A tale of 44 cities | Lisbon S e l f e v a u l a t i o n o f tH h eu hb u bi in nd i sc High Rankixa t ko e yr s a r e a Lisbons Best workspace and accelerators Hub features Top FinTech companies €ub profie Technologies Feedzai, Seedrs, Crowdprocess, Unbabel, Switch Payments Rpra, Magnifinance, T Ebankit-Omnichannel Innovation, Loqr, Petapilot, Orange Bird, Comparajá, el A v Easypay and Rise. i Data analytics SvG ho Cloud computing av ne r Big investors gn APIs hm aie Retail banks / Insurance (e.g. Sibs pay foward, Fidelidade Protechting), Private Gn l o b a l F Banking-as-a-service it Cn es n t r Liseu equity (Portugal Ventures), Business angels and Public funds for R&D (e.g. FCT, 6p bon9p Artificial Intelligence/Machine o Fundação Champalimaud). r Since 2016, there’s a growing focus in the Fintech ecosystemt Learning Beta-i Success stories reflected by an increase of Fintech groups, startups, events and S Invest Lisbon Innovation areas h e n Three success stories to emerge from Lisbon include: Feedzai, Seedrs and zn Invest Braga he no i meetups. ortuga hods strong technoogica capabiities, stemming t Pedro Nunes Institute a Crowdprocess. Feedzai is a series B startup that raised $17.5 million in 2015; v Investment management o Second home Lisbon from internationayrecognised universities, is an eary adopter of n Seedrs, the top European equity crowdfunding site which was co-founded by a nI In Back-office operations alxn UPTech new technoogies and a trigger of innovation for different ndustries. beINDEX SCOREo Portugese entrepreneur, has its software development team based in Lisbon; odv Retail banking (neo and digital Gln0a I3t and Crowdprocess was considered one of the Lisbon’s hottest startups in 2016 he technoogica infrastructure is deveoped and robust and the Praguei o banking) c n by Wired magazine. administrative and ega process for setting up a startup is uic­ and 124utlu E-commerce easy. €owever, due to the ac­ of access to earystage fundinger Payments The future and reguation in capita raising, most Fintech startups are unabe Over the next 12 months, we expect to see an increase in the number of FinTech to scae past seed funding to series ‚ funding. Low Rank Challenges companies in Lisbon, a growth in talent as well as increased public and private Investors are risk-averse investment. We also expect to see a focus in leveraging the right regulation for Regulatory uncertainty the FinTech ecosystem. BusDoingise Rinessert Small size of market egu25xp latto e ionity xim Pro Hub representative Portuguese FinTech and Formers InsurTech Associationeign sto custo artupsProximity t CEO João Machado Mota 47

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