The Top Fintech Accelerators & Incubators 2022

500 Startups

500 Startups is a global venture capital firm with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley with over $454M in committed capital across 4 main funds and 15 thematic funds. They have invested in 2,200+ technology startups globally since its inception in 2010 including Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Credit Karma, SendGrid, Grab, GitLab, Bukalapak, Canva, Udemy, TalkDesk, Intercom, Ipsy, MakerBot (acquired by SSYS), Wildfire (acquired by GOOG), and Viki (acquired by Rakuten).

Accelerator, Venture Capital

California, US

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Accelerator Centre

Accelerator Centre provides an essential combination of in-house mentorship, educational programming, facilities, networking, and access to funding and facility services with a goal of building successful companies. The company's in-depth programming, unique accountability model, and long-term view, distinguishes it from other accelerators and incubators within the Canadian commercialization landscape.

Accelerator

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Advance Technology Development Center (ATDC) – Georgia Tech

The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) is a startup incubator that helps technology entrepreneurs in Georgia launch and build successful companies. Founded in 1980, ATDC has helped create millions of dollars in tax revenues by graduating more than 130 companies, which together have raised over a billion dollars in outside financing. Headquartered in Atlanta’s Technology Square, ATDC serves as the hub for technology entrepreneurship in Georgia.

Incubator, University Program

Georgia, US

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Baltic Sandbox

Baltic Accelerator for SaaS and Fintech startups. Baltic Sandbox helps founders of pre-seed and seed stage startups to develop their startups in EU and USA by providing connections, knowledge, expertise from global mentors, and investment opportunities. Lithuania is known in the EU market by its outstanding success driven #fintech, #insurtech and #SaaS initiatives, together with extremely conveniently built governmental programs (Startup Visa), strong support from corporate partners and reliable connections across the Baltics, Nordics, and the UK.

Accelerator

Vilnius, Lithuania

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Barclays Accelerator

Powered by Techstars, the Barclay Accelerator is a 13-week program focused on fintech run by a full-time, dedicated Techstars team. The program runs in four locations: New York, London, Cape Town and Tel Aviv.

Accelerator

New York, London, Cape Town and Tel Aviv

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Blenheim Chalcot / Bright Bridge Ventures

The incubator has since built over 40 businesses in a variety of sectors, including IT services and outsourcing, financial services, education, travel, software, sport and media. Today, its companies have sales of over £350m and employ in excess of 3000 people. Working with entrepreneurs and co-founders, it continues to create and build businesses in these sectors, often from the ground up.

Incubator

London, UK

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Catalyst Fund

Catalyst Fund accelerates fintech startups delivering digital financial services to low-income customers in emerging markets.

Accelerator

Boston, US

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Citi Ventures Fintech Accelerator

Located in Tel Aviv, Citi Ventures’ fintech accelerator program aims to accelerate innovation through comprehensive programs and partnerships for entrepreneurs. Started in 2013, the program has since supported six classes, with over 55 startups graduating from the four-month program.

Corporate Venture Capital, Venture Capital

New York, London, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Singapore

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Coin Apex

Coin Apex is a New York-based incubator that builds products integrating cryptography, software, and technology. It is actively working with government, industry, and individuals to bring new technology to places where it previously did not exist. By fostering innovation and collaboration, it hopes to solve some of the problems of an interconnected global economy.

Incubator

New York, US

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Coinsilium Group

Coinsilium Group is a London-based FinTech company focused on the implementation of blockchain technology products and services. Coinsilium is a blockchain venture builder and investor that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies. Coinsilium’s focus is on driving innovation in fintech and blockchain technologies, enabling businesses to take advantage of growth opportunities. Coinsilium also provides advisory services to companies planning token generating events.

Accelerator

London, UK

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Copenhagen Fintech

Copenhagen Fintech is a joint initiative by the Danish Bankers Association, the City of Denmark and Financial Services Union Denmark, and it was established as a non-profit organization with partners from different sectors.

Accelerator

Hovedstaden, Denmark

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DFS Lab

DFS Lab is a fintech incubator that empowers communities through mentorship and strategic advice to early-stage startups. Digital Financial Services Innovation Lab (DFS Lab) is an early-stage incubator that supports high potential entrepreneurs refine, grow and launch fintech businesses in developing countries. Focused on empowering communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, DFS Lab delivers mentorship and strategic counsel to early-stage start-ups pioneering transformative business models that empower the poorest, profitably, and at scale.

