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Accelerate Your FinTech Growth Journey

Join the Scale-Up Academy

Target Segment

15-75
FTEs
€50M
valuation goal
Seed+
funding stage

Program Overview

Regulation & Compliance

Empower your scale-up to navigate financial regulations, accelerate onboarding, and build a solid compliance foundation—featuring your own regulatory roadmap, direct interaction with BaFin, and expert coaching from leading law firms.

Launch date: End of April!

 

Fundraising & Investment

Get investment-ready with insider VC knowledge, tailored coaching, and direct access to investors—craft your equity story, sharpen your pitch, and secure funding for sustainable growth.

Launch date: May

 

Market Entry into France

Program empowers WealthTech scale-ups to successfully expand into the French market. This program combines strategic preparation, in-market immersion, and personalized coaching to help scale-ups validate, localize, and execute their go-to-market strategy in Europe’s 2nd largest economy.

Launch date: July

Organization & Leadership

WealthTech scale-ups will be equipped with the tools, systems, and leadership strategies needed to lead high-performance teams and drive fast, sustainable growth. Through a combination of expert input, structured frameworks, and hands-on implementation, leadership teams learn how to align on goals, install a performance-driven culture, and scale with clarity and confidence.

Launch date: September

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Regulation & Compliance

Regulatory Insights

Providing knowledge on navigating regulatory requirements through external partnerships (outsourcing) and internal strategies such as licensing and acquisition.

BaFin Engagement

BaFin actively engages through dedicated workshops on regulated financial services and offers one-on-one coaching sessions, providing participants with direct insights and guidance on permission-relevant business models.

Problem-based Learning

Development of your individual case study focused on your own regulatory roadmap, identifying relevant regulatory requirements and evaluating strategic options such as licensing, outsourcing, or partnerships to enable compliant growth.

Individual Coaching

One-on-one coaching with experts and top-tier law firms specializing in finance and capital markets.

Networking opportunities

Offering of valuable networking opportunities through close and intensive exchange with other WealthTech scale-ups, fostering dialogue on shared challenges and enabling potential business development with participating B2B partners.

Wealth-Tech Focus

The cohort is composed exclusively of scale-ups from the WealthTech segment, enabling a focused, expert-level exchange and tailored discussion of industry-specific regulatory and strategic challenges.

Interested in our Scale-Up Academy 2025?