At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 FinTech companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top FinTech Companies & Startups (London)
Selina Finance
Founders | Andrea Olivari, Hubert Fenwick, Leonard Benning |
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Selina Finance provides loans to small and medium businesses in the form of flexible credit facilities.
Soldo
Founders | Carlo Gualandri |
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Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.
Monese
Founders | Norris Koppel |
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Monese is a digital banking option that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in countries across the European Economic Area.
Codat
Founders | Alex Cardona, David Hoare, Peter Lord |
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Codat is an API platform that provides real-time connectivity to the financial software used by small businesses.
Bought By Many
Founders | Guy Farley, Steven Mendel |
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Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
Token
Founders | Marten Nelson, Steve Kirsch, Todd Clyde, Yobie Benjamin |
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Token is an open banking payments platform driving the shift from traditional payment methods to bank payments.
Rapyd
Founders | Arik Shtilman, Arkady Karpman, Omer Priel |
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Rapyd is a payments platform that inserts fintech services into any app and simplifies the complex offering of local payment methods.
Bud
Founders | Edward Maslaveckas, George Dunning |
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Bud is a financial network combining APIs & data to create a new species of connected experiences.
Form3
Founders | Michael Mueller |
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Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
DIEM
Founders | Geri Cupi |
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Twig is a fintech startup that provides a mobile banking app.
Zepz
Founders | Catherine Wines, Ismail Ahmed, Richard Igoe |
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Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
LATOKEN
Founders | Valentin Preobrazhenskiy |
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LATOKEN is the leading platform for multi-asset tokenization and cryptocurrency exchange.
Outlier Ventures
Founders | Aron van Ammers, Jamie Burke |
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The World’s Leading Open Metaverse Accelerator
Atomico
Founders | Niklas Zennström |
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Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Trustology
Founders | Alex Batlin |
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Trustology is building a custody platform to safeguard your crypto assets.
Fintern
Founders | Dr Michelle He, Gerald Chappell |
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Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.
Moneybox
Founders | Ben Stanway, Charlie Mortimer |
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Moneybox is a mobile savings and investment app that offers a range of saving and investment products including Lifetime ISAs and Pensions.
Ziglu
Founders | Mark Hipperson, Niall McConnell, Philip Goffin |
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Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
LMAX Group
Founders | Martin Thompson |
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LMAX Group: Delivering a transparent, neutral, global marketplace for all participants
3S Money
Founders | Andrei Dikouchine, Eugene Dugaev, Ivan Zhiznevskiy |
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3S Money offers international business banking services in 190 countries.
Outfund
Founders | Daniel Lipinski |
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Outfund is a revenue-based finance startup.
Stenn
Founders | Andrey Polevoy, Greg Karpovsky, Walter Colebatch |
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Stenn is a non-bank trade finance provider that delivers innovative solutions to unlock working capital for buyers and suppliers.
Urban Jungle
Founders | Greg Smyth, Jimmy Williams |
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Urban Jungle provides an insurance technology to help young people get cheaper, better home insurance.
TradingView
Founders | Constantine Ivanov, Denis Globa, Stan Bokov |
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TradingView provides traders and investors with charts, tools, and social networking.
ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
Founders | Andrei Pachai, Boris Dyakonov, Daljit Singh, Eduard Panteleev, Nikita Filippov, Slava Akulov |
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Business Banking and Admin service
GlobeDX
Founders | Shaun Ng |
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GlobeDX is a startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives”.
LANDBAY
Founders | Gray Stern, John Goodall |
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Landbay is a specialist Buy to Let mortgage lender using peer-to-peer technology to fund its loans.
DigiSEq
Founders | Colin Tanner, Terrie Smith |
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DigiSEq is an innovative global FinTech company providing Programme Managers, Issuers or NFC wearable manufacturers.
Repay Solutions
Founders | George Robbins |
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Over The Top payment platform connecting businesses to the latest real-time payments innovations without changing bank.
Nucoro
Founders | Antonio Melé, Jose Maria Carbajo, Lennart Asshoff |
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Nucoro enables financial institutions to build digital savings, investment and wealth management propositions at speed and scale.
9fin
Founders | Huss EL-Sheikh, Steven Hunter |
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The leading data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets
Concentric
Founders | Denis Shafranik, Kjartan Rist |
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Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Ondato
Founders | Andrej Vistorskij, Liudas Kanapienis |
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Complete KYC and AML management suite that helps businesses onboard clients, authenticate users, and safely conduct their remote processes.
TaxScouts
Founders | Dan Karger, Kaupo Kõrv, Mart Abramov |
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TaxScouts is a tax preparation platform that makes tax planning easier.
