Fintech andinsurance startups in Europe raised a record $35.1 billion in 2021, according to Dealroom.- Insider has reported extensively on both sectors as investor appetite soared.
- These pitch decks reveal how 22 different startups pitched their visions and products to investors.
Financial services and insurance startups are the crown jewels of European tech right now.
2021 has been a record year for the industries with a combined $35.1 billion being poured in by investors, per Dealroom data.
Beyond the initial wave of payments disruptors and challenger banks such as Revolut, N26, and Monzo, a set of nuanced solutions to complex consumer and business issues is now emerging across the continent.
Both insurance tech and fintech have seen mega deals this year.
Swedish buy now, pay later giant Klarna raised from SoftBank at a $45.6 billion valuation, cementing its status as Europe's most valuable private fintech company. Similarly, Germany's Wefox hit a $3 billion valuation after raising the continent's largest ever insurance tech round at $650 million.
Below are 22 pitch decks from fast-growing European tech startups in the fintech and insurance spaces.
Insurance tech
In 2021, European insurance tech startups raised a collective $3.2 billion. Here are eight notable raises from the past 12 months:
- Check out the pitch deck the Black founders of fintech Marshmallow used to raise $85 million
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck Belgian insurance startup Qover used to raise $25 million
- We got an exclusive look at the monster pitch deck French insurance startup Alan used to raise $223 million
- Here's the pitch deck finance startup Clark used to persuade Chinese tech giant Tencent to lead its $85 million round
- Check out the pitch deck that insurance startup Luko used to raise $61 million, bucking a wider slowdown in funding
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck climate change insurance startup Descartes Underwriting used to raise $18.5 million for its US expansion
- German insurance startup Getsafe wants to be the Lemonade of Europe. Here's the 20-slide pitch deck it used to raise $93 million
- Check out the 28-page pitch deck YuLife used to raise $70 million from VCs to disrupt the $2 trillion life insurance market
Fintech
Fintech has been on a growth tear in Europe for a number of years. Everything from anti-money laundering to cloud infrastructure for banking is covered below with a number of unicorn businesses sharing their secrets to investment success.
- This is the pitch deck fintech startup ComplyAdvantage used to persuade Goldman Sachs to back its funding extension
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck UK startup FintechOS used to raise $60 million from Draper Esprit
- Check out the 13-slide pitch deck Silverflow, a payments startup built by ex-Adyen employees, used to raise $17 million backed by Coatue
- Check out the 21-slide pitch deck Payhawk, an expense automation fintech, used to raise $112 million from Stripe-backer Greenoaks
- Check out the 14-slide pitch deck fintech Juni used to raise $52 million to build out banking services solely for e-commerce businesses
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck that French fintech Libeo used to raise $24 million from DST Global partners
- Yapily removes the middleman in money transfers for Fortune 500 clients. Check out the pitch deck it used to raise $51 million from VCs
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck buzzy fintech PrimaryBid used to raise $50 million
- Check out the 15-slide pitch deck Numeral, a fintech trying to automate bank payments, used to raise a $14.6 million seed round
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck Dutch payments startup Mollie used to raise $106 million to become Europe's latest fintech unicorn
- Check out the 15-slide pitch deck FlowX.ai, a startup digitizing banks hooked on legacy tech, used to raise Romania's largest funding round of 2021
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck VC disruptor Wayflyer used to raise $76 million from Left Lane Capital
- Uncapped is disrupting startup finance. We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck it used to raise a fresh $80 million from Spotify investor Lakestar.
- Check out the 10-slide pitch deck Mambu, a cloud banking startup, used to more than double its valuation to $5.5 billion in a round led by EQT Growth