
15:30 – 15:35 Introducing IDA Ireland for FinTechs – Daragh Hanratty, IDA Ireland
15:35 – 16:00 Coffee / Networking
16:00 – 16:40 Startup Pitches – Round 2
ALLINDEX | AAZZUR | Delega
16:40 – 17:00 An LP’s “Startup” Journey- and Why Emerging VCs Matter – Ertan Can, Multiple Capital
17:00 – 17:30 Panel Discussion: The VC Investment Portfolio for 2022 and beyond. Panelists: May Wang, FinVC | Robin Buschmann, Commerzbank | Semih Kacan, Swisscom Ventures; Moderator: Frank Schwab
Nearly two years since COVID-19 changed financial services – and our lives – forever, we ask our panelists which two startups (real or imaginary / yet to be founded) they would love to have in their portfolio of angel or venture capital investments for 2022 and beyond.
17:30 -18:30 Networking Drinks
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Presenting startups “in a Tweet”
aisot real-time insights for trading and asset management for data-driven decision-making.
Insaas.ai next generation market research to understand consumers and power personalised financial services.
Wequity “be the first to know the ESG risks of your investments” – real-time AI-powered insights from news & social media.
Vermögensheld gaming-driven financial education and wealth advice “as a service” for the digital generation.
ALLINDEX SaaS solution helping asset managers, banks etc. create and back-test direct indexing solutions tailored to themes (e.g. ESG) or tax savings.
AAZZUR Create fully-customised and branded mobile banking apps within just 6 to 10 weeks using their Smart Finance Blocks.
Delega Helps corporates and their banks digitise and manage signatory rights via an end-to-end workflow solution.
Investors / guest speakers on stage
Cynthia Nadal, SeedX Liechtenstein
Daragh Hanratty, IDA Ireland
David Schäffler, Hannover Digital Investments
Ertan Can, Multiple Capital
May Wang, Fin Venture Capital
Robin Buschmann, Commerzbank
Semih Kacan, Swisscom Ventures
Selection of participating firms
AAZZUR
Accelerator Frankfurt
Aisot
BalgheimConsult
Commerzbank
Delega
Fin Venture Capital
Holger Assmann (Investor)
Hannover Digital Investments
Iconic Holding
IDA Ireland
Insaas
Multiple Capital
SeedX Liechstenstein
SixThirty Ventures
Steffen Seeger (Business Angel)
Swisscom Ventures
United Ventures
Vermögensheld
Wequity
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12th FinTech Forum
Agenda: 19th Nov. 2020
Due to the COVID-19 situation, after careful consideration, we decided to hold the 12th FinTech Forum as an online event with an adapted agenda.
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
14:10 – 14:20 European FinTech Deal Map: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
14:20 – 15:00 Startup Pitches I with Q&As
Brian Nolan, Finteum | Carl v Halem, Commnex | Wladimir Huber,KlickOwn | Gustas Germanavicius, EVOESTATE
15:00 – 15:20 Guest Speakers I
Astrid Freier: Partner, DACH, Vidici Ventures
Oliver Werneyer: Co-Founder & CEO, Imburse Payments
15:20 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:10 Startup Pitches II with Q&As
Alexander Schlicher, My Football Space | Sandipan Chakraborty, Sonect | Martin Kreitmair, Tangany | Morgan Deane, Spherium
16:10 – 16:30 Guest Speakers II
Manuel Silva Martinez: General Partner, Mouro Capital
Daniel Andemeskel: Head of Innovation at Universal Investment
16:30 – 17:00 Panel Discussion: FinTech Investing in the (post-) COVID Era
Paula Blazquez Solano: Head of Investments at InnoCells (Banco Sabadell)
Ertan Can: Managing Partner, Multiple Capital
Balkrishna Dubey: Managing Director, Nagarro Germany
Max Lautenschläger: MP & Co-Founder, Iconic Holding
Moderated by Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
Presenting Startups “in a Tweet”
CommneX: a digital brokering platform for credit- and deposits from municipalities and municipal enterprises
EvoEstate: a real estate investment aggregator- investors from 72 countries can invest in 18 crowdfunding platforms from a single account.
