Helping UK fintech companies scale, at home and abroad
Our Fintech programme is looking for its next cohort! The programme is tailor-made to support founders and the wider leadership team for UK fintechs. It consists of insights sessions delivered by some of the most established fintech entrepreneurs, investors and partners. Our goal is to cover topics such as sales, partnerships with incumbents, expanding internationally and to give companies and founders the tools and knowledge they need to scale.
The programme lasts for six months and includes a 24-hour induction, a series of in-depth learning sessions, networking events with key stakeholders and a three-day international showcase trip. Joining is free and applications are now open.
Fintech is for founders and companies that want to achieve their potential and who are ready to scale. To be eligible for the programme, your company must meet the following criteria:
Need more advice? We’re arranging a Q&A webinar session on the 8th of July, where you can ask the Fintech team any questions you may have about the programme or applying. Sign up here >
In the meantime you can check out our Tech Nation Application Guide >
Nine founder-focused sessions delivered by world-leading fintech entrepreneurs covering core issues, from investment to sales, partnerships and international expansion.
Two intimate networking sessions designed with the technical leadership team in mind, to foster peer-to-peer exchange and explore the challenges faced by CTOs and Head Devs.
An international trip with the help of DIT, to showcase companies overseas and discover first hand from those who have already done it what it takes to crack the market abroad.
Events of networking bringing together corporate executives, investors, government representatives, regulators and other decision makers together around the cohort.
Fintech pride ourselves on being an open and honest community, full of peer to peer support and learning. To get an idea of what Fintech is all about and the support you can expect from the programme, watch our video.
London | Fintech | @9finHQ
9fin uses artificial intelligence to extract key data & insights from financial documents. They consume, organise and understand the world’s fixed income financial data, making it easier for investment professionals to search, filter and analyse.
Cardiff | Fintech | @ANNAMoneyUK
ANNA combines a business account and debit card with invoicing and tax reminders. For freelancers and small businesses, it’s ideal for SMEs that use light commercial vehicles (“LCVs”) for their work.
London | Fintech | @APEXX_Global
Apexx is a payment platform that connects enterprise to multiple acquiring banks, APMs, and PSPs as well as optimising the payment flow to drive up payment acceptance and lower costs. APEXX consolidates these providers into a single integration point offering complex merchants the flexibility to operate a payment stack that reflects the needs of their business.
London | Fintech | @creditkudos
Credit Kudos is a newly established Credit Reference Agency selling credit scores to UK lenders (B2B). They use newly available open banking and PSD2 data to increase accuracy, whilst widening the pool of borrowers to those previously excluded by traditional credit scoring methods.
London | Fintech | @WeAreCushon
Cushon aims to turn the UK into a nation of investors. By promoting the benefits of healthy savings habits, they make investing simple, easy and accessible for the mass market. Smarterly works with employers to allow people to save directly from their pay, often with a contribution boost as a more accessible complement to pensions.
Liskeard | Fintech | @getduesday
Duesday has reinvented direct debits and regular bill payments, giving more control and rewards to the payer. They help utilities, leisure clubs and the housing sector with bill collections and loyalty offers and their core payments platform is integrated with the UK and Mexico payments networks.
London | Fintech | @Fractal_Labs
Fractal is an API based intelligence platform focused on Small-Medium-Enterprise (SME) banking. They aggregate permission-based SME data used to score risk, enhance it using AI, and provide a targeting engine for financial institutions to empower them to better service their clients.
Manchester | Fintech | Tech For Good | @_GoodBox
GoodBox serves the charity sector by providing a single point of entry to a full range of fundraising solutions. From award-winning contactless hardware, to a platform enabling charities to analyse and improve their fundraising, GoodBox provides the third sector with the tools needed to thrive in an ever-changing digital landscape.
London | Fintech | Tech For Good | @heliodid
Heliocor is a regulatory compliance software business that wants to change the way the world does business; restoring trust. Their tune-able products (AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning enabled) help financial services companies to risk manage, tailor and automate onboarding clients (Dokstor) and then monitor their transactional activity in real time (Robolitics) to ensure regulatory compliance.
