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Finteda × Schalast — FinTech Founder & Investor Evening

Founders, capital and the FinTech ecosystem

Date
29 October 2026
Time
17:00-21:00 CET
Venue
Schalast
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Finteda Schalast Fincite

Why this event

FinTech founders, private capital and the ecosystem

A curated evening of founder insight, investor perspectives and high-quality networking, co-hosted by Finteda, Schalast and Fincite.

An invitation-only evening for founders and investors at Schalast's offices on Mendelssohnstrasse in Frankfurt. Around 60 guests, doors at 17:00 and close around 21:00, held in English under the theme "Capital, Regulation & Scale". The centrepiece is a founder fireside chat: a candid conversation about what it actually takes to raise and scale in Europe, what regulation costs in practice, and what the founder would do differently. An investor panel spanning private equity, venture capital and the wider FinTech ecosystem picks up those threads afterwards, followed by networking over drinks.

  • Where the technology improves live research and investment workflows in measurable ways.
  • How teams handle provenance, approval, governance and reproducibility.
  • Which decisions experienced practitioners still keep human-led.

Previous editions

Speakers and partners at previous Finteda events have come from

  • Deutsche Bank
  • Allianz Global Investors
  • Man Group
  • HSBC
  • AllianceBernstein
  • Amundi
  • ADIA
  • Barclays Investment Bank
  • Berenberg
  • Deutsche Börse
  • Deutsche Bundesbank
  • Google
  • IBM
  • FactSet
  • Databricks

People

Built for the practitioners doing the work

FinTech founders / VC and PE investors / financial-services leaders / ecosystem builders

Speaker announcements in progress

Confirmed contributors will appear here with their session and role.

Talks · Demos · Panels

Programme

How the evening develops

FinTech founders, private capital and the ecosystem

  1. networking

    Welcome & Reception

    Guest arrival, check-in and welcome drinks. Proposed start: 17:00.

    25 min
  2. remarks

    Host & Finteda Introduction

    Short welcome from the hosts and an introduction to Finteda and the purpose of the evening. Proposed start: 17:25.

    5 min
  3. fireside

    Fireside Chat with a FinTech Founder

    Founder guest to be confirmed. Aspirational example: a Trade Republic founder. Proposed moderator: Andreas. Proposed start: 17:30.

    30 min
  4. panel

    PE, VC & the FinTech Ecosystem

    Four seats: private equity, venture capital, a FinTech founder, and the ecosystem. Ecosystem candidates so far: Sebastian Schäfer from House of FinTech (Berlin), Futury, or Frankfurt School of Finance including Prof. Co-Pierre Georg. The PE, VC and founder seats are still open. Proposed moderator: Friedhelm. Final panel composition to be confirmed. Proposed start: 18:00.

    40 min
  5. remarks

    Closing Words

    Brief synthesis, thanks and transition to dinner and networking. Proposed start: 18:40.

    5 min
  6. networking

    Food, Drinks & Networking

    Informal dinner, drinks and curated networking. Proposed start: 18:45.

    135 min
  7. ceremony

    Event Ends

    Formal end of the event at 21:00.

    0 min

Venue and access

Schalast

Mendelssohnstr. 75-77, 60325 Frankfurt am Main

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