Finteum: a platform for interbank intraday lending, enabling treasurers to borrow and lend for hours at a time
KlickOwn: blockchain-enabled platform offering a superior real estate investing experience for everyone
My Football Space: Blockchain-based fan loyalty & more
SONECT: “Uber for ATM” – use your smartphone to pick up cash at over 2,300 partner shops.
Spherium Labs: decentralized financial services – from lending & borrowing to investing & trading – compliant to Islamic finance rules.
Tangany: a (soon) regulated white-label custody solution for digital assets on blockchain- infrastructure, safe wallet storage, plus compliance.
Investors / Guest Speakers
Astrid Freier: Partner, DACH, Vidici Ventures
Balkrishna Dubey: Managing Director, Nagarro
Daniel Andemeskel: Head of Innovation at Universal Investment
Ertan Can: Managing Partner, Multiple Capital
Manuel Silva Martinez: Partner, Head of Investments, Mouro Capital (earlier Santander InnoVentures)
Max Lautenschläger: Co-Founder, MD & COO of Iconic Holding
Oliver Werneyer: Co-Founder & CEO, Imburse Payments
Paula Blazquez Solano: Head of Investments at InnoCells (Banco Sabadell)
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11th FinTech Forum
Agenda: 19th Nov. 2019
10:00 – 10:30 Event Registration
10:30 – 10:40 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
10:40 – 10:50 FinTech Deal Highlights: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
10:50 – 11:50 Startup Pitches I
- f-fex (Germany): a new, intelligent portfolio advisory tool with innovative fund evaluation and selection.
- Coinmat (Switzerland): the first professional operator of ATMs for crypto currencies with a financial approval
- Bizbot (Norway): helps entrepreneurs and investors manage their cap tables, via an easy-to-use use and connected platform.
- Coindex (Germany): digital asset manager to purchase, manage and store an index-based crypto portfolio.
- iCEIBA (UK): The Litigation Claims Financing Platform powered by Blockchain
- Forctis (Switzerland): offers Asset Representation System- a Blockchain inspired by the way DNA works.
11:50 – 12:30 Guest Speakers
Assaf Shamia, Giesecke+Devrient Ventures
Jens Jennissen, Founder, Fairr.de (exit to Raisin)- Journey to Exit
Daragh Hanratty, VP Financial Services, IDA Ireland– “Elevator Pitch”
12:30 – 13:30 Buffet & Networking
13:30 – 14:30 Startup Pitches II
- Lingua Custodia (France): AI for high-end translations in finance e.g. fund prospectus, equity research etc.
- Remipay (Germany): enterprise solution for simple multi-currency payments on all devices.
- Trality (Austria): Making the tools of Wall Street available to everyone with algo-trading bots.
- Wechselgott (Germany): the one and only contract manager – monitor, cancel and optimise (recurring) contracts.
- Nodeventure (Austria): stores digital assets safely and profitably by reducing the entry barriers for blockchain systems.
- Ybanking (Poland): a virtual bank offering multiple products via a Platform-as-a-Service.
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee & Networking
15:00 – 15:45 Guest Speakers
Nikolai Dördrechter, XTP Group & Karl-Heinz Passler, Basler Versicherungen– Mapping the InsurTech Opportunity for FinTechs & Banks
Christian Knott, Capnamic Ventures – Banks in the Open Banking Era- from Surviving to Thriving via Partnerships
15:45 – 16:15 Panel Discussion: “When finance becomes an add-on” – FinTechs make it easy to embed financial services into the customer workflows of other sectors, but are incumbents prepared for an era of „backstage banking” (or insurance)?
Panelists:
– Christian Arndt, High-Tech Gründerfonds
– Matthias Klein, Management Partners Group
– Peter Barkow, Barkow Consulting
– Terrie Smith, Digiseq
Moderator: Frank Schwab, FinTech Forum.
