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The journey continues with Motive Ventures. From 2014 to 2021, finleap has built or invested in 15 ventures and developed more than 5 corporate JVs and service ventures collectively worth €3.0Bn+ at a point in time. The finleap portfolio is now managed by Motive Ventures.

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Penta

Series B in 2021
Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily. Penta's mission is to disrupt business banking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Qwist

Series A in 2021
Qwist is an independent Open Banking platform provider in Europe. It enables companies across a multitude of industries to provide the next generation of financial services by understanding how customers transact and interact.

ELEMENT Insurance

Funding Round in 2021
ELEMENT Insurance is a white-label product factory for insurance and a leader in insurance digitalization. It is licensed by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzaufsicht) as a direct insurer for non-life insurance, which enables ELEMENT to act as a risk carrier, including claims settlement, in 28 countries across Europe. Founded in March 2017, ELEMENT offers a unique technology platform (‘Insurance as a Platform’) with a focus on the B2B2X value chain: ELEMENT develops for its partners from various industries – from e-commerce to established insurers – custom-made, innovative white-label insurance products at record speed. These products are then marketed by the partners under their own brand. ELEMENT has its headquarters in Berlin and operates across Europe.

Penta

Series B in 2021
Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily. Penta's mission is to disrupt business banking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Elinvar

Venture Round in 2021
Elinvar enables asset and wealth managers to digitalize their business models by providing the required Platform as a Service. This includes applications for core processes like client relationship management, online onboarding, onsite advisory support, portfolio management, reporting, invoicing, online client access and communication as well as third party connections, e.g. to custodian banks, market data or KYC providers. Elinvar’s partners profit from the combination of leading technology and the optimal regulatory setup as Elinvar holds all necessary BaFin licenses. With this comprehensive approach, Elinvar creates the unique opportunity for its partners to go digital in one step and to utilize state of the art analytics to create individualized solutions to the benefit of their clients.

OWWN

Seed Round in 2020
OWWN is a banking app that provides a one-stop shop for young adults to manage their finances. It allows customers to maintain an account with a Visa debit card and make mobile payments, just like a typical bank, but they can also apply for a student loan from Kfw Bank. At the same time, they can create shared savings pools, anonymously compare their budgets with friends, and participate in challenges. Users can use Owwn alone or collectively.

deineStudienfinanzierung

Seed Round in 2020
deineStudienfinanzierung is the digital platform to help students finance their studies.

ELEMENT Insurance

Series A in 2020
ELEMENT Insurance is a white-label product factory for insurance and a leader in insurance digitalization. It is licensed by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzaufsicht) as a direct insurer for non-life insurance, which enables ELEMENT to act as a risk carrier, including claims settlement, in 28 countries across Europe. Founded in March 2017, ELEMENT offers a unique technology platform (‘Insurance as a Platform’) with a focus on the B2B2X value chain: ELEMENT develops for its partners from various industries – from e-commerce to established insurers – custom-made, innovative white-label insurance products at record speed. These products are then marketed by the partners under their own brand. ELEMENT has its headquarters in Berlin and operates across Europe.

Deutsche Fintech Solutions GmbH

Venture Round in 2020
Next level financial consulting: Intelligent digital services to support the advisory of complex financial products. Simple, transparent, competent. DFS is a joint venture between Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG (DVAG), Germany's largest independent financial advisory corporation, and finleap, the fintech ecosystem and company builder

myEGO

Seed Round in 2020
myEGO2GO is a user-centric digital identity management platform (SSI) leveraging blockchain technology to re-use verified data. myEGO2GO creates a secure and private space in which the user can organize, structure and share data - all in one place. With myEGO2GO you can securely manage the entire user profile with only one connection. With our smart and sustainable onboarding approach, you can link the user data assets across ecosystems and services and thus eliminate data silos. myEGO2GO makes digital identity more than just another eID or KYC process.​ Users can store and share a plethora of verified data assets through their private storage.​

Penta

Series B in 2020
Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily. Penta's mission is to disrupt business banking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Joonko

Seed Round in 2019
Joonko's financial platform gives users financial peace of mind. Focusing on fairness, transparency and radical simplicity, they launched their first product - a car insurance comparison - in just 5 months after being founded. Users can compare and choose the best car insurance amongst the top car insurers. Further banking and insurance products are about to follow.

