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Taavet Hinrikus
Taavet Hinrikus, born 1981 in Tartu, Estonia, is an investor who co-founded the payments company Wise, led it as chief executive, and was Skype's first-ever employee.
The Access Group
The Access Group is a British provider of business management software for mid-market organizations, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Loughborough, England, with over 160,000 customers.
Théau Peronnin
Théau Peronnin is a French physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Alice & Bob in 2020 and serves as its chief executive officer, building fault-tolerant quantum computers around cat qubits.
Thomas Pischke
Thomas Pischke is a German fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the Berlin brokerage Trade Republic in 2015 and serves as a managing director of Trade Republic Bank GmbH.
Tim Baardse
Tim Baardse (born 1994) is a Dutch computer scientist who co-founded Bitvavo, the Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange, in 2018 and left its board in 2021 while remaining a shareholder valued at 170 million euros.
Timo Boldt
Timo Boldt is a German-born entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of the UK meal kit company Gousto, which he started in 2012 after leaving London finance.
Tink (open banking platform)
Tink is a Stockholm-based open banking platform founded in 2012 that lets banks, fintechs, and merchants access account data and initiate payments through a single API, and it has been wholly owned by Visa since 2022.
Tobias Rieker
Tobias Rieker is a German software entrepreneur who co-founded MARKT-PILOT in 2020 and led it as chief executive until 2024, raising €40 million in Series A funding.
Tom Blomfield
Tom Blomfield is a British fintech entrepreneur who co-founded GoCardless in 2011 and the challenger bank Monzo in 2015, later joining Y Combinator as a group partner.
Toran Bruce Richards
Toran Bruce Richards (born 1998) is a British software developer and entrepreneur who created AutoGPT in 2023, an open-source AI agent that became one of GitHub's most-starred repositories.
Torsten Reil
Torsten Reil is a German entrepreneur who co-founded the defense AI company Helsing and earlier founded the games studio NaturalMotion, sold to Zynga in 2014.
Trade Republic
Trade Republic is a Berlin-based online broker and full bank founded in 2015, with over 10 million customers, €150 billion in assets, and a €12.5 billion valuation.
Tradeshift
Tradeshift is a San Francisco fintech company founded in 2010 by a Danish team that operates a cloud-based network for e-invoicing, compliance, and supply chain payments.
Trustly
Trustly is a Swedish open-banking payments company, founded in Stockholm in 2008, that lets consumers pay merchants directly from their bank accounts instead of by card.
Tsung-Hsien Wen
Tsung-Hsien Wen, known as Shawn Wen, is a Taiwanese technologist who co-founded the London voice AI company PolyAI in 2017 and serves as its chief technology officer.
UrbanChain
UrbanChain is a Manchester-based energy technology company founded in 2017 that operates an Ofgem-licensed marketplace matching renewable generators directly with consumers on a half-hourly basis.
Vargas Holding; co-founder of Stegra
Vargas Holding is a Stockholm-based company-builder and incubator founded in 2014 by Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Harald Mix, known for building Stegra, Northvolt, Aira, and Syre.
Vector Informatik
Vector Informatik is a privately held German software company headquartered in Stuttgart, founded in 1988, that develops tools and embedded software for networked automotive electronics, with over 4,500 employees and about €1.01 billion in 2024 sales.
Victor Jacobsson
Victor Jacobsson is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna in Stockholm in 2005 and served as its chief financial officer until 2012.
Victor Riparbelli
Victor Riparbelli is a Danish technology entrepreneur who co-founded Synthesia in 2017, the London AI video platform he leads as CEO, valued at $4 billion in 2026.
Vlad Yatsenko
Vlad Yatsenko (Влад Яценко; Vladyslav Yatsenko) is a British software engineer who co-founded the fintech company Revolut in 2014 and served as its chief technology officer.
Voltalis
Voltalis is a French energy company, created in 2006 and headquartered in Paris, that installs free connected thermostats and sells aggregated demand-response flexibility to grid operators.
Voodoo
Voodoo is a Paris-based mobile games and apps publisher founded in 2013 by Alexandre Yazdi and Laurent Ritter, known for Helix Jump, Paper.io, and the photo-sharing app BeReal.
Wouter Draijer
Wouter Draijer is a Dutch engineer who co-founded SolarMente, a Barcelona company selling rooftop solar by monthly subscription, and served as its CEO from 2019 until 2025.
Yaak Technologies
Yaak Technologies is a Berlin automotive-technology company founded in 2020 that develops driver-coaching software, data-collection hardware, and AI for driving safety; its German entity entered liquidation in January 2024.
Zygmunt Solorz
Zygmunt Solorz, also known as Zygmunt Solorz-Żak, is a Polish media and telecom entrepreneur who founded Polsat in 1992 and built the Cyfrowy Polsat group.