CRED Investments
Founders | Chaitanya Shah, Jonathan Carr-Harris |
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CRED uses artificial intelligence to invest in the future of talent. Helping realize the commercial & financial potential of talent.
Cushon
Founders | Ben Pollard, Phil Hollingdale |
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Cushon is a fintech company that provides investment, pension, financial wellbeing and workplace savings.
Cryptopay
Founders | Dmitry Gunyashov, George Basiladze |
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Cryptopay is a digital currency firms, offering crypto-wallets, debit cards, B2B payments, & investments.
Coinrule
Founders | Gabriele Musella, Oleg Giberstein, Zdeněk Höfler |
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Coinrule Catches the Next Market Opportunity on Your Behalf by Automating Your Investments
Coconut
Founders | Adam Goodall, Sam O’Connor |
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Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.
Vizolution
Founders | Bill Safran |
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Vizolution develops a screen sharing technology for businesses to directly interact with their clients.
Wayhome
Founders | Josef Wasinski, Nigel Purves, Ray Rafiq Omar |
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Start owning a home today from just 5% deposit
dopay
Founders | Frans van Eersel |
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dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically.
ezbob
Founders | Tomer Guriel |
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ezbob is a UK based software provider for banks and other financial institutions.
Founders Factory
Founders | Brent Hoberman, George Northcott, Henry Lane Fox, Jim Meyerle |
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Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Percent
Founders | Henry Ludlam |
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Percent is the API-first fintech powering purpose worldwide.
ComplyAdvantage
Founders | Charles Delingpole |
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ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology.
Funding Options
Founders | Conrad Ford |
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Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.
The Bank of London
Founders | Anthony Watson |
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The Bank of London is a global clearing, agency, and transaction bank advancing the economic infrastructure of the future.
Cashaa
Founders | Janina Lowisz, Kumar Gaurav |
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Next Generation Banking Platform
Upside Saving
Founders | Andries Smit, Paul Russell, Steve Fourie |
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Upside is Intelligent Cashback as an API, fuelled by Open Banking.
Interlay
Founders | Alexei Zamyatin, Dominik Harz |
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Interlay enables you to invest, earn and pay with BTC on any blockchain via a decentralized open-source protocol.
Baanx Group
Founders | Garth Howat, Mark Evans, Sean Salloux |
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BaaS (Banking as a Service), white label, mobile digital asset friendly: wallets, cards, payment gateways, IBANs, for communities
Nebeus
Founders | Konstantin Zaripov, Sergey Romanovskiy |
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Nebeus is a cryptocurrency and crypto-backed lending platform that allows people to borrow, exchange, earn, and insure their crypto assets.
Calastone
Founders | Ian Taylor, Philip Goffin |
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Calastone is a global transaction network for the mutual fund industry.
DigiDoe
Founders | Alexandra VIdyuk, Avigail Slavin, Pavel Guzminov |
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DigiDoe is a UK-based fintech which has redesigned the world’s payments infrastructure for the 21st century.
REG
Founders | Michael Phair |
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REG provides an intelligence, analytics, and risk management software to the global insurance and financial services market.
TreeCard
Founders | Gary Wu, James Cox, James Dugan, Jamie Cox, Peter Francis |
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Treecard is a fullstack green finance platform, allowing consumers to spend, save and invest responsibly.
Countingup
Founders | Tim Fouracre |
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The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Octopus Ventures
Founders | Unknown |
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Octopus is a multi stage European venture capital investor specializing in health, money, deep tech, and consumer.
BACKED VC
Founders | Alex Brunicki, Andre de Haes, Sonia Maciuszewicz |
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BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe.
APEXX Global
Founders | Peter Keenan, Rodney Bain, Toreson Lloyd |
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APEXX consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
Fluidly
Founders | Caroline Plumb, Johnnie Ball |
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Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Gro
Founders | Hannes Graah |
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Gro develops protocols or autonomous programs designed for a simple and friendly DeFi experience.
Jaja
Founders | Jostein Svendsen, Kyrre Riksen, Per Elvebakk |
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Jaja is a fintech company that provides digital and physical credit cards and other financing services.
Trading 212
Founders | Borislav Nedialkov, Ivan Ashminov |
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Trading 212 is a fintech company that provides free, smart apps to democratize the economic market.
Updraft
Founders | Aseem Munshi, David Yalland, Matt Millar |
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Updraft is a part lending, part credit report, and part financial planning app for millennials. We turn borrowers into savers.
Glint
Founders | Ben Davies, Jason Cozens |
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Glint is a FinTech with an app and debit card that enables clients to save, exchange, spend and send multi-currencies and physical gold.