London | Fintech | @highcastle_co
HighCastle is a UK blockchain-based share registrar and investment marketplace, which provides the end-to-end technological infrastructure and legal framework for compliant offering, issuance, distribution, management and trading of private securities.
Durham | Fintech | @GetHonchoUK
Honcho Markets operates a reverse-auction electronic marketplace for the distribution of financial services products. Product vendors compete in real-time, open and transparent auctions to win a consumers' business. Honcho charges vendors a nominal fee, removing expensive sales commissions from the distribution chain.
Ilkley | Fintech | @incuto_uk
Incuto is a technology platform for credit unions, community banks and lenders, transforming them into community-focused challenger banks. Making ethical lenders relevant, accessible, sustainable and efficient, Incuto is tackling the poverty premium by ensuring everyone can gain access to affordable, responsible financial services.
Newcastle | Fintech | @kanipayments.com
Kani Payments has built a fintech reporting and reconciliation platform, which uniquely consumes data from a client’s transactional processor, card scheme, bank account and more; transforming these complex streams into tangible outputs. Users can run 24 distinct reports, including those needed for regulation, as well as create bespoke automated reconciliations.
London | Fintech | @molofinance
Molo is the UK’s first fully-digital mortgage lender. Bringing together real-time mortgage decisioning with a simple, paperless online application process, Molo puts customer experience first, delivering a product focussed on speed, ease and total transparency.
London | Fintech | @nivaura
Nivaura Ltd provides digital investment banking solutions that are revolutionising capital markets by optimising efficiency, transparency and accessibility for market intermediaries. Their primary initiative is to defragment and vertically integrate capital markets by automating the issuance, administration and entire life cycle of financial instruments.
Durham | Fintech | @paidcouk
Paid allows micro businesses to flourish without falling victim to key challenges. Addressing the increase in the gig economy, people working independently and late payment of invoices crippling small companies, Paid have created simple workflows and business management that sits alongside the ability to get paid as soon as work is completed.
London | Fintech | @paybase
Paybase is a flexible payments solution for marketplaces/gig economy platforms, fintechs and cryptocurrency businesses. It combines payments, compliance and risk management, allowing businesses to reach market quickly and seamlessly. Their structured flexibility accommodates a wide array of use cases, enabling businesses to build better, more competitive products.
London | Fintech | @PrimaryBid
PrimaryBid democratises the capital markets by allowing retail investors access to new share issues from listed companies at the same discount as institutions. Their deposit saving tool also helps users choose the best savings accounts and predicts the time it will take to save the required amount.
London | Fintech | @SteadyPayHQ
SteadyPay is a socially aware credit service with a vision to provide financial wellness to those paid by the hour/gig. They do this by smoothing out workers’ income, giving them consistency across pay cycles which allows them to budget, save and pay for expenses.
Liverpool | Fintech | @my_tickr
tickr is transforming impact investment for Europe’s next generation of investors. For people who want to invest, but want to have a positive impact on society and the environment at the same time, tickr's app allows users to invest in socially responsible companies with as little as £5.
London | Fintech | @TradeLedger
Trade Ledger is the world’s first open digital banking platform that gives banks the ability to assess business lending risk in real time. Using Machine Learning, open APIs, Robotic Process Automation and AI, they enable banks to address the global undersupply in trade finance lending, while providing high-growth companies with the working capital needed to sustain growth.
London | Fintech | @gotradecore
TradeCore is a platform-as-a-service provider that enables fintechs to build next-generation banking and investment products. TradeCore’s full stack offering does all the heavy lifting, allowing companies to focus on launching unique fintech customer experiences.
Bristol | Fintech | @tumeloHQ
Tumelo gives visibility and influence to investors who want to have positive impact with their money. They create socially responsible investments, provide visibility so investors in funds and pensions can see exactly where their money is going, and help shareholders have influence to create lasting change.
If you are unsure about your eligibility or have questions about applying for the programme, here are some resources for you:
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