Penta

Series A in 2019
Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily. Penta's mission is to disrupt business banking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Elinvar

Venture Round in 2019
Elinvar enables asset and wealth managers to digitalize their business models by providing the required Platform as a Service. This includes applications for core processes like client relationship management, online onboarding, onsite advisory support, portfolio management, reporting, invoicing, online client access and communication as well as third party connections, e.g. to custodian banks, market data or KYC providers. Elinvar’s partners profit from the combination of leading technology and the optimal regulatory setup as Elinvar holds all necessary BaFin licenses. With this comprehensive approach, Elinvar creates the unique opportunity for its partners to go digital in one step and to utilize state of the art analytics to create individualized solutions to the benefit of their clients.

Penta

Acquisition in 2019
Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily. Penta's mission is to disrupt business banking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Deutsche Fintech Solutions GmbH

Venture Round in 2019
Next level financial consulting: Intelligent digital services to support the advisory of complex financial products. Simple, transparent, competent. DFS is a joint venture between Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG (DVAG), Germany's largest independent financial advisory corporation, and finleap, the fintech ecosystem and company builder

Deutsche Fintech Solutions GmbH

Venture Round in 2018
Next level financial consulting: Intelligent digital services to support the advisory of complex financial products. Simple, transparent, competent. DFS is a joint venture between Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG (DVAG), Germany's largest independent financial advisory corporation, and finleap, the fintech ecosystem and company builder

PAIR Finance

Series A in 2017
PAIR Finance is the leading fintech for AI-based debt collection in Europe. The company is transforming the debt collection industry by making receivables management sustainable, digital, efficient and customer-focused: With the help of artificial intelligence, behavioral analytics and data science, PAIR Finance is setting a new standard in debt collection that supports business customers and consumers alike. More than 600 companies from a wide range of industries are already working successfully with the collection solution for the digital age. The fast-growing company, which was founded in Berlin in 2016, has a renowned private equity investor, Pollen Street, at its side. PAIR Finance has more than 250 experienced employees and is led by founder and CEO Stephan Stricker.

Perseus

Seed Round in 2017
Perseus provides a comprehensive but simple Cyber Security-as-a-Service solution to SMEs for their cyber security and GDPR compliance that includes assessment, continuous risk management, human and AI-based prevention, incident management and insurance. Its system, starting with an AI-based security scoring model that continuously calculates and updates risk scores, automatically suggests measures to prevent breaches and adjusts risk scores based on the security technology used.

ELEMENT Insurance

Seed Round in 2017
ELEMENT Insurance is a white-label product factory for insurance and a leader in insurance digitalization. It is licensed by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzaufsicht) as a direct insurer for non-life insurance, which enables ELEMENT to act as a risk carrier, including claims settlement, in 28 countries across Europe. Founded in March 2017, ELEMENT offers a unique technology platform (‘Insurance as a Platform’) with a focus on the B2B2X value chain: ELEMENT develops for its partners from various industries – from e-commerce to established insurers – custom-made, innovative white-label insurance products at record speed. These products are then marketed by the partners under their own brand. ELEMENT has its headquarters in Berlin and operates across Europe.

Solaris

Series A in 2017
Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their product offerings. The platform offers digital bank accounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers. To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital.

Vane

Series A in 2016
Vane is a leading and fast-growing technology-enabled finance provider dedicated to digital media companies globally. Through its technology platform, BillFront frees up working capital within the industry, thereby enabling its clients’ to accelerate their growth. BillFront provides financing between €50,000 and several millions of euros per month through integrating into its customers’ invoicing systems. The company was founded in 2015 and is run out of Berlin with offices in London & New York. The BillFront team is led by former media M&A banker, Greg Dimitriou.