Accelerator

Seattle, US

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ENVESTNET - Yodlee Interactive

The Envestnet | Yodlee Incubator helps developers, innovators and entrepreneurs launch disruptive data-driven companies and ignite their growth. Companies receive access to the suite of Envestnet | Yodlee APIs, dedicated technical support, mentorship & guidance, and membership in the broader Yodlee ecosystem. They look at companies pre-seed, post-seed, and even sometimes pre-product..

Accelerator

California, US

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Entrepreneur First

Entrepreneur First invests in technologists to help them build a deep tech company from scratch. Entrepreneur First is a company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to help create new technology startups. Entrepreneur First selects purely on the basis of technical talent, so entrepreneurs would be able to apply before they have a team or an idea. Their intensive 6-month program is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.

Accelerator

London, UK

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Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in more than 200 start-ups since launching in 2011. To date, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $500 million in capital and collectively exceed $2.5 billion in market capitalization.

Accelerator, Venture Capital

New York, US

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F10 Incubator and Accelerator

F10 Incubator and Accelerator is the innovation center of SIX, a financial services provider that operates the infrastructure of Switzerland’s financial center. The Zurich-based incubator and accelerator aims to support and guide startups in transforming their ideas into successful companies while stimulating worldwide collaboration with international finance organizations.

Accelerator, Co-Working Space, Entrepreneurship Program, Incubator

Zurich, Switzerland

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FinLab

Established in late-2014, FinLab is a German early stage investor and incubator specializing in the fintech sector. FinLab focuses on developing German fintech startups and providing venture capital for their financial needs.

Accelerator, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Hessen, Germany

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FinLeap

FinLeap is Europe’s leading fintech ecosystem, based in Berlin with offices in Hamburg, Milan, Madrid and Paris. FinLeap offers fintech SaaS solutions to various enterprises and builds stand-alone fintech companies. Founded in 2014 by IONIQ Group and Ramin Niroumand, finleap has already developed 17 ventures with its infrastructure and added others by acquisition to its ecosystem. The FinLeap group employs over 1.100 people from 80 nations.

Incubator, Accelerator

Berlin, Germany

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FinTech Circle

FINTECH Circle works with the most innovative and disruptive brands in financial technology and connects them with senior thought leaders and financiers. FINTECH Circle is an angel network which enables emerging financial technology firms to execute their vision and successfully expand their businesses.

Incubator, Accelerator

London, UK

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FinTech Sandbox

FinTech Sandbox is a Boston-based nonprofit that helps FinTech startups around the world build great products. The cost of financial data is a significant barrier for FinTech entrepreneurs. It provides critical data access and development resources to FinTech entrepreneurs around the world. The company helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses by offering free or deeply discounted access to a robust set of data feeds and APIs, customer introductions, cloud hosting solutions, a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, mentors, data partners, potential investors, potential customers and service providers who simply want to help them succeed.

Accelerator

Boston, US

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FinTech Studio

FinTech Studio offers incubation services that enable entrepreneurs to focus on designing and managing products. It debuts FinTech companies that have the potential to re-shape financial markets as they work today.

Accelerator, Incubator, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Hamburg, Germany

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Fintech71

Fintech accelerator that connects startups to large financial services companies. Fintech71 is a startup accelerator that provides fintech startups with funding up to $100k, access to the top financial service companies and mentors in the industry. The 10-week intensive program is a state-wide collaborative ecosystem and innovation outpost for the top financial services companies in the state.

Accelerator, Venture Capital

Columbus, US

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Founder Institute

The Founder Institute is the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, having helped launch over 3,500 companies across 180+ cities and six continents. The company was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi and his colleague, Jonathan Greechan. The idea for the program spawned from operating TheFunded.com, where it became apparent that most entrepreneurs at the idea and launch stages lacked the structure, feedback, and support network needed to be successful.

