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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.

Launched: End of April

Fundraising & Investment

Get investment-ready with insider VC knowledge, tailored coaching, and direct access to investors - build your fundraising strategy, 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

Fundraising & Investment

Tailored Knowledge Sessions on Venture Capital

Insights into the venture capital market, its structure, and current trends delivered by experienced VC insiders and entrepreneurs. Background information on investor decision-making processes, deal structuring & terms, and effective fundraising preparation and due diligence.

Individual Coaching for Improving Fundraising Readiness and Success

Series of intensive one-on-one coaching sessions with experienced coaches having VC backgrounds and best practices. Individual coaching and improvement of investor documentation, input on investment case and fundraising strategy to increase your fundraising prospects. Identification and addressing of potential deal-breakers for a smooth investment process.

Working with VC Insiders and Entrepreneurs as Coaches

Benefit from the combined expertise of our coaches: professionals with VC insider knowledge and investment background as well as entrepreneurial coaches who have built successful startups and share their best practices.

C-Level Club Meetings

Share best practices with your peer group and enjoy casual networking with investors, experts, and successful entrepreneurs around topics such as winning international investors, access to pre-IPO capital, or corporate investments.

Access to the HoFT Investor Community

Connect with relevant investors through matchmaking events, as well as the concluding Investor Finals with pitching opportunities before a selected investor audience.

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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.