16:15+ Networking Drinks
Participating Companies
Aigang
Allvest
Balgheim Consult
Barkow Consulting
Bizbot
Börsen-Zeitung
Capnamic Ventures
Cashlink
Coindex
Coinmat
Deutsche Bank
Digiseq
Exaloan
Fairr.de
Finlab
Flovtec
Forctis
f-fex
G+D Ventures
Gulf International Bank
Hal9K Capital
Hasso Plattner Institute
Heidelberger Vermögen
Heussen Law
High-Tech Gründerfonds
iCEIBA
ING Group
Irish Development Authority
Lingua Custodia
Lithuanian Business Angel Network
Lufthansa Airplus
Management Partners Group
Mastercard
Merrill Lynch
Nissay / NIppon Life
Nodeventure
Raisin
Remipay
Santander UK
Senacor
SixThirty Ventures
Trality
Wechselgott
Wipro
Wuestenrot Bank
YBanking
ZDF
10th FinTech Forum
(Completed: 22nd Nov. 2018)
Agenda
10:00 – 10:30 Event Registration
10:30 – 10:40 Welcome Note: Frank Schwab, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
10:40 – 10:50 FinTech Deal Highlights: Samarth Shekhar, Co-Founder, FinTech Forum
10:50 – 12:10 Startup Pitches I
AAZZUR
advinda
BITA
CCEX
CrowdDesk
DACEBOOK
finbc
Imburse Payments
12:10 – 12:30 Keynote: Thorsten Terweiden, InvestHK
12:30 – 12:45 Essential lessons from Germany’s first FinTech: Laurens Mauquoi, Smava
12:45 – 13:45 Buffet & Networking
13:45 – 14:00 Financial Services innovation by Be TSE: Dirk Fuchs, Be Think, Solve, Execute
14:00 – 14:10 Creating a loyalty platform with financial services: Bernd Wendln, Miles & More
14:10 – 15:20 Startup Pitches II
ForexFix
Fractal Blockchain
Growney
JUNIUS Capital
Neon Banking
RYSKEX
XTECH
15:20 – 15:35 Coffee Break
15:35 – 16:05 Panel Discussion: German FinTech, Outside Backers- Fast Forward 2023
Andreas Thümmler, Acxit Capital Partners
Dr. Christian Nagel, Earlybird Venture Capital
Hans de Back, Finch Capital
Kerstin Eichmann, Innogy Innovation Hub
Paul Morgenthaler, CommerzVentures
Moderators: Frank Schwab & Michael Mellinghoff
16:05 – 16:20 Fireside chat: Nektarios Liolios- 5 years accelerating FinTech globally (with Michael Mellinghoff)
16:20 – 16:30 FinTech Forum Retro- 5 Years in 10 Minutes: Samarth Shekhar
16:30+ Networking Drinks
Presenting Startups “in a Tweet”
- AAZZUR is an intelligent account aggregator with a functionality layer, where customers connect their accounts thanks to PSD2 and OpenBanking, tailored to international customers. They have acquired live Alpha customers already, and were part of the TechStars Berlin program (2018).
- advinda is disrupting how the Alternative Investment industry raises institutional capital- a simple CRM solution combined with proprietary investor intelligence on more than $68 trillion AUM in the cloud.
- BITA, is “the S&P of crypto indices“- the first professional index and data provider in the digital asset space to develop, calculate and disseminate real-time indexes and proprietary datafeeds covering the digital asset universe.
- CCEX Cloud Commodities Exchange enables Cloud Computing Resources e.g. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc. to be traded similar to traditional commodities such as crude oil, gas, electricity, etc. via already existing exchanges
- CrowdDesk offers “full-service Fundrasing-as-a-Service: digitised and standardised issuing and investment processes for SMEs, startups or public agencies who need to raise capital through the crowd”. Cooperation with GLS Bank on Europe’s first crowd-investing platform of a bank.
- DACEBOOK– Digital Asset Class Exchange Book (TM) enables institutional investors to onboard, trade and process Digital Asset Class (DAC) products with enterprise grade vendor data and smart technology solutions.
- finbc is the P2P receivables exchange and financing platform for SME on the blockchain, enabling international invoicing and payments- both regular or cryptocurrency- right out of the ERP system.