Accelerator, Entrepreneurship Program

California, US

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Future Fifty

The Future Fifty programme aims to accelerate the growth of a selected group of growth-stage digital companies. Future Fifty is a leading programme that enables the UK’s most successful late-stage tech companies to come together, build a powerful and supportive network, and problem-solve with peers. With the help of the tech community, the programme supports these companies in achieving their global ambitions, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK, and inspiring the next generation in their tech ecosystem. It’s free to join, and they don’t take an equity stake in your business either.

Accelerator

London, UK

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Geovation

Geovation is a company that helps entrepreneurs to develop their ideas and projects from their earliest stages.

Accelerator, Co-Working Space, Micro VC

London, UK

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Holland FinTech

Holland FinTech is a private organisation, founded in 2014 in Amsterdam. It believes having access to innovative financial services and fintech solutions can empower people and organisations to understand, overview and improve their economic circumstances.

Accelerator

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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ING Fintech Village

The ING Fintech Village is an initiative powered by ING Belgium in strong collaboration with ING Luxembourg, ING Netherlands, the ING Group and other key partners. Located in Diegem, Belgium, the 16-week program is targeted at technology-driven startups that offer solutions relevant for financial institutions and/or which can help the firm provide superior financial services to its customers.

Accelerator

Diegem, Belgium

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Ignite Accelerator

Ignite provides accelerator, incubator, and education programs for technology startups.

Accelerator

Newcastle, UK

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In-Residence by JP Morgan

In-Residence is a six-month structured program that aims to solve critical wholesale banking challenges through an open, transparent, and highly collaborative approach. As part of the program, entrepreneurs and startups are connected with J.P. Morgan’s knowledge, data and resources.Through a collaborative process, In-Residence gives companies the best chance to create usable and transferable solutions that have value to not just J.P. Morgan, but the financial industry as a whole.

Accelerator, Incubator

London, UK

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InspirAsia

Launched in 2015 by Singapore VC firm Life.SREDA, InspirAsia is an accelerator program tailored for mature startups to support them in scaling: expand to other markets or verticals, organize international partnerships between teams, find synergy between products to create brand new bundles for customers. InspirAsia privileges startups in the fields of mobile payments, mPOS and online acquiring, online lending and scoring, peer-to-peer lending, mobile banking, e-wallets and remittances, among others.

Accelerator

Singapore

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Insurtech Gateway

The only FCA authorised independent incubator + fund, the Insurtech Gateway is the fastest place to build and launch an insurtech idea.

Angel Group, Incubator, Venture Capital

London, UK

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Kickstart Accelerator

Kickstart Accelerator claims to be Europe’s largest multi-corporate and equity-free accelerator program welcoming some 60 founders from around the world every year. The accelerator program, which is a 11-week long program, is an initiative of Impact Hub Zurich in partnership with digitalswitzerland and is open to early-stage startups with a promising prototype within six verticals: fintech, smart cities, robotics and smart systems, healthcare, edtech and food.

Accelerator, Corporate Venture Capital

Manila, Philippines

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L Marks

L Marks is an early-stage investor and innovation advisory firm.

Accelerator, Micro VC, Venture Capital

London, UK

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Level39

Level39 is Europe’s largest technology accelerator specialized in finance, retail, cyber-security and futures cities technology companies. Some of the biggest fintech players have started from there, like Revolut or eToro. Owned wholly by the Canary Wharf Group, Level39 launched in March 2013.

Accelerator

London, UK

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London Co-Investment Fund

London Co-Investment Fund is a venture firm that invests in high growth tech, science, and digital startups in London.

Accelerator

London, UK

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MKB Fintechlab

Hungary's first bank-backed financial innovation lab powered by MKB Bank, providing investment, incubation, office and a banking APIs.

Accelerator, Corporate Venture Capital, Incubator

Budapest, Hungary

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MaRS

MaRS is the world's largest urban innovation hub in Toronto that supports startups in the health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise sectors. When MaRS opened in 2005 this concept of urban innovation was an untested theory. Today, it’s reshaping cities around the world. MaRS has been at the forefront of a wave of change that extends from Melbourne to Amsterdam and runs through San Francisco, London, Medellín, Los Angeles, Paris and New York.