Stubben Edge
Founders | Chris Kenning |
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Stubben Edge is a technology-based financial services group that enables intermediaries & clients to make easy decisions about their risks
Fnality International
Founders | Jan Schoombee |
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Fnality International provides a digital cash system that uses blockchain technology to settle financial transactions.
Yapily
Founders | Stefano Vaccino |
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Yapily offers API-based software to enable innovative products to connect to banks.
Global Wealth Group
Founders | Scott Picken |
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Global Wealth Group is a Meta-Marketplace Embrace a more accessible way of Creating Global Wealth.
Koyo
Founders | Thomas Olszewski |
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Koyo uses machine learning to serve customers with competitively priced credit
Omnio
Founders | Scott Lanphere |
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Omnio Group is a market leading provider of cloud-based banking and payment services.
Mode
Founders | Alex Ryvkin, Jonathan Rowland |
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Mode is building the next-gen financial ecosystem allowing consumers and businesses to connect in ways that have never before been achieved.
inai
Founders | Anantharaman Pattabiraman, Karthik Narayanan |
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Inai allows vendors to set up their payment stack with a single integration.
Pave
Founders | Chris Butcher, Sho Sugihara |
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The proper path to good credit
CIRCA5000
Founders | Matt Latham, Tom McGillycuddy |
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The investment platform of the human future
Monitise
Founders | Alastair Lukies CBE |
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Monitise is a technology and services company that delivers mobile banking, payments, and commerce networks.
B-Social
Founders | Nazim Valimahomed, Tim Brown |
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Kroo is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.
YayPay
Founders | Anthony Venus, Eugene Vyborov, Saul Frank |
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YayPay is intelligent accounts receivables automation
AllBright
Founders | Anna Jones, Debbie Wosskow |
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AllBright is a funding and education network that provides the support and finance needed for female-led businesses to launch and scale.
Flux Systems
Founders | Matty Cusden-Ross, Tom Reay, Veronique Merriam Barbosa |
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Flux Systems develops software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards.
CreditEnable
Founders | Nadia Sood, Philip Hua, Varun Sahni |
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CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Traydstream
Founders | Achille D’Antoni, Gary Bhattacharjee, Uzair Bawany |
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Traydstream automates the most critical aspects of converting, checking and managing trade finance documents.
KodyPay
Founders | Jack Howell, Joshua Roel, Morgan Hammans, Yoyo Chang |
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Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Oval Money
Founders | Benedetta Arese Lucini, Claudio Bedino, Edoardo Benedetto |
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Oval offers an app for financial coaching and planning that helps people save according to their rules.
CoinBurp
Founders | Peter Wood, Tom Allison |
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CoinBurp is a trading platform designed for everyone built by seasoned cryptocurrency experts.
Marshmallow
Founders | Alexander Kent-Braham, David Goate, Oliver Kent-Braham |
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Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.
Chaser
Founders | David Tuck, Mark Woodbridge |
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Chaser helps businesses get their invoices paid on time, automatically.
SparkChange
Founders | Daniel Barry, Joff Hamilton-Dick, Steffen Buschbacher |
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SparkChange is a provider of specialist carbon investment products and data, serving global institutions and their clients.
Satago
Founders | Adam Horner, Steven Renwick |
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Cover cashflow gaps, manage debtors and predict credit risks all in one easy-to-use product. Start your 14-day free trial today.
Globacap
Founders | Alexander Green, Joanne Filbin, Myles Milston, Paul Thistoll |
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We automate the flow of capital across the entire securities ecosystem from placement, to register management, and secondary liquidity.
Smarkets
Founders | Hunter Morris, Jason Trost |
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Smarkets simplifies peer-to-peer trading on sporting and political events.
Ben
Founders | David Duckworth, Sebastian Fallert |
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Supercharge your benefits, save time and money
Notion Capital
Founders | Ben White, Chris Tottman, Ian Milbourn, Jos White, Stephen Chandler |
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Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Mycelium
Founders | Dan Holloway |
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Mycelium is pioneering secure and private digital banking for the era of digital assets.
Anorak
Founders | David Vanek, Vincent Durnez |
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Anorak offers a smart independent insurance adviser that gives people access to tailored advice about their life and their risks.
Neyber
Founders | Ezechi Britton, Martin Ijaha, Monica Kalia |
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Neyber is financial wellbeing provider that helps UK employees to be better with their money.
Wrisk
Founders | Darius Kumana, Niall Barton |
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Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
AEVI
Founders | Unknown |
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AEVI provides a platform for merchant-facing businesses that enables them to upgrade to more agile, more data-driven propositions.
Keebo
Founders | Matthew Hallett, Michael Vanaselja |
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Hey, we’re Keebo, the credit card designed for the new generation to build better credit and improve financial wellbeing.