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 profie 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 hods strong technoogica capabiities, 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 internationayrecognised universities, is an eary adopter of n Seedrs, the top European equity crowdfunding site which was co-founded by a nI In Back-office operations alxn UPTech new technoogies 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 technoogica infrastructure is deveoped 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 earystage fundinger Payments The future and reguation in capita raising, most Fintech startups are unabe Over the next 12 months, we expect to see an increase in the number of FinTech to scae 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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