Stories about our team
and ecosystem

Last week for International Diversity Day, we kicked off the first of our three-part interview series to celebrate. Read on to find out more about diversity at finleap at what it means to our team.

Happy International Day of Diversity! We want to celebrate this day with you by introducing some of our outstanding colleagues in a three-part series. Read on to find out more about diversity at finleap and what it means to our team.

Do you want to know more about our recent successes and events within the finleap ecosystem? Read our latest Newsletter finleap insights in this blogpost. If you would like to subscribe, send an email with "Newsletter" to media@finleap.com.

Do you want to know more about our recent successes and events within the finleap ecosystem? Read our latest Newsletter finleap insights in this blogpost. If you would like to subscribe, send an email with "Newsletter" to media@finleap.com.

On Saturday, February 8th, 2020, ZDF aired the first two episodes of the second season of its cult-favorite series, “Bad Banks”. Part of this season takes place in a fintech incubator in Berlin. Sound familiar? It should! “Bad Banks” screenwriter, Oliver Kienle, visited one of finleap’s portfolio companies for his research for this season. Of course, “Bad Banks” is a fictional series, but there are definitely some similarities and elements of truth to it. So, what’s it really like to work for a fintech start-up like finleap?

From our experience in the fintech market, most insurance companies do not seem to be fully aware of their potential in Open Banking. Most of them are still not using the opportunities coming from accessing customer bank statements to their fullest extent. Therefore, we think there is plenty of space to develop innovative solutions in the insurance market, all driven by PSD2 and Open Banking. finleap connect is able to fulfill the insurance market needs with 3 distinctive offerings.

The insurtech sector has been steadily growing for quite a period of time and is clearly having an enormous influence on the traditional insurance field. finleap provides three clear players that have brought never-before-seen ideas and have filled service gaps in the insurance market.

Do you want to know more about our recent successes and events within the finleap ecosystem? Read our latest Newsletter finleap insights in this blogpost. If you would like to subscribe, send an email with "Newsletter" to media@finleap.com.

This autumn, finleap hosted its quarterly meet-up to celebrate its most recent ecosystem-wide achievements and the whole finleap family was invited. This time around the celebration marked finleap’s 5th anniversary! finleap’s first employee, Ramin Niroumand, celebrated the occasion by traveling back in time and sharing his memories of the founding days.

On September 18th, 2019, finleap held its first-ever fintech summit. Over 200 industry leaders across the financial business and investment sectors met in the impressive St. Elisabeth Church in Berlin-Mitte for a day of keynotes, panel discussions and open forums. The goal? To determine how leaders can work across Europe, Germany and companies to #reshapefinancetogether.

Last week at the finleap fintech summit in Berlin, we finalized an exciting new cooperation between Commencis and finleap. We are pleased to announce the launch of a new joint venture, finbyte, a software development services company based in Berlin.

The who's who of the banking scene in Germany met once again in Frankfurt for the 2019 Handelsblatt Banken-Gipfel (Banking Summit). finleap, as well as several of our portfolio companies, had a full program: from the fintech dinner to the panel discussions, as well as the fintexx - women in finance lunch event.