Accelerator

Toronto, Canada

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New York Angels

New York Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations. Founded in 2004 as the successor organization to the NYNMA (New York New Media Association) Angel Investor Program, New York Angels is a membership organization of over 110 active angel investors and early stage venture capital funds. The group meets monthly to screen and present early stage technology companies, and its members have invested over $100 million since 2002 into over 90 ventures.

Angel Group, Accelerator

New York, US

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Nex Cubed FinTech

Nex Cubed FinTech specializes in accelerating transformative fintech solutions. It is a customized, semi-remote, sixteen-week program focused on pairing technically and operationally talented founders with fintech subject matter experts. The Nex Cubed FinTech Accelerator drives commercial adoption of transformative FinTech solutions and prepares founding teams for their next round of institutional financing.

Accelerator

San Francisco, US

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Plug and Play

Plug and Play FinTech provides funding, mentorship and acceleration to startups and first-time entrepreneurs to help them bring to market the next disruptive solution for the growing worldwide economy. Their global network of mentors & advisors help startups further their product development & prepare them to present to Silicon Valley's top investors.

Accelerator

New York City, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, and China

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PolyTech Ventures

Polytech Ventures are an early stage VC firm based in Switzerland with a strong international focus. Their strategic location at EPFL in Lausanne grants us access to one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world.

Micro VC, Venture Capital

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

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QC FinTech

QC Fintech was originally founded in 2012 as RevTech Labs, a general technology accelerator program. In 2013, it pivoted to add QC Fintech, as there was a need in the Charlotte ecosystem to create a program that leveraged and supported the emerging tech talent. QC Fintech provides fintech startups access to world-class mentors, capital and leading financial services organizations.

Accelerator

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

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RRE Ventures

Since its founding in 1994, RRE Ventures has been dedicated to helping talented management teams build industry-leading companies. It has raised in excess of $1.5 billion in assets dedicated to investing in private information technology companies. It focuses on rapidly growing markets in the software, internet, communications, financial services and other industries. .

Venture Capital

New York, US

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Rockstart

Rockstart launched in 2011 in Amsterdam as one of Europe’s first startup accelerators. Today, Rockstart is an international company that supports and empowers the best startups on their way to success across four domains: Energy, Health, AgriFood, and Emerging technologies. We provide startups with access to the capital, market, community, and expertise by connecting them to partners, investors, mentors and the wider Rockstart network.

Accelerator, Venture Capital

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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Seedcamp

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global market and solving real problems using technology. Since launch a decade ago Seedcamp has invested in 260+ startups including the likes of fintech unicorn TransferWise along with some of Europe's fastest growing companies Revolut, UiPath, and wefox..

Micro VC, Venture Capital

London, UK

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Seedcoin - Bitcoin Startup Incubator

Seedcoin is the world's first seed-stage Bitcoin startup virtual incubator. The objective of Seedcoin is to incubate and fund the future leaders of the digital currency economy. Seedcoin provides guidance to entrepreneurs worldwide creating disruptive cryptocurrency related products and services such as exchanges, payment gateways, trading platforms, applications, wallets, mobile tech, throughout the initial key stages of their development.

Incubator

London, UK

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SixThirty

SixThirty is a global venture capital fund that operates a go-to-market program for B2B FinTech, InsurTech & Cybser Security startups. SixThirty invests in and helps grow between 8 - 12 early-stage (generally Seed - Series A) companies each year, providing funding, mentorship, and connections. SixThirty's mission is to find the most innovative ideas in enterprise financial technology, insurance technology, and cyber security across the globe, and work with like-minded corporate investors and partners to mentor and grow them into great businesses.

Venture Capital

St. Louis, US

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Startup Bootcamp Fintech

Startup Bootcamp have partnered with giants such as Mastercard and Lloyds Bank to provide exposure, APIs and a network of professionals for early-stage FinTech startups. All teams receive £15,000 in cash per team as well as 4 months of free office space at the brilliant Rainmaking Loft.

Accelerator

London, UK

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Startup Campus

Startup Campus is a decentralized global brand with four key pillars: Incubation, Consulting, Investment and Education.

Incubator, Accelerator

London, UK

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Startupbootcamp InsurTech London

Startupbootcamp InsurTech is the leading accelerator focused on insurance innovation.