- ForexFix offers easy and fast hedging against currency fluctuations for small and medium businesses who are doing business internationally and have costs or revenues in foreign currencies. Our service is easy to use and less expensive.
- Fractal Blockchain offers on-boarding and payment software for Token Launches (ICOs) – a multidisciplinary, international endeavour- with a focus on compliance and usability.
- Growney is a digital Investment Advice company with a transparent, cost- effective and simple product for retail customers in Germany. They recently signed a cooperation with Signal Iduna, and receives high ratings from the independent non-profit consumer website FinanzTip.de.
- Imburse Payments is “the first end-to-end platform to solve customer value challenges at transaction level using AI/ML to optimise the offer/transaction technology combination”. With 3 committed PoCs, they have won “Best Pitch” at Swiss Fintech event and accepted to the Plug n Play Europe Batch 0 (Insurtech).
- Neon Banking is Switzerland’s 1st independent #mobile bank–free banking, offering simple, mobile and free everyday banking – free current account linked with Debit MasterCard and variety of third party products. They recently announced a cooperation with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg.
- RYSKEX is the next level of RISK EXchange, offering a hedging platform for insurance risks embedded in a B2B ecosystem. It brings together risk management units and institutional investors via a blockchain-based P2P approach supported by AI and an own token.
- XTECH is a German cryptocurrency exchange, enabling access to the hottest coins in the cryptocurrency ecosystem to both professional and amateur traders.
- is building the first fully regulated index replication mechanism for ETF crypto investing based in Germany.
Participating Companies
AAZZUR
Acxit Corporate Finance
advinda Investor Cloud
Aigang
BDK Bank
Be Think, Solve, Execute
Bita Data
Börsen Zeitung
CCEX Cloud Commodities Exchange
City Eschborn
CrowdDesk
DACEBOOK
DC Placement Advisors
DVFA
Earlybird Venture Capital
finbc
Finch Capital
First Momentum Ventures
Forexfix
Fractal Blockchain
Growney
Hasso Plattner Institute
HighTech Gründerfonds
Helaba Digital
Heussen Law
Imburse Payments
Innogy Innovation Hub
InvestHK
KfW Capital
Lufthansa AirPlus
Miles & More
Nagarro
Neon Banking
Ryskex
smava
Specific Group
Trendlink
Wüstenrot Bank
XAnge Venture Capital
XTECH.ai
yabeo Management
+ several Business Angels
Previous Events
10th FinTech Forum: Franfurt, Nov. 2018. Event summary: 10th FinTech Forum shows the next wave of FinTechs, investments, partnerships and M&A is here
FinTech Forum On Tour | UK FinTech meets Germany: Frankfurt, Mar. 2018. Event summary: http://www.fintechforum.de/event-summary-ftf-on-tour-uk-fintech-meets-germany/
9th FinTech Forum: Frankfurt, Sep. 2017. Event Summary: FinTech Forum’s 4th anniversary edition- a reflection of European FinTech’s successes and travails
FinTech Forum On Tour | InvestTech: London, Apr. 2017
FinTech Forum On Tour | FinTech meets Telecom: Frankfurt, Mar. 2017
8th FinTech Forum in Tweets: Frankfurt, Nov. 2016
FinTech Forum On Tour | FinTech meets Travel: Neu-Isenburg, Sep. 2016
FTF On Tour | Robo Advice in Tweets: Berlin, Jun. 2016
7th FinTech Forum in Tweets: Frankfurt, Apr. 2016
6th FinTech Forum in Tweets: Frankfurt, Nov 2015
FTF On Tour | InvestTech in Tweets: London, Sep. 2015
5th FinTech Forum- A Summary: Vienna, Jun. 2015
4th FinTech Forum in Tweets: Frankfurt, Apr. 2015
3rd FinTech Forum in Tweets: Frankfurt, Nov. 2014
2nd FinTech Forum in Tweets: Frankfurt, May 2014
1st FinTech Forum– A Summary: Frankfurt, Nov. 2013
Location
Airport Club
Frankfurt Airport Center I
Flughafen
Frankfurt am Main
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