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Ramp Acquires European B2B Payments Provider Billhop to Expand Across Europe

Ramp, the US-based AI-powered financial operations platform, has acquired Billhop, a Stockholm-headquartered B2B payments provider, marking a major step in Ramp’s European expansion. The acquisition...

Nastya Zelenovska2 days ago

The Swedish FinTech Association published their annual report on the state of the Swedish fintech sector

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Swedish Fintech Shifts from Growth to Sustainable Profitability

The Swedish FinTech Association (SweFinTech) has released its seventh annual report, providing a definitive look at one of Europe’s most prominent tech hubs. The...

Nastya Zelenovska2 days ago

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Paris-Based Cleavr Raises €1M to Automate Accounts Receivable with AI

Cleavr, a Paris-based AI startup focused on autonomous accounts receivable management, has raised €1 million in a funding round led by Kima Ventures and Better Angle, with participation from Raphaël...

Nastya Zelenovska2 days ago

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Flowpay and Teya join forces to bring embedded working capital to SMEs across Europe

Czech AI-driven lending startup Flowpay has partnered with pan-European payments provider Teya to offer merchants flexible financing of up to €100,000 — directly inside...

Nastya Zelenovska6 days ago

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Flowpay Acquires German Startup Tapline to Expand Into Tech and SaaS Financing Across Europe

European fintech Flowpay is growing its reach beyond traditional SMEs, entering the German and UK markets with the acquisition of revenue-based financing platform Tapline....

Nastya ZelenovskaMarch 6, 2026

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Forecasterly raises SEK 6M angel round to bring AI-powered financial planning to modern organisations

Forecasterly, a Stockholm-based startup building an AI-powered financial planning platform for modern organisations, has closed a SEK 6 million (€560,000) angel round led by...

Nastya ZelenovskaFebruary 23, 2026

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Stockholm’s Hybridity raises SEK 22M to automate EU regulatory compliance with its AI-native Hy5 platform

Hybridity, a Stockholm-based company building an AI-native compliance platform for the finance sector, has raised SEK 22 million (€2.1 million) from a group of...

Nastya ZelenovskaFebruary 23, 2026

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Best blockchain startups 2026: infrastructure, DePIN, RWA & AI leaders

The blockchain sector has crossed a structural threshold. What began as an experimental financial layer has matured into a multi-vertical infrastructure stack underpinning settlement,...

Nastya ZelenovskaFebruary 20, 2026

Veriff Acquires Vespia: Bringing KYB to the Next Level

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Veriff Acquires Vespia: Bringing KYB to the Next Level

Veriff, a global leader in identity verification, has announced the acquisition of Vespia, a KYB (Know Your Business) startup focused on fast, scalable business...

Nastya ZelenovskaFebruary 5, 2026

London’s FALKIN raises €1.7M to fight scams before they happen As AI-driven scams surge across Europe, London-based digital safety startup FALKIN has raised €1.7 million ($2 million) in pre-seed funding to stop fraud before it starts. The round was led by TriplePoint Ventures, with backing from Notion Capital, BackFuture Ventures, Aviva/Founders Factory, Haatch, Found Capital, and Founders Capital. Individual investors include fintech veterans Pierre Decote, Group Chief Risk Officer at Revolut, and Ben Enckevort, CTO and co-founder of Metomic. Shifting protection from payments to persuasion “The new battlefield isn’t payments – it’s persuasion,” said Boaz Valkin, co-founder of FALKIN. “Protection has to move earlier, to the moment before someone clicks, replies, or transfers. We’re turning AI from a weapon of deception into a tool for defense.” Founded in 2024, FALKIN builds embedded AI tools that detect manipulation and deception before a transaction ever takes place. Instead of monitoring fraud after money moves, the company integrates real-time behavioral analysis directly into banking and customer-service apps, helping financial institutions prevent scams at the source. According to co-founder and COO Joel Frisch, “Modern scams are sophisticated, and no single red flag tells the whole story. The key is to analyze all the signals that reveal deception to build a complete picture. When we embed that intelligence inside the banking apps people already trust, protection becomes effortless.” A growing European battle against AI-enabled fraud FALKIN’s funding comes amid a broader wave of investment in anti-fraud innovation. Across Europe, startups like Hawk (Germany), Resistant AI (Czechia), and Acoru (Spain) have collectively raised over €80 million this year to tackle rising financial crime driven by AI. A recent EU-Startups report found that AI-related fraud losses in Europe have surpassed €1.3 billion, as deepfakes, voice cloning, and synthetic identity attacks become mainstream tools for scammers. “AI has blurred the line between what’s real and what’s fake, and traditional systems aren’t built for that reality,” said Sam Stone of TriplePoint Ventures. “FALKIN’s vision to make proactive safety universal has the potential to redefine digital trust.” The invisible enemy Scams now represent one of the fastest-growing financial threats worldwide. Deloitte projects that U.S. losses from authorized push payment fraud could hit €12.9 billion ($15 billion) by 2028, while the U.K. saw over seven million victims last year—most of whom never reported the crime. Despite heavy investment in fraud detection, most tools still activate after funds have left an account. FALKIN’s approach moves protection upstream, targeting the psychological manipulation that precedes scams. Early trials with bank innovation teams and tens of thousands of users across the U.S. and U.K. have shown promising results: 78% of users reported feeling safer online, and over half said prevention was more valuable than reimbursement. Next steps: embedding safety everywhere The fresh capital will accelerate hiring, product development, and financial-institution integrations, as well as support the launch of Safety Labs — a program helping community banks and credit unions deploy scam-prevention tools with minimal technical effort. FALKIN is also expanding its integration ecosystem, allowing financial institutions to embed digital safety layers across customer journeys and communication systems. “Scammers are using AI to scale deception,” Valkin said. “We’re using it to scale trust.”

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London’s FALKIN raises €1.7M to fight scams before they happen

London-based digital safety startup FALKIN has raised €1.7 million ($2 million) in pre-seed funding to stop scams before they start, as banks and consumers...

Gerald MillerNovember 11, 2025

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Ramp Acquires European B2B Payments Provider Billhop to Expand Across Europe

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Swedish Fintech Shifts from Growth to Sustainable Profitability

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Paris-Based Cleavr Raises €1M to Automate Accounts Receivable with AI

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Flowpay and Teya join forces to bring embedded working capital to SMEs across Europe

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Flowpay Acquires German Startup Tapline to Expand Into Tech and SaaS Financing Across Europe

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Forecasterly raises SEK 6M angel round to bring AI-powered financial planning to modern organisations

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Stockholm’s Hybridity raises SEK 22M to automate EU regulatory compliance with its AI-native Hy5 platform

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