Accelerator

London, UK

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SteelBridge Laboratories

SteelBridge Laboratories offers incubator services, including capital and advisory services for early stage financial technology companies. It also focuses on connecting its companies with investors. As an incubator, SteelBridge Laboratories provides more than capital, by offering services that focus on idea review and market positioning, legal agreements and registrations, regulatory challenges, telecommunication and internet, hardware, marketing and fundraising material, human capital, operations and insurance support, financial accounting and tax, payroll and expense management.

Incubator

Pittsburgh, US

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SuperCharger

The SuperCharger is the first FinTech accelerator program dedicated to both startups and more established global companies aiming to capture the Asian growth market. They are sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank, Chinese online giant Baidu, and coworking space operator TusPark Global Network which has produced 19 IPOs through its accelerator programs.

Accelerator

Wan Chai, Hong Kong

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Tech Nation Fintech

Tech Nation Fintech is helping UK fintech startups scale, at home and abroad. Their new fintech programme is aimed at company founders. Through a 24 hour induction, series of in-depth learning sessions, networking events and a three-day international showcase trip, one will become part of the very first Tech Nation Fintech cohort.

Accelerator

London, UK

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Techstars

Techstars helps entrepreneurs succeed.Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in the most innovative and disruptive Techstars companies to fuel their success. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships helps brands create world-changing products and services. Techstars accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Accelerator, Venture Capital

Boulder, Colorado, United States

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Techstars London Accelerator

The Techstars Accelerator program in London focuses on a wide range of tech startups. The Techstars Accelerator program in London focuses on a wide range of tech startups. Home to a thriving international community of tech, founders, innovators and investors, London is an epicenter of startup activity. Ranked as the #6 strongest startup ecosystem in the world, London is known as a powerful location for startups.

Accelerator

London, UK

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The FIS FinTech Accelerator in Partnership with The Venture Center

The FIS FinTech Accelerator is a 12-week, intensive program designed to accelerate the growth of early stage financial technology companies. It is the only accelerator with an open door to the executive suite of the global fintech leader, FIS™, and access to their 20,000 financial institution customers across 130 countries. FIS is the world's largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies. FIS empowers the financial world with payment processing and banking solutions, including software, services and technology outsourcing. The highly selective program will admit up to 10 financial technology startups poised to challenge the status quo in the financial services sector.

Accelerator

Little Rock, US

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The OCBC Fintech Accelerator

The OCBC FinTech Accelerator, powered by NEST, is a mentor-driven programme designed to help entrepreneurs build the financial technology companies of the future, faster and more efficiently. Run from a dedicated space in Singapore, up to eight startups will be selected to join the full-time 12-week programme kicking off in May 2016.

Accelerator

Singapore

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TheFactory

TheFactory is the premier Nordic fintech & proptech accelerator & incubator. At TheFactory they give entrepreneurs fuel to grow. They get investments from FintechAngels of up to NOK 500.000 per company and access to free perks from their accelerator partner GAN worth roughly USD 1 Million. Building on the successful Fintech&InsurtechFactory program, they take one as an entrepreneur to the next level. An individual/entity will be guided by 150+ experienced mentors, including entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts from their partner network.

Accelerator, Incubator

Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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ValueStream Ventures

At ValueStream Ventures, they are a thesis-driven, early-stage fund based in NYC and focused on investing in B2B platforms built around high-value data. They gravitate towards investments in B2B software, data/analytics, and fintech. Their thesis is a combination of opportunity and stage. High-value data, and its infrastructure, creates defensible companies with lower costs of scaling.

Micro VC, Venture Capital

New York, US

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Wayra

500 Startups is a global venture capital firm with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley with over $454M in committed capital across 4 main funds and 15 thematic funds. They have invested in 2,200+ technology startups globally since its inception in 2010 including Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Credit Karma, SendGrid, Grab, GitLab, Bukalapak, Canva, Udemy, TalkDesk, Intercom, Ipsy, MakerBot (acquired by SSYS), Wildfire (acquired by GOOG), and Viki (acquired by Rakuten).

Corporate Venture Capital

Madrid, Spain

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding early-stage startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Accelerator

California, US

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iStarter

iStarter is the Italian angel-led start-up accelerator based in London.

Accelerator

London, UK

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