PAIR Finance

Seed Round in 2016
PAIR Finance is the leading fintech for AI-based debt collection in Europe. The company is transforming the debt collection industry by making receivables management sustainable, digital, efficient and customer-focused: With the help of artificial intelligence, behavioral analytics and data science, PAIR Finance is setting a new standard in debt collection that supports business customers and consumers alike. More than 600 companies from a wide range of industries are already working successfully with the collection solution for the digital age. The fast-growing company, which was founded in Berlin in 2016, has a renowned private equity investor, Pollen Street, at its side. PAIR Finance has more than 250 experienced employees and is led by founder and CEO Stephan Stricker.

Clark

Series A in 2016
Clark is an insurance platform providing transparent, cheap and comprehensive insurance coverage. By combining technology and insurance expertise, Clark offers users simple, fair and customer-centric insurance advice. The Berlin-based company was founded in June 2015 by Dr. Christopher Oster and Steffen Glomb. Clark is supported by FinTech incubator FinLeap and the insurance think tank ITA - "Institute for Transparency".

Savedo

Series A in 2016
Based in Berlin, Germany, Savedo is a European online marketplace for retail investment products that ensures safely deposited savings and better interest rates across the European Union. The platform supports the involved banks by handling their customer services and providing standardized account documents. Savedo enables its clients to easily invest across Europe without having to travel to the respective European country. Launched in 2014, Savedo’s team is comprised of experienced international finance specialists and online professionals.

Solaris

Seed Round in 2016
Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their product offerings. The platform offers digital bank accounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers. To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital.

Clark

Seed Round in 2015
Clark is an insurance platform providing transparent, cheap and comprehensive insurance coverage. By combining technology and insurance expertise, Clark offers users simple, fair and customer-centric insurance advice. The Berlin-based company was founded in June 2015 by Dr. Christopher Oster and Steffen Glomb. Clark is supported by FinTech incubator FinLeap and the insurance think tank ITA - "Institute for Transparency".

Savedo

Seed Round in 2015
Based in Berlin, Germany, Savedo is a European online marketplace for retail investment products that ensures safely deposited savings and better interest rates across the European Union. The platform supports the involved banks by handling their customer services and providing standardized account documents. Savedo enables its clients to easily invest across Europe without having to travel to the respective European country. Launched in 2014, Savedo’s team is comprised of experienced international finance specialists and online professionals.

financeAds International

Seed Round in 2015
We work with top-tier European banks, insurance companies and FinTech helping them gaining new clients for their online products, across Europe. We do this through our extensive and highly relevant network of financial publishers who work mainly on performance, a very ROI oriented form of online marketing, where the client pays the publisher only if the lead is real and relevant. We also help smaller clients to gain brand recognition through our branding solutions and agency work

Finreach

Seed Round in 2014
Founded in 2014, finreach solutions is a Berlin based fintech company on a mission to make the enablement of consumer financial potential as simple and effective as possible. They enable their partners to realise new business opportunities by providing added value to their products and services. Their partners rely on us to stay agile, deliver faster solutions, and make the most of their IT investment with API-led connectivity. finreach solutions developed the first automated current account switch kit (ASK), allowing banks to increase their share of primary current accounts. Headquartered in Berlin, their team of 30 is led by CEO Markus Dränert and CPO Taner Akcok; both have profound experience in aspects that relate to entrepreneurship, technology and marketing, making them the perfect match to drive forth finreach solutions in a competitive environment.

Savedo

Seed Round in 2014
Based in Berlin, Germany, Savedo is a European online marketplace for retail investment products that ensures safely deposited savings and better interest rates across the European Union. The platform supports the involved banks by handling their customer services and providing standardized account documents. Savedo enables its clients to easily invest across Europe without having to travel to the respective European country. Launched in 2014, Savedo’s team is comprised of experienced international finance specialists and online professionals.
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