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June 25, 2024

19 payments startups to watch, according to VCs

Sifted spoke to some of Europe’s top fintech investors to get their take on the up-and-coming payments fintechs in the space

Tom Matsuda

8 min read

Payments used to be one of the fintech’s hottest subsectors — 2021 saw fintech investors funnel $9.9bn into European payments companies — but was one of the hardest hit by last year’s fintech funding drought.

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Tom Matsuda

Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

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